Leap Day was yesterday and....

LIAM LEAP YEAR 2008 AND MY EYE

Leap Year occurs every 4 years.  We need them to put the extra hours from the intervening three years somewhere. The sun is involved and how we rotate around it.  We have some leftover hours each year after we rotate, like 365 plus 5 hours. Julius Caesar wanted to fix the calendar to make it even.  Capture those excess hours by inserting an extra day in February every 4 years and bingo, it is all okay. -read more if you like .http://www.timeanddate.com/date/leapyear.html

Leap days are February 29.  Special events are planned for this day and unusual occurrences are welcomed and expected.  It is the first anniversary of Liam leaps Leap Day 2008.  Yes, readers, I have referred to it before in the blog and have shown pix.  Here is a brief revisit, with an update and new photos.

Leap Day four years ago fell on a Friday.  I also fell on that Friday when puppy Liam leaped for a tree bound squirrel and I slammed face down onto concrete.  Neither hand shot out to break the fall, my right arm was leashed to Liam, the other unprepared, did nothing but join in the journey down.  I was shocked to have my face on the pavement.  My sunglasses provided a sort of goggle shield.  I thought only of my teeth, not my eye. I got up, walked home, holding Liam close and avoiding trees.  I became a "dentist emergency"-one who goes ahead and delays everyone else. Always wondered who those folks were.  He said nothing was broken but shifting and fallout might occur later. Not sure if  "fallout" was referring to my entire body or specific to teeth. Then I went to Stat Med, was cleared of a concussion.  The doctor marveled that the "eye socket" had done its job, explaining that they are there to protect the eye from being gouged out.  All cleared injury wise, I proceeded to advertise.

I made good use of my smart phone for texting the news.  By Saturday morning, I had a rainbow eye.  I was so taken with it that I took a photo. This took a while as my blackberry (2008 version) had only a front view camera and I took several pix of my ear, chin and eyebrow before I even got part of my eye.   I did finally land the shot, and promptly clicked it off in a text to friends.

I made a hard copy and framed it where it hangs on the kitchen wall above Liam's eating area.   Impressionistic.  Possibly Picasso/Van Gogh/Matisse.  For special outings during my recovery from rainbow eye,  I added various colors of eyeshadow to make a more complete circle under my eye.  At times, I also painted my other eye to match.  A creative friend used my eye in a series of collages.  It took weeks to heal.  I often forgot about it while out and people would stare at me.

Fast forward 4 years.  Liam is a teenager and I am a senior dog mother.  I know that I am a senior in the dog world because when I renewed Liam's license my age allowed me to pay the senior rate of  $2.50 instead of  $7.50.  Huge discount.  I know Liam is a teenager because he is twice the size of that little dog in the first photo and he has been crate-free for almost 4 years. Teenage Liam eats and drinks beneath my eye  photo.

TEENAGE LIAM AND MY EYE

On our walks, Liam still pulls.  He leaps for squirrels off leash when free in the yard.  I bet he would leap on leash but I am always ready.  My teeth have stayed put.  However, fallout did occur-something I just noticed this past Thanksgiving.  My niece took a side photo-real close-up, yikes- and I saw something when looking at the pic-my right cheekbone is bigger, more pronounced. than the left one.  There is a slight discoloration, not attributable to freckles.  This has to be a Liam leap injury. People pay for cheekbones,  I now have one. No one has ever told me in four years.  Perhaps it just erupted for the anniversary leap. 
A matching left one would be high fashion.

Leap Day 2012, was calm.   Rainy, raw, grey, bleak-my kind of day.  Not a dog walking day. Liam hates

DON'T MAKE ME GO OUT

the rain.  He will not go out.  We have to carry him out to the yard to do his business  I wonder if he would have commemorated Leap Day 2012 with a leap. I might have had a chance at a left cheekbone. Turn left and offer my left cheek to the pavement.  Didn't happen.

NO LEAPING IN 2012

Hope your leap day was memorable in all good ways.  Happy March.

Woof, Woof