Today we join our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for This ‘N That Thursday.

“This ‘N That Thursday is for those times when you want to post about unrelated topics or each topic isn’t quite long enough to make up a whole post. It can be anything you want, so feel free to grab the button and join us!”

 

Walking In A Winter Wonderland

Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful, but the dogs really have to go, we’re in the snow, in the snow, in the snow.

Yes, last week we had Hurricane Sandy, this week, well initially they called it a Nor’easter, but it seems to me like it’s just a snow storm.  It started just before noon yesterday and by the time I got home, it was just starting to stick to the roads.

The dogs don’t care though, they’ve been stuck inside all day and are itching to get out.  It was still snowing, but we bundled up and out the door we went.

I don’t normally bring my camera for night walks because it’s too dark and my little point and shoot doesn’t work that great in the dark, but once we got outside last night I thought, it’s not so dark, maybe I could take a few pictures.

Turns out falling snow and uncooperative dogs don’t really mix.  Throw in the coordination needed to activate the camera with a dog on a fifteen foot least attached to your arm and well, let’s just say…epic fail.

Out of the 20 or so pictures I took, these are the best.

 

 

 

I even tried to get them to pose when we got back to the house but that didn’t work out either.  🙂

Why is it my Hubby keeps telling me my cell phone camera is a better camera than my point and shoot?  I think it takes craptastic pictures.  It can’t be operator error, can it?

And for the record, we got about 3 inches of snow, which is nothing. AND it’s going to be 60 degrees this weekend.  Bye-bye snow!

NaNoWriMo

The story is developing, just not in the way I expected. Imagine my embarrassment when I realized my mystery/detective story is also going to be a love story.

Phhhht.

It is also not easy (at least for me) to get 1,667 words in each day.  Some days I struggle worse than others.

Here’s the problem I’m having and I would love if those of you who write or are taking this challenge have any thoughts.

It seems like I need to write in sequence, at least that’s how it’s working for me.  The question is, how do you keep track of things.  Do you ever write out out sequence?

Don’t forget to get your pictures in for the Dogs of Blogville Calendar.

My book stands at 11,160 words.

Today we join our friends at the 2 Brown Dawgs blog for This ‘N That Thursday.

“This ‘N That Thursday is for those times when you want to post about unrelated topics or each topic isn’t quite long enough to make up a whole post.  It can be anything you want, so feel free to grab the button and join us!”

 

Sampson

When I last updated you on Sampson’s health matters he was fighting a bacterial ear infection.  He finished his antibiotics last Friday and was scheduled for his vet check on Tuesday.

Sunday Hubby noticed he was limping again. 🙁

I also noticed he had a sore on one of his toes on his back leg.

As you can imagine I was quite anxious for Tuesday evening to roll around.

Sampson was extremely vocal at the vet, when she wasn’t petting him, he was giving her what for.

 

At our visit our vet checked his front paw thoroughly and referred to Sampson as very ‘stoic,’ meaning he didn’t complain or let her know where his boo boo was.  Once again he had a diagnosis of soft tissue injury, (the ligament in the back of his paw is slightly swollen.)

 

He came home with more Meloxicam to be taken as needed.  I’m going to contact the holistic vet and see if I can get some more of the body sore that I used with Delilah for her back.

Our vet also rechecked his ears and said the bacterial infection is gone, but he now has a yeast infection in the same ear. He now has different ear drops, twice per day.

I asked her to test him for Lyme and while the test was running, I remembered his toe!

Thankfully the Lyme test came back negative, and after looking at his toe she thinks he scraped his knuckle, which will take a bit longer to heal considering where it is and that fact that it is not a cut per say.  She said I could put some antibiotic ointment on it, which I did and which he didn’t like.

I hemmed and hawed over the Leptos vaccine.  She felt very confident that his immune system could handle it, but she said the call was mine and she didn’t mind waiting.  I went ahead and gave him the vaccine.

Blogville Dogs and Their Rescue Cause Calendar

I honestly don’t know where the time goes.  I still need to set this contest up.  A couple of you asked in the comments about where the proceeds would go.  My first thought was to a dog rescue, but I’ve since been thinking about it and wanted to throw this out there.

Mind you it is just a thought.

There are currently two members (that I know of) in our blogging family that are going through a really tough time right now.

Miss Lilly over at Champion of My Heart has had a horrible reaction to the rabies vaccine and has been struggling with her health for the last 10 months or so.  Her vet bills are quite high and they have a chip in on their blog.

Lauren from Life with Desmond lost the entire contents of the first floor of their home due to Hurricane Sandy.  The clean-up started yesterday.

I thought it might be nice to split the proceeds from the calendar sales between those two, but it would of course be up to the readers.  If you want the recipient to be strictly rescue as originally intended, I totally understand.

I will work really hard to get this contest rolling within the next week. 🙂

Finally NaNoWriMo begins today, I hope you’ll forgive me for my absence on commenting.  I will try to keep up with as many blogs as I can and will comment when possible.

Once again we join our friends over at 2 Brown Dawgs for This ‘N That Thursday.

What you haven’t heard about it?  Here’s what 2 Brown Dawgs has to say about it, “This ‘N That Thursday is for those times when you want to post about unrelated topics or each topic isn’t quite long enough to make up a whole post.”

You’re very welcome to join us, it’s not an exclusive club. 😉

Comments

I love comments, the more the better.  I love hearing what you have to say, I love you sharing your experiences with me and I love the ‘conversations’ we have and the differences of opinions that make me think and in turn grow as an individual.

I also love answering my comments, each and every one of them and I’m really behind in that task right now.  I really, really miss my lap top, having to share a desk top is really cramping my style.

Not that I’m not grateful to Hubby for his generosity, I just want my lap top.  I want to sit in my bed, snuggled against my puppies, General Hospital on the TV and respond to your comments.  Is that too much to ask for?

Follow-Up Friday Blog Hop

You may have noticed our first co-hosted blog hop had a little bit of a SNAFU.  I’m working on getting the kinks straightened out and have sent an e-mail and am waiting for a response.

There will still be a FUF blog hop this week, it just won’t be co-hosted.  Hopefully everything will be back on track for next week.  If all goes well and she’s willing to participate my co-host for next week will be Kristine and her amazing blog, Rescued Insanity.

If you aren’t already a follower of Kristine’s your really missing out.  Yesterday she posted my all-time favorite story of Shiva.  If you haven’t read it, be prepared.  It’s outrageous!

Smiling Sam

Did you see that photograph, of probably a year or so ago when a woman posted on one of those photo sites of her dog at his birthday party with a big ole’ smile on his face?

Well my Sam-man smiles all the time, I tried to get a picture last night of it, because well he’s just so gosh darn cute.

 

What do you think?  Did I capture it or not?  Does your pup smile at you?