The Blackburn Family

Tonight we made fresh pasta again. I also made sauce with my tomatoes and it was so yummy. It was only our second attempt at making pasta with our expensive pasta machine. Now that we have tomatoes for making sauce I am sure we will make it again soon. It really isn’t as hard as you would think! It took a bunch of tomatoes to make a little bit of sauce, but thankfully I have tons of tomatoes right now.

Yesterday mom and I hosted a bridal shower for Jennifer. Click here to see the pictures.

As for JD, I took him to the vet on Wednesday for his procedure, but as soon as I got to work the vet was calling. JD’s blood work was a bit off and he was running a slight temperature so the vet wasn’t comfortable putting him under for the surgery. So after work I drove all the way back out there to pick him up again. I still haven’t heard from the vet about what they think is wrong with him. They ran $200 worth of tests on Wednesday, but I guess the results aren’t in yet. So now we have spent $550 on JD in a week and we still don’t know what is wrong with him. Plus he still needs to get his bladder stones removed.

Yesterday I decided it was time to take JD to the vet. He has been throwing up a lot in the last couple weeks and hasn’t had much of an appetite. After more throwing up over the weekend I called the vet yesterday and took him in. He ended up having to stay the night to get fluids because he was dehydrated. The vet also gave him some meds to calm his stomach and took an x-ray. This morning the vet called to inform me that they still weren’t positive why he was throwing up so much, but they did discover his bladder was full of stones!! Great…. Then she told me the surgery to remove them would costs $1,500 – $1,800. Ouch. We are going to try to flush them out first, but if that isn’t working they will have to go in and remove them. So between his teeth and this he is going to cost us about $2,500 this year, but look at that face….

How can you not love him?

On a more positive note my tomatoes are out of control! The roma’s aren’t really red yet, but the roma grapes are going crazy. I picked most of these today.

Here are a few other pictures of the tomato jungle and my lantanas which are blooming again.

And Apple

Last week I purchased a new game for the wii. I was so tired of playing the sports game that came with the wii and everyone else had new games! First I got the Party Games, but it wasn’t that fun either. I guess it could be fun, but I was bored with that one too. I am terrible at games where you have to figure out how to pass a level or whatever so I decided to go with Mario and Sonic at the Olympics. I am addicted! It is by far my favorite game. I hope they make a winter olympics game for Mario and Sonic! I went downstairs about 6:00 tonight to make dinner and while it was cooking I decided to play for a few minutes. Three hours later I was still playing and I thought my arms were about to fall off. The last few days I have been getting really bad tension headaches caused by knots in my neck. I am pretty sure this wii related. When you play most of the Olympic games you have to move your arms a lot and very fast. I think it is making my muscles knot up! Oh, well. I am going to keep playing. I also was planning to get several things done tonight, but since I played wii for three hours I won’t be getting to most of them. I have several pictures to post that I have taken with my new camera, but thanks to the wii I won’t be posting them tonight. However I did want to show you all what I saw this morning when I went to ride the elliptical machine.

Thanks to the tint on our windows he couldn’t see me, but I could see him! I was able to get really close to him and take some pictures. He could hear the camera, but couldn’t see me even when I was right on top on him. He was pretty confused and thought his reflection was another bird. He tapped on the glass a couple times trying to talk to the other bird. Eventually when I turned on the TV he flew away.