Strange day.  We went from a sleepy Monday to a crazy Tuesday.  In the morning I was certain that there was something wrong with my eyesight.  Everything I looked at was in black and white.  We had two Papillon brothers come in, Harvey and Jack.  They spent the day with us while mother and her helpers gave them pokes, gathered red syrup, trimmed toenails and looked them over.  They were cute boys, but decidedly too bossy.  The Papillons enjoyed one of the big apartments and that somehow made them think that they were in charge of the place.  I had to raise my voice more than a few times, just to drown them out. 

I had to do a double take when the next dog that came to stay also was black and white.  She was a puppy; a screeching, wiggling, wagging puppy.  She was terrified to be by herself, and was shouting to anyone who would listen.  Her name was Hayley.  She took one look at Harvey and Jack, and felt a connection with them.
I was busy being terrified that my eyesight was going and was imagining a future of only black and white.
Then, I looked over at Bea; her pink ear calling to me, longing to be cleaned.  I realized that her pink ear was neither black or white.  What a relief!
As it happens the rest of the visitors were a variety of colors, and I enjoyed every one of them.  At the end of the night we even had a visitor covered in red... syrup that is.  Laughing Laura wasn't laughing when she told the team that the dog, whose name was Bessie, had been "hit by a car".  I've never smelled or seen so much red syrup in one place.  Bessie was bravely stoic, and behaved calmly despite that fact that her elbow was broken in two pieces with bone parts sticking out.  My parents remained calm; father put a plastic tube in the dogs back leg and mother gave her some happy sleep medicine.   With a large bandage on her mangled leg, Bessie went off to the emergency clinic for the night.  Mother's pretty sure that Bessie will have to have her damaged leg removed.  Bessie sure is one tough girl though, if anyone can make it with only three legs, I know she can!