Some pictures to end the week

Here are some pictures to end off the week.  The 1st 2 are of a deer that was by my mother in law’s house.  It’s beside the 2nd oak tree.  The pictures were taken at about 200-300 feet from where I was standing.

She was looking right at me.

Here, she’s starting to leave.  She didn’t like the sound of the camera or maybe it was me standing there looking at her.

The next 2 pictures are of Chance.  We’ve got to have some Chance pics in every blog!!!  We had bought her her own blanket, so that she can bury her nose in it when she sleeps.  She really enjoys doing that!

Here, she’s more interested in checking out her nails.

Here she is, just relaxing all nice & cozy warm under her new blanket.  So comfy….

That’s all for this week.  Enjoy the pictures & have a good weekend.  Hopefully, the weather will be nice. 

Some outside pics

I took a few pictures the other day & they looked rather neat, I think.  2 are from a sunset.  The sky is really pink.  The others are from a small tree that was on the north side of the garage.  Enjoy the pics & Happy Easter.

And of course, no blog would be complete without at least 1 new picture of Chance. 

I hope you’ve enjoyed these pictures.  Have a Happy Easter.

An Update on Chance and some new Pictures

Here’s an update on how Chance is doing.  So far, she’s lost only a couple of nails.  They’re still separating, though.  It just takes awhile for them to all fall off.  She’s still on antibiotics & will be for the next 2 weeks.  She usually has to take them for a total of 3 weeks.  She’s eating a bit more & is starting to play with her toys again.  She doesn’t play long, but at least she’s playing.  Just the other day, she took just about all of her toys out of her basket & played with each of them for a minute or so.  Just the other day, she wanted to dig in the sand in her kennel.

All in all, she’s doing a lot better.  Pretty soon, she’ll be back to her old self….playing, dancing, digging & even stealing stuff.  lol  Here are some new pictures that were taken of her.  Enjoy.

Relaxing on the couch.

Still on the couch, just with her head up.

She really didn't want me to take her picture.  She just wanted to sleep some more.  She was half asleep in a couple of the pictures.

That’s about all for now.  I’ll keep you posted, as Chance improves.

A computer upgrade and a Chance update

I did a computer upgrade last week.  Not a major upgrade, as in hardware, but a case & power supply upgrade.  I got a new case, a new dvd burner (I had both of mine die in 1 week), new power supply & a hard drive.  The hard drive wasn’t a planned upgrade, it was a necessary one. 

I got all the necessary stuff for my computer upgrade, minus the hard drive.  I went to my nephew’s because I needed his help for a few things.  We got everything switched over & then it was time to boot up.  Well….!  Nothing happened.  I took it back to the table, removed all my pci stuff i.e. video card, tv tuner card, modem, ram.  All that fun stuff & put everything back in again.  This time something did happen.  A noise & not a good one.  I shut off the pc as quickly as I could & removed the hard drive.  It got connected to another pc to check it out.  Found out that it died.  :(  Not good at all.  I lost everything on there!  At least, I thought I did. 

The next day, I was told to put it into my external hard drive case & connect it to my laptop.  I tried 1 program to see if I could get the partition back, but it didn’t work.  :(  I tried another program to try to get my data.  That worked!  yayyy!!!  Maybe now, I’ll learn to back up my important stuff up everyday.

So, this is what I had gotten for my pc case upgrade & how it looks now.

The case, power supply & new burner.

Still all in the protective bag. :D

The finished product.

A close up of the side.

In the dark room.  Look at all the pretty lights.

Again of the side panel.

Now, for an update on Chance.  Chance isn’t feeling very well right now.  We think that she’s starting an infection, due to her auto immune.  Her nails are starting to separate again & her toes are sore.  She doesn’t want to play, she’s not eating much & she’s sleeping more than usual.  We’ll be going to her vets to get her some anti-biotics to make her feel better.  Hopefully, we caught the infection early enough, so that it doesn’t take her a long time to bounce back.  Here are a few newer pics that were taken of her.

Relaxing on the couch.  She’s actually lying behind her daddy.

Curled up, sleeping.  Shhh…..let’s not wake her.

Close up of her sleeping.

Snuggling with daddy’s blanket.

Close up of her snuggling the blanket.

Well, that’s about all for now.  Thanks for visiting & I hope you enjoy the pictures.  Have a good weekend.

New video of Chance

Since there’s not much going on here, except for freezing rain & snow, I decided to take a new video of Chance.  This time, she’s in her kennel running around in the snow.  Enjoy.

Taz’s Birthday

Today, February 27, 2009 would have been Taz’s 15th birthday.  It’s coming up to a year since he’s been gone, so this blog is dedicated to his birthday.  Here are some pics of him from when he was little to his very last birthday pic.

Taz at 8 weeks old

Taz used to like lying on his daddy’s back. lol

Here is Taz being silly.

This is the very 1st time that Taz saw snow.

Here he is, looking out the window.

Sharing 2 chairs with daddy.

Sharing cake batter, with LadyBear.

One of the last pics he had with his LadyBear.

Just relaxing on the floor.

On the bed, one of his most favourite places to sleep.

Enjoying the warmth of outside, in the shade.

This was the very last pic that was ever taken of him.

This was his 14th birthday pic from last year.

He’s crossed the Rainbow Bridge now.

Happy Birthday, our dear Taz.

One of those days…

Have you ever had one of those days when everything you do or touch goes wrong?  Well that’s me this week.

On Monday, I had this thing for dropping stuff.  It didn’t matter what it was, I’d drop it.  I did get over that when the next thing happened.  I was burning a disc, when the program that I was using aborted the burning process.  No big deal, I thought to myself.  The disk must be bad.  I put a different one into the drive & the strangest thing happened.  It didn’t load the blank disk at all!  I tried to open the drive, but it didn’t want to even open.  So, I took a paperclip & pushed it into the little hole.  Well….what a sound it made!  I had to pull the drawer open to get the disk out.  It now does not work at all.  I’m thinking that the aborted burning process was the start of the drive dying.

On Tuesday, things didn’t get much better.  Chance had puked up some water.  This happens from time to time because she swallows too much air when she drinks.  Not a big deal.  I went into the room where we store the extra paper towels to get a new roll.  On the way out, I tripped onto the step!  In 16 years, I’ve never done that.  Well, I ended up stepping really hard with my right leg.  OUCH!!!  I had hurt my bad knee, again.  I could barely walk for the rest of the day.  I even ended up going to bed early because it was so sore.  Oh yeah, I was still spilling stuff.  I spilt some tea on my desk before I went to bed.

This morning my knee is still sore, but not quite as bad.  I had put a tensor on it overnight & for the morning.  I’m still limping quite a bit & if I’m not careful, it sort of twists & gets really owie.  I’m hoping that within a few days, it’ll feel better.  I’m still spilling, as of this morning.

To make the day/week better, here are a few new pics of Chance.  They’re always good to cheer up anybody.  Enjoy and thanks for listening to my bad week, so far.