Had to Call the neighbor

Yesterday Well once again... Let the dogs out of the house and kennel and they ran to the back corner. Made a semi-circle and started barking. I whistled and they all came back. I put them in the kennel then walked out to the fence with camera in hand.

One of Todds dogs was sitting in the corner and it looked like he had some injury to his neck. I took pictures then went back to the house and called Todd 0645

"Todd one of your dogs is in my yard. He has an injury, my dogs did not touch him - I'm not going to touch him."
I got the answering machine and left the above message.

I went and got dog food and started feeding my dogs when Todd yelled across the yard "Where is he" I pointed. Todd walked down the line. Found the dog. Jumped the fence tossed the dog over then he went back over.

Today while heading into town we saw 1 dog on leash at Todds place.

Kristen in Town and other News

1. My neice is in town for the weekend. Drove in from CO. with a group of other young women. Rumor has it they were going "clubbing" last night. I'll have to find out how that worked out. (my niece does not drink)

2. Now if I buy a basic program from someone and it does not work as advertised and I send a letter to support asking for help, should I get an ad to buy a more advanced version of the program in reply?

And why, if the basic version does not work as advertised would you expect me to purchase another version? I shall give the program and support group one more week before I mention the name of the software.

3. Ilona want's to drive herself to work and let me stay at home. Remember people this is the lady that blacked out at the wheel and totaled her truck in April. We only have the 1 working vehicle at the moment. What to do?

4. I need to get back to town and program dad's universal remote. He is currently using 3 different remotes. He has a problem getting the TV to show his DVD's. Then if he gets a picture he looses the sound on the surround sound system. Or he might get the sound and then no picture. Hopefully once I get the remote programmed the problems will be solved.

So One more update on Twitter and I'm off.

Update for the rest of the house

Well the new wall unit is in and on a timer. The bedroom unit is also on a timer. So both rooms are reasonably cool when we get home in the evening.

Last month electric bill was $146.00 (June)

I have not yet disconnected the whole house unit.

We have blocked all the air vents in the house. Took out the grate and installed plywood sealed around the edges. Also laid new carpet.

Been busy pulling up weeds and watering fruit trees and figuring out what trees to cut down in the fall.

I just need now to figure out how the mice are getting into the house. Think I shall tear out the shelf under the sink and see what's going on down their.

That's it for today.

Pool Woes

Well, being out of work has both good points and bad points.
Good - I've collected lots of used carpet to put in the yard.
BAD - Pool chemicals have gone WAY up in price.
Good - The storeroom is now full of paper for making papercrete
BAD - Sammi the suzuki died. I cannot afford to rebuild the motor. AND I do not want to use my one and only vehicle for towing loads of papercrete.

The pool was a very SANDY Algae filled mess. So I put in Algae killer. Sweep everything to one corner. Moved the filter out of the way and pulled the plug. The just kept sweeping the sand out the hole. Now I'm talking Sand a FOOT deep. Took about an hour. Lost two inches of water.

MATH TEST. Pool is 21x41 feet. 4 feet deep. How many gallons is 2 inches of depth?

I don't know I flunked math.

I reloaded the algeside and santizer and now have the filter running. Scrubbed every inch of the sides.. I'll get some kitchen scrubbie and tie them to my feet to scrub the bottom. So far it's looking pretty good.

Dogs Chasing Cattle

Well, I guess that is what Aussie Cattle dogs are supposed to do. But are they supposed to be hearding the cattle back and forth while said cattle are in the pens?

Great video I've got of the cattle being run back and forth in the pen. They finally bunched up and turned horns to the dogs. I hope they gore a dog or two. Maybe then my neighbor will build a proper kennel for his dogs.

And of course the neighbors are not at home. They are off to another horse show I guess. Wonder where they are this weekend.

Notice of Recusal - The Lawer assigned to be the Arbitrator to the Law Suite has had a baby. I got a Notice of Recusal yesterday. Guess I need to look that up and see what it means. Hopefully more delay.

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Yeast ? ? ?

What you think I'm joking? I must admit I was floored when the vet told me Duke had a yeast infection.

Ok, I'll start at the beginning. Duke has been shaking his head and rubbing it against the walls for months. So I started cleaning his ears out, every bloody day. He actually cut his ear when shaking his head. He rapped a table edge. So now when he shakes his head he flings blood droplets all over the place.

SO I look it up online. Looks like mites to me. My mate says mites. Tried all the remedies we found online. Hmmmm not working. Brought some stuff that "never fails". It did not work.

Ok. Now I have three different vets that I use. 2 lady Vets and 1 male. Time to stop at the Vets office for an office visit. The 2 lady Vets would not even give me an office visit. All they have to say is bring in the dog. Just to do that is $100 and $80 screw that. Time to go visit the male Vet.

Now he actually talks to me. I describe the symptoms (dirty brown stuff in ears) he is almost laughing as he says "not mites" Bring Duke in $40.00.

Make the appointment take in Duke. Doc swabbs his ears looks at the swab and says "yeast infection" Dogs don't get mites in this area. Pick up Duke at 4PM.

I leave Duke at the Vets office, Duke is not happy about that, I think he remembers what happened to him on his last visit. Anyway I head for the coffee shop and a free wifi connection.

Time to look up "yeast + dog" all kinds of stuff pops up. One of them I tried earlier. Just not for long enough and the wrong kind of vinegar.

So at 4 I go get Duke. Total bill $80.00 and that includes the medications and instructions on how to use them. If you need more just stop buy and get some. The Vet knows I own 4 dogs.

Two days later.. Been cleaning and applying meds as prescriped. Duke seems a whole lot happier. The only time he is shaking his head now is when I put in the drying agent.

Now it's time to correct his diet. I've been feeding them 1 cup of rice or oatmeal everyday. Vet said stop feeding them GRAIN... Well you have to admit. They started life of a natural diet of raw beef and pork ribs. Now they eat purina mixed with grains. Dogs are not made for that much grain.


So here are a couple of good sites.
http://www.pet-supplies-review.com/dog-yeast-infection.html
http://www.dogyeast.com/underground_report_cb.html?hop=ebizzebizz