Annual Checkup...

...It's not just for cats and dogs.

I just wanted to remind everyone that bunnies should be seen by a rabbit savvy vet at least once a year for an annual checkup.

Speaking of which...

Beaker went in for his annual checkup on the 2nd. He had a pea-sized ball of ear wax in his left ear and he was starting to get tooth spurs on his molars again (his molars were filed down in February of last year). In addition to his exam, he had his molars filed and his ears rinsed out.

The vet used a gas anesthesia while she was filing his molars. It took her a whole 10 minutes and then I was able to take Beaker home. When his teeth were filed last year, it was with his old vet (that was about a 45 minute drive away) who used an injectable anesthesia, making a tooth filing an all day procedure.

Both vets are rabbit savvy. The main differences are the distance and cost. The new vet is a lot closer and easier on my wallet.

She said that Beaker's abdomen felt good and aside from the ear wax and tooth spurs, she thought he was in excellent health.

When she put the scope in Beaker's mouth to look at his teeth he started smacking his lips around it and licking it - he thought she was giving him a syringe full of medicine! *laughs*

When I first got Beaker he was three months old and had to be put on a couple of different antibiotics. Shortly after he was neutered and was given more antibiotics as well as pain medication. So he's had a lot of liquid meds.

The vet was so shocked that he was so well behaved with the scope in his mouth that she took her time looking throughout his mouth. She told me that most rabbits won't let her keep a scope in their mouth as long as Beaker had. She kept saying how well behaved he was. (it made me so proud.)

I had to flush out his ears once a day for a week, with an ear cleansing solution, to help fight the ear wax buildup.

He's now 6 1/2lbs. He's lost 2lbs since he was placed on an all hay diet (with daily veggies - no pellets) a year ago. He's at a healthier weight and he's still my big boy. :)

Before we went to the vet I trimmed Beaker's nails and brushed him. He's getting ready to start molting again. I think Bunsen is getting ready to start molting too. I'm not looking forward to both bunnies molting at the same time. My house is going to look like bunny fur exploded everywhere. *sigh*

It was a good thing I trimmed Beaker's nails. He jumped off of the examining table onto my shoulder three times while we were at the vet. He hates standing on the metal table. He calmed down once they got a towel for him to stand on and one of the vet techs held him.

Wisdom, or Lack Thereof...

My wisdom tooth socket checkup went just fine. Everything is healing nicely. My oral surgeon told me that it takes a few weeks for the socket to close up completely. I have a small socket hole now, but I'm ready for it to close up. I'm tired of food constantly getting stuck in it.

Anniversary

Sunday, April 8th, was our first wedding anniversary. I'm very grateful to those that remembered our anniversary - it meant a lot to me. Everyone in my family forgot. I don't know if it had anything to do with the fact that Easter was on our anniversary this year or not. It was quite disappointing nonetheless.

Michael and I went out to the movies to see Premonition. It was VERY good. Not a good anniversary movie, but still good. It wasn't anything like I thought it would be and the ending was quite a surprise.

After the movies we had dinner at Red Lobster. Then we went home and just relaxed. Overall it was a great anniversary.

On Monday I received flowers for our anniversary. They were supposed to be delivered on Sunday. When Michael ordered them he was told that they couldn't give him a time frame for delivery because they were really busy with Easter deliveries. When he called to find out what happened to my flowers they told him that they don't deliver flowers to residences on Sunday. The woman he spoke with didn't care that Michael was told the flowers would be delivered on Sunday, nor did she care that they were for our anniversary. Michael said that it's the last time he'll be using that florist.

My flowers are wonderful, despite the issues with delivering them. It's a spring arrangement in a clay pot. They're still thriving and are sitting on the kitchen table where I can see them.

Handy Crafts

There's a girl that I work with that is having her bridal shower at the end of this month. I'm knitting her a set of dishcloths and I'm also going to crochet her a set of hanging towels.

I went to The Knit Nook, a local yarn shop, to get some yarn. I use cotton yarn for my dishcloths and the set I'm making needs to match a kitchen that's decorated in shades of greens and browns. (It sounds God awful to me. Maybe I'd have to see it to appreciate it.) I found some really nice yarn in an olive green and a suede brown.

This was my first trip to the The Knit Nook and I was quite surprised. They have quite a selection for such a small place. I had to resist the urge to buy more yarn. The priceyness of the yarn was a really good deterrent. It seems that many women just take their knitting there and hang out in the shop just to knit. It has a nice atmosphere, but it's a little too far for me to drive to just to knit.

They offer classes there as well. I'd like to take a few to work on some different skills when we have the money.

Sugar Shortcake???

I picked up some strawberries when I was at the store last night. I decided to make strawberry shortcake with it. So I cut up the strawberries and added the sugar. I wasn't thinking about how much sugar I was putting in there and added WAY too much! I let it soak in the fridge overnight to let the sugar pull the juice out of the strawberries.

Today I had a thick layer of sugar sitting at the bottom of the container. I spooned out the strawberries and the juice from the over sugared container and moved it to a new one. I tasted one of the strawberries and it was fine. I was worried that I had just wasted/ruined a batch of strawberries.

Whew!

Wanton Wonton

I made wonton soup for the first time last month. I made up a huge batch of wontons and froze half of them to eat later. It wasn't the best wonton soup I had ever had, but it was okay. Some of my wontons died/exploded/fell apart while they were cooking. I think I overstuffed a few of them. I'm sure I'll get better with more practice. I made another batch of wonton soup today for lunch.






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