Poor Picasso

Quick post…. Kids were playing in the park with Picasso.  He ran up the creek to the road and got hit by a car.  He hobbled back home as Fish ran in to tell us what had happened.  Picasso was bleeding from the mouth.  We wrapped him up in a blanket and hauled tail to the vet.  Xray’s showed a broken hip.  Surgery is today, or tomorrow, depending on vet’s schedule.  Picasso lost all color in his tongue and mouth… he just turned gray.  Vet techs started IV fluids and said we can come visit anytime.  Vet said there was crackly lung noise but it may be nothing.

We’ll keep you posted.

Well… he’s reading!

Fish has a new favorite book written by Joaquin Ramon Herrera and Horris, an indestructible monster friend.

The book has 92 pages in all.  Half are small type and the other half are great black and white illustrations. The illustrations remind me of creatures from Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends.

The book has a myriad of topics all equally disturbing.  Did you know Lobsters are oceanic bugs in the arachnid family?  Did you know that piranhas can attack a drinking cow and pull it under the water to eat it?  DId you know that humans used to burn each other up on bonfires?  Did you hear about the woman who bathed in blood because she thought it would keep her young and beautiful?  In addition to these scientific and historic accounts Herrera also included imaginary terrors:  What would it be like to run out of air, or freeze to death in outer space?

All in all it’s a pretty scary book delivered in a matter of fact and sometimes comical manner.    A gruesome six year old boy loves it dearly.  We buzzed through it yesterday afternoon.  Yes, the whole thing.  And he’s taken to carring it around with him today.  Hmmm… what else does Joaquin Ramon Herrera have to offer?