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I changed the water, cleaned the tank, and put in different decorations for the goldfish today. They have tripled in size since I got them, and goldfish are notorious for dirtying their water quickly. It’s a good thing I really like them because they’re a lot of work for pets that don’t show affection, do tricks, speak or anything. They DO, however, gather in the corner and wriggle their little bodies and blow bubbles at me when it’s feeding time twice a day.
Of course, I don’t give THEM affection, as such, other than to take care of them. I don’t do any tricks, though I DO speak to them. Maybe they hold me at arm’s length because I didn’t name them. (There are three regular-looking gold fish and one that is essentially white.)
“Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.” ~ Graham Taylor
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This is Amber, a 94-pound yellow lab ‘puppy’ who will be 2-years-old March 7th. We were told that labs are puppies until they are two years old. I think this may have been a vast understatement.
Amber is a very sweet, affectionate dog. She regularly comes to me or my husband while we are in our recliners in the living room, putting her head down at our feet and doing a somersault so we’ll laugh and rub her tummy. She has her foibles, such as continuing to take ONE piece of trash out of the can beside my chair. Only one – I think just to show us she knows she is not supposed to do it, but wants to anyway. She regularly checks in the pantry to see if Molly’s bowl is still on the floor to lick. It never is, but she still checks every morning and every evening, like clockwork. She regularly reminds us WHY we spent the money and went to the work of putting up doggie gates that she can’t open in almost every doorway on the first floor.
She is one of the sweetest dogs I’ve ever known. She LOVES going in the car – anywhere – anytime – and never knows a stranger.
For example, we had three errands to run this morning. It took me a bit of time in the post office, and my husband said that SEVERAL people had come over to the truck to say “Hi” to her and pet her. She LOVES it. When I was in the drug store, the people inside with me could hear her crying. I told them she wanted to come in and see everyone. My husband said that everyone who came out came over and talked to her. I got into the truck and the pharmacist came out, saying she HAD to meet the dog! Amber leaned as far out of the car as she possibly could, covering the sweet lady with kisses. She went back into the drug store, laughing, to wash her face. :0)
We have worked really hard to train Amber. She is so big and she has no clue that she is able to mow you down while you’re standing there, or that she can hurt you in any way. She minds really well when we’re home, inside the house. When someone comes over, though, all bets are off. She has never met us before and becomes ‘deaf’ ignoring our commands, just like a kid when you HOPE they’ll behave when company comes….
She is a challenge – particularly since we’re long in the tooth around here – but a joy.
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“Why do birds sing in the morning? It’s the triumphant shout: “We got through another night!” ~ Enid Bagnold
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“Use the talents you possess – for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.” ~ Henry Van Dyke
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I put our 94-pound yellow lab puppy, Amber, out right before we were going to go to bed, about 11:30 last night.
When I let her in, she didn’t come in alone! She had been skunked! She was all upset, spitting and swallowing, and simply reeking! And it was COLD and dark outside, so we couldn’t take her back outside to hose her off.
We took her upstairs to our tub. My husband JUST missed being pulled into the tub with Amber. (She is really strong and has little concern over the frailties of her humans.) He managed to run warm water in the tub while I mixed up our deskunking stuff: hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, and Dawn dishwashing liquid. I grabbed a plastic pan we use when we’re sick and poured a whole bottle of hydrogen peroxide in it, then dumped in what was left in a box of baking soda and then squirted some dishwashing liquid in.
I ran out into the hall for washcloths. We got as much of this stuff as we could on the areas that needed it most – the side of her face, her left chest and her muzzle. Then I poured what was left over her head as my husband shielded her eyes.
Then we spent a LONG time trying to get her rinsed. I rushed back out into the hall to grab two large bath sheets. Two of them were just enough to get her dry enough to go back downstairs with my husband while I tried to mop up the bathtub area.
When I got back downstairs, we both stripped – putting our clothes right into the washing machine, since now WE were skunked, too, then took long showers trying to get the smell off. Febreeze is no match for skunk!
We thought we had done as well as we could to get the smell off. Just in case, I took several clothes pins to distribute to our friends at Lunch Bunch, plus the two long-time good buddy waitresses who bring us our food. Everyone got a laugh out of us and our story of washing the dog at midnight.
I’ve done three loads of wash trying to get things back under control today.
Amber seems to be her normal, doofus puppy self today, smiling and laughing her way through the day.
Tonight we will take the dogs out on a leash one at a time. My husband will be armed with a 22 just in case the skunk has decided to make a return visit.
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“That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you.” – Unknown
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“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls. …” – Unknown
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“If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf. …” – Unknown
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“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. …” – Unknown
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“It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.” – Erma Bombeck
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“Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.” Meryl Streep
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“When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.” ~ Sophia Loren
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“If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?” ~ Milton Berle
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“There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.” — Chinese Proverb
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“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.” ~Rajneesh
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“[A] mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.” ~Emily Dickinson
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“An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.” — Spanish proverb
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My fish aren’t saying much, but I’m hoping they are happy with the cleaning and redecorating I did of their digs today. Their water had become cloudy and changing the filter didn’t help, so today I relocated the four fish while I vacuumed the tank and gravel, put in new decorations, replaced the water with fresh, put in a new filter, etc.
Trying to take pictures of the fish in the tank is something for a much better photographer than I. There are four fish, although I rarely get them all in the same shot. There are three goldfish and one that is basically an off-white with one gold spot. I got them about a year ago and they have at least tripled in size.
They don’t ever say much, but they bunch up in the corner when it’s time for me to feed them, all wriggling their sweet little bodies and opening and closing their mouths. I say, “Hi, Little fishies!” and that’s it until the next feeding at the end of the day. No tricks. No real affection from them. But I love to watch them as they swim around the small tank.
“I” enjoy the fact that they have a different group of things to swim around and look at, so I’m hoping THEY like it, too.
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This is Molly after playing out in the rain and mud this morning. She was SO awful I had to bathe and try to dry her (three baths towels and the hair dryer) enough so she could be with the family again.
She was not happy about it, and was angry and pouting for about an hour afterwards, but just came and rubbed herself against me and snuggled. I put her on the leash and took both Molly and Amber out. There was much barking and running around, but then both dogs took care of things and we returned.
Here is Molly pouting awhile ago.
And here she is after snuggling. All is forgiven, and hopefully the rains will stop before she finds that wonderful hole again…
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“It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.” ~ Edward Abbey
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“Every boy should have two things: a dog, and a mother willing to let him have one.” ~ Unknown
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“Some dogs live for praise. They look at you as if to say “Don’t throw balls… just throw bouquets.”” ~ Jhordis Anderson
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“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” ~ Ben Williams
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“One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you’re feeling blue is that he doesn’t try to find out why.” ~ unknown
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“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.” ~ Rita Rudner
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“The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.” ~ Samuel Butler
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I love how raccoons LOOK. I DON’T like how they behave – at least not on our property.
We live on top of a ridge line on about 8 acres outside the town of Greenwood, Arkansas. We love the little world we’ve created, pretending we own all the land we can see. :0)
Almost every summer we have raccoons visiting. I would LIKE to say we enjoy this, but it’s a big pain. They won’t just be content sharing the sunflower seeds we put out for the birds on the deck. They eat ALL the seeds, making a mess, and then destroy the feeders!
Every year we go through the same thing – hoping that this year it will be different and we can all co-exist happily. We end up putting out our humane animal trap, baited with a cup of apple and peanut butter at the back of the trap. The raccoon eats all the seeds, destroys at least one – if not all – of the feeders, and then goes into the trap for the bait.
If our neighbors understood that WE are the ones relocating the raccoons out about 5 miles from us, onto their land for another chance at life, they would probably be quite hostile. We find a nice creek by the side of the road and then my husband opens the trap and lets the raccoon out.
Usually, if we have ONE, we have a whole family. We relocate them one by one, hoping that we’ve driven out far enough they won’t find their way back.
This past summer was quiet – quite a surprise. I was reminded of this when I saw these wonderful photos posted by Jeff Jett.
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Our yellow lab, Amber, will be 2 years old in March. She weighs 94 pounds, and we’re still deciding who is training whom.
Lately, I’ve been trying to stop her from incessant barking when she goes outside.
I haven’t heard any barking yet, and she’s been out over 10 minutes now….
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Yvonne said, “Got up early and caught all the birds frolicking together!”
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