When it rains it pours, isn’t that what they say? Once again I ask, who are “they”, and for the record would they please shut up! This spring has seen a steady string of minor disasters. OK, so I’m being dramatic but I think I’ve earned it. I think it started with the oven, anything before that I must be suppressing at this point. The oven, well it’s dead, so we have been without an oven for a few months now. When it crapped out we thought, well that sucks but at least it’s spring  now and we can use the bbq until we can get it fixed. The three months of consistent rain has sort of put the smackdown on that idea. We were fortunate enough to head back to Calgary for a long weekend to visit with some friends and we discovered a slow leak in one of the tires in our van. We took it to have it looked at in Calgary only to discover we had 4, repeat 4 nail holes in the tire. It’s a wonder it didn’t blow out on the 9 hour trip to Calgary, and anyone that has had tire problems knows, you can’t just replace one tire. So two tires and $500 later we were on our way home. Now to Saturday the day before Father’s day and my beautiful, but apparently not so bright puppy decides he’s going to jump out of the back of a pickup truck, while it’s still moving. An emergency vet visit (on a Saturday), two x-rays, and $500 later we discover he has blown out his CCL (knee) and is going to need surgery to the tune of somewhere between $3000-5000.

At least all the rain and the cold weather has slowed down the carpenter ants this season.

BBD.