Snow and Sleet

8:30 am......looking like it will rain in a couple hours.


And it did. Little pissy rain drops the whole day through. A wet sloppy and heavy day.

But still wonderful.

I have some videos to upload but that won't happen till Jan 8th when the internet people get their buns out here to amend the problems I'm having.

And how was your day??

Heart Smiling

It's when Henry senses/feels/smells me getting close to him. His face turning from quizzical to omg, my person is here. I love my person!! His ears going down a bit, his blind eyes widening, his body all ready for the love that is about to be lorded over him, and all enveloped with the hugest smile EVER.

And my heart smiles as his heart smiles. I love my Henry.

The photo below is not the look I have described above, it's an updated photo from last week so you could see how handsome he's getting!

Christmas at Saints

Lahanie and Gideon say Merry Christmas and Good Morning!!




Some ornaments I hung on the trees outside the barn. I made the bead thingys covering them last week. ( learning to make them was a process I'll tell ya! Some wicked potty mouthed swearing happened. :)) But after I made the first one the next ones took about 1/2 hour of no stress. I have always enjoyed beading and I think I'm going to get back into it. It's calming for me. Probably because it takes concentration which takes me away from the normal bunged up shit I think of. :))


Wow. This is the pond on the lower pasture/field first thing this Christmas morning. I was hoping for snow but the frost is quite lovely.


Ellie Mae spreading some Christmas cheer!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas filled with warmth and peace.

Saints are saintly

This damn video makes me weepy. And I've watched it 3 times.

The National did an interview with Carol, and the crippled crew, just under a year ago and I thought you'd all like to see it.

In the 4 months I've been back here, there have been 7 animals that passed. 7 souls who were essentially dumped and trashed because they became too much of a problem. For any reason...like they became incontinent. But what most people don't know is that most times incontinence can be averted with proper medication. And inexpensively too!

I had a couple of videos of my dogs and some photos and tried in vain to upload them...but this damn wireless in the hills of Mission kept knocking itself out. I shall try again tomorrow. * big sigh *

VIDEO

And a photo I took a few years back of Tang. He's one brother of a 3 brother crew...Tang, Mango and Sunny. All healthy, all relatively young, but no one wants to adopt them. HUH???

Yay! I get the barn!!

What in the hell am I talking about? Weeell, there are 4 staff people at Saints, and we all got our *permanent* positions doled out today. I GOT THE BARN!!!! WOOOO HOOOO!!!

I've worked in all positions now, Carol wants us all well versed in each position so we can easily step into each others role if someone is ill. While I LOVED working in the house with the dogs and cats, and really enjoyed giving out meds, my heart is in the barn!

So, my job will be to feed and water 4 horses, 3 cows, 3 sheep, 1 llama, 3 goats, 1 farm pig, 2 pot bellied pigs, 4 ducks and 2 chickens every a.m. Then clean every stall, pen, poop scoop the riding ring, fields, 2 loafing sheds and put out hay for them all. I will also be taking care of the shop ( of which I and my dogs have a loft I live in upstairs ) that houses the feed for all the animals, the bedding and crates etc. Basically keeping the foods rotated and to keep things neat and orderly. Also I will be walking Dusty and Lucky ( the 2 blind dogs in the multi purpose building ) and Champ every afternoon. Then my day is done. Till 4 p.m. when I help Carol put the barn guys to bed, which is the exact same feeding routine as the a.m.

OMG...I get PAID for this???


Hope you all had as wonderful a day as I did!!

Senior Dogs

Here is a link to the blog Carol ( the founder of S.A.I.N.T.S ) writes daily. This post really breaks my heart. It's wickedly true and very sad.

There a lot of incontinent senior dogs and cats here. I wonder if the previous guardians ever contemplated, when they purchased Fluffy and Fido, what they would do when their *family members* would age. Did they not realize their bodies would start breaking down, exactly like their human bodies would? Or did they...and then decided that THAT was as far as they would go? Did they not want to rip out carpeting and replace with lino? or fit the animal for belly bands? or or or or....etc?

I just don't get it. Why oh why do humans dump animals??? Especially when they've had them their whole lives! When the cat/dog needs them the MOST, they become like trash??? I simply can't wrap my mind around the silly/stupid/insane reasons.

Here's the link...
SAINTS

Funniest Pet Videos On The Web!

Freaking funny stuff! Enjoy!


BAHAHAHA!!!

Barn Yard Fun!

Emily...who we are trying to wean. First task in the a.m. is to feed her. She sees me and the bottle and Moooos. Never mind that, she KNOWS her 8 am and 4 pm feedings and watches for the bottle giver. It's a tricky thing to get her over to her stall whilst holding a bottle of milk!

Gimmeeee mah miiiiilk!!


Milk does a cow body good!



Sparkle and Czar..a sweet pony Sparkle is, and Czar is new but knows who is cool..


Barn buddies

Work, Work, Work...

A few reasons why my job ( omg...I get paid to be around critters!!! ) is the best in the world.

Suzie...who is not nearly as evil as she looks in this photo


Squirt...a puppy mill survivor...who has personality plus!!! and loves to be the ankle biter, lovingly.


Donny...a deaf Cocker, who worries me because of sudden body trembling...a very very soft sweet dog.


Lucky...blind Golden Retriever. She had become an inconvenience to her previous people. Well, she totally matters here.


Lucas...a big ole wonderful dog. Collar issues ( someone used his collar to grab and punish..like a LOT of the dogs here ), but, he is never grabbed here, nor punished. Because he does no wrong. He's a great dog...looking for a home like all the others.


The dogs above are but a few of the reasons why I am loving my job. Another of the reasons is Emily, the calf. We are trying to wean her by watering down her bottles and she is one unhappy baby. She even goes as far as to try and suckle milk from Joy, who has no milk! But Joy is so sweet she stands there for a couple of minutes until Emily realizes she is dry.



I've been working outside with the farm animals this week, so get ready for some more photos of more honey-pies!

Henry after an ( obviously ) exhausting walk....

A couple weeks back we all went for a quick walk/pee break off the highway onto a silent houseless back road. We had spent the day traveling in total 86 miles and visiting 2 different households, both which contained other dogs. It was a wonderful socializing experience for Henry and a great day checking in with friends.

Problem is, none of my dogs sleep in the Van while travelling. None. They are all wide awake and alert. Mix 9 hours of wide awake time, 2 different sets of dogs, LOTS of fun!!!!!, and a 5 month old puppy. After the pee break on the way home....

Hey Henry??? You okay???

Seriously Henry, you okay???

What?

No, really...WHAT??

Random Photo Day

One morning a few years ago, I woke to the above. It seems through the night Watcher and a feather duster got into a gigantic fight. Watcher won.


My soul sister Jo and I at a Schutzhund trial. A fun day...met a few gorgeous dogs but best of all I was able to hang with Jo for a few hours.


A white Pigeon! Taken in Hope this past summer.


Frankie is a tired boy. And my buddy.


Not sure what Ticket was looking at, but she's definitely eyeballin' something!


Henry caught napping in the shower stall.


Ticket caught napping on the sofa.

Thanksgiving

It was a wonderful evening spent with Kelly, ( whom I didn't take any pictures of...what a bad Mommy!! ) Sumeet


my niece Amanda,


and my *grand cats* Sal and Sam



And some excellent eats. The entire meal was beyond delicious.

Sumeet spent the day sweating over a hot stove making this fabulous bird:


Which Kelly carved with as much experience as Julia Child herself!


Sumeet and Amanda made these cute little individual pumpkin cheesecakes!


Amanda was beyond stunned when I told her I had never tried cheesecake. Ha!, ya' should have seen her face! And after eating one of them, I was converted. All I thought about while driving home was the many different flavors of cheesecake out there in the world.....*snarf snarf*

It's sooo nice to be back blogging! I have this shiny new keyboard and wireless set up...I love technology. :))

Going to upload some videos of the dogs running in the fields, occasionally stopping to eat/roll in horse/cow/sheep/goat poop. ( Oh yum. ) They LOVE living here. I'll see ya' in a bit!

Henry.... Ohhhh Henry

Keyboard for my laptop is ordered...should be here within the week, I hope. Please excuse the mess....looks pretty messy without the first letter of the alphabet! I have to type my posts in Word, then copy nd paste here, nd hope the spellchecker picks up the errors.
This honey pie is poifect! Personality plus, handsome to behold , healthy so far…’tis love.
Introducing ears of GSD pup.

He can do ANYTHING he wants to Ticket...she dores him!

The water dish MUST go in the shower,or he spills it. Little dufus.

He has to put his paw in his food nd water dishes so he knows where the stuff is. *grin*

Yesterday was Henry’s attempt t climbing the stirs to our suite. ( have I told you that I m in love with Ticket??) Henry got up to the third step with my guidance, then when he looked like he ws bout to give up, Ticket came down, touched noses with him, ran to the top and barked. He smiled…seriously smiled, then went few more steps nd stopped. Ticket once gin ran down, touched noses and ran to the top and barked. Henry smiled gin and climbed to the top!! It was magnificent to watch that unfold. Geeez, she never fails to make me smile.

My god,this missing key is beyond irritating! It hs taken me 2 fucking hours to just post this wee bit!!

Puter Problems

My laptop has an attitude problem. It won't type the letter *A*. And so I am using this weird Macbook in the office at Saints. Hopefully when I get it back from the computer hospital, it won't cost me a lot of money!!

Pisses me off, because I have some really photos of all my guys! Went to an abandoned paintball park yesterday set into the forest...it was a lovely afternoon. And Henry walked, for the first time, on a leash! He had a wee temper tantrum when I had to hold him back from some nasty mean Stinging Nettles though. He fought like a trooper, but I won. :))

Hopefully my computer is back tomorrow! 

Random photos

Ticket finds that the grass on the other side of the fence really is greener.

Strike a pose Frankie!

Henry being cheeky!

Woodpecker damage. Or, Woodpecker fun depending if you're a Woodpecker or not!

Clematis flower with a pretty spider on the top right.

WARNING!!!!
These next 2 photos are not for the squeamish!! On a recent walk we came across 2 dead bears. Not pretty.

Grocery store parking lots have some fun photo opportunities...as the photo above attests to. Ya' think the person is a believer or what??!!

Watcher....very happy to not be afraid of stairs!