Sick Dog

Yesterday my baby girl, Ava, ate something she shouldn't have. I think that it was a large chunk of rawhide because I saw her chewing on a rawhide bone. In the afternoon she started crying in pain and scared the hell out of me and the husband. Her belly was distended and rolling. It really scared me. DH started rubbing her belly and throat to try to dislodge anything that was possibly stuck in her throat. She was breathing without any problem, just crying in pain. She was very uncomfortable all and trying to dealing with stomach contractions. Needless to say, there wasn't much sleep to be had. Today she is feeling a bit better, but still has not eaten. I did get her to eat a raw egg and some butter. I'm hoping to get whatever is stuck in her belly to move. We've been outside walking around. I'm trying to keep her moving periodically hoping that she will poop. If she isn't better tomorrow then I will be calling the vet. I can't afford another $3,000 vet bill (her brother earlier this year), so I'm really hoping it will pass on its own.

Today I baked an Orange Buttered Rum cake in a holiday wreath bundt pan that I purchased 4 or 5 years ago from Williams Sonoma. I had lost the recipe and have been searching for it, but could never find it. Well, a couple of days ago I decided to check the Williams Sonoma site instead of Nordicware. Come to find out the recipe is a WS recipe and not from the manufacturer of the pan. Let me tell you, my house smells so good and I want to dig into the cake. My office is having holiday goodie tables every Monday this month, so I thought I would make the cake. I can't wait to have a piece. The recipe is from scratch and even uses cake flour. The batter is so soft, smooth, and fluffy. I hope its good. I know the last time I made it, it was great, but that time I didn't grease the pan good enough and the cake tore apart when I tried to get it out of the pan. This time I thought that I would try to spray some Pam in the pan and then coat with flour. There are so many small spots on the wreath that greasing by hand is a pain. Well, my idea failed miserably and I had to wash the pan and grease by hand and flour it. I learned my lesson on that one today. I won't ever do that again.