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Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
Posted by doggonedmysteries
May the wind at your back
not be the result
of the corned beef you had for lunch!
Dance a jig and sing a fine Irish song for me!
Posted in Holidays
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Doggoned, Family, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Great day to go walking.
Posted by doggonedmysteries
So I didn’t win any money on the scratch-off ticket I bought yesterday. It didn’t mean it was a bad day. In fact it was a good day.
The weather was lovely. G and I went for our walk in the Rose Gardens park. This time we did the whole trail and used each exercise station except for one that was occupied at the time.
When we finished, we both remarked as to how good we felt. The entire walk took us a little over half an hour. We plan to do it again two more times this week. We’d like to get a small group together to do these walks with us.
We do hope to work out an exercise plan that will take us through all the parks in the city this spring and summer. We may do a week at one then a week at another. We’re not quite sure. We need to factor in a few things like what do we do when the weather is bad? What if someone is sick? If we’re running late getting there, do we call the other members of the group?
Posted in healthy living
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Doggoned, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Walking, Writer
Picture day because I’m lazy
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Elk antlers…nom nom nommy!!!! Happy pups!
Posted in Dog related
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Doggoned, Dogs, Multiple Sclerosis, Rescue Dogs, Writer
Bull Terrier people and the crazy dogs that own us
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Lots of drama among my Facebook bull terrier people yesterday. Had the rescue of a little brindle girl kick some of the best ones into high gear and get her moving from Wyoming to a new home in Alabama. I sure do wish we’d had Facebook back when we were doing our many rescues. I never saw a Bullie get placed so fast. It was exciting to watch.
Another Bull Terrier person had an emergency when her silly boy jumped out of her Blazer and broke his leg. Poor baby, at his age the muscle is stronger than those young bones and with Bullies it is a common injury. These dogs don’t often use their heads for anything other than to keep their ears from knocking together.
Arthur will have some surgery and it’ll take a while for him to recover but he should be fine. However, his Mom might have a nervous breakdown before the cast comes off.
You all have a good one!
Posted in Dog related
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Doggoned, Dogs, Multiple Sclerosis, Rescue Dogs, Writer
My brain scares me at times
Posted by doggonedmysteries
We had a very gray and rainy day yesterday so I really didn’t go anywhere or do anything. That is until I stood at my kitchen window and watched a man walk past our yard.
He wasn’t dressed for the weather. He dragged one of those folding two-wheeled grocery carts behind him. When he reached the end of our fence, he stopped, pulled a bag out of the cart, and put it in the dumpster for the apartment building behind us.
It’s my brain that had him as a serial killer putting a bag with a body part in the dumpster. It’s a good thing that I don’t live alone because sometimes I scare myself.
You all have a good one.
Posted in Writing
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Doggoned, Fiction, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
The canine alarm clock needs resetting
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Even the Curmudgeon knows better than to wake me before noon. Heck, I go to bed around five a.m. However, the last couple of mornings a certain white dog has taken it upon himself to become my new alarm clock.
Yesterday, he wandered upstairs and flopped outside my bedroom door at eleven. He’s not the sharpest tack in the cork board. He began by sighing loudly, then he rattled the door a few times. When that didn’t work, he sighed again. I knew if I didn’t get up and let him in the whining would begin next.
So there I was curled up in bed with a happy white dog on his back getting his tummy tickled…and people say they are dumb animals.
Elena was up and walking under supervision yesterday–three cheers!
You all have a good one.
Posted in Dog related
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Doggoned, Dogs, Multiple Sclerosis, Pets, Writer
Writing while flinging birds
Posted by doggonedmysteries
I admit it I am addicted to Angry Birds. I think I need an intervention because now Facebook has added it and I am playing on there as well as on my two computers.
I find that when I should be writing, I crave a game or two. I think I found a way to write and fling those birds. I have decided to use a reward system. For every hour I write, I will earn five minutes of pig killing bird flinging fun.
It is difficult to write when the brain isn’t working right. However, I am trying.
You all have a good one.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer, Writing
OOOPS!
Posted by doggonedmysteries
It was one of those nights where things got away from me. I almost forgot to get in here and post. Yeah, I’m not the brightest light in the harbor at this time. My thoughts are scattered in all sorts of directions.
I wish I could say that Elena was out of the hospital but I can’t. She is still on target to get her breathing tube removed sometime today. Let’s hope that is the beginning of her quick recovery. I do miss her comments in here.
She’d be delighted to hear you all have been rooting for her. Let’s keep it up.
You all take care, keep well, and have a good one.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Care giving, Disability, Doggoned, Family, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
You are never to old to dream
Posted by doggonedmysteries
There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream – whatever that dream might be. Pearl S. Buck
Never believe anyone that tells you can’t for if you do you’ve let them take a dream away. As a girl I had many dreams that an older relative took great joy in smashing.
Much older now, I realize how naive I was to allow that to happen. When I grow up, I will be a writer.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Techno schmecto just make it work!
Posted by doggonedmysteries
So now my printer and computer aren’t talking to each other. ARRRGH!!! I have the printer wired to the desk top computer and still won’t talk to it. At this rate, I need an in-house computer geek.
The printer is fairly new. It worked fine before the computer needed work done.
It has me wondering if it will talk to my lap top. I’ll try that tomorrow. I don’t feel like running up and down stairs now. Yes, I’m lazy and it’s two freaking a.m.
I wonder, if I can’t get the computer and printer working together, do I have to haul both over to my computer guru to see if he can get them working together?
Shoot me now. I hate driving over there.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
Happy belated Birthday Curmudgeon
Posted by doggonedmysteries
The Curmudgeon’s cane arrived from https://www.elderluxe.com/ today. It is gorgeous. I thought I’d ordered it early enough to get it by The Curmudgeon’s birthday back in January, but I was wrong.
If you plan to order a gift from them, give it plenty of time. I can say with conviction that this item was worth both the price and the time it took to get here. The Curmudgeon is delighted with it. 😀 I did good!
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Disability, Life, Love, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
The Paypal debacle
Posted by doggonedmysteries
Well, I tried to open a Paypal account again. I have one now but they don’t like my bank or something. I’ve jumped through their hoops a few too many times and I refuse to leap another one. Let’s just say I have a ‘minimal’ account with them and leave it at that.
Automated teller machines hate me too.
I do believe it is my bank’s fault. They’ve never once in 37 years had the correct numbers on our checks. We always have had a problem when someplace wants a routing number or other such thing.
Once a year, at the very least, I have to call them and ask for the proper numbers.
How about you? Did you jump through all their hoops? Or, perhaps you are smarter than I am and you don’t deal with them.
Posted in Misc
Tags: Author, Bones, Bull Terriers, Caregiver, Disability, Doggoned, Life, Multiple Sclerosis, Writer
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