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Hello all, I have come to the conclusion that I need to take my little dog to the vet, she is a long haired Chihuahua, her name is Pekoe. She is 9 years old, she has been my companion and baby for a long time. She is a very healthy dog with the exception of her teeth, typical of Chihuahuas, she has developed teeth problems, they need to be cleaned, she has several loose teeth that will have to be pulled, and she has an infection in her mouth.

I am asking, for those of you who wish to help (and if you don’t want to or can’t that’s OK too) for donations to offset the vet bill, I called the vet and found out it would cost between $300 and $400 to get this taken care of, it may be higher than that because she is not current on her shots and they will want to do that too (though I would prefer NOT to do that part, I think the law forces us to get rabies shots for our dogs). Anyhoo, if you wish to help, please consider donating, any amount is OK, 100% of all donated funds will go toward this bill (with the exception of what PayPal takes for their fees).

I hope to be able to take her to the vet on Monday Aug 11.

Wretha

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OK, the poll ended about which look for the blog, you collectively liked best, only 9 people answered, and it ran pretty close, at least until the very end, it ended up being 6 like the original look, 3 like the new look. I liked both looks, so I decided to combine the two, it still has the same layout and I kept most of the desert colors. The header, that is from the new look featuring a changing sky depending on the time of day you read this blog. If you want to check out all the different sky colors, then you will need to change your computer clock, here are the times when it changes:

• 6 am
• 9 am
• 12 pm
• 3 pm
• 6 pm
• 8 pm
• 10 pm
• 12 am

I noticed it does load up a bit slower so I removed a few things on the sidebar, I also shortened the page by only having fewer messages show up on the front page (I had it set up to show the last 500 messages), that has helped, I will continue to work speeding things up.

For now, I hope you enjoy this look, now I can focus more on posting messages and less on overhauling the blog. ;)

For what it’s worth, this blog does look better in Firefox than Internet Explorer, don’t know why but IE doesn’t show rounded corners (when they are made using code (CSS) instead of images), if you are an avid IE user and do not want to use Firefox, that’s OK too, the blog is still 100% readable in IE, it’s purely an aesthetic thing.

Let me know what you think.

Wretha

4 Comments

Anonymous said…

Wretha,
Much better! I was getting kicked off before. I don’t know if it was the dial-up or what? I’m not super computer savy, but I should work on mine too. I’ve noticed other folks are jazzing up their blogs as well. I’m enjoying watching ya’ll’s progress on the homestead. Keep up the good job!

Kim
rubysbigadventure.blogspot.com

July 24, 2008 9:07 AM

Wretha said…

Hi Kim, thanks for your response! So can I assume that it is working for you now and wasn’t before?

Wretha

July 24, 2008 10:16 AM

Mayberry said…

Cool! I like it. Any property for sale nearby? Heh heh …..

July 24, 2008 8:38 PM

Wretha said…

Mayberry
Hmmm, land, uhhhh, ahhhh, what was the question again??? LOL Email me privately if you are serious.

Wretha

July 24, 2008 9:02 PM

Ok, another “improvement” I just made on the blog, I went back and added each and every comment made to the main page, in other words, you do not need to click on the comments link to READ the comments, they are all right there, well more or less, it is not automatic, I have to manually go in and edit the message and add the comment to the main message, so if you leave a comment, it will appear (on the main page) as soon as I copy it over.

You will still need to actually click on “comments” to

LEAVE A COMMENT

, hmmm, leave comments, can you tell that I LIKE comments??? LOL

Another thing, I added some fun stuff, check out the post below

Hair, Shrimp & Crab Legs

I will be adding more like this, in small quantities, to make the messages look better, more like reading a magazine, that particular effect is called “pull quotes”, I got the inspiration (and the code) from this site: https://www.mandarindesign.com/troops.html#magazinelayout

If you want to add this to your blog, you will need to do it through https://draft.blogger.com
it will give you the choice to make that your default Dashboard, I would recommend not doing it, but bookmark the draft blogger page, that way you can use both, use the regular one for the majority of your editing and posting, and use the draft.blogger one for editing specialized things like this.

Wretha

2 Comments

Kenneth H. said…

I think I found this blog through ‘mayberry’s Keep It Simple Survival! blog’. Anyways, I’m glad to have come across this blog. The posts are different with talk of html, css, hair and shrimp lol

Keep sane! Thanks!!!

July 22, 2008 1:11 PM

Wretha said…

Thanks Kenneth! I suppose my blog is a bit eclectic, but then again, so am I… :) Glad you enjoy it.

Wretha

July 22, 2008 2:42 PM

A couple of days ago, something odd happened, usually the whitetail deer are very skittish around people, if they hear, see or smell you, their tail goes up and they bound away. I was up on the west deck and I noticed a whitetail standing on the ground, it looked up at me but didn’t run away. I slowly went into the house and got some crackers, I came back out, expecting the deer to run away at each movement and sound I made. Instead of running off, the deer stayed put, I threw a cracker down at its feet, I expected it to run away, but it started munching down on the cracker. A few minutes later, another whitetail appeared, I threw more crackers and they happily munched away.

A short time later, some mule deer walked up, I didn’t know what either group would do, they seemed sort of OK with each other, a little skittish but no one ran away, at least not at first, I threw more crackers down and each group munched on them, eventually the bigger mulies scared the more dainty whitetails away, but not too far, they stayed around to finish off their snack.

This is the first time I saw both whitetail and mule deer together in such close quarters, they usually stick to their own, though there is some interbreeding going on, occasionally you will see a herd of mulies running around and one of them will have smaller than normal ears, I haven’t seen as many whitetails so I don’t know if the breeding goes the other way as well, though I’m sure it can and probably does.

It was interesting to see the two of them together, that gave me the opportunity to see the differences between them. Their coloring is a bit different, the whitetails have a reddish coat, the mulies have more buff coloring. The tails are different, the whitetails have, well, fluffy white tails, the top is the normal coat color, the underside is fluffy white, the mulies have a less fluffy tail, and it’s mostly black. They are about the same size height wise, the mulies are bulkier, they have bigger heads and much bigger ears, their necks are a bit bigger. The whitetails are much more delecate, they have a slender head, much smaller ears and a more slender neck. Both have just about the same leg size (length and width), the feet/hooves looked similar, and the body size is about the same, if there is any difference there, then the mulies would have a bit more bulk. The mulies seem to be the more aggressive of the two, of course this could be because the mulies were young males, had they all been females, it might have been different.

Wretha

4 Comments

Lisa said…

I would love it if the deer would stick

The monsoon season has finally started, we get some rain once or twice a day, I haven’t had to water my garden in about 4 days (woo hoo!). Today has been mostly cloudy, but it hasn’t rained yet. The only drawback to the rainy days is we don’t get as much solar power… it means we have to really watch how much electricity we use, can’t run the computer all day, or run the refrigerator.

The hottest part of the summer has passed, the nights are cooling down, the days are still fairly warm/hot, but once the sun starts going down, I start looking for something to cover my arms, this morning it got down to 59 degrees F, I’m even starting to think about firewood for this winter, only have a couple of months of warm days & nights.

The garden is doing pretty well, but there has been some insect eating some of my plants, chewing the stems and killing the leaves, I’m pretty sure it’s cut worms. I know about using collars and such, I am looking for BT, that has always worked good for me in the past. I ordered some diatomaceous earth and a duster to apply it. I also ordered a hose end sprayer, I’m going to use an organic mix to spray for fertilizer.

We have been seeing lightening bugs, just a few at a time, but more and more each night. I’ve been told that before the summer is over, it will look like Christmas trees all lit up, I can’t wait to see that. :)

I have been cleaning a lady’s house out here, it’s much more fun cleaning someone else’s house for some reason. She thinks my house must be super clean because I do such a good job on hers… I hope she never sees my house! Living in a small, barely 2 room cabin/house, yeah, it’s clean, NOT! Hehehe, I tried to tell her that, but she doesn’t believe me… oh well.

This lady wants to sell her house and she wanted me to detail clean it, from the ceiling fans to the corners of the rooms, it’s been quite interesting… she is an artist and a very nice lady. The first day I worked over there, about 3 hours in, she asked me if I wanted to go into town, I said sure, we went to the bigger town nearby, then she took me to another town where I hadn’t been yet, we went shopping and I took advantage of being in town to stock up on foods and goods, I don’t think she was expecting me to get as much as I did, but I went as fast as I could, and she had plenty of room in her vehicle, it was quite the fun day. She has offered to take me into town any time …