Fractured Friday...sorry, we couldn't pass it up...

Kitties!

We are loving having Mommy home all day, providing a warm lap.

The last time she was off on medical leave, we weren't allowed on her lap, if you can believe that noise.  Some nonsense about abdominal surgery, blah blah blah.  The usual poppycock.

But not this time!

She always has at least one kitty with her at all times, bed, sofa, potty...you name it, and we're there, keeping her company, snuggling on her lap. 

Kona:  Mommy's been petting me for hours and feeding me all the temptations I can hold.  

It's great!  

Had I known that this would happen, I'd've kneecapped her years ago.

Rupert:  See the spot between my ears?  It's getting positively damp from all the kissies Mommy's been planting there.

Thank you Cathy Keisha for the excellent Nurse's Cap!

Nurse Grayce:  Mommy saw the Orthopedic Doc today--no surgery for her, HURRAH!  She'll be getting a special brace for her leg--no cast--DOUBLE HURRAH!!  She can take it off to bathe--TRIPLE HURRAH!!!  

The Doc says it's a clean break with no displacement and her patella should heal just fine.  More X-rays in two weeks and possibly starting physio in three.  She'll be off work at least ten more days, possibly more, depending on what her work decides.  In the meanwhile we are taking full advantage of the lappage...as you can see.  And Mommy is taking advantage of Daddy, hee hee hee!  Truly, he's taking good care of Mommy, as are we all.

We may be a bit scarce commenting for the next few days, but if you here a "thunk, click, drag" that's Mommy, gimping around in cyberspace, checking up on y'alls.

Happy Friday!

XX  Kona, Rupert, and Grayce  XX

Crisis at Wounded Knee, DAY FIVE

Kitties!

Nurse Grayce here, with Breaking News!

Mommy fractured her kneecap!  

In two pieces.  

She's part of the lucky one percent of broken bone sufferers that have a busted patella.  Furthermore, and even rarer, it's a vertical break.  Which means it's not quite as serious and she still can move her lower leg up and down--although she's keeping her knee straight, for now.  She's off work on workman's comp until (at the very least) she sees an orthopedic surgeon on Thursday.  So much for working eighteen days in a row...

We have all been making total pests of ourselves nursing Mommy non-stop.  She says it hardly hurts at all; however when she went to the human fix-it shop on Monday the repair lady there made her squeal like a little girl when she bent her knee past where it wanted to go.  Three times.  Which I feel makes up for the lack of Ye Olde Rectal Thermometer treatment. 

The worst part of the whole situation is that our breakfasts are late again!

Mommy is LAME.

No really, she is.

Happy Wednesday!

XX  Grayce  XX

Dryer Disaster!

Kitties!

The Baby here.

I love the Dryer.

Something TERRIBLE happened last week, the dryer started making a strange noise!

It went something like this:

hummmmmmmmmm

hummmmmmmmm

KER-FLUMPH

BUMP

BUMP

HUMMMMMMMMMM

hummmmmmm

This meant that Mommy hasn't run MY Dryer since Saturday.  I've been bereft of my hot, rumbly sleeping-aid appliance.

So today a repairman came.   He determined what the problem was (a faulty drum roller) and said he could fix it, easy.  But...he would have to order the part.

OH NOOOOO!

My Dryer was going to stay cold and silent.

But wait...Mister Repairman said it was OK to run the Dryer, as long as it was a full load to add weight on the drum...HURRAH!!!!

After Mister Repairman left, Mommy got busy.

She did three glorious loads of laundry!

And I inspected each one thoroughly. 

You can't seeee meeeee!

Here I am...

Peek-a-Boo!

I had a HUGE bath and a long nap this afternoon, snoring away on my wonderful, wonderful Dryer. 

Happy Thursday!

XX  The Baby

pee ess:  we'll be back to commenting on Sunday...gol-danged silly Mommy work schedule...

pee pee ess:  There's some cool pictures on Water Grrl today!