Karen’s Opinion

My house, at times, seems to have gone to the dogs. I wonder if these three know how good they have it.

Suzie, on the left, is my mom’s dog. She is the queen bee because she is old. She lets the others know that she does not want to be bothered. Rarely do we see her scowl. The other two just seem to know to abide by her wishes to be left alone. She is a sweetie.

Brody, in the middle, has led us to visits to the Purdue Veterinary School for treatment of an eye infection. Tomorrow will hopefully be our last visit. His eye looks wonderfully clear.

Elsie, on the right, is our stately Boston Terrier. She is like a race horse. She is such a good dog and graces us with her presence on occasion. More times than not, she is in our bed, under the covers. Be careful if you get close when she is sleeping. She lets out a growl that tells us she is getting her beauty sleep.

I thought my mom was going to need a new kidney today. Let me explain.

My dog, Elsie, loves stuffed animals. I received a lovely green box from IZEA today. Inside was a product and a fun turkey hat.

I was wearing that hat while bringing my mom a cup of coffee. Elsie took a look at my head and went wacko! She jumped farther than I have ever seen her jump and landed right in my mom’s lap! Poor mom. I had to hide the hat to get Elsie to forget about it. Crazy dog.

My most wonderful son, Greg, spent 4 or 5 hours last night finding Pioneer Woman’s book signing location in St. Louis, bought a cookbook for me and waited in line to have it autographed. He even put her on the phone so she could say hi to me while she signed my book! What a great kid.

I love you Greg. Thanks for such a wonderful surprise.

Today is the day that our sweet little Brody had to undergo surgery. He has had goop in his eye for almost a year. We cannot get it to clear up and believe me, we have tried. We tried ointment that had to be put in his eye every four hours. I was diligent with that and it did not help. I had the vet give us allergy pills in case our Indiana weather and pollen was causing his eye to fester. I thought that was unlikely since both eyes were not having the problem but I gave it a try. The allergy pills only made him sleepy.

Brody’s surgery involved cutting the inside of his eyelid where his eyelashes curled inwards. The vet also flushed both of his tear ducts. While there he was neutered and had a micro chip installed in case he were to run away or get lost. He is an escape artist so this is a good thing.

I got a call from the vet who was laughing as she told me that everything went well. She was laughing because Brody is already running around the clinic. You can’t keep a good dog down!

The not so good of my day:
I took my sewing machine in to have it serviced. I did not want to part with it but reluctantly took it in for its yearly check up. I picked it up and was so glad to sit down to sew. I had everything lined up and began sewing. All was good until I lifted my foot off the pedal to stop the machine. The machine kept sewing! It is possessed. It doesn’t stop sewing when I tell it to stop. This is not good. Ugh. Back to the repair shop it will have to go. I do not have time for this. I WANT TO SEW!

After planning for quite a long time. The wedding was held and we had so much fun! I hope to post pictures soon and tell you all about it. For now though, I am wiped out! I don’t know why since I didn’t have to do that much. Everything was beautiful and it was great to see family and friends enjoy themselves. I didn’t cry at the wedding and was very proud of my baby boy while he stood at the altar and made an important step.