So, tired of the massive amount of hair rolling around our house, we actually spent about $35 on a dog hairbrush. Ridiculous, I know. But if you could see how well “The Furminator” worked and the amount of hair that we could brush off of both Gus and Beansprout, you’d know it was worth every penny

However, we took both animals to the vet on Tuesday, and poor Beansprout got very scared and…shall we say…”desperately needed a bath” after we got home. This was the first bath we’ve ever had to give her, and she wasn’t happy about this new experience. Note the puffy tail (though it’s hard to see because Chris had a hard time getting a good shot, what with David being very interested in what was happening in his bathtub)

We only really washed her belly and hind quarters, but she managed to get most of herself wet anyway

Iz not happy. I come after you in ur sleepz.

For comparison, David stands next to the Calamondan orange tree to show how much it’s grown since arriving in a small pot from Austin

On Friday morning, Emily and her boss, Sarah, went to Kokomo, IN for a meeting. Since we both do stained glass, we took a tour of the Kokomo Opalescent Glass factory an studio. Whoa. This is the pile of used porcelain kilns that, after their useful lives (of only a few months) gets thrown out in the yard. The glass still inside is collected and reused, and the kilns are also recycled

KOG is the longest-running glass factory in the country and ships glass all over the world. This is the furnace, kept firing 24 hours a day, at approximately 2000 degrees. There are twelve ovens in the furnace, and as they make the different colors of glass, they gather different amounts from the kilns

One of the glass handlers spreads a ladle full of glass onto the roller to make sheet glass

When full, the ladles full of hot molten glass weigh over 80 pounds, and the handlers have to run from the furnace to the rolling table before it cools

I’m so trained now to get excited when I see things like forklifts. This one happened to be moving a dumpster full of near-boiling water. Once the handlers have thrown their ladles of glass onto the roller, they dip the ladles in the water to cool them. This makes the water very hot. Obviously