Long Time No See! :-)

It's been a few days since I've posted! One of the delays was caused from being drenched with 9-10" of water in one day, which over-saturated our dry ground. August was the driest month on record, according to the news, and then the remnants of Hurricane Lee came along and flooded us. Trees were down everywhere, including some at the beginning of our subdivision. Check this tree out, laying across the power lines. The police closed the road with a barricade, but can you believe people were driving around the barricade and underneath the tree? Talk about stupid! :-(





We live on a hill and didn't have any "direct" problem with flooding, but our power was out for 25 hours, and our roof leaked, messing up our living room ceiling. Robert's put the repair on his "to do" list.



And on top of all that, we have a sick or injured zebra finch. :-( I found her in terrible shape one evening when I got up, and immediately moved her to a quarantine cage. I have no idea what happened to her, but both of her eyes were gummed and matted/crusted up, the right side being worse than the left. I'm friends with several experts, and they feel she may have gotten her head stuck in the cage somehow, and the struggle to free herself may have caused the injuries. The only other possibility is that her cage mate (another hen) may have attacked her, but usually if there's a fight, any injuries are on one side only. I guess we'll never know for sure. Either way, the poor little girl looked absolutely HORRIBLE. I'll go ahead and post photos, but STOP READING HERE if you're eating or tend to get queasy!

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I've been putting Neosporin on her face to ward off any infection, and have some avian antibiotics ordered. Now (two days later), she's looking considerably better. I was worried that her eyes were injured or gone, but I know for sure that her left eye is intact and functional, and she just opened her right eye a peek. It had been crusted/matted over, but the Neosporin softened it up. Her right eye appears to be intact as well, but I can't be 100% sure at this point. Here are some pics from this morning. The wet-look is from the Neosporin, and the hole is her ear (looks huge, doesn't it??).





I'm now optimistic that she'll make a complete recovery, but at first, I thought for sure she was a goner. She's a tough little thing, that's for sure! She's been eating and drinking normally the whole time, and is as feisty as ever, which amazes me, considering how terrible she looked/looks! :-)

Edited an hour later to add: Her other eye is fully open now, is intact, and appears to be fine! Woo hoo! :-)