Yesterday there was a small fire in a FPL substation in West Miami, which caused the Turkey Point nuclear reactor to shut down, which led to 4 million people losing their electricity. Apparently, power blackouts result from a cascade effect. Life's like that, too.
Wifey remains incapacitated from a bad back, which leaves her unable, she reports, to walk our stubborn Bassett Hound. Wifey DOES walk our obedient Labrador, and leaves the Hound home alone. This causes the Bassett to engage in unacceptable behavior, like peeing in the house, and worse, swallowing rocks.
For the second time in a few months, Miss Molly is under observation and hydration, in hopes that "this, too, shall pass." If the 2 inch rock doesn't find its way clear by today, the vet will perform a rock ectomy.
Wifey has concluded, after consulting world class animal behavioral experts in Atlanta and Orlando ( a housewife and nurse), that indeed the proper course is to give away Miss Molly, to someone whose house lacks rocks.
As the cascade flowed, this led to tearful protests from D1 and D2, with D1 sobbing on the phone last night with greater emotion than she displayed when she broke up with a boyfriend.
So, what to do? Well, D2 and I have agreed to walk the Bassett more frequently, in hopes of reigning in the rock swallowing. In the meantime, we're hoping someone among our friends or family will find themselves just starving for the unusual experience of owning a comically clumsy, low rider of a dog.
The power came back on yesterday, and the rhythm of life in Florida resumed. This Bassett related problem too shall pass, hopefully as will the rock through the dog's gut.
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