Forcast Update

The news this morning gave us the rain totals for the 3 day period....9.45" with more on the way. We are expecting another 1-2" today, more rain again tomorrow and Thursday with a small break before it rolls in again on Sunday. Ugh.

Abigail took this picture out her window during our travel on Sunday.

Forcast Tomorrow...Rain

We have been having some crazy weather lately. Thursday, Friday and Saturday our days were filled with tornado sirens, weather radio alerts, sleepless nights, and lots and lots of rain. Sunday was beautiful (today too) we had a dobie to transport to Marianna, Florida so he could move on to his forever home. We took Alabama hwy167 to Florida hwy79 and this is what we saw.

Yeah, that's the river...


This is us driving through it.


This was kind of sad. Its a horrible picture but I was trying to get the little girl who was standing at the playground just staring. I missed the little girl but this is what she was staring at.


This was what both sides of the highway looked like most of the way to I10.


Lots and lots of water.


This is a peanut/cotton field.


We were moving too fast for me to get the cars, trucks, and houses that were mostly submerged in water....oh and the mudslides. And the forecast tomorrow calls for 1-2 more inches of rain.....

Wordless Wednesday

Doberman Pinscher Rescue

We adopted our dobie girls Shelby and Tory from Doberman Pinscher Rescue at North Florida . I was so moved by the efforts made by Judy (she runs the rescue) that I began to volunteer. I have seen some amazing things since then. Some wonderful dobies come through rescue on their way to their new forever homes. Some wonderful dobies come to rescue to live out their last days, abandoned by their owners in their golden years. And then there are the wonderful dobies who come to rescue who really need to be rescued. This blog post is about two of those dobies who have recently come to rescue.

This is Bruce2. A sweet dobie boy who is less than two years old.


He came to us out of the animal shelter in Dothan, Alabama. As you can see he is really, really thin.


What you may not be able to tell is that he also has an infection in his skin that will take weeks to clear up. Then it will be several more weeks before his coat comes back in.


He is also high heartworm positive and will need immiticide treatment once he has gained enough weight to withstand the treatment.


And then there is this little guy.


He also comes to us from the shelter in Dothan, Alabama. He too is only about two years old. He was brought to the shelter by his owners with a severely injured leg. I don't know too much about this little guy just yet as he is brand new to us but what I can see just by looking at his picture is that he really needs rescue.
Not all of the stories are like this. Doberman Pinscher Rescue at North Florida has rescued over 150 Dobermans so far as you can see on the Alumni page of the rescue site. Each and every one of them have been placed in wonderful forever homes with people who love them. Rescue does not receive any United Way or Federal funding. Rescue exists with volunteers, private funding and adoption donations. If you would like to support rescue you can make a donation on their site using paypal. I know the funds are put to good use and are very appreciated.

Gardening Enterprise

Growing up in the Northwest I'm not used to planting a garden before mid May. When gardening in Enterprise if you don't have plants in the ground by the third week of March you are way behind. I was determined to get it right this year. We started the process weeks ago.

My concrete garden before....


That's right. I'm not planting in the ground here anymore...too many deer, squirrels, cats, dogs and kids to interfere with the fruit we MAY be able to grow. Our solution....cattle troughs!

Layla likes it...


EG too!


Got them in place.


Bring on the dirt!


Korduroy doesn't look happy.


But that didn't stop him from playing in it.


EG played in it too...and helped me and her dad fill the troughs.


How long do you suppose it would have taken at that rate?


Filled with dirt and fertilizer....ready to go!


EG and I spent Friday afternoon planting tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, arugula, yellow squash, basil, and cilantro. We had a blast!


The Friday gardening inspired us to put pine straw out in the yard this weekend. When we first moved here I thought it was insane to intentionally put pine needles in your yard...here we are 2.5 years later doing exactly that. And I like it!

A couple of before shots.






Here we are after.

Ear Infection 2 EG Won!

It took nearly a month but we've finally got this thing beat! Poor thing has been sick since the 12th of February...A couple of trips to the doctor, allergy meds, and a ton of antibiotics later she's good as new. Poor thing is allergic to the bubblegum goodness of amoxicillin and got stuck with this...

Not amoxicillin and definitely not bubblegum goodness!

Thank goodness she's a champ. She had to take this stuff twice a day for 10 days. It wasn't until the last day that I somehow got some of it on my finger and it ended up in my mouth....ugh this is some of the worst stuff I have EVER tasted!

Likely the reason she was soooo happy to do this with the leftovers...

See how happy!

Ugh just look at it in it's thick little pile. Poor EG.

A few more days of the ear drops and we're done!

She has been a real trooper. I am so glad it's almost over!

Soccer season has started.....

Abigail has had a blast playing soccer the past two seasons. Poor EG has sat by watching in agony. She wanted to play sooooo bad but she had to wait until she turned 4 before she could. Well it finally happened...the 4th birthday arrived. I was amazed when she announced "Now I can play soccer like Abigail!" That was the end of December and here we are weeks later and both girls are celebrating a new soccer season.

Look how happy....and this was after 2.5 hours at the soccer field in the freezing cold.


The first practice and she's all about the action.


It makes me smile.


This makes me smile too. The warm up before practice. They did all kinds of stretching...too cute!


All warmed up and waiting her turn to dribble.


Then all of the sudden she was too shy. EG too shy!...amazing! The coach was so nice and so patient with her. He got down on her level, helped her to feel more confident, took her hand and walked with her while she dribbled. It's going to be a great season!