Ticked off

Drew Carrie made it back from Texas last night. While they were at our house Drew spotted a tick on Bogie-boy's ear, so we had quite the experience getting the thing out. It was Bogie's first tick, and it was quite the group effort. Weirdly enough, my mom had just emailed us this forwarded email on how to remove ticks using liquid soap and a cotton ball. So we tried that - and it didn't work at all. Then Drew tried heating a needle and poking the tick in the butt, but that didn't work either. So... here were Jane, Drew and myself all hovering over the poor dog - who was being extremely good, he just sat there and let us do all this stuff to him (we used MR's advice and told him this would "help") - and Carrie was on the computer looking up what google had to say about tick removal. Finally Jane took some tweezers and got right down around the ticks head and eased it out - and she got the whole thing! Then we had to wash Bogie's ear off, and we put some peroxide on it, and we all washed our hands... and he wanted a treat, big time! It was quite the fiasco.

On another note, Drew Carrie went to the Austin Stone church on Sunday - which is where Chris Tomlin is on staff as worship leader. They said it was pretty cool, but of course Chris wasn't there that Sunday. I checked out their staff and recognized some of the names - though I don't know from where - and I actually think I have been on their website before. Again, I don't remember why. I kinda like their section "What We Do." It says, "Our strategy for ministry is to build up New Testament believers who: Worship Christ, Live in Community, Get Trained, and Make Disciples. All of our ministries have been arranged around these four elements of redemptive life." I like the elements, but admit that I don't particularly like when people say they are a "New Testament" church. I mean, I think the old one is pretty important too. And I know that's not what they mean, but that's how it looks. Anyway....

Not much else to say today. Watch out for those ticks.