OK, so you know how I was bragging about the beautiful day in my last blog entry? Well I'm afraid I must retract that. It was nice that morning until about 10:00, then it started pouring. It's been raining ever since. In fact, it's been since January. December maybe. Who knows. It's been raining forever. I took Hoppsy to an orthopedic dude over in Kona on Wednesday. Coincidentally, he once worked at the clinic in Englewood, Colo. where Doc the Doctor Dog had his shoulder fixed. Besides the trauma of a three-hour car ride, she did pretty well. I was fully prepared for her to undergo what's called a myelogram , a procedure that requires general anesthesia, in which die is injected into the spinal chord, then X- rayed to see where there might be a blockage of neural transmission. After examining her, however, the vet decided that the procedure would not likely show us anything definitive. What we really need is a CT scan. He's trying to get one of t...