Saw the eye vet specialist today and Brindy’s cornea has finally healed. Two more weeks of once daily drops to mitigate the irritation, but no more cone. I was told that once it happens in one eye, it often happens in the other, so we will be keeping careful watch. Meantime, I have one very happy dog.

Brindy got some new medications to take and goes back for a recheck this coming Friday. We’re all hoping the eye is a least getting better or else she may have to have a little surgical procedure done. Meantime, she does, at least, seem to be less bothered by the eye.

Here is her latest interpretation of the command “Get in your bed”!

She is, after all, touching “her” bed.

I know it’s just midwinter, but the urge to clean out and reorganize my panty just couldn’t be resisted. These types of moods strike so rarely, that I always try to take advantage of them. Threw out a bunch of old spices, but still have more than enough for the amount of cooking that I do. Here are “during” and “after” photos.

Unless they move, coyotes blend into the scenery incredibly well. These were taken right outside my door when I took Brindy out for her walk yesterday morning. We did not stay out long.

Generally, when I am making flowers, I do one variety at a time. This means my working space can be somewhat contained and I usually manage to scrounge out enough space in my office for whatever needs doing. However, this month I have been taking an on-line class that started out working on 5 flowers at once. That means 5 different kinds of petals, 5 different stamens, 5 different leaves, etc., etc. To make it more unwieldy, I didn’t make just 1 of each flower, I actually ended up with 3 tulips, 4 cosmos, 4 clematis, 8 cosmos, and 7 stems of sweet peas with 7 flowers per stem.

This amount of materials and equipment was just not capable of fitting in my little office space. So here’s what the kitchen/dining room counter has looked like for 2 weeks:

I finished up all the pieces yesterday and was able to get my counter space back. Today I hope to finally assemble the flowers.

Brindy went in for her weekly checkup today. All looks fine so far, but we really won’t know until the stiches come out in a week and a half or so.

Brindy continues to adjust to the cone she has to wear. She still catches it on things, but not to the extent that she did at first. It does make it difficult for her to tell where sounds are coming from, and she often goes trotting off in the opposite direction from which I’m calling her. And mom is still accumulating bruises on her legs from when Brindy walks into her with the cone.

But she has found one advantage. The dates she is so determined to find when we are out walking are no longer just sitting around to be easily grabbed. This is what lead her to poking around in the bushes in the first place, which is how I’m sure she hurt her eye. She has now figured out that if she buries the cone in the gravel and gives it a little flick, the gravel goes flying and new dates are uncovered. Sometimes she’s just too clever!

Brindy came through her surgery with no problems yesterday. Here’s a description of the procedure:

Pets have an extra eyelid that lies inside the other two lids and is attached to the inside corner of the eye – known as the third eyelid. A third eyelid flap is performed by pulling this structure over the eyeball, and then holding it in place with a suture through the third eyelid and out through the skin lateral to the eye. 

At the end of three weeks, the stitches come out and the eye gets reevaluated. I have an appointment with an eye specialist if there is still a problem.

She is still on antibiotic pills and drops, pain meds, and some other pills and ointments. Fortunately, they are all on a 12-hour schedule, so I don’t have nearly as much to keep track of.

Meantime, she is definitely not a happy camper!

I don’t take sunset pictures as often as sunrise, but tonight’s was certainly worth it.