December Photo Project: Day Twenty-one and Twenty-two

Inspiration has taken a back seat and my excuse is that the last two days of my vacation have been spent working my tail off. Yesterday morning I began cleaning the walls and base boards of the kitchen, a job long over due and quite disgusting. I was then offered a much needed break to go and look at beds for Matthew. My mom, Matthew and I all headed over to Portales where we found a bed and found that my car was too small to transport it back to town. I then drove Mom and Matthew back to town, traded vehicles and went back to Portales. By the time I got home and did some more housework, the day was shot and pictures weren't. Yesterday's picture is a couple of days old and is all about Mother Nature. The first picture is of Matthew playing outside in the 60 degree weather. We started out playing golf and then moved to a game of baseball, except the bat was his putter and the baseball was one of the golf balls. I love baseball no matter how we decide to make it happen. The other picture is of a flock of geese that make their way over our house every evening around 4 p.m. I love to see them and hear them as they go off to parts unknown.

Today has been somewhat of a repeat of yesterday. I took Matthew to school and ran a few errands this morning and then fought with the bed frame and tried to set up Matthew's new bed. When this failed I began working on my dossier, which was also a failure for most of the day. My picture from today is of Nero, our husky-mix dog, who got to pay the vet a visit this morning. His nose has been peeling for months now and I kept thinking and hoping it was going to get better. When I bonked him on the nose the other day on accident and it started bleeding I decided it wasn't getting any better and it was time to see the vet. She said he has some sort of auto immune disorder and sent me home with $80 worth of medicine for him. I may be playing the fool here, but I hate to think that Nero is suffering, his nose looks really painful. I have to give him these pills 3 times a day and I think he'd be just as happy eating them with his meals, but I spruced up the first batch with some peanut butter. He was thrilled to have the treat and to choke down three pills.