Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, Mani the purebred border collie, filling in for the guy I live with, and here today to talk about a couple of things. You may remember me from such posts as “Winter In Spring”, among so many, many others.

Here I am in a characteristic pose.This was taken a few days ago, while the guy I live with was gardening. I forget what I was looking at.
He was keeping an eye on me, because my tummy wasn’t feeling very well.

The guy I live with was hoping my tummy troubles would turn around, but events of late last Sunday night caused him to take me to the emergency vet; he said the anxiety he suffers from wouldn’t let him wait any longer. I was stuck with needles and stuff like that.
We got home at a quarter after two in the morning.
I had clostridium, as usual, but this was a pretty bad case of it.
So the next day the guy I live with went to my doctor and got some medicine. I’m lucky that he knows what to do. I’ve had this before, and I know from him talking about it that Chess, the purebred border collie who lived here before me, got clostridium all the time.
As of today the guy I live with says it looks like I’m very much on the mend.
This was his view in the parking lot of my doctor’s office. He thought it was funny.
I was kind of put out that I have to have my antibiotic hidden in a piece of Brie, rather than my preferred Fromager d’Affinois or Délice de Bourgogne, but the guy I live with apologized and said the store he went to only had Brie. It’s still good though.

I behaved like my regular self through all of this; I got to chase the raccoon up a tree late one night. That was very enjoyable.

Well, the other thing is that we finally got a little relief from the fairly horrific drought we’re experiencing.
This is me, yesterday.
On my evening walk I was sure there was something in the creek, and tried to get the guy I live with to climb down into the creekbed, but it said it was too deep and he might fall. He’s a lot less limber than I am.
By the time I went on my morning walk the next day there was a lot of melting. We got about a quarter of an inch of water from this snow, which isn’t a lot, but the guy I live with said it’s better than nothing.
He said they’re talking about more rain and snow maybe this next weekend. He hopes there won’t be any “fire weather” warnings before that, but the way this fairly nightmarish past seven months have been, he wouldn’t be surprised. He said it’s a bit like knowing someone for a very long time who suddenly goes “off the deep end”. I didn’t know what he meant by that, but I do agree that nothing seems right with the weather, these days.
I guess we’ll see what happens.

Until next time, then.