Living the Country Life

Swim and Gym was great! We all get use of hte facilities for $25 for 5 weeks (on Friday)! I wouldn't go more than once a week anyway and we'll take Feb off cuz of our vacation. Since Joey moved from red necklace (which is hte I still wear floaties and am contained to this one small area) to the yellow necklace (which must be the I can't swim, don't wear floaties but will let you know if I"m drowning stage), I can leave him. The lifeguard today was VERy attentive and actually stood right by the area that JOey was in. This means that another mom and I can WALK in the gym while they swim! My boys really didn't get out of the pool (I didnt' figure they would) and it's totally contained. Plus another HS mom stays in the pool area. Mat's a green necklace (those are the only 3 colors) and has run of the pool.

After that we went to a store that I heard was closing. I was BUMMED to hear that! Well, I was REALLY bummed at the Y cuz I was told that it was already closed! I went anyway and it's not closed. Then to get Mat's crickets and then to the McDs. I ordered a med french vanilla capp like I always do and the total was outrageous! Turns out they have the new McCafe line. My sister warned me they were awful, but I tried them anyway. BLECH! I even sent an email to McDs!

So now we're home and Mat's friend is here and I'll put the chops and au gratin potatoes in the oven soon. His friend doesn't eat pork so we'll have supper after they are gone.

Lady Gracie is a wonderful girl.  She was a suprise gift for our daughter Kristi after she lost her best friend beauty her horse of 10 years.   Gracie is also part of our breeding progam.

Gracie picked out Kristi.  We love that becuase she was able to pick on Kristi's breathing problems right away.  She wakes Kristi up in the middle of the night if her breathing is off.  Kristi will know then to go  wake me up and get on her breathing machine right away.

Gracie is a wonderful blessing to our home.  She loves to smile and be spoiled.  She was raised with one of our rescue kittens Blue, that some one threw away because she has deformed leg.  Watching them play is funny.  Blue does not seem to understand why his playmate grew so big.

Here are a few pictures of Gracie:

I will post more on her when I down load more pictures.

I thought this was a cute apron and encourage everyone to visit and enter their name. Who knows....maybe you'll win!:)

http://my-strength-and-song.blogspot.com/2009/01/apron-giveaway.html

God be with thee!

Sister Lori

http://www.americanvision.org/article/consumer-safetys-war-on-thrift/-

 Can you imagine where all of this would lead too?

Amanda <><
Matthew 6:33

Update:

http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=85638- Thrift stores are except now, but not the local business. Such as a Homechool resale shop. (Used curriculum)

Ok, worked out and balanced the checkbook and entered Mat's school for basically the rest of the year! WAHOO! HE'll be done w/math in a month and SHOULD be done w/LA nad history by the time we leave for FL!!!!!!!!

I need to get going tho. We're doing swim & gym for the next 5 Fridays. It's from 11-3 (but we won't get there until noon) and it's $25 for 30 days (how you get 5 Fridays). I think it'll be great this winter for them to do that AND there is a lifeguard and maybe 10 kids show up so I think I can walk in the gym while they swim!

Then one of Mat's friends is coming over while his mom goes to an appt (unbelievably a massage therapist about 3 miles from us!LOL).

Today my ankle has been hurting so bad that I can hardly walk.  It seems to be getting worse all the time.  I didn't hurt it but its the sciatic nerve that goes down my leg.  Doctor gave me medicine but thats not helping me at all.  I'm not able to shop anymore  either.  I'll call one of the doctors tomorrow to see what I can have done.   About 2 months ago the neurosurgeon told me I would probably need surgery.  I just talked to a nurse in my neighborhood and she told me he's planning on retiring now.  I'm really not ready for a surgery.  I hate all the aches and pains afterwards.  I just wish they could give me a shot to relieve pain but he said he can't do that.  To me that would be a simple procedure.  Oh well.

Since we live in Florida i was happy to  see Florida Gators win over the Okaloona Sooners.  The score was 24-14.  My teams are Penn State, where i'm originally from.  Same with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles.  I think I said earlier in my blog that Dh is for the Dallas Cowboys. 

My Dh is over his cold now, Thank God.  He had it for a long time.   We just hope it doens't come back but winter isn't over yet for awhile.  Here in NW Florida the temperature has been mild this year.  Usually by now it's freezing outside, especially at night. 

Cya all later.  Jeanne

Hope is Marty's daughter.  She was born 11-01-1999.  She takes after him in the being able to warn me before I go into anaphylaxis shock.   Hope was trained, but did not become a registered service dog for a few years.  She worked at home but Marty went out every where.  as Marty got older Hope started sharing his out side of the home work.  Marty still went out he loved to go to crowded places, while Hope does not do as well in crowds.  She is over protective.

Hope is the only dog working for me at this time.  Hope has only one litter of puppies before I fixed her.  It was to hard on me to watch her give birth.  Alex will be taking over some of her work when he is done training.  Medical alert dogs never stop working until they are called home to God.

Here are some pictures of hope:

I will share more pictures of her when I load more.

Marty was born 1-17-1995 he past away on 11-07-2008.

Marty was a service dog for anaphylaxis for my self.  He also warned my daughter before her asthma got to bad.   Marty was 12 weeks old by the time I figured out what he was trying to tell me.  after I did I trained him to be a service dog.  He passed his test at 11 months old.   Marty fathered over 100 puppies in his life time.  Our top breeding dam had very large litters.  Her biggest was 17 puppies.   We also studded Marty out to approved females.  They had to have at least 4 generations of no health problems and have the right type of owner.   We were going to freeze Marty's sperm , but we then decide against it.  We ended Marty's line.  There will be no more dogs from his line unless we decide to breed his granddaughter.

Marty was a well love dog by many.  His favorite place to go was Disneyland.  He love to go on the rides and see his favorite workers. The employees at Disneyland gave him treats , always had to come see him.  When there was a ride he could not go on he went with the employees to be spoiled while we rode at ride.

Marty has been on t.v. and in a few magazines and made the front page of the paper.  He saved my life many times and our daughters also.  He made the front page by fighting a German shepherd who jumped our 5 foot fence and held our youngest daughter by the neck and would not let go. Our daughter was 4 at the time.  Marty was not even 2 years old.

Here is pictures of Marty:

As soon as I heard about this here on-line Monday, I started to look into it. By yesterday, I know the best thing to do was contact a tv station in Memphis, Tenn. who is known for getting to the bottom of things.

The reporter called me this morning to ask me a few questions. He let me know that he was already starting to look in to this and would be reporting what he could find out this evening.

Reported By Andy Wise
ASK ANDY: New Lead/Phthalate Testing On Kid Products
Updated: Jan 8, 2009 05:44 PM CST
BREAKING NEWS:  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission just exempted yard sales, consignment stores and resales from this new law.  Click here to read the commission's official release.  
More >>

If you follow to this link:

http://www.wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9641384

You will see what else he had to add after the commission came out with this update after his report.

The reporter then called me back this evening, to make sure I had heard and read the report. I will post about anything new that comes with this. The reporter has my phone # and will stay in touch with me.

Thank you for your interest in owning one of our "Golden Blessings".

We offer high quality puppies from high quality parents.

Our dam Gracie is a registered service dog for medical alert.

Our sire Alex is almost done with his training to be a medical alert dog. He comes from a champion line. 

For their first litter we are offering these pups at a lower cost than what the next litters will be.  

We have a litter of 4 females and 3 males.

Females are offered for $550.00 limited registration, $650.00 full registration.

Males are offered for $500.00 limited registration ,  $550.00 full registration.

One pup is already sold, but we do not know what sex yet as the puppy is yet to pick out the special needs child yet.   We are letting the puppy pick him out.  This puppy will be trained by us to be a service dog to this young boy.

All puppies come with:

A health guaranty, Akc papers, Current vaccines, Puppy care package, Vet checks, Health certificates, Micro chipping, Dewclaws removed.

Shipping is an option if it is needed at a cost of $300.00. A crate is included in this cost.

If you are interested in buying one of our puppies please message me.