Can't WAIT for SPRING!

I'm so tired of the weather lately.  I just cannot WAIT for spring. Well, for some nice warm DRY weather anyway.  I guess it is pretty much spring already down here -- the leaves on the trees are coming out and a lot of the bushes are blooming already. But it's been raining continually until our pond has been overflowing and the narrow trench that allows water to flow across the pasture to that pond has gotten so wide it's practically a river back there!  Gees!

And poor Rocky, our Catahoula, has suddenly gotten to a point where he can't even stand up, let alone walk.  So we took him to the vet yesterday and they hauled him in from my truck on a wheeled table like they would use for a sedated dog.  Poor guy!  So now he been put on corticosteroid (Prednisone 10 mg) for about the next month.  And after that he will move on to Sucralfate twice a day. He was whining and carrying on before he went to the vet yesterday.  He got a shot there and then he starts those meds today.  He still can't stand up at all, but at least he isn't whining and acting as if he's in serious pain anymore anyway.  Whew!  Poor guy!

We also lost our garage cat.  The poor thing was laying at the bottom of the front steps in a pool of water when Mark went out to feed the horses in the morning a week or so ago.  He picked her up and laid her on one of the chairs on the porch and went on out to the barn, but when he came back she was gone.  She probably managed to climb down and go under the house but she never came back out.  Poor baby has apparently died. So sad. 

And then there's Gigi . . . she also went to the vet yesterday for her annual shots and exams.  But while she was riding over there in Mark's truck she pooped all over the place and then got it all over her leash and collar!  Yuk!  Fortunately, he DOES have a rubber liner over his back seats so that could be cleaned out when we got her home.  But good grief -- WHY does she DO that????  Almost all the dogs we've both had have been terrific travelers.  But Gigi? . . . no WAY.  She doesn't like riding in a car at all.  She's apparently afraid to be in there.  So she's not going to be traveling anymore without absolute necessity!  Yuk! She did do okay last time I hauled her over to the Perkins Road clinic, so we didn't put a diaper on her this time.  She IS 18 months old at this point after all and shouldn't need one.  But no matter HOW old she is, she WILL be stuck in a diaper again the next time she has to ride somewhere, that's for sure!  AT 90 pounds she can make one heck of a huge mess.  Good grief!