A Bit Stalled Out

Our shed progress has been a bit stalled out lately. We've been busy with other things. My wonderful parents came for a visit last weekend to celebrate my birthday and Thanksgiving. Thanks for coming guys, it was a great visit!

Tuesday was Oliver's *snip snip* day... also known as the "Festival of Testicles" or "Brain surgery"... It went very well and he was home the same evening, a little groggy but happy to see us and Buddy and Pixie. Its a pain in my butt to try to keep him quiet and still... almost impossible. We take him out on leash with the other 2 dogs, but everyone tries to play anyhow, so we're taking turns who's in the yard and that's a pain. When Ollie is in the yard alone, I do let him off leash, he doesn't do anything stupid by himself and in fact is better off leash and alone than on leash and with the others. Plus, he's not real sure about doing "doggie business" on leash, so this makes sure he GOES! :)

His incision looks good so far and he still has some swelling that will go down over the next week or so. There's a bit of bruising also, but nothing major. He's hardly bothered by it at all, except to be annoyed at having to spend a lot of his time locked up in his crate. He's not started licking excessively yet either and I'm really hoping to avoid that part. We'll see what the next few days bring.

We're hoping to get a bunch of work done on the shed this weekend. So far, the forecast seems decent, hopefully it will stay that way!! We have 2 doors to build and 10 windows, plus work out exactly how everything will work, so I think that will keep us busy for the weekend, for sure.

Not much else new around here... fall is definitely here... some of our trees are bare or almost bare already, still some in colour, but we're definitely on the tail end here. Today is a lovely day so far, so I'll see what things I can get done today while still keeping an eye on Oliver.

--L