All Dogs Go To Heaven

Today was a sad day in our world.  One of our real dogs, Girlie Girl,  had not been eating well over the past week and so we decided it was time to go to the vet.  While I was there with her yesterday, they did blood work and an ultrasound of her kidneys.  The vet compared her blood work to some that was done in January and based upon that and the ultrasound findings, it was determined that she was in liver failure most likely secondary to cancer. 

Cancer is a horrible disease for all of God's creatures.  We could have gone down a long path of surgery and possible chemotherapy, but it would have had the same outcome in the end.  With heavy hearts, Grown Dawg and I came to the realization that it was best to have her put down.  She was one of the best dogs that any human could ask to have.  We were blessed to have her as part of our lives for 9 years.

She went to Heaven this morning around 10:00.  She will be cremated and we will spread her ashes at the beach.  We took her there often with us and she loved the time there.

Here are some pictures of our Princess Dog.

At the beach!



Bone time.




Laying in 'her spot' on the rug. 







Laying in the sun.  One of her favorite things.



Weekend Beach Time

We went to the beach for the weekend a couple of weekends ago.  Mainly to go down and attend a class / comedy show by Capt. Jimmy Price.  He does several fund raising events to provide Christmas presents for under privileged children in the Oak Island area.  You can check out his website and some of the other things that he does here: http://www.topdoginc.org/. 

One of the crazy things about his class was that we were sitting next to a older gentleman that we started talking to.  As it turns out, it was Don Betts of Betts, Inc.  Such as Betts cast nets, Billy Bay Shrimp.  THAT Don Betts.  The only way we found out that is who it was is that one of the captains that was presenting mentioned his name during his presentation.  Also, Capt. Jimmy Price thanked him as he donated a good amount of items that were used as door prizes.  Grown Dawg was asking Mr. Betts about some of the different cast nets and the best ones to use and if the larger nets, such as 8-10 foot nets were hard to throw.  Mr. Betts offered to send us a DVD of  'How to Throw a Cast Net' which we received later in the week!  He is definitely a man of his word.

We also did some fishing from the shore / docks in the backwater, but with no success.  It was colder than expected and the tides were pretty extreme.  We didn't even see any fish, much less catch any.

Here are a few pictures from the weekend.



Me and Capt. Jimmy Price



Mr. Don Betts

Grown Dawg fishing.

These 2 guys were catching plenty.