Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Mish-Mosh….Day Two Hundred, Seventy Five

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I have a mish-mosh of thoughts running through my mind right now, so this post may seem a bit scattered.

Yesterday’s post about Lady Zabora and some comments resulting from it, really got me thinking.  In the coming weeks/months I am going to begin thinking about how I can help rescue and protect animals.  Whether it be by volunteering with my local Labs 4 Rescue group, Our Companions Animal Sanctuary or whether I will surf around the internet and find dogs like Lady Zabora and contribute to their care.  Who knows maybe I will be working on all of the above!

I also really need to work on my Seven Links challenge presented to me by Just Ramblin’, this seems like a really big challenge to me, going through 275 posts to determine seven of the best!  I hope to get some time this Labor Day weekend to work on this challenge.

Delilah has continued to thwart me with her off-leash behavior.  Last night she ran off from the pack (we were walking with our friends Brady and Kodak) and was gone for at least 10 minutes; I think that is the longest she has been gone yet.  Last night I dreamed I was walking with the dogs and chatting with someone when I realized I hadn’t seen the dogs in about 30 minutes, in the dream I began searching for them and found Sampson in someone’s fenced in yard.  I woke up from the dream before I found Delilah.  I wonder if this is my subconscious telling me something.  In fact, I worry this is my subconscious telling me something!  From now on, when we are in that area she is going on leash, no matter how many dogs we are with.

Today on our walk she ran off again in an entirely different place, this leads me to the conclusion she will have to be leashed all the time. 🙁

Just before she ran off, as we were exiting the woods we had an encounter….I heard it first, then I saw movement on the ground in front of me.  I looked down and every hair on my body stood on end, I broke out in chills, screamed like a girl, grabbed Delilah and said, “Leave it!” pulled my camera out and….

It slithered into the leaves.

I beat feet.

Finally tomorrow **shudders** the dogs will be in control of the blog as they make their Prom Etiquette post in honor of the Labor Blog party.  The blog will be published early in the morning for all of you attending their class.

I apologize now, because who knows what those two will come up with!  I will be back in charge on Saturday and hope to post early again in anticipation of a blog hop.  Does anyone know of anyone hosting a Saturday blog hop?

Noteworthy Archive Blog Award….Day Two Hundred, Seventy Three

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Thanks to our friend Just Ramblin’

Somehow our dear friend over at Just Ramblin seems to think this little blog has “Noteworthy” Archives.  I’m really not sure exactly HOW she came to this conclusion, because I have read back through some of my older posts and found that 1) some of them were not that great and 2) I was all over the place for the first couple of months I started blogging!

 
It took me quite a while to find my “voice” and decide just exactly what my blog would be centered around.  
 
Once I did there were/are times I struggle just trying to assemble a sentence, nevermind write an entire blog!  (Today seems to be one of them, as this just isn’t coming out the way I intended!)
 
So Just Ramblin’ I thank you so much for taking the time to read back through some of my earlier posts, deem them noteworthy and creating and bestowing this award on us. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Good Bye Irene….Day Two Hundred, Seventy Two

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Well Irene is gone.  We did survive, with lots of downed leaves and some small branches, but no loss of trees and no loss of electricity.  We were very blessed because there are still over 400,000 without power in this state. 🙁

We had lots of rain and lots wind from about 5:30 am to 12:00 pm; the dogs never even thought of going outside.  They were quite content to lay around and enjoy a lazy day.  There was no way they were going out in that rain….unless we were hiking. 😉

It got very calm shortly after noon and I debated whether I should risk it and take them out for a walk.  I waited and waited; finally about 3:30 I said, “Let’s go.”  I called my walking buddy and we headed out.

The park had lots of leaves and small branches down as well.

Due to all the rain, their favorite ‘puddle’ was back, so they enjoyed a little romp through the water with their pal, Brady.

We wandered the woods for about 45 minutes and then headed home.

Sometime around 7:00 pm the wind came back; with a vengeance.   At one point it got so loud, the dogs tore outside to see what the commotion was.  I decided it was best not to sleep in our room again, so the dogs and I camped out in the spare room, while Hubby took the scrapbook room.

When we went for our walk today, we found a lot of fallen trees from the evening wind.

We went this way yesterday and these trees weren’t down then.

We didn’t mind, we were grateful to be out enjoying our favorite park, letting the sweet smell of nature wash away the storms of yesterday.

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