The New Hobbit Hole

[HairOfTheDog]

Hello all! - Thanks for your kind get well wishes for me and Bay!

I am exhausted... I have had a stream of visitors today to come and look at him... My knowledgeable horse friends have come and brought advice and magic potions, and some Bute (phenybutazone) for Bay, which is an anti-inflammatory.

We are concerned about the amount of swelling in his right knee more than the left... but he doesn't limp on it and feels good enough to run and trot with the pony, so I don't think I really fear a bone chip. Hopefully the Bute will help with the swelling, and it will look better in a day or two.

When I finally changed clothes and showered this morning (I didn't bother to change when I got home yesterday, and slept in my clothes, hehehe) I have a big bruise and scrape on my right arm and shoulder that I didn't notice before... but my ankle is gonna get better. I have been forced to move around all day and I think that helps me, like it helps Bay.

[Corin Stormhands]

For Hair:

For Bay:

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Go Hokies! (I spent most of a year in grad school at Tech!) But I thought that it was a myth that Hokies were a form of turkey.

[Corin Stormhands]

I spent most of a year in grad school at Tech!

I grew up right next door in Giles County.

[HairOfTheDog]

Are those whole oats on the stalk? - He will like that! - (He would probably eat my flowers too) Thanks!

[Corin Stormhands]

Yes those are oats. I did a search or "hay" and got a bunch of people named "Hay"...

I don't suppose Bay would like:

[HairOfTheDog]

hehehe - No I don't allow Hall and/or Oates around here. Oats yes!... but no Oates!

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Wow, that sounds like a nasty bit of business. Where did this happen?

I was always told that ankles sprain and wrists break...so, of course both I and my wife have had broken ankles, hers was last year and remember it like yesterday (ankles always need hardware in them to heal from breaks). If you are walking on it, it's a sprain, and the more you walk on it the more it helps (except at night when it cools down again).

Doesn't it always seem to be that your animals get hurt on the weekends when the vets aren't in? Always happens that way when my dogs do something to themselves. The emergency on-call vets are sooooo expensive. I've begun thinking that vets should Tuesday and Wednesday off instead of Saturday and Sunday. Nothing happens on Tuesday or Wednesday.

[HairOfTheDog]

We had just taken a long rest at Mima Falls, and were less than 50 yards down the trail on the way back... He actually almost fell asleep during the rest, and we joked about how tired he was after only 8 miles... I think he wasn't really all awake again when we started back down the trail, and he tripped when we hit the new gravel they have put in to one of the low spots there... The gravel is not all that compacted yet, and he was not paying attention to the new footing.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The gravel is not all that compacted yet, and he was not paying attention to the new footing.

Sounds like the way I usually sprain my ankle.

JimRob finally pulled that awful thread.

[HairOfTheDog]

hehehe - yeah, everything happens on the weekend. My dog vet's office doesn't even allow appointments on Monday mornings. Only walk-ins... Everyone bringing in the carnage from the weekend.

[Overtaxed]

JimRob finally pulled that awful thread

Some people have remarkable staying power. I gave out after only 200 posts. :)

[HairOfTheDog]

RE pulling the thread... Oh good... Too late though, probably. Everyone had already noted all the dirty laundry out there.

Did you know one of my posts on that thread won an award from the AF LP site? Someone pointed it out to me privately. The award is quite an honor [not!] named perhaps for a certain Watergate informant.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Did you know one of my posts on that thread won an award from the AF LP site?

What did you do, accuse everybody at FR of being thieves? I didn't know that LP folks were into giving freepers awards, is that strange, or what?

[HairOfTheDog]

You didn't get the joke LCS!... it was not a complimentary award in their opinion! I expressed a view that tried to be praising of both JR, who I thought was right, and BadJoe, who I think meant well... They thought I was an over-the-top suck-up, so to speak.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

I know that part of the trail -- the one heading back the newer bridge they put up back near where the Mima Trail cuts off from the trail that loops back up and over the hill. It's very narrow, closed in by a lot a bushes (there's nowhere to pull off to the side there with your dogs when the horses come by!).

I'm not a big fan of gravelling the trails. It can be slippery (unsteady) even for human feet.

[HairOfTheDog]

Yep - that's the spot! So when he went down and to the side, I was in the sticker bushes!

BTW - The swamp where that new bridge spans is where I have twice seen the black bear.... FYI with your pooches. Not sure if they would be the type to give chase or hide at such a sight!

They sure have been doing a lot of graveling. Prison work-crews from Cedar Creek have been doing the work... I have a wait-and-see attitude about it at the moment, to see if it does in fact help during the muddy season. At least it is crushed rock and will compact hard with traffic. The pea-gravel they put in on the "rails to trails" trail out of Tenino is horrible footing for man or beast.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

You didn't get the joke LCS!..

Guess not, your reward is a true honor then! Those guys are really freaky giving anti-awards to posters on a website they dislike. It is sort of like someone stalking their former girlfriend/boyfriend after a breakup! Give me a break!

[Corin Stormhands]

Almost an hour and no one has posted?

LCS Threadkiller?

[Scott from the Left Coast]

My dogs have once spotted a black bear near a trail (over on the trails toward Margaret McKinney), and their reaction is to stand at attention and let out Hell's own cacophony of barking. In that previous occasion it had the effect of scaring the heebie-jeebies out of the bear, which high-tailed it to the other side of a small ravine.

Neither dog took off through the brush chasing it -- but right now is not a good time with bears because they are REALLY active getting ready for the winter. So we tend to stay more toward the trail heads and the roads, than out further on the trails.

I wouldn't trust my male dog for a second in terms of bears, he could do something stupid (Dalmatians lose their minds all the time anyway).