The daily life in 'the tropics', the high desert of the southwest and back to 'the tropics' with the hounds and a dog
October 26, 2024
Ava Chases Squirrels
October 24, 2024
I'm Going To Foster The Bloodhound
So this morning the lady that a bloodhound friend gave me her name yesterday, asked about me fostering the hound and she would make all the arrangements to transport her to me at no cost to me or the owner. This is what she does, bloodhound transport. She is into bloodhound SAR and has 4 bloodhounds at her house since 2014 along with a network of people to transport bloodhounds.
I presented the offer to Red's owner, not knowing what she would say. But she wants Red out of the outside elements at night as much as I do. Plus Red is alone all day with people working 9-5:30pm. Ava would keep her busy and Watson would have another large hound to play with like he did with Samson.
She agreed with the arrangement and we agreed too that if I decided to have her adopted to someplace different I would contact her first to see if her situation had changed to take her back ... but we also agreed that if I find out I can handle five in the crew and two bloodhounds and decide to keep her, that she is mine for good.
So as of 9am local time, pieces of the puzzle are being put together to have Red transported to my house.
Never a dull moment in "the tropics" of Southern Indiana ... 😂😂😂😂
October 23, 2024
Can Anyone Rescue This Beautiful Bloodhound ???
October 16, 2024
Watson & Ava Play Fetch
Doesn't that look like a large vase of Hydrangeas? My neighbor told me I could make some money with those because people dry them out. I am not sure if the garbage man will take them 7:26am lifted and dumped into their trash truck like that since they are bigger than the trash can and the lid is not closed. I guess I will find out early in the morning. If he doesn't I will go to Plan B and cut them shorter and then jam them down into the trash can for next weeks pickup.
October 11, 2024
A Busy Day With No Spare Time
Blog Sidebar & NC Hurricane Survival
Just a short post this morning to show we still have a pulse and I have made some changes to my blog sidebar, plus adding more posts to fill in the empty space that was created with the long list of "blog topics". I will go through and decrease that list to something more readable.
This was Walter a year ago, so you can see not much has changed the past year as far as morning routines. I will post later today with hounds and dogs photos but just wanted to get this post out this morning as an update.
October 07, 2024
Hounds Fight !!!
It started out as a calm game of fetch between Watson and Ava. Henry laid on the patio and watch them run toward the ball I was throwing across the yard. I decided toward the end to change things up and threw the ball higher so it would bounce on the patio. It went high but too short and barely hit the patio, bouncing into the yard. It was close enough that Henry decided he wanted the ball ... they stopped fighting when I yelled, but by the sound it was going to get very ugly very fast.
October 06, 2024
Amazing Reactions To Last Post
I put this palm in a larger pot today, watered it really good and let it spend the day outside on the patio. After all that I realized after seeing the downloaded photo I didn't get it low enough in the pot to where that based is covered in dirt. I like you, see roots. The roots have plenty of room to grow though, so maybe next spring or summer I will repot it again. You can tell by that photo, most likely this is a pretty boring blog post.
October 05, 2024
September 29, 2024
Water Company Excitement
With the predicted Hurricane surge hitting us this weekend, starting Friday ... I did all the yard work on Thursday. Besides mowing and trimming around the inside and outside of the fence along with the driveway and landscape edging ... I took the weedeater and buried it in the ditch that had formed where the Bradford Pear tree use to be. After they cut the tree down 3 years ago, they ground the stump but fill the hole back up with wood sawdust. I think covered it with topsoil and new grass seed.
September 25, 2024
No More Hounds Or Dogs !!
September 24, 2024
I'm A Transport Volunteer
You may have heard me lately complaining a little about about the holes that Ava has been digging. When I saw her first hole I thought it was a sign of a bored puppy but after reading more about the German Shepherd breed, it's in their DNA ... it's what they do. So today I see I have a Facebook message from my cousin, the one that kinda talked me into getting Ava so she would be in a good home.
This picture is in the Facebook message with a note ... "Ava's sister". Her sister looks a little bigger also.
September 23, 2024
A Lot Of Yard Activity
Ava and I only saw one rabbit today but early Sunday morning I counted four of them, sitting motionless in that area of my neighbors yard. Ava will sprint to the fence and bark once she sees one but it's strange that there was no response from Henry and Watson about what was in the neighborhood.
Basset Hounds are bred to hunt rabbits. He sat on the patio and started at the rabbit but nothing else.
September 21, 2024
September 20, 2024
A Few Changes
I was going to talk about a few changes since my last post and right off the bat trying to start this post, some of those changes prevented me from loading photos to this blog using Safari but works when I tried Firefox as a browser. Also the photos did not load in the order I wanted them too so at least fore these first three photos I will change my thoughts on what I was going to talk about into the order of the photos.
September 16, 2024
Blog Contact Address Change
Sometime back I was noticing some strange traffic on my blog that Blogger furnishes me. A certain country was blasting my blog with traffic. I just figured it was normal website indexing by bots and I still feel that is the reason for the majority of the traffic. It was just unbelievable numbers in page views/visits.
Not soon after I noticed this increase in blog traffic, my Apple Mail filters for junk mail was being overwhelmed with junk mail sent to the blog email address on my blog contacts page.
That email address had been used since October 2011 when I set up this blog. Normal mail from people that have that address would show up in my inbox. I have all gmail forwarded to my Apple Mail on my computer and other devices.
I went through the inbox of bhounds3 on gmail this morning to find the few people that use that email to communicate with me. Those people need to change my email address in their contacts to ---
houndsdogs4 at gmail dot com
I have always spelled out the gmail address on the contacts page because it was suppose to filter spam mail and keep the email address from being hacked. That may or may not have worked, since I do use that email address for different companies that I sign up for or different apps that need an email address.
I basically used it over the years for times "they" needed an address and I thought it might result in tons of spam or junk emails.
I do know the new address works for my blog as an administrator, as Blogger calls it. Feel free to send a test email to the new address to make sure you have it typed correctly in your contacts.
Once I do all the email changes where this bhounds3 was used I will delete the account never to be used again or to receive any more emails. The number of spam emails is just unbelievable also.
September 15, 2024
Rain Finally Comes
September 10, 2024
Ava Had A Great Day Today
This is my second post today.
It got up to 87° today but it never felt that hot, so the windows stayed open all day and Henry kicked back most of the afternoon. He didn't even feel like getting involved with the game of fetch later but he was very happy to see Watson ... story below.
Two Post Day ???
As nice as this day is so far and it's not even noon, combined with taking a lot of photos this morning while monitoring the actions of Ava keeping her total freedom in he backyard, I decided to do a blog post early. I wanted to update what has happened so far this morning in comparison to what I wrote about yesterday. So this may be the first to two blog posts today.
September 09, 2024
I Have A Digger
September 08, 2024
Hounds And Dogs Enjoy Football
September 05, 2024
Apple Watch SOS System Works
The upper back of my head made that hole. I don't why I fell and do not even remember falling. I got all of that information from my Apple Watch and the back of my head. All I remember is going to bed around 9pm and the next thing I know I am standing in my bedroom by that wall, holding my Apple Watch in my hand and using it as a phone as I talked to my nephew. He had called asking if I was okay.
September 03, 2024
Damaged Palm Repotted
When things are quiet early in the morning and no hounds or dogs are within eyesight sleeping, then something is up. I get up from my desk, quietly walking to the patio to see what is up. Just as I pick up the Nikon, I see these two coming in with looks of "we've been busy". I glance around the room quickly and see nothing out of place. At least the tv is still up on the fireplace so that is good. LOL
September 02, 2024
September 01, 2024
College Football Saturday & Rambling
August 29, 2024
Shelter Dogs Euthanized
I stepped outside and stood on the patio this morning around 7:30am. I had been up for a little over an hour and it was already hot enough to feel it. That is the only way I could describe it. My friend and I were heading out for a short easy pace bike ride by 9am. The ride went fine but I didn't feel much breeze and the air created by riding a bike, was hot air.
August 25, 2024
A Bike Ride Before The Heat
August 24, 2024
Burned Some Weeds Today
It is back to being hot today, 92° currently at 2:19pm. You will see later what the other three are doing along with Ava. She is blocking some of that AC air that comes out of that vent. Last Thursday I think it was, I bought the Lincoln Electronic Inferno Weed Burner. The instructions were a few paragraphs of nothing so consequently I didn't operate that nor the propane bottle correctly.
August 23, 2024
I May Ruffle Feathers Today
I am talking off topic today. Long and Rambling Nothing about yard work where we need rain badly and nothing in the forecast for weeks. Nothing about hounds or dogs besides Ava is growing and Henry's growth on his tail is not growing. We go to the vet on Monday to get a second opinion. What I may talk about may ruffle feathers and my policy always has been when I write that way ... I don't care.
August 18, 2024
Today Was Deletion Day
It's been an interesting afternoon I guess. Weeks of thinking came to a decision point and things started getting deleted. Because of doing that, a LOT of BS should move out of my life. There is a point in time you just get tired of all the BS and it's time to clean out things.
August 11, 2024
History Was Made Today
August 09, 2024
Perfect Weather Day
August 08, 2024
Is It A Cyst or Tumor?
August 07, 2024
15° Makes A HUGE Difference
Can you believe I cut this hydrangea back to the ground every fall? I was told by a landscaping company that looked at what I wanted done when I moved in May 2021, the Hydrangea root system spreads so much that if they were to pull them out of the ground, my whole side yard might be destroyed. So I cut them back every fall and have kept them.
August 06, 2024
Too Hot To Blog
Or they go outside just long enough to do what they need to do and run back to the open patio door as I stand there.
I see starting tomorrow we are going back to normal highs and lows in temperatures, about a 10° difference, or cooler ... so hopefully a lot of photos and maybe some rambling starting tomorrow..
It "feels like" 96° at 6:38pm CT here in "the tropics" of Southern Indiana.
Could be my all-time record for the shortest post ever.
August 04, 2024
Lazy Days
Days after the tree was cut up and the backyard was cleaned up with most of the tree limbs put back on the berm, it couldn't stop raining. It would be hot and sunny, small if any chance of rain then unexpectedly it would be a downpour. Luckily on Thursday I was able to get the lawn mowed. For some reason I have now fallen back into being non-motivated. Nothing I try seems to interest me for long.
August 01, 2024
Another Storm
July 31, 2024
Another Storm More Damage
July 28, 2024
Ava Gets A New Collar
With so many dogs and hounds over the years from puppy to adult I have a lot of collars to choose from. Today I found a brand new collar in my collection because Henry kept losing it when he was wrestling with Walter and Watson a couple of years ago. Walter would pull it off of him. The choker collar on Ava I had used for 10 days was the perfect length as the one she came with would not stay at the correct length. As you can see, she has a lot of room to grow into this one. Walter had to jump in the crate to check out the collar but my camera missed him doing that.
July 26, 2024
Ava Recovered & Weeds Are Gone
July 24, 2024
A Lot Done These Past Two Days
July 22, 2024
A Long Day Watching TV
I'm old. I've seen a lot, experienced some. Until today I had never ever watched a Congressional Hearing from start to finish, even a video of it later. So by the time I write this on Monday, the day is almost over but still time to hopefully get some outdoor photos. That doesn't mean it was a boring or quiet day ... oh no!!
July 21, 2024
Ava Continues To Improve
July 20, 2024
Ava Needs A Med To Calm Down
July 19, 2024
An Interesting Day As Ava Heals
July 18, 2024
Ava Recovering From Being Spayed
July 17, 2024
AT&T Fiber Internt Plot Changes
It was a long day today and as I sit here at 4:09pm CST, it is hard to believe it basically is over ... but the fun has just begun for the next 10 to 14 days. I have SO MUCH to write tonight that I didn't want to put it off and I had time since Ava is sleeping off her anesthesia from her spaying surgery this morning. I will start with her story since it is a lot more important than my AT&T internet story ... BUT ... you might want to stick around for that story because it ... is ... just ... unbelievable !!!!!
July 16, 2024
A Busy But Calm Day
July 15, 2024
A Totally Unbelievable Day!!!
Hello, we are speaking tonight from Spectrum Ultra Internet. Up to 500Mbps, $29.99 for 24 months, free wireless for 24 months and a $7 modem. Needless to say with taxes included my Internet and Phone have gone from $107 to $37 per month, locked in for 24 months. I know that I will be negotiating for the best deal before they raise those prices in 2026.
AT&T Will Not Stop
Around 9am Sunday I received this text from AT&T --- "Hi, it's AT&T again. We confirm that your appointment is now on Saturday 07/20. Our tech is scheduled to arrive between 4pm - 8pm. Add to calendar: link