Friday, April 30, 2010

House guest

Ginger (2nd from left) is visiting for awhile in SWH. She will eventually retire here after she is done in her breeding program. We were holding a stuffed animal to get every one's attention. You can tell Ginger and Timber are the stuffed toy girlz.

4 generations



Trip to Bradford and the girlz original home. 4 generation picture Lily (black and Rissa's grand dau), Lily's six puppies in the basket, Casey (Rissa's dau in the back) Rory (Rissa's sister) and the Rissa on the right. Was hard to get a half decent shot of all the subjects and this one was the best of all of them. The wind kept most of the black flies away during this photo shoot!!

Thursday, April 29, 2010

School dayz

Timber resumed her school READ today. 6 regular kids plus one. Librarian not there today so we fetched the kids ourselves.

Friday, April 23, 2010

Friday 4/23


Pet therapy day. Took all 3 girlz and shared the visits. Rissa went to MDIH and saw many folks. We were there almost 2 hours. Took Jillian in to Safe Harbor (memory unit) saw a couple new folks that had moved in... One new resident, the activities woman brought to see, - smiled... "she hasn't smiled since she has been here" Loved Jill "but I don't think they will let me keep her here" she says to me. Jill just laid against her leg and she petted her soft ears. I switched dogs and took Timber to Pleasant Cove(assisted living) - we only got to visit one woman but, it was a timely visit - she had just been told her younger brother had died... "Oh, you are just what I need today" as she hugged and snuggled Timber. Since Timber only got to visit one woman - I took her to Safe harbor on the way out - I went back to the new woman that loved Jill - she says to me "I liked the one you had here yesterday" - she must have had a yellow or light colored dog in her life... she had no reaction to Timber at all. So, sometimes we make visits and it seems not to make much difference but, today all 3 dogs made a difference... Rissa snuggled in bed with a lonely woman in the hospital, Jillian brought joy to a woman adjusting to her new living space and Timber provided a small bit of comfort to a grieving woman.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Wednesday 4/14


Had to cancel pet therapy with Rissa as she had a vet appointment for a lump in her "arm pit" - aspirated cells - just fat!! Not lymphoma or cancer! She will more than likely have it removed sometime because of the placement - as it grows it can impede her mobility or press on nerves or lymph nodes. Timber had READer dog in Somesville Library this afternoon - 2 children got books - the 2 Magic Tree House books I got for Jack - he has :( so "Timber" will have to do some more shopping for Jack's book. Elizabeth got a book today too (pictured) and it was black and white day at school - how appropriate with the black and white READer dogs!

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Dog Scout meeting 4/11

Pier and I did a letter boxing chat... history of, how to, safety, etiquette, compass reading and a little compass course to test newly acquired skills ( dog cookies as the prize at the end) - small crowd. I brought each girl in one at a time - since I had to speak - to much with all 3 at once.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Dog Scouts visit 5th graders




The Dog Scouts were asked to visit the Bar Harbor schools 5th grade class. They participated in the Island Dog creative writing contest and wanted to meet the dog scouts. 5 owners and 7 dogs were able to make the informal chat with the 5th graders. Rissa got her share of love as all the dogs did. A very polite and well mannered class of 10/11 year olds I must say.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

April 3rd


The girls had a fun hike this morning with some friends. We walked in to the reservoir and back. The girls got in their first swim of 2010. Rissa was the first in and spotted a pair of ducks and was almost to them when they flew. Deb/Pilot and Pier/Bri and Grace. Photo blurry but... you get the idea. Can you tell Deb had cookies?? :)

April 2nd

Rissa visited Birch Bay Village today. She loves going there. We met and have some new people to see there!

Thursday, April 1, 2010

April 1st!

Timber to Tremont for school reading. Had 2 substitutes today. Timber won't see her kids now for 1 month. I am working next Thursday so, no school. The next week Rissa will do group reading and then school vacation. Tomorrow Rissa visits BBV - I've had to cancel there a few times due to work so it will be nice to see those folks altho... a few have passed on... about 4-5 of our regulars died over the past 6 weeks.

Back blog March 29th

Rissa visited several patients at staff at MDIH. She's so cute wagging down the halls greeting anyone who wants to see her... She hung out after visiting with me for a few hours while I did some paperwork. Easy dog to take and hang.

Back blog March 25

Timber REAder dog at Tremont. Andrew earned his book today :)!

Back blog March 24

Timber READer dog at Somesville library. Lydia earned her pawtographed book!