Baynanza, Bon Jovi and FrankenLUKE!!

And part 3 of 3 commences....

Everyone has gone back home and its just me and the hounds again....

back to our quiet little life...

Our first weekend wasn't so quiet though!!

I started off my weekend with Baynanza 2010!!

This is my second year participating in Baynanza. Baynanza is a county-wide bayside clean up! There are over two dozen locations around the county that you can sign up for. Then you just show up on clean up day, grab your trash bags and do your little part to clean up the beautiful South Florida coast line! It's a fun event and a good opportunity to give back.

(and get a free t-shirt)

Over 8,000 people volunteered this year!!

Last year I was all by my lonesome but this year my friend Jackie volunteered her time too

and we had a blast! We signed up to clean one of the islands in the bay

so we got a boat ride out of the deal!

We got to the island and were just floored with the amount of trash!

But we just dug in and started trash pickin'!

Here is a nice pic of the Miami skyline behind my growing bag of trash....

Picking up trash is hard work! So we did make sure to take time to cool our footsies in the bay!

After a long hot morning, our chariot arrived to take us back to the mainland.

Our good deed was done for the day!

After a day of doing good works, I rewarded myself with a BON JOVI CONCERT!!

Our seats were actually behind the stage....

...but the view was incredible! I have never been so close to a concert stage! We were only 25 rows back and had a great view! We could see his facial expressions!! very cool!! All these pics were taken with my iPhone which makes it look like we were farther back than we were and a little grainy.

The concert was AWESOME! Bon Jovi still has it after all these years! He played all the favorite hits: Livin' on a prayer, You give love a bad name, Wanted, I'll be there for you... plus some of his new stuff that is just as good!

In between my adventures, my poor little greyhound Luke found a way to garner some attention for himself... in the most horrific way...

So off to the vet I go AGAIN! The vet even made comment that it's really nice for her to see me so often but not really nice for me! (or my pocket book!) I left him at the vet for a few stitches and when I picked him up... he had turned into FRANKENLUKE!

22 staples and 6 stitches under the staples.

Whatever he ran into in the yard or house, had actually punctured through to his chest cavity. (I could see his lungs, it was gross.) The vet stitched up the cavity hole and the muscle that was cut through, then stapled everything together on the outside.

Like most males when they are sick, Luke turned into a puddle. He wouldn't lie down, rest or relax unless his head was in my lap. And as a good momma, I let him be babied.

To make sure he didn't bust a staple or another dog didn't help him remove them, he was grounded and sentenced to his own little corner of the house when I was away.

He made it through two weeks of healing and got his staples out today. He healed up real nice and will have a pretty little battle scar to show off to the ladies with tales of how that pit bull in Miami tried to attack his pack and he fought it off.

The Parting Shots:

We had a huge storm here and it flipped over some of the patio furniture! Luckily there was no dogs lying on those beds when it fell!!

Sandy investigates the creature that has taken over her beds...