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Originally Posted by SadieSue 

Last week the pit bull/dalmation was lunging at the fence so hard trying to fight my Golden Retriever that it nearly bent the fence to the point where it could NEARLY jump over it.  I was trying to hold the fence up while I screamed at the neighbors to come get their wild dogs, (the Doberman and Lab had joined in by that time too) and while I was grabbing the fence, the pitbull bit me once on the hand and in the bend of my arm.  Finally the guy came out to retrieve the dogs and we had a serious talk as I stood with blood dripping from my wounds. 

 

I am dreaming of a private sanctuary in my own yard where there is no fence fighting, no screaming, no bloodshed...   Maybe soon...

Good heavens, Dana!!! That is insane that the fence fighting was so bad that you got bitten!  

I really do hope you get a better fence and don't have to deal with idiotic and irresponsible neighbors.

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Originally Posted by FlyRobinFly 

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Originally Posted by SadieSue 

Last week the pit bull/dalmation was lunging at the fence so hard trying to fight my Golden Retriever that it nearly bent the fence to the point where it could NEARLY jump over it.  I was trying to hold the fence up while I screamed at the neighbors to come get their wild dogs, (the Doberman and Lab had joined in by that time too) and while I was grabbing the fence, the pitbull bit me once on the hand and in the bend of my arm.  Finally the guy came out to retrieve the dogs and we had a serious talk as I stood with blood dripping from my wounds. 

 

I am dreaming of a private sanctuary in my own yard where there is no fence fighting, no screaming, no bloodshed...   Maybe soon...

Good heavens, Dana!!! That is insane that the fence fighting was so bad that you got bitten!  

I really do hope you get a better fence and don't have to deal with idiotic and irresponsible neighbors.

oh my gosh - i missed this! how crazy can it get before they do something? so sorry Dana!

This is too funny ! ! ! !  See just as I was reading this (6:35pm) we were ROCKED by thundaaaar ! SCERRRRT everybody in the house.

I would have called the cops if I was bit not only once but twice.. that is unsafe for everyone. I am sorry but it would have been a dead dog. 

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Originally Posted by VelvettFog 

Mo -- sounds like you are just about back to 100% -- I'm glad :)

Thanks! I feel much better. Only 2 more weeks of antibiotics, and I'll be done :) 

Infection seems to be gone, but my leg is FAT; it fills with fluid from tissue damage as soon as I hang my leg over the side of the bed in the morning. Other than wearing compression stockings, I don't think there is anything left I can do about it. If I sit and "take it easy" all day as instructed, it's actually worse than when I'm moving around a lot. If I keep it elevated above my heart it's fine, but only while it's elevated.

I'm planting my garden now, but I'm starting with starts this year for much of the stuff as I got off to such a late start. It feels good to be outside working in the dirt and watching my crazy chickens. They go CRAZY for Wysteria blossom petals. That little storm that just rolled through knocked a munch more to the ground and all the chickens ran over to eat them. Now the roosters and the cuckoo marans are jumping up high and trying to grab the vines to knock more petals down! They look so funny.

I made a really weird phone call this morning! This will show you guys how weird I really am....

I was on Craigslist this morning and found an add for 9 hens and a Roo for $10. Not $10 each, but ten for the hole flock and the last bag of food. I was trying really hard not to call and get them, they were just in Snohomish but I am at my limit untill I get a new coop built. So I cotinued to scan threw and found another add that said chickens needed ASAP. I sat and thought for a few minutes and then I called the number on the add for wanted chickens.  A man answered and I explained that I was calling about his add, well he began laughing (which made me think it was a prank at first) he explained that he knew his wife had put up an add wanting them but did not realize that she had put his number on the add! I explaind to him that this was going to be a weird call and that I had found another add on CL just a few adds away from theirs in their area, the price and the phone number for it. LOL He thanked me and that was that.

I just figured that if I could not have them I could at least help out some one who could. I hope they were able to get them.

I saw the moon today! ( in detail I mean, lol ) We've had a huge and decently powerful telescope for years now but I've never had the fully powered batteries, right time of month, and right time of day and weather without a moon filter to be able to track down and view the moon without seriously damaging my eyes. That's right, for those of you who don't go star-gazing - The moon hurts. Without a moon filtering lens that subtracts 25% of the actual light the moon is giving off, looking through the lens at a full or quarter or even crescent moon is very dangerous, as it is exceedingly bright, not to mention tampering with the focus to get it right down to the gritty gorgeous details of craters, valleys, and all. Well, I finally got to do it - Tonight just before it got too bright and late, I was able to track down the moon with my laser sight (new batteries) and view just the very edge of it so it didn't hurt too much, and man! Is it amazing to see the moon, in person, in such enormous blown-up detail. It is incredible. Plus, I was out a bit early, so I could actually differ the dark side of the moon with the sky. It was eerie, really. Seeing a giant gray globe moving quite quickly through space.

Anyway, just had to share with excitement. The lunar eclipse for us will be this June 5th, hopefully we'll have a nice clear sky that night, and the moon will be darkened out enough, I'll be very excited to see a full detail surface of the moon, soaked in rich scarlet to deep blood red coloration.