Small Hiccups

Last week we had 4 small hiccups in our lives. Well, 5, if you count the time I smacked into the curb and busted a hole in our muffler but Zach already told you about that and got it fixed. In chronological order:

1. It started raining inside our house. We woke up on a Monday morning to a flooded room due to a burst pipe in our ceiling. Here's Zach cleaning up the damage. Happy ending: a plumber came to fix the pipe the same day.

2. Bay caught a chicken and mauled it. We had to pay 500 kwacha to the man who owned the chicken, though the chicken didn't actually die. I suppose Bay just enjoys the chase but I find this to be disturbing and gross and awful. He is far from the first dog to chase a chicken and be unlucky enough to catch it but still, ew.

3. Bay jumped through our window, shattering the glass and cutting his paw. ! He dripped blood all over the kitchen floor before our roomie cut up a sheet and tied it tightly around his leg. What a total idiot. Another happy ending: we replaced the glass today and Bay seems totally fine, though he keeps breaking the gash open and bleeding on my hands. He's also chewed through two screen in the past three days. He's really on a roll this week.

4. Our dear friend and employee Paul appears to be stealing money. This is a super tricky one since we don't want to fire him without any proof and leave him without a way to support his family. But the truth is that if he IS the one stealing money then he's stolen the equivalent of the rest of his year's salary and he'll be just fine if he gets fired. How this is resolved will depend on Jonathan's advice and wisdom, so stay tuned.

Also this morning our shower broke. I guess that makes 6 hiccups?