hehe - proof my dog IS truely blonde

Yesterday, the dog decided to spice the afternoon up a little. First off, Bentley is blonde - very blonde, and he lives with a cat, but no other cat is allowed to set foot on the property (well actually, they aren't even allowed on the neighbouring properties!) and yesterday, this little grey cat came over while I was hanging out some washing...never thought anything about it as I walked back up to the house (chatting to Carol on the phone!) and closed the sliding door (was open about 5cm - always like that, just to let some fresh air into the conservatory) and continued talking....few minutes later T'K comes screaming in, "where's Bentley, where's the dog??" Told her he'd be outside somewhere and to look for him - then it dawned on me that the gate was down (it's not attached yet, something I'm still waiting on *rolleyes*) and told her he'd be mooching around down the bottom...no sight of him, so I abruptly finish talking with Carol and T'K says he's gone over the bank (which is infact a cliff, which is covered in gorse and what-not) and goes down onto a fairly busy road, so I grab my keys and drive round the bottom, trying to catch him before he either takes off, or gets hit by a car (like I said, he's not that smart!). Get down the bottom and can see T'K at the top - we yell at each other and call the dog, she then catches sight of him - slightly above the middle - and he's going no where. So I stand calling him for a while (why I don't know, when I know he can't/won't hear!!). Eventually realise that there is nothing we can do, so tell T'K to go call the fire dept. She returns informing me that she'd locked the door - fabulous...says she'll go next door and phone, but I knew they weren't home, so I jumped back in the car and drove home - heard the dog go nuts hearing the car leave and he no longer had T'K in his sight!!
Tell her to go back out and just talk to the pooch, he was heaps calmer just seeing her! So I quickly phoned Craig and told him, and said, do I just call the fire dept...he said no, I'll come home - then I just started to panic - told him no, I needed help now! So I hung up and called - never, ever thought my first 111 call would be for a dog! LMAO! They arrived within about two minutes, and saw where he was and two of them began to climb up..they were so good, when the reached him, they talked to him first before grabbing him, then when he saw me down below, he looked a lot less stressed. Then, the fire chief states he needs a photo (wonder if he's a scrapper, hehe) and grabs their camera out of the truck and snaps a few shots (and yes, I am going to get copies!). So, that was our Friday arvo - poor dog didn't leave my side for hours!!
Oh, and then today - the morning paper, page three - in the IN BRIEF column - Dog Rescued (oh shame!)
it says
A firefighter scrambled about 9m to 12m up a cliff to rescue a stranded dog in Dunedin yesterday. The king charles spaniel was caught on a scrub-covered cliff in D******* Street, when the fire fighters arrived about 12.10pm, a Fire Service spokesman said. The firefighter coaxed the dog into his arms and carried it down to its owner.
Hehe - like I said, stupid dog...the team was fantastic though, and we were really appreciative of their service and manner that they carried it out. Only thing is, he's a Cavalier King Charles, but oh well - LOL

We're home

and we're gaining some sense of normality! Molly has bounced back so well, and infact - she's cheekier than before, guess she's got three weeks to make up for!! Had a fab session at kindy yesterday and was straight into it again today! Yipee!
I managed to get to our little crop on Sunday - mind you, I spent 60% of the time doing nothing! But I did manage to do the sketch challenge from Scrapbookoutlet!

Was a great sketch, and it fell together pretty easily - just wish all scrapping was like that!

I missed out on entering Up2Scraps DT, but was probably kidding myself anyways! Will do some stuff for a couple of more DT's and also the competition on Scrapbook essentials - how awesome would a cricut be?? No more hand cut titles (although I really like doing them!!)

Right I should go, do some housework while the girls not here - she's such a demanding little monster!

Back in hospital

Either Molly really likes the nursing staff, or the TV in bed thing, but we're back in hospital. We got discharged on Thursday night, and she was well right up to Saturday afternoon. She started getting really grumpy in the afternoon, and was off to bed at 6.30 (unheard of for Molly!!) We had a rough night, lots of coughing and puking up of phelgm....and that went on for most of Sunday too. The staff rang to check how we were doing on Saturday, but I phoned them on Sunday to query her state of unwellness. She gone back to the legthargy, listness, moaning, fast respirations and a temperature. Nurse said she'd get the registrar to ring, and within 30 seconds of me hanging up, she phoned back telling us to go straight to ED. So we got in there, triage nurse saw us and took Molly's stats - either it was a dodgy machine, or she was really sick, but her temp was 38.9 and her O2 stats were 82!! So she was called over the intercom, status 2 to resus 2, status 2 to resus 2 - poor Craig was looking rather grey and said to me what the heck did that mean, I quietly whispered it meant she was really sick, babe. They hooked her up to monitors and her stats went up to 92, still not good, but way better than before! We went to X-Ray then up to PAU, where they finally admitted us back up - not before sticking umpteen-thousand needles in - poor wee tarts veins kept collapsing. So she's on another antibiotic through the IV, but if they loose the line the anti-b can be given in the butt. So we're in for a few more days yet...thanks to all those that are texting, phoning and sending wishes, it's keeping our spirits up! It's much appreciated by us all. Photo was taken last Tuesday - poor wee turkey!

Though today brought sad news too...a dear friend that I went high school with lost her husband, Warren in on Sunday...Rest in Peace, Warren, my thoughts are with Melissa, Callum, Harri & Kaitlin - and their extended family. The loss is huge, for everyone and am still in utter disbelief!

Life is hetic

I haven't blogged in forever, but I did scrap over the weekend, at scrapcamp at the LSS - so cool, and it was fab to be out of the house after being sick all week, and with Molly being sick too. But today our princess was still no better, we'd been to the ER on Sunday night, and got the advice to give panadol and ride it out, well this arvo we took her back to the GP and he sent us to hospital. Because Molly won't take oral medications, she needed to be hospitalised to get this....though after being checked out down at hospital, we find that she has huge tonsils, a sore ear, and pneumonia! Poor baby. Daddy is staying over tonight, and I'll go in tomorrow. I'm off to bed though to catch some zzzzz's!