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Vacationing with a puppy?

December 10, 2007 by Tricia

Now that we have a dog, well a puppy, our vacations might be a bit limited for a while. At least until we have Midnight trained. I mean, if we got someone to look after her while we went away for a week or two I’d want her to be house trained and hopefully a little calmer than she is right now.

BTW she’s still sick but I think she’s getting better. She’s on antibiotics for the runs that she’s been having just in case it’s a bacterial infection. The vet is running a culture and sensitivity test on her stool to determine just what might be making her so sick. She does have roundworm and that’s being treated too. I’ve been giving her water with gatorade mixed in, and her food is a little of her dried food mixed with rice and chicken broth. I’m trying my best to help her retain fluids so she’ll stay hydrated. Things are a little better than they were Friday and Saturday. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that she’ll be back to normal soon.

Anyway, once she’s over her illness and house trained I don’t see any reason why Chris and I couldn’t take a road trip with her. Maybe stay in pet friendly hotels or motels? Actually there’s
Pigeon Forge cabin rentals in TN, and they have some very nice pet friendly cabins that might be nice to stay in. I think we’ll have to make sure her chewing obsession has calmed down a bit before we can take her to such a nice place though.

Any other travel ideas for people with young dogs that must travel with them?





Filed Under: Entertainment, Great Sites, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Our Puppy, Pets and animals, Recreation, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: broth, cabins, car, care, chicken, Chris, Culture, dog, eat, Food, help, hotel, ideas, ill, illness, mix, night, pet friendly, puppy, Rent, rice, road trip, sick, stool, test, travel, travel with pet, vacation, water

I’m definitely sick again

December 10, 2007 by Tricia

I’m sick again. The dog has really upped my activity level and worrying about her being sick has increased my stress level and the combination has really got my Crohn’s going.

I didn’t sleep much on Friday night because the puppy was uncomfortable and having accidents. Finally around 7 PM on Saturday I fell into a deep sleep and I slept on and off through the night until the puppy woke us up at 6 am after having yet another accident.

I went back to bed at about 9 am in a lot of pain. My whole lower abdomen was just aching. I woke the same way at about 2 pm and I’ve been in terrible pain ever since. My pain meds are doing nothing other than making me a bit dopey. They aren’t even touching the pain at all.

Luckily Chris has Monday off work. He usually has Tuesday off … but I’m very thankful that he’ll be home. He’s helped a lot with the puppy care over the weekend and if I’m still feeling this bad on Monday it will be good to have him around to help out.

Filed Under: Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: abdomen, accident, care, Chris, comfort, crohn, day off, dog, Friday, help, home, ill, meds, monday, night, off work, pain, pain meds, puppy, sick, sleep, Stress, weekend

Furnished Apartments for Rent in Dubai

December 9, 2007 by Tricia

I’ve known a number of nurses and doctors over the last decade who’ve traveled abroad to work for a few months to a couple of years in foreign locations. I think I know about five nurses that have worked in Dubai.

Obviously people who in other professionals also take temporary work – engineers, contractors and so on.

If you will be traveling to Dubai for vacation or for a short stay, possibly due to work, you might want to look into staying in one of the lovely dubai hotel apartments or dubai villas that are being rented at dubaiapartments.biz.

The apartments are furnished and dubaiapartments.biz only accepts rentals that are up to their high standards. What does this mean? Well it means that all of their rentals are the equivalent of 3 star ratings or higher.

In fact, dubaiapartments.biz is the largest online short term rental portal in Dubai. There are over 120 self catering properties, listed by the owners themselves or property managers. The easy to use site is a great way for those with properties to rent to connect with tourists or those who are in Dubai for short term work who need a comfortable place to stay with all of the amenities.

If you’d prefer to stay in on of the luxurious dubai hotels you’ll find them listed on the site as well.

The site is very easy to use. Simple visit the site and right there on the main page you can begin your search for a furnished apartment by location. You can also use a variety of search features to make sure that the list of properties in your search result are really what you are looking for by listing how many bedrooms, price range and of course your rental start date.

Photos accompany many of the listings so you’ll be able to see your future accommodation before you book your stay.

At the bottom of the page you’ll see links that will take you to pages that describe the various locations that the various furnished apartments are located in. This might make it easier to decide which location you’d like to rent within.

Visit the dubaiapartments.biz to learn more about the furnished apartment rentals.

Filed Under: Family, Home and Lifestyle, Moving or Organizing, Real Estate, Services, Vacation and Travel Tagged With: apartment rentals, bedroom, comfort, Dubai, dubai apartments, furnished apartments, hotel, listing, manage, online, photos, price, rating, Rent, site, travel, vacation, visit, work

Ernest Markham Clematis

December 9, 2007 by Tricia

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Ernest Markam Clematis

I grow this lovely Clematis on a beautiful hand made wooden trellis. the trellis is made of bent branches and is shaped a bit like a door with a curved top. It’s very ornate and looks spectacular with this clematis growing on it.

I think I grow 8 or 9 different clematis in my back and front gardens now. They are great for small gardens as they don’t take much space. If you have a fence or trellis they look wonderful and they add some height to the garden.

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Recreation, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: add height, beautiful, clematis, clematis vine, door, Ernest Markham clematis, garden, green thumb, Green Thumb Sunday, photo, small garden, vine

Dial up users need to check out Wildblue Satellite Internet service

December 8, 2007 by Tricia

I know that a few of my regular readers are still using dial up service to connect to the internet. Most of the people that I know that are still using dial up modems are in rural areas where they cannot access DSL or cable internet service providers.

I feel sorry for them.

I remember those days when dial up was the only way to connect to the internet. When a 54 baud modem was considered fast! Of course those were the days when a 256 or 386 PC computer was also considered fast and they still had floppy disks that you had to use to run big software applications like Wordperfect.

OMG I’m aging myself here I think!

Well I’m very happy to let everyone know, especially those of you who are still using dial up, that Satellite Internet is finally here!

Mybluedish.com is making their satellite internet service, Wildblue, available to those of you who live in the continental United States. If you have a clear view of the southern sky you’ll be able to receive the service.

Wildblue is faster than other Satellite Internet service providers with download speeds of up to 1.5 mb which of course is 30 times faster than dial up! Isn’t that amazing? Are you dial up users getting excited yet?

Just like DSL and Cable internet the service is always on so you’ll be able to turn on your computer and be on the internet right away. The Satellite modem plugs into a wall outlet (just like my cable modem does). All you need to do after that is plug your computer into the Ethernet port that’s located on the back of the Satellite modem. Simple. Easy. Anyone can do this.

More good news. Wildblue is the least expensive Satellite Internet service in the USA. Prices start at $49.95 per month which is comparable to what I pay for my cable service here in Canada.

You’ll need to be able install a very small satellite dish to your home to use this service. The dish is small, apparently more like a small satellite TV dish rather than one of those huge dishes that you still sometimes see on peoples homes or office buildings.

Dial up users – Don’t you hate waiting for slow downloads? Does it sometimes take several minutes for a website to load? Wouldn’t it be nice to almost instantly load websites and receive downloads from now on? You’d also be able to watch video’s without any lag or delay.

If this sounds like a service you could use go check out the Wildblue Satellite Internet service at Mybluedish.com.

Filed Under: Blogging, Computers, Cool stuff, Entertainment, Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Recreation, Services, Web and Technology Tagged With: 30 times faster than dial up, affordable, always on, amazing, computer, connection, continental United States, dial up, ditch dial up, download, downloads, Ethernet port, fast, fast downloads, happy, high speed, home, install, Internet, internet connection, prices, rural, rural areas, rural dial up, satellite dish, Satellite Internet, Satellite internet for rural areas, satellite modem, service, United States, USA, Video, website

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