There were five of these in the photo above and below, Mini Pincher Puppies, she said, 3 were adopted. I loved the little brown one..

This is the third dog I wanted.. He was at the Pit Bull Rescue... they said he is a Mini Pit Mix..... When he heard that he howled with laughter.




I am doing a HAPPY DANCE.... My DSLR is up and running, I bought a new HD SanDisc card and it is back in working order. no repairs needed.

 This is my friend Rich, we have been friends for 6 years and have a love of dogs in common. He is also my Photo Shop Professor and a big part of my blog because of all the things he taught me...


He loves all dogs, as do I, but the loves of his life, are the ones he has owned over the years. We both got "lots of Lovin" at the Canine Christmas Festival.


Little dogs like these are high on his love list.. Rich these are all for YOU ...



With Husky's and German Shepherds right up there at the top of his list... we have attended the Festival every year since 2009..


See that tiny little dog... each time he snarled at the Shepherd, she jumped back like it could swallow her instead of the other way around.. Made for good laughs.

We raced walked to the DogGone Funcourse where the fun was about to begin. 10.00 for a few times around the obstacle course, chasing a white rabbit thingy... Photographers recorded the fun and the photos were 5 dollars or FREE if you liked his Facebook page.

The dogs loved it, we loved it, the laughter was good for the soul when some of them jumped the fence and ran wild...


Rich had his own seat, I claimed a bale of hay, which was very comfy.. I only got one action shot because my new little red camera is not my DSLR long lens.

As for Me, I like to watch and I love to get my photo taken, see that smile?

Dewey is up for adoption..  my favorite of the day.. He was the donation dog with pockets on his costume for money. YES.. I did put money in his pocket.. I am praying someone will adopt him soon.


I urge you to forget about your self and think about the dogs when adopting.

We adopted Cooper (see Cooper HERE) when he was 7. He was suffering from Kennel stress, in a no kill shelter, but there for a year..We gave him 6 more happy years and joy for us.

Dewey says please someone come and get me

My husband has worn hearing aids for 7 years, they stopped working 2 years ago. He refused to go for a hearing test until this week... His hearing is only a few decibels above legally deaf.


Tuesday morning, we came home with new hearing aids, computerized digital customized to his problems. Yes, they cost a LOT OF MONEY...

But.... The Man Can HEAR! Hallelujah!!! he is walking around saying "this house is noisy"   he can hear paper crinkle, brooms swish, refrigerator humming and Hallelujah again, the TV is set on 18 not 52...


I came home from a doctor visit and he met me at the door...

"I heard a plane, I heard a helicopter and a weed whacker... when I went to pour my coffee, I thought I was being attacked and turned around and it was my eggs frying"

there is one problem. Now he is back to making fun of my accent again. Think spider using 3 syllables...  he is back to mimicking every word I say.. and I say Thank you Lord...


Doc said he will have to retrain his brain to hear the words,that the left side of his brain is not talking to that ear and the way to train it is doing his homework, 3 pages of words, that each day I have to read 2 rows of them and he has to repeat them back... we laugh so much we can't breathe. each day he gets a little better.


the good thing is I am getting better at reading. When a person gets older, we stumble looking for the right word. the doc said we should read out loud to ourselves every day... and the more we do it the better trained our words will be.
it is working. when I am reading my kindle, I read a page out loud... at first I stumbled, now I don't.
Of course when I was reading out loud to myself in the examining room while waiting an hour, the people in the hall might have been thinking the person in there must be MAD....and I am MadSnapper



Studies of adult brain plasticity prove absolutely that repetitive auditory stimuli can change the way the brain operates... quote from Auditory Training manual