Family in crisis...

Sorry we've been negligent on updates this past week. We have made a lot of headway working on the Fox Ridge bathroom project, but this week has been preoccupied with a family emergency, making blogging a low priority.

Our much-loved dog, William, is currently on Day-2 in the Veterinary Emergency Hospital, after suffering from a "spontaneous pneumothorax" on Sunday afternoon. The gist of a spontaneous pneumothorax is that a blob (called a bulla) on his lung exploded, allowing air from his lungs to escape into his chest cavity, filling his chest cavity with so much air that it began to crush his internal organs. Luckily, we caught this before it became completely impossible for him to breathe, but he's undergoing surgery today to insert chest tubes to hopefully make it easier for him to breathe. He likely has another surgery tomorrow to remove another bulla still intact on his lung, and then hopefully we're through the woods. It's all very scary and the house is terribly quiet without him here, so I hope you'll forgive that our minds our elsewhere for now...

Check back later in the week, when we'll hopefully have lots of good news to report on his progress, and then we can return our focus to more cheerful subjects. Like the grueling process of tiling your own bathroom floor... 

We miss you William!