In my last blog I mentioned Louie was sick, and I was waiting to see what happened. He didn’t get any better, in fact he was worse the next day as he couldn’t even keep water down. So I thought better listen to the vet and take him to the hospital. However, I spent that entire day telling myself this was either kidney or liver failure, and that it was curtains for dear Lou. I cried for hours.

It turned out to be pancreatitis and he was put on an IV overnight and seemed fine the next day so they called to say I could pick him up. $1500 later, I was of course relieved the dog wasn’t terminal, but then mad at myself for being so insane and deciding the dog was going to die. I lecture the living daylights out of people who imagine hypothetical scenarios cautioning them not to allow their thoughts to fool them. Now here I was, being fooled by myself.

Now that the garden hell is over for another season, I’m sedentary and prone to watching absolute rubbish. I wait for a whole year for another season of When Love is Blind, and I’m currently watching season 7. I’m also very happy to be watching The Great Canadian Baking Show season 8.

For exercise I ended up chasing an errant hen the other day which caused me to sprain my leg. I went out with the dogs and walked over to their pen and saw Chicken Little was outside. If they get out, they don’t run away but stay very close to the fence wondering how to get back in. I have no idea how she got out given the crop netting.

As I went down the hill toward the hen Louie realized easy prey was within reach and ran down toward the chicken. I was holding a bowl which I threw, then I dropped and managed to grab the chicken just as Louie was about to chomp. I got her by the tail feathers which caused a terrible ruckus, but then I had a decent grip and started uphill at which point I slipped on the Ponderosa pine needles and did a strange kind of a standing split.

Once Chicken Little was back in the pen I limped over to pick up the bowl, called the dogs, and went inside wondering what repercussions would come of it. Sure enough around midnight I was awakened in agonizing pain around the knee area so I took two Advil and applied a frozen gel pack. Hard to explain to people I was injured corralling a chicken.

As you may recall Luke installed cameras in mom’s house and I can see where she is and what she’s doing using an app on my phone. When I call her, I can see mom’s phone is right in front of her, and I can hear it ringing, then can watch her pick it up and press random buttons going, Hello? Hello? Sometimes this goes on for a quite a while. Eventually we connect and she says, “there’s something wrong with this phone!”

But currently Luke can’t run over to help her as he’s here in Kelowna being trained for his new job for Northern Computers. Once this week is over, he’ll be able to work remotely from Osoyoos so he’s extremely excited and happy. He’s staying here while he does that, so I had to think hard to cobble together a menu for us for the week.

Thankfully Luke and Calvin are friends so I can shoo him down there in the evenings.