A Good Day

‘Twas a busy day yesterday.  It started our with loading both dogs into the car for a trip to the V-E-T.  Yup.. Sadie and Coco.  Coco for his ear check and Sadie to have a leg check.  

Not sure of any specific incident, but two days ago I noticed Sadie with an on again, off again limp. As you may imagine   I felt sick at the sight.   Her torn  ligament injury last fall took a good six months to heal.  My first thought when I saw the hind left leg carried high was that she had somehow re-injured it.    

Happily the Vet only had good news for the three of us.  Coco’s ears have been cleared and no more antibiotics are required.   Yay!  It’s back to his regular food today… we’ll see what he thinks about that. :-)

Sadie’s knee is swollen but the joint is stable.. nothing a week of restricted activity and some anti-inflammatories won’t heal.  Double Yay!!

The plan for the afternoon involved me babysitting Zach for a couple of hours, but a set of mistakenly taken car keys kind of kyboshed that, so some time spent visiting happened instead.

Have to stick this  next photo in here.   Must respect the equal time and opportunity clause of  being a Grandma.   :-)

This was taken this past Sunday. Finally a warm summers day..  finally time for some fun in the sun.

What a wonderful age these two are at!! :-)

Now back to yesterday… the evening plan  involved me and  Mom.   Every August Winnipeg puts on this most amazing cultural event called Folklorama, a two week festival involving approximately 40 different pavilions, each representing a different country.    When Mom was younger, she and her friends used to hop from pavilion to pavilion, sometimes with grandkids in tow.  

Now, at 87,  her days are long and I suspect lonely.  With her eyesight being what it is, she no longer gets out that much.    But yesterday we decided to give it a go and the two of us headed out to one of the more popular attractions, the Celtic Ireland Pavilion.

Mom is increasingly  frail  and uses a walker to ambulate.   I worried some about the logistics of maneuvering through what I knew would be a  busy place.. but as it turned out, my worries where for not.   Handicapped parking was available and those with disabilities where ushered in before the long line of waiting patrons.   A practically front row seat for the show was then made available.   It couldn’t have turned out any better. 

We had an absolutely marvelous time.  The food included classic Irish homestyle pub fare such as meat pies, soda bread, bangers and apple crisp topped off with a cream topped cup of Irish coffee.  

The stage show by the  Brady Academy Irish Dancers and the local fiddling sensation Sierra Noble took our  breath away and left us  wanting more.

We so enjoyed ourselves that another pavilion or two may just be in the works.