In like a Lion

This week has been busy as usual. Jim doesn't get fair coverage on this blog, but he doesn't usually give me pictures from school and he doesn't do the writing! If you're curious, so far this week he had an FFA meeting, practiced with some members from the Soggy Prairie Boys, practiced with the UW Russian Folk Orchestra, cooked a full breakfast for 25 (a prize for the class who won the FFA food drive) andperformed a necropsy on a degu (autopsy on a small South American rodent.) Tomorrow he's taking one of his classes trout fishing, and Friday he'll be up all night at school for the FFA lock-in.

I've been busy too! Monday I performed my second spay surgery ever on a kitty named "Boo." Third year vet students do this as part of a class where Humane Societies "lend" us female cats and dogs - the dogs benefit because they are spayed (free!) which makes them more adoptable, and we get the practice of doing surgery.

Tuesday Marney and I participated in a lab where students got to practice applying leg bandages. We all definitely need more practice, but you can see Marney and my friend Erin's dog Emma sporting a few different types of bandages.

March definitely came in like a lion! Last night after I got home, I heard a loud crash. I assumed it was our kitties up to no good, but couldn't find anything out of place so I decided it must have been a branch falling outside on the porch. Well, this morning we figured out what the loud crash was - it was our backyard fence landing in the neighbor's yard, thanks to last night's 50mph winds! Jim and I were able to fix the fence tonight (fortunately only one post was broken) although we almost froze in the cold wind!

That's all for now - until next time,

Love, Steph and Jim