Pig Out Food.....

 When we went camping a couple of weeks ago we were talking about the foods that we can't stop eating and Cassie mentioned chips and dip. Of course then it was in my head. So of course the next time I went to the store I had to get some. There is nothing better then the boxed Old Dutch Rip-L chips and french onion dip. I pretended that by buying the dip that is made with Greek yogurt that it would be better for me. It is so hard to stop eating them once you start. Rick and I managed to eat a whole bag of chips right off the bat. Since then I have learned to put just a small amount of chips in a bowl and limit myself. Thank goodness it is almost all gone now so I can stop thinking about it every night. Now to stop myself from getting more....

 I am very pissed off at Mother Nature! Oak trees are suppose to have a big crop of acorns every other year. Since last year we had a bumper crop I was really looking forward to not having many this year. Well I guess Mother Nature decided it would be good to have two years of millions and millions of acorns falling into our house, deck and yard. We must have 10,000 little oak trees growing in our yard. I have sprayed and sprayed them with weed killer and they just keep coming back.  THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!

Poor Dexter is not a very happy puppy. His allergies are so bad that if he is not sleeping his is itching and licking. Then on top of that we finally started to paint the office. He hates it when we are doing any kind of remodeling. I'm sure his hate comes from when we moved in  years ago and completely gutted the house room by room. He would get use to the house being one way only to have it ripped up the next day. He was the saddest puppy around on Sunday.

Monday I took him to a different vet. I have been speaking with his vet trying to get him on a different medicine for his allergies and the medicine I want to put him on they cannot get. I guess this medicine, called Apoquel,  just came out this spring and they are having really good luck with it. They is such a demand for it that there is a shortage that they think will last until 2015. My vet clinic told me they could only get it for dogs that are already on it. Thanks to my sister I was able to get into a different clinic that had just gotten some of it in and they were willing to see me and put Dexter on it.
So now we have to ween him off of his other medicine because it is a steroid before he can start the new stuff. That is a whole lot of no fun because he is itching and licking like crazy. Once he is off the old stuff we will be able to start the Apoquel. I really hope it works. We don't know what we will do it if does not. Dexter is just so sad, he is driving himself nuts with all the itching. His quality of life had not been very good. It is hard to be happy when you never feel good . Poor poor puppy :(

As a mentioned above we finally started to fix the office up. I will hopefully have some pictures to post by the end of the week.

Sharon