Fun in the Yard

Tonight all 4 girls (2 human girls and 2 puppy girls) and I enjoyed a cool evening in the yard. The puppies ran around on their tethers. The veterinarian told us to keep Tessa's splint dry and clean. How do you keep a puppy's foot clean and dry? We tried plastic bags and they kept getting little holes in them. We tried double bags, but that also ripped. Yesterday we were at Meijer's in Newark and Lydia and I looked in the medical supply aisle for something strong and thick enough to protect Tessa's foot. Nothing. We wandered down the paper supply aisle and when we came to the paper plates and cups we looked at each other. We both had the same idea. We picked up a package of plastic cups. Chris, our missionary mechanic, would have been so proud of us. We found a way. We taped the cups together and put ribbons through holes in the side and tied the cups to her foot!!! I now call her peg leg the pirate. (Maybe Lydia and I should apply to MMS and work as a team!!) I also put in a picture of Tessa disobeying the vet's orders and rough housing with Maia.


This past spring JoAnna kept asking me for a scooter. I told her to put it on her Christmas list. It turns out that she didn't have to wait. My parents live in a modular home park and every year they have a park wide yard sale...which happened to be going on while we visited this past summer. With menacing rain clouds hovering overhead we decided to leash up the pups and take a chance. We walked around the corner and there was an almost brand new scooter at a yard sale price. Ka-ching!! She burned up the road with her scooter tonight, but none of the pictures turned out. I was able to get a good picture of her picking raspberries off our one plant that produced berries this summer. We get a few berries each day. They are a sweet reminder that next summer, hopefully, we will have a bowls full. It will probably be a few summers until we get to take advantage of the blueberries we planted this summer.


I also got a great shot of Lydia and Maia. Lydia has met her match in stubbornness with this pup. I think it's a case of puppy love and they are both totally smitten with one another.