Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Exercise..I'm Stove-up

This my therapy pool. Why I ever even tried the "Y" is because I've been desperate to swim again and my doctor said this city facility only,1 1/2 miles from my house, was for referred therapy patients only. 

       I Really Want To Go Here, Really!

I started the process so I could be referred. I went through all the hoops to be a client and that included a lot of money to dietians,and x-rays, nerve studies, bone doctors, and all that. 

When it all came to my doctor sending a referral in...(my last hurtle) he told that even though I had the right insurance, my GROUP was not a part of our town's particular pool. Workman's Comp. was the only way in.


My Steve goes regularly to this therapy pool for his injuries from his fall off of a mountain in Balcom Canyon last year about this time. He was on a fire strike team and the unstable clay sent him down and off a high bluff.

Steve asked the pool coordinator and for a cheaper amount than the YMCA; I was able to exercise. And I did...a lot!


It's a great place and I had a therapist the whole time. "Breathe!" "You have to breathe!" When it hurts... I have this bad habit of holding my breath. I feel better breathing-wise, but I think Im going to need ice tonight. I'm not complaining. I'm really, really elated I can have a super nice and clean pool and a wonderful therapist. I love it!

  But... I'm really tired and it feels good.


Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Our Dogs Have Doppelgängers


I know it means a person's clone or resemblance. And I had fun finding my double and Steve's double a couple years ago on the Internet. 

People all over would mistake Steve for Huell Howser. My Steve was on TV a lot thoughout Ventura County and some of L.A. with his long-running safety video during the months of September and October. (still will be showning) The videos were also shown on each city's public information channel and easy to get my Steve mixed-up with the "other guy" TV is where they knew him. He fit in Public Broadcasting,

My daughter, Kiely and I were on our way to her new college in Utah. It was the Spring semester and she was jumping-in to a College and town where she had hardly visited, but knew she wanted to go there.
We laughed about their mascot the Badger. Kiely was the mascot for her high school and did it really... as a gift for her grandfather, a former teacher at Santa Paula High School. My father-in-law loved the cast members of Disneyland. The characters!


I joked about the Badger mascot suit and I told her if Badger was the name, there must be Badgers around Utah. I heard this HUGE lecture about how she's never even seen a real Cardinal in her life and we really don't have any live ones here at all. I started thinking about all the crazy names that high schools and colleges have for their mascot.


Before I had completed that thought, I saw one by the road near Salina, Utah. Nah, it'd be hibernating. It wasn't a few miles more by the Palasaide Lake, there was obviously another Badger, this time it had been hit by a car. They don't hibernate? What?

I promptly gave her the same mean Badger story that my dad told me. I told her our Badgers in Santa Paula are brown and up close both have faces a bit like a skunk, black and white or gray, white and brown like this one. I thought if we could we'd stop or slow-down and look at it see if it was a Badger. We saw it! Actually, it looked like a opossum coloring, and did have darker stripes on its face and a bushy tail. 

Right then I knew what that Badger reminded me of ...and why it looked so familiar.

             Our dogs look like Badgers! 

I had to tell Kiely all over again to not touch them or try and feed any wild animals. Ha! Like I have any control over her. Her years at GBEEC took my daughter to a new "tree-hugging" era. Kiely turned into Snow White, even (shiver) catching bats that got in the Lodge and releasing them to the tree tops.

I'm going to miss her Utah Valley and The Big Badger and get myself ready for "The Cowboys" in Wyoming. I am quite familiar with those critters.

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Our Puppies Are Still In Our Arms

We still have one left! Blue Merle Male with a tail and he's beautiful and silly.

Just to let everyone know at this time NOT all the puppies are sold, something happened and now--- Christina's Buckeye is still for sale. A young woman that brought Buckeye a male blue merle with a right pirate patch, has backed-out of the sale. 

 I have taken more pictures of the puppies and put them on the Queensland Heeler blogger site. The puppies are a lot bigger. This will be the third time this past week I've taken pictures, the puppies are changing daily-and it's hard to keep up on the blog.

The pups are still doing the "Army Crawl." and attempting to walk just a little bit.


They will be walking next week like all of Laney's puppies. Oh my gosh--it's crazy with all the puppies in her house with my four grandchildren.

So now again, we have an EXTRA   puppy... That's available. Email me if you're interested in Christina's Buckeye.

       susankaylazenby@gmail.com

There's more pictures of him on my Queensland Heeler site. All the puppies are selling for $350.00 each.