Spring Break Doings

Since I had to break the bank to pay for Charlie's surgery, I figured I might as well get the water line to the back pasture put in. No more dragging 150 of water hoses back and forth across the yard...hooray!! It was long overdue, but kept getting "put on the back burner" because it was not really a necessity. A contractor that goes to our church put in in for us...for half the the cost of the other lowest estimate that I had gotten from others. So that was certainly a blessing.

I also have the beginnings of a garden. Now that we are coming out of the draught, it chooses to rain on the weekends so the garden is behind schedule. I will have to update you on the garden as I get more done. The saddest thing about spring break is that is ends and they make you go back to work.

We had a nice Easter Sunday. We all went to Tucker's for Sunday Brunch after church. It was really nice. We got the waitress to take our picture.

Charlie has recovered very well from his surgery and is doing great! We are all very thankful. He is also at a near perfect wight of 74 pounds. He is feeling great and seems to be much happier now. We are much happier with the way he smells. : )

Charlie's Pain in the Butt

This week did not turn out how it was expected to. We are on spring break here! Charlie had to go to the specialist in Greenville concerning his anal scent gland issues, which had gotten way out of control. I really should not provide too much detail because Charlie might get embarrassed. Or everyone else would just be totally grossed out. Probably the second of those two. Anyway, due to the condition of those glands, it became immediately necessary to remove them. So Charlie had surgery yesterday afternoon. The top butt doctor was at a conference in Ashville,
but returned to Greenville to perform the surgery. So Charlie has a bad haircut now and a sore bottom. He seems to be doing okay otherwise. We are following doctors orders to the best of our ability and are hopeful that he will make a full recovery. He is currently on two weeks bed rest...so we had to hide his ball from him.