This is our beautiful Navijo Globe Willow tree. We had two of these in the yard yet one blew down a few years ago. You can see peeking out of the right here the Maple tree that is sitting in its place. Slow growing stinkin tree.... anyways with the winds we have around here every other year we have to thin out our tree by the professionals. We do the trimming what we can from the bottom and keeping branches trimmed up. This was our week to do just that. You can see one of the boys gathering some of the branches we cut off already into a pile.
Ranger thought he would come and help. Yea..... his idea of help is tread through all the branches, bite them in half (which is actually helpful) and then....
Roll around in them and make noise. ha! He really does enjoy rolling around, biting the branches and running in a circle. We call these his mad minutes as they last about that long and are just hilarious. Ranger is doing great for those that have asked. His medication was lowered a bit to get him completely level and normal which worked. The odd thing is we have had some thunder and lighting storms lately and he is all freaked out by them. Now they never bothered him before and all of a sudden he is crazy with them. We finally had to let him up on our bed the other night just so we could get some sleep. He is not allowed on the beds or the furniture as you can imagine a queen bed with two adults and a 90 dog isn't that comfy. ha! But he finally calmed down and we got some sleep. I am going to try and read up to see why all of a sudden this would start to bother him, very odd.
Stamping is going to be pretty sparse for the next few weeks as canning season started. This year I am doing green beans, pears and stewed tomatoes. The one thing I don't like about canning is the picking, especially green beans! ugh. Talk about back breaking work this is it. The end result is worth it yet the work is manual labor at its peak. ha! Thanks for stopping in with me today. I hope you have an awesome day!
Ranger thought he would come and help. Yea..... his idea of help is tread through all the branches, bite them in half (which is actually helpful) and then....
Roll around in them and make noise. ha! He really does enjoy rolling around, biting the branches and running in a circle. We call these his mad minutes as they last about that long and are just hilarious. Ranger is doing great for those that have asked. His medication was lowered a bit to get him completely level and normal which worked. The odd thing is we have had some thunder and lighting storms lately and he is all freaked out by them. Now they never bothered him before and all of a sudden he is crazy with them. We finally had to let him up on our bed the other night just so we could get some sleep. He is not allowed on the beds or the furniture as you can imagine a queen bed with two adults and a 90 dog isn't that comfy. ha! But he finally calmed down and we got some sleep. I am going to try and read up to see why all of a sudden this would start to bother him, very odd.
Stamping is going to be pretty sparse for the next few weeks as canning season started. This year I am doing green beans, pears and stewed tomatoes. The one thing I don't like about canning is the picking, especially green beans! ugh. Talk about back breaking work this is it. The end result is worth it yet the work is manual labor at its peak. ha! Thanks for stopping in with me today. I hope you have an awesome day!
7 comments:
oh he is having fun, so pleased to see him looking so well, will have to take a photo of my horse for you soon
Hugs Kate xx
I'm glad to hear Ranger is doing better now. I was thinking to get him used to storm noises it may be worth trying to get hold of one of these sounds of nature CD's. I had a lovely Celtic music CD called "Celtic Soundscapes" which had the sound of bird song including crows, rain, thunder and the sound of a "burn" as they call it here in Scotland (maybe you'd say brook or very small spring/river, or running water. I was transsported to a lush green wooded area or forest in my minds eye.The thunder on this got my two dogs used to these noises when they were puppies. Even fireworks don't bother them now.I just checked Amazon has a copy for very little cost if you're interested. It has a stone celtic cross on the front cover. Sorry if this was a bit long.
Love how animals love life to the fullest :) Fun pictures and glad to see he is being himself :)
Well it's good to her that Ranger is doing better. You know my lab did the same thing about thunder. It never bothered her as a pup but all of a sudden several years later it was terrifying to her. She'll leave my yard and cross the street to my mom's in a trance of fear. She did it today during a bad storm. Mom offered her a treat (something she NEVER refuses) and she wouldn't even eat it. We have no idea was caused her thunder trauma.
I would say have fun canning, but i know it's a lot more work than fun. At least you'll have something good when it's over. :-) Hugs!
See he's doing much better... but it sounds like you've got your hands full with all that canning. Have fun.
Hugs
Debbie
Love the pictures, especially the one of Ranger rolling around in the tree trimmings!
LOVE watching your dog enjoy himself among the branches! Ah, if only something as simple as this made me half as happy! LOL
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