And The Rod Came Tumbling Down...

While there are thrills and chills to lots of excitement, the advantages of peaceful and calm far outweigh the excitement, at least for me, at least for these past several days.

Friday started all of this when I decided to walk our dog in the morning and start a new healthy routine for both of us. We got through more than half the walk when this stray dog started coming towards us barking and wagging her tail. She came out of a neighbor's garage and fortunately I knew this neighbor and she was home. Robin said that it was not her dog, nor was she dog sitting. The dog was overly friendly and sad looking too with those bloody stitches in her not so long ago cropped ears (enough to make one wonder about cropping the ears of the wackos who decided this was a good idea and on a grown dog!). So I take her to our backyard, write a lost dog sign and go with Tinkabelle to the front of our little subdivision and put it by the exit. When I realized her owners were 'cruel', I immediately removed the sign (well, Michael did).

As for our most recent adventure, here is some info I found on the Internet, although Michael is going to do it in a more conventional way....

"This Is a Hole Up
Repair a hole or gouge in a slab door with auto-body filler.
After it sets, hide the repair by sanding it smooth and then
painting over it. If you are filling a hole in an interior door,
substitute water putty for the auto-body filler."

Which brings me to the excitement awaiting us when we returned home from church on Sunday! Poor Kelly came to the car and hated to tell us yet more disconcerting news. It seems she heard a VERY loud crash in the house and thought someone had broken in but instead it was our 10'4' clothes rack and shelf in the master bedroom closet that had ripped out of the wall!!! We strongly suspect PG (Pretty Girl) our cat of having tried once again to jump on the shelf and it finally could take no more. Worry over PG possibly being under the clothes and boxes on the shelf caused us to all panic and clear everything out...good news...she was elsewhere and in good condition but probably traumatized.

Here are some of the holes Michael has already filled with putty...

And another section....

Still another part...

Finally, the nice big hole that will require more than putty......


Here are some of the repair things he bought, but he also plans on putting up a sheet of plywood and nailing it to the studs before he puts up new shelving (the old one actually has a big curve in it now...but we will save what we can and use it in the garage).....

This will hopefully be part of the hole repair project....

If you move this over to the driver's side and include the whole headlight and front grill as being removed, you will have an idea of Kelly's car after she hydroplaned. Of course that doesn't include the fact that the car spun completely around and the rear passenger light got smashed up as well. Isn't it just too wonderful that she was unhurt and okay?.....

This goofy cartoon is supposed to be at the bottom with the rest of the jokes, but it would NOT let me drag it down, so here's a 'smile break' from all this craziness going on here...

This is the female pit bull that was wandering around our neighborhood and this is what she does when you try to take a picture....

The first thing Michael said was "WHAT HAPPENED TO HER POOR EARS...THEY LOOK BUTCHERED??" Fortunately for all of you, you cannot see the stitches and bloody stuff in these pictures...

She was also over bred as her teats have no resiliency and she's only about 2-3 yrs. old, according to our vet where they also took out her stitches, cleaned up her ears some more (I had been putting gobs and gobs of Neosporin on them with a Q tip) and gave her shots and tests . She has no intestinal worms but she does have heart worms and she needs to be spayed. Once again today I am going to continue calling around to see if someone will have financial pity on us and this puppy dog and give a discount so we can get her in adoptable condition...

The vet said she is a blue point and a super sweet pit bull. We discovered that we can get much better pictures with treats....

I had been in contact with a pit bull rescue site but she (the owner of the site) hasn't written back to me since Saturday. She did say there is a chance of finding a home for her if she's spayed and treated to get rid of the heart worms...

It has been pouring rain here and Tinka's old doghouse leaks so we have brought this dog inside where she has been perfectly behaved, not even attacking the cats or chewing up anything or having any 'accidents'...

We would consider keeping her ourselves but my daughter would not come to visit any more with the three grandbabies as she has read too many sad reports about pit bulls and she also said that my son and daughter-in-law would probably feel the same. I did speak to many, many people who work with and have had pit bulls (including our vet) who say that they have gotten a bad reputation due to what people have 'trained' them to be. So hopefully today will be a little less stressful as I call and call again to see what can be done about this sweet little dog.

The good news with Kelly's car is that we found a place that will fix it and is 'affordable'...the first place she went to quoted her over $5,000.000 to fix it!!! For awhile she will have a car with maybe a red hood and blue fender and white body but it will be safe and we can try saving for a paint job in the future.

The great news with the closet rod ripping out is that Michael was totally cool with and so was I. It was almost like comic relief and I'm actually excited about going through all of this stuff and giving lots away. Another God moment occurred yesterday when I got a phone call from "INSPIRE" and they were calling to ask for clothing donations for the homeless!!!!

Let's laugh alot.....

A doctor, a farmer and the president of an HMO (Health Maintenance Organization) arrive at the pearly gates. St. Peter hesitates, because heaven is getting kind of full. Finally he tells the doctor, "You may go in, for you have taken care of the sick in their time of need." Then he turns to the farmer and says, "And you, too, may enter for you have grown food to nourish your fellow man." Then St. Peter turns to the HMO executive. "Well, I guess you can come in too, but only for three days."
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If you can read this my girlfriend fell off.
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~~~Loving Father, thank You for the blessings of so many solutions and please help us find a very loving home for this little abused dog and not get stressed about it all.