It's been an interesting week around here..first, I've learned my Golden Retriever Puppy is a masochist. We have that underground fence that beeps to tell dogs when they're getting too close, and gives 'em a quick shock when they're right on it....Well, Daisy finally got shocked - and she loved it. She'll stand right on top of the thing, with her whole neck shaking, and her tail will be wagging, or her leg will shake like you're scratching her 'special tummy spot'.

My mother called yesterday and told me the cat we'd had for 13 years had to be rushed to the Emergency vet. Penelope's fine, she told me, but the vet delivered a shock: Penelope was a boy cat, not a girl cat. Now, wouldn't you think one of the other vets we've taken her to over the years would have told us that by now?

Didn't have TOO much homework this weekend, but instead of working on my fics like a good webhostess, I gardened. And I got very, very, crispy. Tore all the junk out of my front garden beds, planted some new flowers, and laid down some river rock. 35 bags of it, to be exact. And we RAN OUT. We are now looking into getting a truckload of the stuff, as I've  yet to finish the front gardens, and I'd like to do the back gardens in it as well. Of course, as I have none left, I can't plant the flowers for my back garden - I don't want to lay down the black plastic stuff without something to hold it down....and who knows when I'll have a whole weekend to work on it again?

That's about it for excitement - though I did gouge my ankle this morning whilest struggling not to wake up. (With my other toenail, no less). And Moose (my Chocolate Lab Puppy) somehow managed to tear off his electric probe collar - and the clasp is busted. Maybe Daisy was hoping she'd get to wear them both....