Sarah The Wonder Dog (Body Piercing Edition)

On Sunday, Sarah managed to get her upper canine tooth through her upper lip. We're not really sure how this is even possible, but she did it.

We were on a walk with her and another dog started barking at her from the other side of a fence. She usually does not care much when things like this happen, but this time she got really agitated and took off towards the fence, barking up a storm. She was on a leash, so she did not get very far, but she was really pulling at it. It took about thirty seconds to pull her away from the fence and get her to stop barking madly.

As we continued walking, we noticed that she kept bending her head down and pawing at it. Then we noticed that she was bleeding! We stopped to take a good look and noticed her top tooth poking through her top lip. It looked really creepy and painful! Jeremy and Kirk held her down and got the tooth out of the lip. Once we got home Kirk shaved the area as best he could and cleaned it out. She was pretty good through both these procedures and did not try to bite or struggle away.

On Monday Cathy made a vet appointment for her, just in case. The vet said that it was a pretty nice puncture wound and that it was good we brought her in- mouth infections are not a good thing, and puncture wounds in that area can get infected very quickly. She's now on doggie antibiotics, and very pleased with herself, because doggie pills=peanut butter.

We're still unsure how she managed to do this by barking. Even the vet was impressed.

The Rose Bush is Blooming

I like to pick them to bring inside. They are very fragrent and the bushes produce a ton! Unfortunately, they do not last more than a day or two once I pick them, but the bush produces for quite awhile.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day! Here's the garden pictures I've been promising!

We put down this stuff over our garden that we're calling a weed tarp. Over it, we put mulch, but here's a before picture. It looks like garbage bags, but is tougher than that. We hope it works- fighting the weeds last was the opposite of fun. This year we've planted tons of tomatoes, broccoli, eggplant, zucchini, rhubarb, and yellow squash. We also have several herbs in pots around the yard, including basil, thyme, mint, parsley, and chives.

We spent a good part of today putting down mulch. We were happy to have the Scion- with the seats folded down we were able to get all 18 bags of mulch in with no problem.

We repainted the bird houses that the previous owner left awhile ago, with leftover paint we had hanging around. A family of sparrows has already moved in. Revitalize the neighborhood, and they will come.

Our two big pots by the shed. One has cherry tomatoes in it, the other has my mint plant.

Flowers under our bedroom window. We put new mulch in this bed as well.

Our irises are doing well.

In our spare time, we finished repainting the office. The color on the left is the new color, "Seaside Blue" and the right side is the pinkish brown color we painted over. It looks really good.

Welcome to the World, Caiden Noah Zoerb

Here's an itty bitty picture of him!

What Cathy's Reading

If anybody needs some book club ideas, here's some things that we've (well, actually Cathy) enjoyed lately:

We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.) This was a novel about a school shooter, written as a series of letters by the mother of the kid to her husband. Very interesting take! I liked this so much I picked up The Post-Birthday World: A Novel (P.S.) by the same author. It was about once decision about the main character made- to cheat on her husband and kiss his friend, or not. Each chapter outlines what happens for each choice- if she did or didn't. I loved how it was written!

RIP Pinky Pig

The Hawaii Blog

As you know, we're leaving for Hawaii on Wednesday! We'll be keeping a travel blog about our trip. Click here to see it! We hope you enjoy our Notes fromWaikiki!