Garden! That's a big joke around here. Our mud pit is still alive and well with nary a sign of pretty anywhere! I have to get out and get some flower-boxes for the deck so I can see something pretty through the window. I truly hope we are able to get the yard started this year. I believe the only ones in this family who enjoy the mud are Yaar and Atticus. Here is a video of them enjoying the yard a few months ago.
They really enjoyed the snow all winter. Poor Yaar really paid the price when they went for the spring grooming. She now looks like a Beagle with Cocker ears! Poor girl, We just keep telling her she's beautiful.
Atticus came away looking liken a show dog. The groomer who worked on him knew what the breed was supposed to look like. She corrected all the mistakes the rescue made. The rescue really just wants them clean and presentable.
Both our birthdays were great. Tom got two birthday dinners as he got home late from a business trip to "Rat World" and I just ordered in. We went out the next night with Josh. I asked to go to a new Mexican restaurant for my dinner. The Fat Cactus just opened and on a Tuesday night it was really hopping. For those of you in the Greater Boston area, it's on Route 1 North. The site is where he Naked Fish was located. Prices are moderate and the Margarita menu is vast. Their home made Sangria is one of the best I have ever had.
SURGERY UPDATE: For one brief day I was tube free and thought I was in the home stretch with this recovery thing. But a meeting with the plastic surgeon had the Wound Vac put back on. She didn't feel the wound had healed enough to be without it. The only rotten birthday gift I got was being hooked back up to this darn machine. I'm back to gurgle, gurgle, gurgle and walking around with a black box and tubes hanging around my neck. There is some new pain, as the walls of the stomach are healing so are the nerves. The areas that have been numb for the last month and a half are now coming to life and I can feel things I haven't felt for some time.
A good thing we found out with all this is that the neck and back pain I have been suffering with for several years is partly due to our furniture. The chair we rented that served as bed as well was made of that memory foam. The support from that relieved the pressure and I was pain free. Two days after we returned the chair the pain was back with gusto! I went shopping and got a recliner made of the same stuff. I also priced out a new mattress for the bed. And as soon as we can afford it I will have a firm bed to sleep on. We have always loved our soft, overstuffed couch and chair, but all they were doing was adding to the problem.
As we head to the weekend, the weather has dropped to the 30's with the wind chill and I had to turn up the heat. The rains are heading back and the cold is tagging along.
Happy St. Patrick's Day to you all. Remember: you're ALL Irish one day a year!
