Back home with the land seals
2008-04-29 20:10 Filed in: Beau's
lymphoma treatment
Aloha
nui loa!
We're back home from beautiful Kaua`i, and what a glorious slobber-fest of a welcome we got from the land seals!
Beau and Maggie were both ecstatic to welcome us back home, as I'm sure all you dog people can appreciate.
So Monday, everything was back to normal, apart from the alarm clock waking me up at 6 AM local time to get Beau over to South Paws for the second week of cycle 3 of his chemo. This week was once again the Chlorambucil. We're of course hoping that he doesn't have any of the stomach issues he had while Lisa was hound sitting. (The fact that Maggie also had stomach "issues," however, leads me to believe it was a stomach bug and not a side effect of the chemo.)
I showed Beau and Maggie the photos I took in Kaua`i, including the ones of the sea basset, but they seemed more impressed with their treats than my photos. Go figure.
Funny, those of you who looked at my pictures saw the shot I got of a seal resting on the rocks up near Kilauea Lighthouse. We also saw one just a few feet away from us on the beach at Po`ipo Beach, but I foolishly didn't have my camera with me.
Still, Caren and I both felt that bassets and seals are kindred spirits. And so did the Hawai`ians. The Hawai`ian name for seal is ʻĪlio-holo-i-ka-uaua. This loosely translates to dog who plays in the surf. Hence sea bassets and land seals. Seemed appropriate.
I wonder what the Hawai`ian name for dog who sleeps on the sofa is...
Aroooo-ha,
Ken
We're back home from beautiful Kaua`i, and what a glorious slobber-fest of a welcome we got from the land seals!
Beau and Maggie were both ecstatic to welcome us back home, as I'm sure all you dog people can appreciate.
So Monday, everything was back to normal, apart from the alarm clock waking me up at 6 AM local time to get Beau over to South Paws for the second week of cycle 3 of his chemo. This week was once again the Chlorambucil. We're of course hoping that he doesn't have any of the stomach issues he had while Lisa was hound sitting. (The fact that Maggie also had stomach "issues," however, leads me to believe it was a stomach bug and not a side effect of the chemo.)
I showed Beau and Maggie the photos I took in Kaua`i, including the ones of the sea basset, but they seemed more impressed with their treats than my photos. Go figure.
Funny, those of you who looked at my pictures saw the shot I got of a seal resting on the rocks up near Kilauea Lighthouse. We also saw one just a few feet away from us on the beach at Po`ipo Beach, but I foolishly didn't have my camera with me.
Still, Caren and I both felt that bassets and seals are kindred spirits. And so did the Hawai`ians. The Hawai`ian name for seal is ʻĪlio-holo-i-ka-uaua. This loosely translates to dog who plays in the surf. Hence sea bassets and land seals. Seemed appropriate.
I wonder what the Hawai`ian name for dog who sleeps on the sofa is...
Aroooo-ha,
Ken
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