Walk for a dog!

I have been using the smart phone app called "Walk for a dog" which allows you to to count your dog walks to a site that contributes funds to your favorite animal charities!  I downloaded it from the Google Play store and it's free!  You get to pick the animal charity from it's list and if your favorite is not on the list, you can send the info to the charity's persons and get them to sign up!  Then, you can help the charity each and every time that you walk your dog, if you turn on the app while walking!

Have any of you used this site ?

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Turf Wars

The sofa is dog territory in my motorhome!

Each hound seems to gravitate to the center of the sofa when they hop up after eating, drinking, being outside or other activities.  When they are the second greyhound to arrive on the sofa, they take any available space.  HOWEVER, if they are the first greyhound on the sofa, they take the center and spread out as long as they possibly can, trying to take the entire sofa.


Power was very easy to train to have him move over and make room for the second hound on the sofa!  However, Hera is seemingly immune to being trained on this subject.

Power was very patient with her, but has now taken things into his own "butt" instead of hands!

Hera always moves over after a bit!

A Dingbat Christmas!

The group that I camp with in Quartzsite AZ is called "Dingbats." Such a strange name for a group of nice folks!  We decided to cook our Christmas dinner and eat potluck style outside around the campfire.

For a brief time, it was warm enough to take jackets off, but they soon came back on!

I'm hoping that all of you enjoyed your Christmas, as well!

A slight milepost!

Today, I was deciding to try something new in the world of Hera, that is getting her into my car.

I stood her by the car and waited and waited and waited, but she stayed "frozen" in one spot.

So, I tried pushing gently on her rump...she stayed frozen.

Next I tried putting her front legs onto the seat...she stayed frozen.

Finally, I tried passing the leash through the opening an over the back of the driver's seat, and then I reached over the driver's seat with the leash in my hand, and gently pulled on the leash.  She hopped right on into the car, with no difficulty!

See Mom, I can do it by myself!

A visit with Judy

Sunday, I drove to Imperial wildlife refuge in southwestern Arizona to visit with Judith Bell of "Travels with Emma".  She leads an 8 am tour every Sunday so I had to leave Quartzsite at 6AM to get there!  

Judy, standing by the car used for the tour.

She wasn't expecting any other tourists, but two more showed up just before we left.  They wintered nearby.  Our first stop was at Judy's RV where she had her scope set up for us to look at waterfowl on "her" pond.

Judy's RV with telescope on left of photo

After that we drove through the pond areas and enjoyed lots of different birds, and other wildlife.

I had not seen raccoons "waddle"before.

A loggerhead shrike in a Mesquite tree

A cute face

A beaver slide

2 canvasback ducks and 2 ruddy ducks

Red tailed hawk

White pelicans

Bighorn sheep skull at Visitor's center

Judy, you did a good job showing us the wildlife at your refuge!  Thanks!

Power did it!

Yesterday we made a trip to Yuma for an emergency trip to a greyhound specialist vet.  

Power is running to the vet!

Power had been having his urinary problems again, and yesterday it came to a head, and his urine exploded all over the floor of the motorhome.  I thank God that I don't have carpet!  I've had him to several vets over the last 6 months for this same ailment and they didn't figure it out, so when I found out that Susanne Stack DVM is in Yuma, I went there.  She got my vet records from the previous vets and did a few other tests in her office and said that he has a condition called "tied up" in the canine world, in which the males sometimes develop a muscle spasm that prohibits them urinating freely.  The muscle spasm is intermittent (as is Powers) and is best treated by a muscle relaxant which is not available commercially due to there not being enough call for it.  So she has to have it made specially for each dog at a compounding pharmacy in Phoenix and then mailed to the client.

He would stand like this for a long time and never get his bladder empty!

I'm looking forward to getting the capsules and them having him be healthy again!

Finally!

Today I am finally in Quartzsite, AZ!  I actually got here yesterday just before dark, and just parked my motorhome in a spot near friends and relaxed a bit and went to bed early.  I felt tired after driving all across country to get here.

I stopped in Yuma yesterday to visit a few friends and to get a haircut.  It was nice to visit them, and I stocked up on groceries, and then headed to Quartzsite just barely in time to get here before dark.  When I arrived, I waved at my friends who are here, and parked and we talked for a while, and then I walked over to another friend's RV and greeted them .  By this time, I was very tired and tried to watch TV for a while.  But I couldn't relax and my legs were hurting so I went to bed.  I was just drifting off to sleep when Hera woke me with a gentle ROO.  I got up and took the dogs outside for pee and poo, but Power peed Hera did not, so back inside we went.  This was repeated several more times before Hera finally peed..  Then we slept through the night till about 4:30 am..I was slept out!  So were the dogs!

Today I getting my campsite set up and relaxing.

Milestones

53000 blog page views!  That is a hard thing to believe.  It's been two years since I started the blog, and am continuously surprised at the amount of information, and amusement, and friendship that I receive and give from the wonderful people that I meet as I write posts and read posts.  So, THANKS EVERYONE!

Since I wrote about Hera staring and rooing at me the other day, I want to tell you about her new development!  First I want to stress that she is beautifully house trained and absolutely never does any bathroom stuff inside my motorhome.  NEVER!

Day before yesterday she had stared at me all day and rooed at me frequently.  I found it to be somewhat annoying, but then yesterday afternoon, we went outside for a stroll, and she did her pee and poop business right away (rare...she likes to keep me waiting a long while).  On we walked, and then she pooped more.  That was a surprise.

We kept walking, and then she did another huge poop!  Three huge poops!  I couldn't believe it, due to her very small stature.  How she could contain that much was a mystery to me!


I figured out that she had to be very empty.   By the time I had carried the three large poop bags to a trash area, my carrying arm was tired, and then Power wanted to add his business to the weight on the carrying arm!  ENOUGH, guys!

This morning, at 4:30 I began to hear the Hera's opera voice, first very soft and volume increasing gradually.  I told her to hush but she would start up again and I finally got out of bed and we went outside.  Hera led me a few yards away from my motorhome, and we (I mean she) stopped  to make a large deposit.  I was giving Power a chance to make his own deposit and also pee, when I noticed that Hera had dropped another deposit!  I couldn't believe my eyes!  What kind of storage on her insides is this small queenly greyhound using to store this!?

She looks so innocent!

Rough day dog wise

Yesterday I was working on quilts, and really enjoying it!  Hera was having a "rooing"

day, where she wanted to stare endlessly at me and make the roofing sound that she has proved to be so very good at.

Hera had a rough day yesterday!  She spent the entire day "rooing" at me!

No amount of walking or eating or playing solved her issues, or satisfied her!

Power was his usual happy and contented self, and is a playful guy!

Power, on the other hand, was a very happy and playful guy!

Awnings

I made an appointment at Camping World in Albuqurque to get new awning fabric, and a new compressor on my auxiliary braking system.  I made this appointment Oct 1, but then I began to get the idea that I'd better call and make sure that the parts would be there when I came to the store.

Seven phone calls later, I finally got through to the fellow I was calling and he said"  it won't be here, because I have to get the part number and order it, and you didn't pay in advance so we can not order it!

No one had told me that I needed to pay in advance, and I had been there in May and the service folks had got the part number at that time.  They had told me that it would take 2 weeks to get the part in, and I had asked them to save all the information and that I would come back at the end of my summer working season and get the work done.

When the service rep told me that I needed to pay in advance, I gave him my info and then also asked him if the store keeps awning fabric in stock.  He said that they have to order the fabric and then install it.  He also said that they have to get the part numbers off the old awnings before they can order the fabric, and that they cannot order the fabric without prior payment and that the fabric comes in about 10 days!

So, I'm thinking that they were going to wait till I got there and keep me waiting about 10 days till the fabric came in.  It made me steam a bit because if I had not asked these questions, that I would have had a very long wait while I had to spend many days in an RV park (at my expense) while they ordered parts.  I have other appointments to keep and no extra money to pay the RV parks.

This same fellow kept telling me that he probably would NOT be able to get fabric for my awning hardware because the hardware was old.  I finally agreed to let him order all new awnings rather than just the fabric.  Later on the insurance adjuster told me that he would not be able to cover the hardware because I had OPTED to purchase all new hardware!  The fellow at camping world did NOT tell the insurance adjuster that he had urged me to get the entire awning, instead of just the fabrics.  The insurance adjuster didn't really believe me that I had been manipulated to get the entire awnings.

Throughout the entire process I began to realize that I was not liking the entire setup and that I could not trust the man at Camping World to give me good advice.

FRUSTRATION!

Changing Header

I've been trying to inset a photo of Hera in the blog header, but so far have not figured out how to get the entire project done.  I used a crafting program and was successful in inserting Hera's photo over Fleur's photo, but am now unable to save the altered photo as a jpeg format.  The crafting program insists on saving it as a Craft format!

I tried taking a photo of the computer screen with the changed header, but then I had a fuzzy header!  It didn't look good at all!

Also, the layout feature of the blogger program required that I have a blog title, and that showed up in the header, covering the name of the blog that was already in the blog header.  That looked awful!

So I decided to forgo the blog header photos of our pets, and let the name of the blog be the header.

Territory!

Just to welcome a new follower, I'd like to name Andrea Bauman as the latest person to sign on as a follower.  Thanks Andrea!

Now, onto the very important task of showing off the territories of the dogs on my sofa!  

Sometimes the sofa is split equally, but Hera puts her head on Power's butt!

Sometimes Power takes  the Lion's share of the sofa but  Hera her neck up!

This time the sofa is hogged by Power but Hera again puts her head on Power

Sometimes Hera takes her share out of the floor and sofa!

This time, Hera stole the only rawhide and seemed to be gloating!

They share territory very amicably, but sometimes it's also funny!

Ceiling results

When my roof leaked, I got two large stains on my ceiling.  If you look to the right of Mike's head in the photo below, then you will see one of the ceiling stains.  In the photo, Mike is taping off my kitchen in order to work on the ceiling. 

Notice the stain on the ceiling to the right of Mike

After he worked on the stains, we waited an hour, and turned on the fantastic fan to remove the scent.

Notice that there is NO stain on the ceiling now!

After I returned to the motorhome, I could still smell the very strong scent of the bleach, and it lasted for hours.  

After the sun got low in the sky, the temperature dropped very low and I could not stand the fantastic fan pulling the heat out of the motorhome, so I would turn off the fan, and wait awhile.  A bit later, I would turn the fan back on again, and finally get the odor removed enough for comfort.

The roof damage!

My roof mechanic took photos of the rip in the roof and the silicone repairs.  I got a printout of the rip and the other silicone repairs, so am going to take a photo of these printouts and share with everyone. Perhaps it will turn out to be educational to some and interesting to some.!

In the above photo, look just to the left of the bracket and you will see a slightly curved line.  The curved line is the rip in the roof!  It had been "sealed" with silicone, which didn't work.

In this above photo, there is a tool lifting the edge of the tear.  It's no wonder that there was a leak!

 So, of course I am grateful that the repairs are accomplished and that the roof is no longer leaking.

Roof!

Last evening I went to Tom's RV service in Albuqurque, NM.  This is the business that I got my second opinion from about my roof.  If you remembered I got an estimate of $700 from Tom.

Last night I parked in the fenced yard of the business, with electricity, and relaxed with my TV and a book.  I tried to leave a post on my blog, but the internet was so slow as to be nonexistent!  I thought I would try again this morning but it was still unusable.  After two more tries, I gave up till now, and it seems to be working now.  Yippee!

At 8 AM I got a knock on my door, and Tom and Mike started on my motorhome.  They examined every inch of the roof, and tested the areas for water leakage, and took off one of my solar panels and lifters.  There they found that there was a cut on the roof about two inches long that had been "repaired with silicone" and it had pulled loose completely!  No wonder it had leaked!  They also found a bunch of other small spots that had been repaired with silicone and that would leak very easily.

Mike spent the day testing, scraping, cleaning, resealing, taping, and retesting all the roof!

After he was nearly done, he had fixed many places on my roof!

Then Mike went into my kitchen and started taping off the kitchen equipment, so that he could then remove the water stains from my ceiling!

After he sprayed the water stains with a 50% bleach mixed with 50% water, he then waited 20 minutes and sprayed again and we waited an hour.  I went into the waiting room with the dogs and put the cat into the bedroom during this time.  After the hour was up, he put on my fantastic fan to pull out the bleach fumes and turned the motorhome over to me again.  Bt this time it was 4:30 pm, the business was closing, so I paid my bill, and decided to spend the night again.  I plan to pull out in the morning!

And guess what?  Tonight it's RAINING!  And my roof is fixed!

Too rich for my blood!

The leak is just behind this side window!

I have a leaky roof, and the fellows at the repair shop found the source, and told me that it was going to cost close to $10000 dollars to fix!  OH no!  I went into shock and could not stand it!  I had to think it over for a few days, and finally decided that I HAD to get it fixed!  So they have me scheduled for next Monday and I will have to tough it out, with price and 4-5 days sitting in the waiting room! They have nice waiting rooms, but no recliners, and I almost HAVE to keep my legs elevated to relieve the pain in my back!  I dread it!

THEN, they called me to say that I could not stay in the RV for the time that they are working on it!  I can't stand the thought of the trouble of moving my cat and her litter box, my dogs and their food, toys, etc and the extra cost!

A day or so later, a fellow in the waiting room strongly suggested that I contact a certain repair shop for a second opinion, so I drove my motorhome over there and her gave me an entirely different story about the needed repairs.  He said that it would cost about $700 and that the roof was in really good condition and didn't need to be replaced, just repaired with a couple patches.  Great news!

So, I called the first repair shop and cancelled the roof repairs, and made an appointment at the new repair shop and in a couple of days I will be on the road again.

At the present time, I am parked at an indian casino and saving RV park costs.  One of my RVing friends has parked here also, and I am enjoying their company.

I've met several nice folks while walking the dogs, and one was an Italian Greyhound!  Such a nice dog!

Similarities

Hera is showing lots of similarities to several of my previous greyhounds.

1: She looks very much like my first greyhound, Patti, who was also red with black face accents.

2: Hera started out with a whining sound like Fleur.

3:Both Fleur and Hera are starers, and really like to stare intently at me.

4: Hera and Fleur like to lean on one elbow and practically hang off the sofa in their attempts to make me give into their staring.

Hera is staring!

Fleur is starring!

Dogs and repairs!

10 days ago, I arrived at Camping World again, and began the process of the repairs.  First they installed the new awnings.

Old awnings

I needed three window awnings, and two slide out topper awnings!  The day that I was at Camping world, it took about 8 hours for the fixes to be completed!

Four days later, the motorhome compressor for my road master auxiliary braking system was on the schedule, and I woke to a completely saturated motorhome floor due to a water leak.  Yikes!

The guys did find and fix the leak, at a less horrible price, and now I have to dry out the carpet where the leak occurred!

During the hours of waiting, the dogs and I waited at the dealership waiting room!  I noticed that Hera was more relaxed walking on the concrete floor (relief), but she wouldn't lie down on the cold floor, so I helped her to get on the sofa, and after a while she relaxed and enjoyed the staff and other customers making over her and being her "subjects"!

Power was very cool and laid down on the floor and relaxed!