Mr. Bob has had a rough week.

Two vet visits and then he had a bad reaction to the first antibiotic – nausea after a bit of throwing up. He was a sad sack on Wednesday.

Bear and I made a run back to the vet and traded meds. Bob got a reprieve from all until Thursday afternoon.

He perked up yesterday and has been fine on the new stuff which is a once a day liquid so happier for both of us!

I am moving easier and more comfortable each night. Ribs tend to be a bit of a long haul but I’d rather deal with that, than a problem with a moving joint like ankle, wrist, shoulder or hip. Thankfully, the soreness in my left wrist/arm was slight. I wear ankle supporting light hiking boots in the woods and for trail walking and often carry ski poles used as hiking poles. I am ever grateful that all of me works well so that I can enjoy being outside and I’d like to keep it that way.

And speaking of things working well…the Bear boy is doing so well. He is a week off leash and doing more running and jumping every day. He has had no signs of soreness from increased activity. He has shifted easily back to our pre-op/pre-injury routine. Yea, Bear!

Yep, seems like old times :) !!

Everything is as it was.

And, per typical mid-May we are having a Montana heat wave: upper 70’s daytime, upper 40’s night time, i.e. darn near perfect.

Happy Friday.

The windows need washing but this might not be the weekend to do it.

This week got away from me on Wednesday when we had a 3 hour power outage. It was not weather related. Three substations were involved -the power company has a wonderful OutageView web page AND my neighbor phoned with some info on passing the substations going to town. It is the longest outage since I’ve been in this house – almost 7 years.

All of my electronic gadgets were fully charged and even a spare battery for my phone. I had just made fresh airpot of hot tea AND I was showered, dressed and my hair dried…VERY important as I like to be clean and put together for working…sad, but true. Bottom line, I was in good shape to endure. BUT, although typically I do not need Internet for most of my work, this day I did. I had my usual access but I’m guessing because my access is cellular and maybe a tower or 2 was without power and traffic diverted: the internet was iffy. I finally gave up and Bear and I went for a drive and a walk. We returned to power and continued on, but it was a short Wednesday work day making for a long Thursday and early start today.

Approaching 5:00 p.m. on Friday afternoon and I will shortly call it a week. The sun is out at the moment. The extended forecast is for messy, wintry kind of weather until late next week so we will enjoy Friday Sunshine while we may.

It was a full week of work, walks, sitting outside with Bob and Bear – as we ended week 4 post-op TPLO 2.

All is going very well with Bear. He is using both legs normally: getting up an down, forwards and backwards, walking and standing.

I moved the mattress back and he seems to like being higher – a better view to the game trail and the over-abundance of deer currently.

It got cooler and has been raining off and on, gray off and on, a few sun bursts off and on…

…all causing the grass to start greening up.

Bob has been annoyed at the change in weather and blames me.

Bear and I are not bothered. We’ve been able to walk between rain events and both of us enjoy the cooler temperatures.

But all is not lost for Bob. He cozies up inside…

…and we have MY favorite kind of morning: all of us together.

The days are noticeably longer with sunset now almost 6:00 p.m. (5:52 today). I enjoy the dark winter days around Christmas but by mid-January I am happy to have more light.

Saturday was gray and we had a wee bit of Winter with a skiff of blowing snow in an afternoon squall, but today the sun came out and the skiff did not last long.

Bear and I enjoyed the late afternoon sun and fresh air: Sunday Afternoon.

**Bob was out earlier on his own and declined an invitation to join Bear and I. He was snoring in the light box cat house :) !