What ails her?

Duchess has - and how do I put this delicately? - the runs. She has had this condition off and on for about 6 weeks now. If she makes it outside to do her business, it's not too bad - save for the mess that sometimes is left under the tail area. But if she can't hold it until she gets outside and happens to let loose on the carpet, it's not pretty. After cleaning up one such mess last night and fearing something was horribly wrong with the little white fluffy thing with a dirty behind, Cheryl broke down and made a V-E-T appointment today. After a thorough interrogation of Duchess' eating habits, the doc ran a few tests. His diagnosis: too much protein in her diet. Prescription: white rice, potatoes and boiled chicken for a week. Then she can slowly start eating low-protein dog food and treats, but still no people food, which is hard for dogs to come by around this house anyway. Hopefully with a few changes in her diet Duchess will be on the mend. And thankfully the V-E-T doesn't charge extra if one of his patients bites him.

Fall fun

Fall is my favorite time of the year. Cool nights, warm days and all of those leaves. We spent this afternoon watching Cheryl round up all of those leaves. Around our house none of the trees lose their leaves at the same time. One big oak tree in the front yard goes first. Then the other big oak tree in the front yard goes next. The trees in our back yard are last. While there's not enough leaves in the back yard to pile up and bounce through yet, we still enjoyed the afternoon playing ball with Cheryl after her work was done. We even let Duchess in on the fun.

Say 'CHEESE'

We've been a household without a camera for about a month now, hence the reason I haven't updated my blog in about a month now. Finally over the weekend Cheryl got a new camera for her birthday (which was nearly 3 months ago). Cheryl brags about how nice it is and all of these features it has on it. Blah, blah, blah. All I want to know is if it takes good pictures of me. So far, the answer is no. Cheryl got it out of the box and started shooting away today. We then installed the software that lets us see the pictures on the computer. There is a picture of a flower. Some berries. Another flower. A laundry basket. More flowers. Alison with her braces off. Cows. Lexie. Ouch, bad picture of me, Delete that one. Another bad pic of me. Delete, delete, delete. Even the picture of Duchess is better than mine. Cheryl likes this one of the cow best, so that's why it's posted. She's proud of the zoom capabilities of this new camera. Apparently it even takes really great pictures in the dark. Maybe we'll try to take mine again with the lights off.