BIT OF A STRESSFUL DAY AS MAX GETS HIS NAILS TRIMMED

 

OUR NUMBER ONE BOY, MAX

Due to recent rains the muddy roads had made quite a mess out of our car.  For the second time in a month I was out with a hose, water bucket, & a sponge this morning scrubbing all that muddy clay mud off.  The interior had about as much dust as the exterior had mud so the inside of the care came under a major clean up as well.

 

SEE, I TOLD YOU THERE WAS A MOLAR PATROLER:))

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Several weeks ago we had taken ranch dog Gleeson over to Hereford for her rabies shot.  While there we had talked to the Vet about getting our dog Max's nails clipped but knew it was going to have to be a special effort.  Several years ago he had an ear infection & when we brought him to the Vet back in Canada it took 4 of us to hold him while the Vet swabbed the ear.  The rabies clinic Vet gave us some anti-anxiety pills plus a tranquilizer & made an appointment for Max to-day at noon at the Vet's home in Douglas, Arizona.  We gave Max the pills at 11 & they acted so quickly I didn't get him into the car soon enough & had to carry him out of the motorhome about 5 minutes later.  We were at the mobile High Desert Veterinary clinic by 11:45 & Max was pretty groggy.  Michael John, the Vet, came out & we slipped a muzzle on Max.  He still managed a growl at us even under the sedation.  We got him on his side in the hatchback of the car & the Vet carefully got Max's nails trimmed without incident.  I was holding Max's head just in case & all the while he was having his nails down his teeth were bared inside the muzzle.  Had it not been for that muzzle & sedation both the Vet & myself would be in the Douglas hospital to-night with cuts, scrapes, scratches, contusions, abrasions, deep punctures, & severe bruising!!   Thanks to a kind & caring Vet the whole procedure went off with much less stress than we had anticipated.  We had been worrying about this for days & we were all stressed out this morning.

   

WAITING WITH MAX AT THE VET’S, TRIMMING THE NAILS, & MAX RESTING IN THE BACK OF THE CAR BACK AT THE RANCH

Made it back to the ranch by 12:30 & let Max sleep it off in the back of the Santa Fe until he started showing some recovery signs around 4:30.  He managed to let off some barks at the distant donkeys so we knew he was slowly on the mend from the sedatives.  We used a ramp to gently walk him down to the ground but he was very wobbly & could not get up the steps into the motorhome on his own so I carried him in & put him on my bed.  Both Checkers & The Motormouse were beside themselves in all the goings on & we could tell they were very upset & concerned about their buddy Max.  By 6 p.m. he was looking a little more like his old self & was hungry.  Still pretty tired but I think we've turned the corner into getting our big old barking dog back to his old self:))

<<<< CHECKERS & MOM CHECKING TO SEE WHAT’S FOR SUPPER

To-day's photos are a collection of pics over the last little while that never made it into the blogs.  I am so far behind now on uploading web albums because of our 5 Gig Verizon limit & failed local Wifi connections that I don't know when I will get the next Picasa web album up & running.

 

Jeanie backs their truck up to the 5th wheel	Morning motormouse snuggle
Tree decoration	Max playing sticks	Old abandoned trailer in the desert
Donkeys in the sunrise	A BIRDBATH DOGGY DRINK	At the ranch

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To-morrow morning we have some company coming.  Another RV couple from Ottawa Ontario has been following our blog for the past couple of years & are now over at the Kartchner Caverns near Benson for a few days.  We had been in email contact with Don & Thelma this past winter while boondocking near Borrego Springs, California but had departed the area for Quartzite by the time they got to Borrego.  I'm a bit puzzled as to how anyone following our blog for 2 years is not now in some kind of a recovery therapy program:))

SUNRISE AT THE RANCH

GROANER'S CORNER:((  How do you make a blonde's eyes sparkle......Shine a light into her ear!!

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THIS MORNING WE OUT-FOXED RANCH DOG GLEESON

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Kelly phoned Verizon this morning & we are already over our monthly limit to the tune $3.49 cents with the turnover date not being until Monday at midnight. What that simply means is that I will have to hold off uploading bunches of photos for the next 3 days because it is those photos that are eating up our bytes. We do not download things from the net like You Tube, music, jokes, web casts, etc. No chat room stuff or streaming videos. No Skype web cam calls or blogger websites with sound & animation. We do have a live feed site though called Feedjit & I'm beginning to wonder if maybe that may be eating up some of our bytes. It's not a necessary thing but it gives me an idea of what photos people click on. Anyway, we have hit on a bit of plan though. I've decided these exercise & Yoga classes just aren't my cup of tea but I will go with Kelly on those days & make use of the Library next door with it's internet facilities & do things like Picasa Web Album uploads & Microsoft updates, etc. Kelly will be in one building with her exercise & Yoga classes & I will be in the next building furiously exercising my fingers on the keyboard, not to mention the great brain work-out in attempting to accomplish everything in an hour. Well anyway, that's the plan for now because when in Elfrida we plan to do what the Elfridians do:))

All photos to-day were taken with my Canon A720 & doesn't have the high resolution my Nikons are set for so maybe I'll just mainly stick with that camera for the next little while until we get a handle on this bytes thing.

 BIG ARIZONA SKY FOR OUR WALK AGAIN THIS MORNING

The big Arizona sky once again dawned with big wide sweeping & beautiful cloud formations. Weather is definitely cooler, but no wind. It was a 5 dog walk this morning with the whole gang turned out with lots of wagging tails. And, in my pocket unbeknownst to ranch dog Gleeson, was...........a dog leash!! Last Saturday morning was the rabies clinic in Elfrida & Gleeson out-foxed us by not making himself available for us to take to the clinic. We did manage to take ranch dog Pearce though. So, this morning it was our turn to out-fox the Gleeson. We knew the same Vet's traveling Vet clinic (High Desert Veterinary Service) was being held west of Bisbee to-day at the San Pedro feed store near Hereford. I casually slipped the leash on Gleeson as we were walking & he was fine with that & didn’t suspect a thing. She readily jumped up into the back of our hatchback when we returned to our rig & within minutes we were off to the rabies clinic about 30 miles to the southwest. A successful fox ploy:)) Gleeson was as good as gold about the whole thing & didn't make any fuss at the clinic. We were the only ones there so no waiting. We had taken a liking to the Vet & his caring wife assistant a week before in Elfrida so decided to set up an appointment for Max the wonder dog to have his nails trimmed. Max is not an aggressive dog but is very fearful of anyone fiddling with him & he doesn’t even like us looking at his paws. About 3 years ago he had a minor ear infection so we took him to a Vet in Clinton, Ontario. Even with a muzzle on it took 5 of us to control him while his ear was swabbed out. We are going to approach his nail trimming a little differently & a sedative will be used this time to calm him down. I have to be careful while typing this because he is sitting on the bed behind me & I don't want him to see what I'm typing!!

For the last bunch of years Saturday nights have been Big Band nights for me & while I'm at the computer most Saturday nights I like listening to tunes of the 40's. I think that habit began about 10 years ago when there was a program on the radio called, Big Band Saturday Night. Awhile ago I blogged about a website that has a lot of old time radio shows like Gunsmoke, Amos & Andy, Big Band music, etc. on it. OLD TIME RADIO  I received an email from a fellow last week who has a website called, OLD TIME RADIO CATALOGUE. You can purchase MP3 episodes of countless old radio days programs from music to mysteries. Old cowboy shows to historical newscasts. And he broadcasts free old time shows as well. Check out the site because I think there is probably something there for everyone & I did add it as one of our links in the column to the right.

HELPING THE VET WITH GLEESON’S RABIES SHOT THIS MORNING >>>>>>>>

A week ago we received an email from some RV folks wondering about RV Parks in this area with availability to amenities, etc. Not really being RV Park people & not too familiar with that sort of thing here in this region I forwarded the email on to JERRY up in Benson with a note attached figuring he would know the area better & have the correct info. Well, that was all OK except for one thing!! I addressed the email to Jerry & Sherri. Well, Jerry's wife’s name is not Sherri…….it’s Suzy!!!! With so many RV couples having similar sounding names I'm sure I've got others mixed up as well but that was still no excuse. Needless to say I got a quick response from Jerry & found myself hauled up on the carpet for my mistake. Felt pretty bad so dashed Jerry off a very hasty & not too well thought out response that went something like this:

Yes, I have been known to mix up my Sherri's with my Barrys
And my Bruce's with my Mooses,
But I try to do it right by staying up all night.
And when my Jerry's get mixed with my Larry’s
And my Rick's get mis-taken for Mick’s
I will try not to mix my Doug’s with a belly full of Slugs.
I shall Endeavour to do better but it may not be to the letter,
So whether your a Suzy or a Joe
Or a Billy & a Flo
You have to understand my part
In becoming such a forgetful old tart........10-4!!
(the tart word was an optional sound alike:))

KELLY PICKED UP SOME HOT DOGS ON OUR WAY HOME….. 3 FOR HER 1 FOR ME & 2 FOR GLEESON:))

**For the 4th or 5th consecutive night Live Writer has failed to publish  for me so I am throwing in the sponge on it & going back to the Blogger format because Blogger seems to work OK for me regardless of connection!!  Live Writer has been throwing various error messages out each time & I have then been forced to partially re-do the blog in the Blogger format: each time.  Enough is enough!!  I did follow Ricks instructions on a fix but it didn't seem to last.  I don't have a lot of patience for this sort of thing & especially at night when I'm tired!!!!!!!!!!!**  Too bad because I really liked Live Writer while it worked...............:((

GROANER'S CORNER:(( A drunk went into a telephone booth and dialed at random.......... "Salvation Army," was the answer."What do you do?" asked the man."We save wicked men and women," came the reply."Okay, save me a wicked woman for Saturday night will ya."

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The only thing better than right now will someday be the memories of right now....AL.