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Tessa: On Wednesday Dave and I brought Reub to the vet to find out what was wrong with our fella. Sad, droopy, drooling, barely able to walk, not having eaten in two days and trying to drown his sorrows in the tall grass outside of our house, we were understandably very concerned. So we go in and the stunningly beautiful vet (Dave keeps mentioning that maybe we should invite her out dancing??) feels Reub’s belly and says she definitely feels an obstruction of some kind. Either that or it’s inflamed which apparently is something the raw food diet, we so feverishly embraced, can sometimes cause. We left him there while they tried to get to the root of the problem while we went off worried that we actually might have almost killed our dog with love.

In the meantime Reub was busy having his stomach pumped with berium so they could track where the obstruction was. Over the next two days they flushed him, x-rayed him, flushed him some more in the vain hope that whatever was in their would make its exit through the old poophole.

Well, no such luck. His vital signs were in distress and they had to operate. A few hours later we heard the news. Apparently Reub has not only been chewing the sticks he likes to play with he’s been eating them as well and there was the equivalent of a log jam inside his belly. Nice. The vet said she has seen a lot of things but she’s never, ever seen so much wood inside of a dog before.

It’s day 6 and Reub has barely eaten. Our vet has asked us not to feed him raw meat as the Canadian Veterinarian Association does not endorse it and she said that she sees alot of dogs with health problems who are on the raw diet. Now Dave is in kitchen cooking up some rice and lamb and sweet potato. He just came into announce that Reub is now eating bits of cooked lamb.

So for those of you who want to spare your pooch a near fatal mishap, I’d suggest keeping wood chewing to a minimum. You will also save yourself three thousand dollars while you’re at it.

Right now I’m just happy that Reub is on the mend again!

Tessa: A rendition of: Con te Partiro. Prepare to weep!

Tessa: For any of you who have been listening to the latest phenomenon regarding colony collapse disorder of honeybees, here is a great quote directly ripped off from Leonardo DiCaprio’s site by Albert Einstein: 
   

 “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”

on Britain’s Got Talent… and it’s amazing. Watch this! Nessun Dorma is one of my favourite pieces of music.

Tessa: So last night Dave and I are walking out in the trails behind our house and it’s a beautiful night, still a little cool but the sky is indigo and the air is moist and smells like spring. You can smell everything growing and blooming and it’s nothing short of delicious because I’m with my boy and our dog and life just doesn’t get much better than those moments. So we’re chatting and Dave starts telling me about this movie he saw as a kid, he was 10 but still remembers it well. It’s called Cocoon and it’s about people who decide to give up everything on earth to become immortal intergalactic space travellers. Then he pauses on the trail and looks deeply into my eyes and just when I think the night can’t get much better because I’m going to be kissed amidst all the beauty of this moment, he says, “I think about it a lot.” “You think about what? ” “You know getting on a space ship. Going to another planet. Maybe to planetron. I always think about that movie.” “But we haven’t even traveled here yet.” I say. Then he tells me about the scene in the movie between the grandpa and the grandson and how they’re out fishing and grandpa says to the boy “I’m going away son.” ” When will I see you again?” asks the boy and grandpa says, “Never son and that’s just the way it’s gotta be.” And off he goes to intergalactic glory. So all of this begged the question which I then asked, “Would you go?” “Yes,” he said. “But I’d beg you to come.” That’s nice. Dave already has one foot on his space ship! Then we kissed but somehow I was still perplexed.