The Momma Loves Gringo

Ken: Well, I’m going to head back. I appreciate you getting the place cleaned up.

JD: Ken, I came over last week with a few other people and none of us smelled anything.

Ken: Well there was a strong animal odor in here that I smelled last week. And maintenence was with me and they smelled it too.

The momma: There’s no way an odor strong enough to cause Keith’s place to smell bad could have come out of my place.

Ken: Well, there certainly was a strong animal smell here.

The momma: Look! I’m a veterinarian AND a scientist! I think I would know if a strong animal odor existed here! There was no way my place is the cause of the odor next door!

Ken: Well, I’m not going to argue with you. Sam, are you almost finished?

Sam: Yes, I just need to get the new CO detector put in.

Ken: Ok, I’ll head back and let you finish up here.

Then Ken left.

JD: Sam, were you here last week? [to the momma] Sam is one of the good guys. He is honest and very trustworthy.

Sam: I smelled a slight musty odor, but it wasn’t as strong as next door. To be honest with you, it’s not that uncommon of a problem.

JD and Sam left a few minutes later. The momma wanted to wait until 6 before picking all of us up at daycare.

5pm, the momma’s phone rang. It was JD.

JD: You are going to love what just happened!

The momma: what?

JD: I ran into Ken after I left your place. He asked me if you still had 3 animals. I told him that they were staying at a friends until you could work out some sort of arrangement. But, I also told him that your copy of the by-laws didn’t mention a limit of 2 pets and if the new situation didn’t work out we would take it before the board to get a special waiver to keep all of the pets. He said, really? it’s not in her copy of the by-laws? Hmmmm. I guess as long as they don’t cause any problems we can always look the other way.

YES!!!!!!!!!!

First the gross: Last week, I was running around at daycare when the toenail on the outside of my rear foot broke off…completely! It bled like crazy and the daycare owner took me to the emergency hospital where they applied styptic powder and wrapped it up. As soon as the momma got me home, I began to take off the wrap. The momma ran out to the car to get the bitter spray….but she was too late. By the time she got back inside I had already removed it. It was no longer bleeding so she just sprayed on a little liquid bandage. She took some photos of it with her cell phone camera. They’re pretty crappy but I’ll show them to you just the same (but you’ll need to click on them to open - I didn’t want to spoil anyone’s appetite!):

from above

from the side

from the front

The green arrows are pointing to the gaping hole where my toenail used to be, the yellow arrows are pointing to my foot pads and the top and bottom of my foot is indicated. The worst part of the entire ordeal is that I could not attend agility class that night.

OK, now for the totally unrelated, amusing segment of this post! A while back, the momma went to a lecture. The speaker was a German scientist. At the end of his talk, he played this video: