Heart Like a Dog

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

Doot, Doot, Doot

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(Sung to the tune of “Looking Out My Back Door” by Credence Clearwater)

Just woke up oh boy, open up the back door

Dogs and I look out, feast our eyes on the snow

Where’s my shovel, where’s my coat?

Gonna need a snow boat

Doot, doot, doot looking out my back door.

The Blizzard of 2013 or as I call it, Charmo.

The snow started Friday, but very slowly.  At around 7:00 pm we had about 4 or 5 inches.  At 10 pm when we went to let the dogs out for the night, we had over a foot!

Night Hubby had to go outside and shovel a path.

Delilah's Tail Both dogs were coaxed off the deck (that speck in the square?  That’s the tip of Delilah’s tail.)

Sampson turned right around and headed for the house, Delilah? She peed on the deck.

Holy snow you guys!

When we got up yesterday morning at 6:15 it was still snowing, Delilah went to go outside and she couldn’t push the door open!

Floor level This is the view from the floor of the porch looking out at our deck.

I grabbed my coat and shovel, and made a small path out.  Both dogs went out, Sampson turned around and went right back in the house.  Delilah? She peed on the deck.

Grill This was our deck at 6:15 yesterday morning, before I got the shovel.

Cars Delilah and I went to check out the front of the house, those three lumps you see, those are our cars.

Driveway measure This was right outside the garage before Hubby cleared the driveway, it was still snowing.

End of Driveway Measure This was the end of the driveway.

While Hubby worked on the driveway, I grabbed a shovel and worked my way up the steps to get to our front door so I could get the dogs and get them outside for a potty break.  (Sampson finally tinkled after about 14 hours!)

Once we were out I decided we could take a walk, since there weren’t any other dogs out and about!

IMG_4023 This is the entrance to our park. 🙁

IMG_4027 Oh we tried to get in.

IMG_4022 But we had to concede defeat.

IMG_4034 And settle for a walk down the street.

Later after it had finally stopped snowing and we had cleaned up a bit, I took them out for another walk.

Later Yup that’s blue sky on our way to see what our park looks like now.

Park Later I’m afraid we may not be able to walk in our park for a month!

Here our some other photos from our home and neighborhood after Charmo.

Back yard 2 Our backyard.

Street From our front door, before any snow moving was done.

House A neighbor’s house.

IMG_4030 Do you think they got their paper this morning?

The cars have been cleaned off, the bulk of the snow has been moved and the roads are once again open to travel.  All that’s left is to remove some snow from the roof and clear a path for the oil delivery scheduled for tomorrow. (He couldn’t make it up the driveway on Friday.)

How did you fare?  Were you in the blizzard’s path?

Doot, doot, doot.

A Walk in the Blizzard

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Well it seems our area of the country is quickly turning into the Super Storm capital of the world.

Apparently our local weather station has been naming snow storms for a number of years.  They are calling this one Charlotte.

Recently the National Weather Center began naming winter storms as well, they’re calling this one Nemo.

I’m calling it Charmo.

No matter what it’s called, we’re having a blizzard.

It started about mid-morning yesterday and our Governor was requesting people stay off the roads, since I work literally five-minute from work, I stayed for half a day.   Then went home to get the dogs out for a walk.

We had just entered the park when I saw movement up the hill and to my right.  It was a herd of deer.  The dogs were easily redirected although they were definitely searching for something.

S and D What does that smell like to you?

Snowy D I love pictures of Delilah in the snow, she is so beautiful against the white background. (Is it just me or does her nose look crooked?)

Blizzard Wind So that’s what a blizzard wind feels like.

  Snowy Mama The snow melts on the dog’s fur, but not on mine.

All walked and happy, we went back to the house and are all hunkered down waiting for the blizzard to pass.

Are you in Charmo’s path?  Did you get a chance to walk before the storm or are you playing indoor games?

This ‘N That Thursday

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Today we’re joining our friends over at 2 Brown Dawgs Blog on This ‘N That Thursday.  Some days you have a little of this or a little of that. 

Many thanks to 2 Brown Dawgs!!

Facebook

Facebook is a time suck for me.  I sign in to post my blog or check a story and before I know it, an hour has passed.

There’s a lost dog or a dog that’s on its last hours, I need to share those, and sometimes there’s a LOT of them.

Then I have the Oooh look, Nancy has the top score in Mahjong Trails or Oh my god, Kim is playing Criminal Case, a Hidden Object game moments.

And there I go, an hour gone that I’ll never get back.

But sometimes….you get that story that just grabs your heart.

A Special Valentine

(I think Mel actually shared this one.)

Valentine is a five-month old German Shepard. Unfortunately both of her front paws are deformed because her bone growth has occurred too fast and instead of the bone growing into the joint, the bones are pushing against them.

She is in incredible pain and rarely uses her front legs, but just look at this sweet girl!

295406_10150272550109955_162750503_n I took this photo from Trio Animal Foundation’s Facebook page.

The good news is there are surgeries and procedures which can help her, the bad news is the cost is a minimum of $10,000.

The very idea that the rescue was willing to work towards raising the funds just boggled my mind.  I quickly shot off an e-mail committing to a modest amount and stating I would share Valentine’s story with you today.

I’m so happy to report that they had actually ALREADY raised the funds needed for Valentine’s surgery!!  They posted the story on Friday and by Monday they had raised the money.

If you have a mo (moment for you non-Harry Potter readers), and want a feel good story, go check out their Facebook page.

Knock Knock

About two weeks ago Delilah and I hopped in the car to head to our Rally class.  Just as I hit about 40 m.p.h. I heard this knocking on my driver’s door.

I looked back at Delilah to see if part of her leash was hanging out of the window hitting my door.

It wasn’t.

I pulled over, got out and checked my door to see if anything was hanging.

Nothing.

I got back in the car and got on the highway.  Just as I hit 40 m.p.h. the rapping started again.

WTF is that?  I thought to myself. 

I hope there isn’t some animal that somehow got stuck inside my door. (I had just read somewhere about beeping your horn before starting your car because sometimes small animals climb up inside the engine because it’s warm.)

In the dark of the car, my next thought was Oh. My. God.  I wonder if it can come out and get me?  I thought back to the story a co-worker told me of a friend of his who had a snake come up the front of her car between the windshield and the hood and hang on her wipers.

I scrunched over as far to my right as I could get, without climbing into the passenger seat while still maintaining my vice-like grip on the steering wheel.

As soon as we got off the highway, the noise stopped.

Thank God!  Whatever is in there doesn’t like speed.  I can tolerate it, as long as it’s not knocking on my freaking door.

Ooops, I hit 40 m.p.h. again and there it was.

Knock. Knock.

Who’s there?

I don’t know, but whatever you are, you’re scaring the shit out of me.

Finally, twenty long minutes later we had arrived at our destination.  I parked under a light and got out of the car and inspected the door again.

Guess what I saw?

I’ll tell you tomorrow.

Relax already, I’m just kidding.

It was the auxiliary cord to plug my phone/iPod into the radio.  The damn thing is SO long and I have a habit of sitting my phone in my lap and just unplugging it when I get out of the car, sometimes the cord falls out.

Had I looked closer the first time I stopped, I could have saved myself a terror filled ride.

That damn cord hangs over my rear view mirror now.

Have you ever had anything surprise you in your car? What does your imagination tell you about strange noises in the dark?

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