Meet Rhy. Soon to be Rolling on Wheels!

Posted by Barbara Techel
Meet Rhy. Soon to be Rolling on Wheels!
Rhy

Seems Rhy is tired of being measured and just wants to get things over with so her new wheels can be built! What a great shot her owner caught of her yawning, don’t you think? It wasn’t even planned!

But soon enough, she will indeed be rolling. The Frankie Wheelchair Fund is happy to provide the funds for a “front wheel” drive cart for this pretty, little girl. Rhy makes the 56th dog we’ve helped become mobile.

She has a deformed front leg and with her advancing age, she simply can’t get around anymore or go for walks, which she loves.

But soon enough, this pretty snowflake will be rolling down the sidewalk. Stay tuned!

Rhy’s wheelchair being custom-made by Eddie’s Wheels for Pets.

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Garden Awakening and Hope Dances

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Garden Awakening and Hope Dances

As I sit at my desk in my writing cottage the soft blue sky has just a few wispy clouds that slowly float on by. It’s a brisk one out there this morning in the lower 30s.  But there is a flurry of activity with clear indications that spring is truly on the way.

Little yellow finch seems to have found a small patch of open water in the frozen make shift bird bath. While Ms. Sparrow is more than likely keeping a close guard over new eggs laid, while at the same time curious about all the buzz outside.

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Next door, a landscape crew, decked out in winter headbands, gloves, and heavy jackets puts down fresh topsoil on the neighbors garden.

I’m dreaming of our own new landscaping that hopefully will begin too in the upcoming weeks. After living here for over 25 years and not care taking the gardens all that well, it’s time for a fresh start.

This time I’m hoping the garden bug will bite me a little harder and I’ll be better at the up keeping. Though as we planned our landscaping with the landscaper company in the bitter cold of winter, I did ask for it to be as maintenance free as a garden can be.

And so that is the view out my writing cottage this morning — a fresh start for all creatures, great and small. Hope dances outside my windows.

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A Double Blessing in the April Snow

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A Double Blessing in the April Snow

I was going to title this post “A Blessing in the April Snow” until I pulled this photo up on my computer I took this morning.

I was excited to see a cardinal at my feeder and so pretty he looks in the snow, even though I wish we weren’t having snow.

But he made me smile. And then I realized looking at the photo that I caught in the lens a bird in flight to the feeder. It looks as if the cardinal is saying, come on in and get some grub!

A double blessing on this snowy day in April!

And the bird action today is remarkable — which I guess is a triple blessing, I should add. Junco’s,  cardinals, woodpeckers, sparrows and yellow finches are busy flitting about on our deck and on the feeders.

No doubt filling up to stay warm for this brief return of winter to Wisconsin in spring.

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