After the vivid memories of yesterday, we thought ya all would appreciate a more calming message taday. If you have never seen their videos, visit them at http://www.makeadifference.com/
'N so ya know that we are all still doin' fine....here we are....all 3 of us lookin' mighty perky after our ordeal with the porcupine. Toby 'n me still have some quills comin' out but we're feelin' pretty good right now. Me, I never like ta pose fer the camera....Gram always has a time gettin' me on film.... Mom too....she sees that thing and wants ta take off..... We bid everyone a good day and hope that your weekend is stress free.
Remember this Sunday is Butler Doggie Fun Day.We'll be there fer the earthdog trials with our rats and earthdog tunnels. We hope we get ta meet some of ya there......cause we're gonna have fun, fun, fun !!!! This is Dewey Dewster reportin' on us and peace.......
Some of you may be reading this from other parts of the world.....others are joining us from the great country we call home and remembering....I think everyone can remember that day seven years ago when tears were shed around the world.... ..you cried as we cried.......
Today is a day to remember.....remember the day we were attacked on our own soil with our own airplanes....when brave Americans who tried to rescue others became victims themselves......when a group of Americans in a plane over Shanksville, Pa. refused to just sit in their seats and die without trying to save themselves and others. "Let's Roll !!!" Let us never forget that day on September 11, 2001 when we were glued to our TV sets....tears streaming down our faces in disbelief as we watch the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City burn......and as we saw the Pentagon in flames in Washington D.C. .........that day will live in our minds forever.......
"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."
They wanted to bring us to our knees that day......to break our spirit.....what they did was UNITE US.
O beautiful for spacious skies,
(New York City)
For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.
America! America! God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.
America! America!
May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness,
(The face of a terrorist) And ev'ry gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream (The Pentagon) That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.
(Shanksville, Pa.)
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
Let us never forget those who died that day when we see the USS New York, built with steel from the Twin Towers. America The Beautiful, the home of the Free and the Brave..........May God Bless them all......And let us NEVER FORGET.......
This is Dewey Dewster's Gram remembering yet again.........
We just wanted ta say that we are all OK and home now. But the computer we had with us crashed and so we couldn't update the blog. I Dewey, had to go back to the vet on Saturday cause I still was feelin' puny and Gram got some pain pills, antibiotics and a tranquilizer fer me. There are still quills comin' outta me but I don't want anyone ta pull 'em so they'll just have ta work out on their own. But in case Gram 'n Pap want ta ty that's what the tranquillizer is fer.
Now we get home 'n the wireless router isn't workin' well 'n so Gram has ta fool with it. Aw, the wonders of technology........
As soon as we can, we'll update everythin'......
But gee guys....thanks fer visitin' 'n thinkin' of us.....Pap says he's gonna try 'n trap 'n shoot any porcupines that come near our cottage.....they're nasty buggers fer sure.......
Oh, since we won't be updatin' fer maybe a few days, we just wanted ta post this lovely Get Well Card we got from Koobie....thanks a bunch Koobie....we love ya and yer poetry too !!!!! (click on it ta make it bigger)
We're still at the cottage and I wanna tell ya me 'n Toby aren't feelin' too well as of late.....well, Toby feels better 'n me right now but he wasn't doin' too good lately either.....
After the Barkday party 'n eatin' our yummy cake...we went up ta Uncle Donny's cottage ta chase around the crab apples like we love ta do in the evenings. Uncle Donny is at his cottage right now so we visited fer a spell with him....'n it was gettin' ta be pretty dark. Gram and Pap were standin' there talkin 'n talkin' when we shoulda been walkin' and walkin' and so we got bored and saw somethin' in the trees just off the driveway. We went in ta see what it was.....Can ya guess what it was??????
All defend themselves with hair modified into sharp spines. Porcupines' quills or spines take on various forms, depending on the species, but all are modified hairs coated with thick plates of keratin, and they are embedded in the skin musculature. Old World porcupines (Hystricidae) have quills embedded in clusters, whereas in New World porcupines (Erethizontidae) single quills are interspersed with bristles, underfur, and hair.
Porcupine quills are as sharp as needles, detach very easily, and will remain embedded in an attacker. Unlike needles, however, the quills of New World porcupines have microscopic, backwards-facing barbs on the tip that catch on the skin making them difficult and painful to extract, though they must be removed. Quills are about 75 millimetres (3.0 in) long and 2 millimetres (0.079 in) wide. If a quill becomes lodged in the tissues of a would-be attacker, the barbs act to pull the quill further into the tissues with the normal muscle movements of the attacker, moving up to several millimeters in a day. Predators have been known to die as a result of quill penetration and infection. Quills are still capable of penetrating animals and humans even after death. [1] Quills are released by contact with them or they may drop out when the porcupine shakes them, they are not sprayed out.
Know what??? We didn't want that porcupine ta be there and so we tried ta get it ta go away....actually we tried ta kill it and we did.......but if ya read about what that animal does ta defend itself.....you'll understand why then we looked like this.......
And Toby looked like this...... My Mom got inta the fight at the end and so she didn't have many quills in her and while Gram was inside makin' arrangements fer an emergency visit ta the vets, Uncle Donny and Pap pulled the quills outta her with a pair of pliers. Gram and Pap took us all ta the vet in Franklin, Pa which takes about 45 minutes ta get ta from the cottage. The Vet had ta put me 'n Toby under anesthetic ta get the quills outta us. Here's Toby after he was de-quilled and still groggy from the anesthetic..... we had ta get shots of antibiotic too ta make sure we didn't get any infection later.
I was under the anesthetic here and the Vet was pullin' out those horrible quills..... And then I got ta rest just like Toby while I was still groggy.......
Oh, woe is me.....woe is me......I felt terrible after that anesthetic wore off....feelin' right puny and just tired. I took ta my sick bed. Gram had ta feed me by holdin' my bowl fer me and my water too. She made popcorn last night and I wanted some but was just too sick ta get up. Gram brought me some.
I'm still am usin' my sick bed taday.....my one foot hurts and I don't want ta use it. So what's the good part about all this????? The PORCUPINE IS DEAD!!!!! We killed it!!!!!!
Gee, I sure hope I remember that good part until I feel good enough ta get up and play again....
This is Dewey Dewster reportin' from my sick bed outside Titusville, Pa............
We're at the cottage again fer a spell but we got ta celebrate a momentous occasion taday cause taday Toby is ONE YEAR OLD!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY BARKDAY TOBY !!!!!!!!
We always have a bit of a party cause we know that hoomans have parties 'n we feel we're just as special as they are and we're all still kids too......
See what Gram had fer our party????
Yummy people cupcakes....one fer each of us on our own Happy Barkday plate....except someone spelled it wrong....it's Happy Barkday....not Happy Birthday......
So let's all sing along.......
Happy Barkday to you.........
Happy Barkday to you.......
Happy Barkday, dear Toby.......
Happy Barkday to you !!!!!!
May you have many more.......
May you have many more...... Happy Barkday dear Toby...... Happy Barkday to you......... We swear that Toby didn't have anythin' ta drink but he was high on the icing.....
And while we can't play this on the stupid dialup we have here...hope the Beatles can get ya in the Barkday mood.....to bad they say it wrong....it's Barkday.....not birthday........
This is Dewey Dewster reportin' on Toby's HAPPY FIRST BARKDAY.........
Me, I never like ta pose fer the camera....Gram always has a time gettin' me on film....
Mom too....she sees that thing and wants ta take off.....
We bid everyone a good day and hope that your weekend is stress free.
