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Mercedes decides to have some early morning sunshine before heading inside to sleep on my bed where it's cooler.
Meet American Champion Paradox Szikra, JH "Seekra", our newly rehomed 9yo female Vizsla. Her sire (father) is CH Paradox Step N Out, JH "Step", my Vizsla who died last November of old age.
"Vizslas are like potato chips, you just can't stop with one".
Seekra (aka "Spark", Hungarian translation) is our 4th after Magz, Orion and Step. During her "show days", Seekra frequently won "Best of Breed" and "Best of Winners." Her field trial and hunting instincts match the best, as well. When it comes to representing the breed, Seekra is top tier.
Should be a ton of fun.
Hope you stay tuned...
BTW: Considering a dog? A contrarian view with which I completely agree...
Josie~who else of course!
Always into everything, can't turn my back. The door was ajar to allow the grill to cool down. I had made toast and heated up some meat in there. She's pulled the door right down and sneaking in there while I'm busy.
It seems her foot is all healed up. She uses it like normal and it doesn't look swollen, but I still haven't ventured to separate her toes to see how it looks in case I open the cut back up.
The photo was taken just after she had hurt herself.
By the way, I've purchased a 400+ Mbps wireless speed adapter for my computer, and I am now getting download speeds of near 50 Mbps which is what I'm paying for, so I'm really happy about that.
HMM! Legends say, they wear their victims peels like hair and can often be seen with potato like snakes. Well.. legend according to my 9yo.
THANK YOU flickr contacts for supporting Josie.
Josie has been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and some flickr contacts offered to support her to get treatment that will cure her. I made a facebook page to allow anyone who wants to help Josie.
www.facebook.com/helpcurejosie/
I'm working out this camera slowly. I discovered if I took it off auto and set the iso to the highest setting and used the macro when I moved in close, I can get some really good photos.
I've put a blanket over her. She has a foot bandaged by me. She cut inside a toe to the bone somehow. I did hear a dog in my yard and I have no idea how she sliced her foot. I saw her bone when I was cleaning the wound. I've rung my vet, he said clean it every 1 or 2 days with iodine and give her antibiotics.
Every cat has their own "thing" going when it comes to getting my attention. Matilda's "thing" is to run under my legs all the time and pull on my skirt.
You can see the blue hue on her fur here. This is exactly how she looks in real life. A real life painting.
Josie has hyperthyroidism. People wanted to help with her treatment, so I set up a facebook page for her. If you would like to support her treatment, I thank you so much. Details can be found here. She needs expensive Radioactive Iodine treatment to cure her.
A busy, crazy weekend, but the highlight was certainly going for a drive with the kids in the pimped-out minivan, searching for barns for a few minutes while Dylan fell asleep in his car seat. So Caiden and I drove around Somis, Camarillo,Oxnard , etc for a few minutes to see if we could find any barns just laying around looking old. Did find a couple others, which I'll post when ready, but this one on the side of the road on 118 was just sitting all by itself. Nothing beats:
barn + clouds + sunset - distracting things around it = perfect shot
Found a few others and then went for a hike in Moorpark where we saw several ladybugs and beetles "giving piggy-back rides" according to my 9yo.
A good time had by all. Especially the ladybugs & beetles.
There are a few occasions where a stone must be photographed in color. This is one of them. The stone is made of some sort of cement, but covered entirely in petrified wood (and Jesus).
This stone is to Marianni Birgenheier. She died in 1921 at the age of 35. Between 1906 and 1918 she and her husband, Franz, had seven children. All but one, lived well into adulthood (a son died at 12 months old in 1915).
Franz lived for 38 years without remarrying. When Marianni died, their youngest, Therese (the only girl), was three, his oldest, George, was only 15.
None of the children are still alive - the last to pass was the youngest, Therese, who died in 2007. Sadly, her obituary sheds some light on what happened after he mother died.
"Therese's mother died when she was two years old. Her early years were spent in an orphanage and foster homes. Through the help of Sister Margaret Roberts of the Dickinson, North Dakota Hospital, Therese attended Holy Cross Academy, Merrill, Wisconsin. She graduated as valedictorian in 1940. While in Merrill, Therese lived and worked at the Rectory of St. Francis Xavier. Father Peter Rice, the pastor and Margaret Trieb, the house keeper became surrogate parents."
The obit of one of the youngest boy, Bernard, sheds more light.
"Bernard's mother died when he was a young boy [9yo], and the family moved to Fargo, ND. Bernard and his younger siblings lived at the St. John Orphanage in Fargo. Later the family moved to a farm near Dickinson, ND."
Perhaps without the youngest, Therese.
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'Kynda'
Camera: Chamonix 45F-2
Lens: Steinheil Rapid Antiplanet 6,5; 27cm
Exposure: f/24; 4sec
Film: Kodak Commercial Internegative (4325); x-09/2004; 12iso
Process: DIY ECN-2
North Dakota
July 2023
I've booked Josie in for her Hyperthyroid treatment on the 29th June, 2016 at the Sydney University Vet Hospital. I've stopped her medication now, as she has to be off it for 2 weeks prior to her treatment. Her treatment will be a tablet of Radioactive Iodine. She will stay isolated in the hospital for 5-7 days while she's radioactive and they will feed her and change her bedding etc. Everything she comes into contact with in that week in hospital is destroyed. They know when she can come home when she stops giving off high levels of radiation.
I've raised just over half her costs, thanks to everyone who has supported her treatment, which is enough for the deposit when I admit her. If anyone would like to contribute to her costs through paypal, for when I have to bring her home. www.facebook.com/helpcurejosie/
On Thursday 19th May, Josie and I are waiting for our turn to see the vet. She had dental surgery. I decided to do her teeth before I give her the Radioactive Iodine treatment to make sure her teeth do not become a problem. The money from her donation funds for her treatment was not used for this. I doubt I'll be able to raise the money for her dental, and it had to be done. I swore I'd never take a loan to pay for vet fees, but things have been awful with the problems with the cats being poisoned, and the costs have blown out. I believe things will work out in the end, I'm just sure things will work out. I've never been one to borrow money.
I've been quite sick, gastro problems for about 3 days. Today, Saturday, I have improved a lot, but I still have to take it easy.