Why I've been slack on posting.

I felt a bit bad yesterday just posting that haiku, but then it got more comments than I normally get, so at least you guys had fun. The reason for the short post yesterday and why I'm not posting the next instalment of Willow's Bug Bus Trip is revealed in these photos....

Doesn't look too happy does he? Even for a pug that's a soulful expression.
This next photo shows why..

I found a lump the size of a marble while I was petting him the other day so I booked him in for a biopsy. In the end they didn't even have to send it away as it was just fatty tissue. But I guess it's better to be safe than sorry, particularly where it was, if it was malignant and it grew, it would have been a bitch to get out and he may have lost a leg.

Now, as to why I haven't written the next episode. I just about ran out of wood yesterday (and it's darn cold) so today I have been getting more. This may not look too bad but believe me it was a bit scary...

If you look at that ladder you'll see that I was about 10ft of the ground holding the chainsaw at chest height and the branch (secondary trunk actually) I was cutting was about 40ft long and very heavy, not the safest of environments (each rung is a foot apart)...

But, luckily everything when well and I didn't end up either in hospital or on Funniest Home Videos (or both). And even better still, I didn't take out the corner of my shed (refer to earlier pic)...

Just threw those two pics in for artistic effect. 

Belle is shaping up to be a real good little dog (if she'd just stop crapping in the damn house!), she goes everywhere with me, but she disappears purty durn qwik when the chainsaw fires up...

Ok, I admit it, I called her so she would turn around an look at me in that last photo, but the sawdust is real!