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I have opened a new blog, peggygurney.com. I have no idea why, lol. When I started it a couple of days ago, it was with the intention of using that one for my opinions, views, thoughts, and personal stuff, while using this one for what I originally intended, stuff about my son, and family.

Now, I have no clear cut direction, so we shall just go along and see what happens.

I hope you join me over there as well. Thanks!

My goodness it has been a little while since I’ve updated this blog. Sorry!

The last I posted here, I had just lost my little lady, IttyBit.  I was so sad and heartbroken. But since then, I’ve adopted another lovely lady from the Trumbull County Animal Rescue League. She’s a 4 yr old german shepherd/lab mix, named LadyBug. She is so sweet, affectionate, smart, and a quick learner!  I know that IttyBit would approve.

She’s also a real match for our Jack Russell Terrier, T-Bo. Although the first couple of days were touch ‘n’ go as far as them getting along, they’ve settled in and he’s got a new buddy to play with.  She’s much more active than IttyBit was, and T-Bo is tired when they come in from the backyard.  I am so proud of how well they’re doing.

I don’t have any pics of her yet, because every time I pick up the camera, she has to come sniff it. Nosey woman.    I’ll get some taken and posted up soon.

I’m taking my dog, IttyBit, to the vet today, and I’m sure he’s going to recommend putting her to sleep. She’s been such a good little girl, loving, fun, affectionate, stubborn… and my friend.

When I’ve needed to talk, she listens, without talking back.
When I’ve needed to laugh, or cry, or hugs someone (or something), she’s been there.
She sleeps with me every night.
She follows me around everywhere.
She’s at the door both when I leave and when I come home.
She loves to play with me (until she got too sick to play).
She never fails to say Thank You when I give her a treat (y’know, the lick of gratitude).

She’s been with me for 7 years, she’s almost 12 now. She has mammary tumors, can’t hold herself long enough for me to get her outside, so has frequent “accidents” in the house, can’t go up/down the stairs anymore because her back legs give out from under her. And now she hasn’t eaten in 4 days.

I think it’s time.  

She has been a faithful, loving little friend.   I sure will miss my little girl.   

It seems Youngstown, Ohio experienced an earthquake this morning just before 7 am.

According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources -

Ohio Department of Natural Resources officials have confirmed a 2.6-magnitude earthquake and the first tremor that’s ever been recorded in the immediate Youngstown area.

Read the story –>> 2.6-Magnitude Earthquake Confirmed in Youngstown

heh, I thought it was thunder that woke me up.  :lipzip:

or NOT!

WOW we’ve been getting slammed with the snow this winter.  As of the 13th of December, we’d already broken all snow record totals for the entire month!   I don’t mind it much tho, as long as I’m at home with my mug of hot chocolate. 

However, I do wish that my son liked to get out and play in the snow. It would be so much fun to get out there and throw snowballs, or build a snowman, or make a snow angel.  But alas, he’s not an outdoors kinda kid, doesn’t like to play outside in any season, snowy season being no different.

I have spent the past week painting my dog, Mr. Bowjingles.  It was an enjoyable experience for us both.   Now he’s outside where he belongs.  Here are a couple of pics of him. Isn’t he handsome?!?!?

Well we had a little bit of a scare over the past few days.  The servers at my hosting company crashed and it looked like I had lost this blog forever.    The backups were trashed as well. And dummy me had made backups but saved them to the server!  ugh.

Then they retrieved a backup from back in September. Well ok, I could handle that, and they put it up for me.

THEN the miraculouos happened!  After working on the servers all day yesterday, they retrieved a recent backup, intact!  Nothing is missing at all! So my site is back and I’m raring to go. 

Be looking for new posts here. PLUS I’ll be starting a new community forum for parents called “We ♥ Our Kids!”.  That’ll be coming in January, and I hope to see you there. 

I can’t say it any better than this………

Well, technically it is still summer, but my son’s weeks at Belmont Pine’s summer program went by incredibly quickly. He’s off now for almost three weeks (YIKES!), and starts school Sept. 7th.

I looked at the date of my last post and realized I haven’t added anything since June. I’m so bad!

I’ve been busy busy busy, but will be writing more soon!

This past February 22, we adopted a pooch from the Trumbull County Animal Rescue League here in Ohio.  His name is TBo, he was 7 mos old at adoption, and we just celebrated his first birthday a couple of weeks ago.

TBo is a Jack Russell terrier, a sweetheart, and a stubborn canine catastrophe!  I say that with the utmost love, of course, lol.  He wasn’t housebroken when we adopted him, and not knowing how stubborn Jack Russell’s are, I didn’t think there’d be a problem training him. WOW was I wrong. BUT I persevere!

I’ve attached a couple of pics of him, and of our other dog, IttyBit, who’s a female 11-yr-old shihtzu mix.