Hello October

Well we got Sammi married off. I'm sure there will be many more embarrassing photos of me to surface soon from that. 😳 fun was had by all. Or at least me. 

One of Pongo's eyes is healed and the other is on the mend. The vet isn't coming back to check on it unless I think something has gone wonky. Hopefully just a few more days of eyedrops. Those have been moved to every six hours now. 👍🏻👍🏻

 We've added a new member to the family. Her name is Stella and her brothers aren't quite sure about her. She stands up for herself quite well though. 

Our fence is almost finished and I couldn't be more excited! The ponies might be a little more excited. You can't see it, but there's fence up around them in the picture. They're not just free roamers anymore! 

Now to finish fence and clean house. Any volunteers to come help with either are welcome!

Quick Update

I have been giving Pongo his eye drops about every four hours. These pictures are from Sunday. 

As you can see, they have changed pretty dramatically since the last pictures. The vet comes back tomorrow so we will see what the next plan of attack is. 

This weekend will be a busy one with my baby sister from another mister tying the knot. I cannot wait for her big day! She's gonna be knock out gorgeous. 

Ulcers

So it's been awhile eh!? 

Sorry bout that. 

Turns out I have a legit excuse this time. I think. 

Pongo has ulcers. In his eyes. They require eyedrops. Every three hours.  😴

The most common question I get about this is how I figured it out. It started out like this:

And quickly (as in overnight) progressed to this:

So I called my vet.  She came and dyed his eyes: 

And this  showed up:

That yellow green spot is the ulcer. 

I treated it every three hours with eyedrops and every six hours with serum that I pull off of: 

His blood. 

The vet came back a few days later and re-dyed his eyes and found another ulcer in his other eye. I keep treating in the same fashion, now in both eyes. 

And a couple days later I found this:

Another one. A big one. At this point I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle. 

The vet comes back and we do the same thing. 

No more new ones. 

She gave me some more drops to add to the mix and she's coming back this week. He seems much more comfortable and I think they are starting to look better. But maybe that's just my lack of sleep talking!? 

Here's to hoping the end is near and vacation won't have to be cancelled!!

Sammi's Shit Show

We survived the bachelorette party!  Somehow.  I think only about half of the group made it to the end. Walter got us to the bar(s) and Earl drove us around on the golf cart.  Pictures and videos are probably not appropriate for most eyes and ears... whoops

Now for another one this week and then the final few weddings of the year for us.

Wordless Wednesday

Weekends

My friend from college came back from Florida a couple weekends ago and Juice and I were able to pick her up from the airport and hang out with her for a bit.  (Luckily Juice's baby didn't fall out!)  I'm sure her husband would have rather listened to blaring static on the radio instead of listening to us three jabber on.  Pretty sure it was the longest car ride he's ever been on!!  We had a good time though!!  It's so funny how we pick up right where we left off!  Now to plan a trip to Florida!!

This past weekend we went to a wedding.  We're down to only three left for the year!

This week we're working on getting some permanent fencing up for the horses.  I can honestly say I am terrible at measuring things with a wheel-- the whole walking straight thing... yeah, it's hard.

This week I have a wedding shower and bachelorette party to attend.  To the bar, Walter!!

Crazy

Did we really just celebrate Independence Day?  It feels more like Labor Day.  Maybe.

I'm not complaining.  That will happen next week when we have temperatures that are normal for this time of year.

We've been able to check some items off the to-do list outside so that's always exciting.

The sidewalk and patio were colored over the long weekend and I must say they did pretty good for their first time!

My flower garden has been under water more than once since the sidewalk was poured so we're working on fixing that problem.

I was able to harvest my first item out of the garden last night!  A little green pepper was hiding under all the weeds!  And to think, DJ wanted to mow the garden off... pshh!!

Sammi's coming over tonight and I doubt too much wedding planning happens.  Although, a bloomer dropper or two might be consumed.