Embarrassing!

This is getting to be quite embarrassing. I am not the kind of person who's life revolves around their dogs and cats. But lately, our dogs dominate. I think if I was the sole owner of them they would have new homes by now. But then I am just mean, and everyone knows it.

Oh yes, aren't they just so cute! How could I be mad at them?

You guessed it, they got out again today. But this time they weren't gone long. I went out looking for them, and I just turned out the driveway and saw them headed for home on the road. I got them loaded in the truck and noticed they were very dirty - a bit stinky, but not terrible. I thought they had rolled in horse poop and had hay on them. After I tried to brush the hay off of Leo I realized it wasn't hay, but quills. The got quilled by a porcupine!

You can see the stubs of them in Bo's face, and no problem guessing where they are on Leo.

My first thought: SERVES YOU RIGHT!

My second thought: THIS IS GOING TO BE EXPENSIVE AT THE VET!

My third thought: I'm not taking you to the vet, you can suffer.

See what a meanie I am.

Then Andy arrived home from court, and guess what. We took the stinkers to the vet.

$360 later, and after being sedated and put on antibiotics, they got to come home later in the day. They are lucky I even let them back on the property at all.

Just to prove that my life doesn't revolve around dogs, let me give you a quick run down of the last couple of days.

Monday I was the substitute teacher in J's class. It is a long day being in that class room with those fourteen third graders! It does help me to see how J is doing in comparison to other kids - not bad in some areas, leading the pack in others, and a couple areas where he needs to work on things. I am back in the class room tomorrow. His teacher had a death in her family and is out all week.

Every year we wait for the combine to come and harvest the fields surrounding our house. Wouldn't you know it, that happened while J and I were at school on Monday. But Andy was wise and ran out and captured with the chewed up camera (I'll try not to get started on that!), which was nice. We're having a warmer than usual few days here, but these pictures prove that it is fall!

No more amber waves of grain going on all around us, just a golden stubble that is quickly fading to brown, and will be well into grey before Christmas.

Speaking of Christmas, I've got a couple of pages done for a class at Keepsakes by Design's fall retreat. I did them last night and tonight. I don't usually do holiday pages, and really struggle with Christmas ones, but I'm pretty happy with these. Hopefully I'll get them photographed soon and can post them.