Coasting through January

Well, it's been a long time coming. After a stint of almost a year, Missy was at the vets. I wish it was for something routine, but no, she had started limping and the usual pulled muscle strategy (reduced walks, stretches, doggy massages) didn't work so we decided to see what Vets RE Covid would be like.

Not as bad as expected. Hubby drove there, rang to say he was outside, was directed to a  designated seat in the waiting room, they took Missy in and then popped out again to explain whats wrong. She has an ulcer, right up past the pad and in between her toes. Probably caused by all the salt and grit - I felt awful for waiting a few days assuming it was (yet another) sprain. We've been religiously washing her paws after every walk for weeks now, so I have no idea how that's happened, but now I'm applying cream to it twice daily, it's definitely a wound of some sort.

However, three days later and she's trying to chase squirrels again and decided to play wrestle a collie, so she is clearly in the mend and swiftly! 

Despite protests against, we've been sticking with the shorter walks to make sure it heals properly. That meant today's letter of "Q" was decicidingly difficult. Hubby came to the rescue and suggested we do the Julia Donaldsons Stick Man trail at the community garden and hopefully they would have a Quote from the book up on a sign. It was a long shot, but we took it! 

And quotes there were. All on cute little signs, each with a little bench to sit on. We found 5 of the 6 (how two grown adults were beaten by a trail aimed at 3 year olds, I don't know!) and decided to keep exploring. A lot of work has been done to the place over the various lock downs, there's a Fairy Glen and The Darkwood all ready to explore. We'd avoided the place over summer knowing it would be busy, and I can't wait to see it at its best this year. Definitely a place to take the youngest neice and nephew when they can eventually visit. 

I was quite happy with the Stick Man photos until we came across a tiny Storybook Glen. Lined up were quotes from Roald Dahl books and paintings of the illustrations. Whilst I found the one from Matilda the most appropriate in this modern world, my hubby loved most the one from his favourite of all the Dahl books: The Giraffe, The Pele and Me

With short days and short walks, I've done well this week with baking and crafts. I've tried 2 new recipes from a book I received for Christmas (a new rice krispie squares varient and a fruit struesal cake) and both were excellent, so that book has now gone on the shelf of useful cook books. Craft wise, I've been helping hubby make miniatures scenery and also got the sewing machine out:

Little craft buckets for my long term projects. All of them are ticking along nicely, and despite my desire to plough through and finish them, I'm taking my time to get them right. 

Well, that's all for this week, I did the maths (is it maths when it's alphabet related?) and worked out I have K, W and X left in the #leadthewayatoz. K and W, I have plans for, as for X, goodness knows! Hopefully my hubby will be clever again if I haven't thought something out by then!