{thank you weekend...}

{He hated me for this pic, this dog hates water!!...}

...for showing up when I needed you most. It's been a WILD week, folks. Between hearing some bad news about our boy, Tucker, a very minor car accident courtesy of my stellar driving abilities, and Mrs. Berry {aka: my blackberry} taking the deepest plunge towards useless-electronics-world ever, I'm thankful the weekend is upon us.

... You'll notice that there is no update on our beautiful new cutter, Savannah; it will come, I promise. In the meantime, I want to dedicate this post to our loving little boy, Tucker, who I introduced you all to a few weeks back as our Boxer baby. He doesn't like to stay in the studio with me {it's much too noisy with the machinery running for his sensitive little ears}, but he's always apart of me. He and Atticus are 'velcro' dogs-- they are stuck with me wherever I go. After a few hours full of printing, I often need a glass of water... sure enough, the both of them follow... the whole 10 feet to the kitchen is twice as hard with two giant dogs at my hip, but I love it anyway. Makes me feel special.

Tucker-bean has not been himself these past 6 or so weeks, and gradually stopped using his right hind leg which now, at this point, is atrophied beyond repair. Thinking that was the worst of our problems (maybe real bad athritis or something...), we took him into the vet yesterday morning for an xRay of his hind quarters and the results were really not good. I don't know the specifics of anything here {in advance of reading this, know that I was far too emotional on the phone with the vet to hardly understand the 'technical terms' she was using...}, but it turns out that Mr. Tucker-bean has a bone-tumor quickly growing in his right knee. It's not something thats curable, and is likely to have spread to his chest bones/other parts of his nearby bones. It's operable-- if you consider taking his leg entirely away and relying on chemo for the rest of his 4-6months 'operable.'

So readers, it's with great sadness that I bring up this post to you, but I want each and every one of you to know that this week has been difficult and I will be focusing on my family (dogs included) for a few more days here. With the exception of one order (THANK YOU for understanding, Renee!), I am all finished up for this week/weekend, and will begin business-as-usual after this weekend. Tucker bean will remain on a strict treatment plan of 'fat & happy' as per the decision of me and my husband until further decisions need to be made. He's pretty excited to be back home anyway-- no matter what his face says when Atticus romps into the room. I'll leave you with a few memorable pics that I'll remind Mr. Tuckerbean of next time he's getting agitated and grumpy. I'll keep you all updated!

... In the meantime, sorry for the sadness overload, and I hope that you all have a WONDERFUL weekend-- remember, hug your pets, it's an order.