I am so glad I didn’t listen to people when they told me things like “If you truly love your friend, end his suffering peacefully and cherish his memory forever.” because I would have missed seeing my old friend walk and poop again on his own and enjoy all the sniffing he so loves and I would have questioned if I had made the right choice till the day I died. If I had thought he was in constant pain I may have considered helping him out, but he wasn’t. He’s been alert and bright and at times a royal pain in the butt because he wanted company.

I am also glad I didn’t try the Dr. Franks Pet Pain Spray because I would be praising that stuff to everyone instead of giving the praise to God and Shadow’s will to walk again, funny how things work out. To us this is a miracle because when he first got hurt the Vet gave him a shot and put him on steroids for a period of time. Shadow didn’t even try to move and the Vet said he would probably never walk again, but we still believed we would one day see a miracle. It hasn’t been easy taking care of a handicapped dog, but it’s been well worth it to see him walk again.

It has been 9 months of taking care of our beloved Shadow and when he started flip flopping over by himself instead of me having to switch sides for him we knew he was getting stronger. He can’t get up all by himself, but when we help him with the belly sling go out he walks around a little bit in the yard and even poops on his own now, we’re so proud of him and his strong will. Of course he gets tired and has to plop down in the grass and rest awhile, but when the ducks next door start up he’s raring to go again, it makes my heart feel light.

The only problem now is I took all the fences down and now he can get at my bushes and plants so when I plant my garden next year I will have to fence it off again, but I have at least found something great to solve another problem. I have recently ran into the perfect way to make sure my garden or plants are watered perfectly and it’s called Ooze Tube Vegetable Drip Watering. Now how great is that? Next year when we take our vacation instead of bothering the neighbor or family to come over and water my tomatoes and plants or whatever else I decide to plant and grow all I have to do is set this up and we’re good to go.

In some of the photo’s below you can see how the steroids and Glucosamine turned his white coat brown where he urinated and no amount of washing helped, but since he is doing his business outside now, I’ll work on that later. I had even stopped the Glucosmine for all that time because I didn’t see that it was working, but I have now started giving it to him again and hope it will help build his stamina. Just seeing him move around at all is a joy. He now goes out at least 3 times a day and seems to get a little stronger each time, but it’s tiring. He still likes to lift his leg and water my plants.

We went to the York Fair Saturday night and it’s reported as America’s first fair which was held in 1765, 11 years before our nation was founded. If you want to read more of the history of the York Fair you can find it on their website. If you would like to take a virtual tour of the historical place that I live and see the great architecture you can visit Virtual York, A Journey Through History. I think you’ll find it very interesting.

The photo above I took from my balcony and for 9 days when I was out there I could see this monster swing with people going around and up and down, no way would I get on that thing now, but when I was younger I’d probably have been the first in line. Below is the actual ride up close, not sure if you can see the swings my camera’s batteries were getting weak.

It was daylight when we first walked over and these are a couple shots from my angle as we entered. We paid our 12 bucks to get in and we were on our way. The only reason we went was to get Bill some Bricker fries, pretty expensive fries if you ask me, but it’s his money he can blow it any way he pleases. We stopped at the Toyota building first because I wanted to watch the children visiting the farm animals and to sit down for a minute.

I took pictures of the other animals, but this Mommy and babies seemed to be a big hit with all the children and adults. We soon had to leave the farm animals because the smells from inside were just to overpowering. So we sanitized our hands and ventured on. We stopped further down in one of the other buildings and watched a Kitchen Craft cooking show. I’d love to have some of that cookware, but I don’t think we’ll be spending 700 dollars for one piece any time soon.

We walked through the midway above and then walked some more and I was getting tired. I saw several people I hadn’t seen for awhile, but Bill didn’t see anyone he knew which was weird. We stopped and watched the mechanical man below and he is so good, it was funny at one point when he was almost done Bill got almost right in his face because he wasn’t really sure if he was real and then the guy all of a sudden set down his cup and walked off, not sure if he was disgusted or had to pee in a hurry.

We walked up further to see how far they had gotten with the Vietnam Memorial which is to be dedicated October 3rd and saw that they did have some of the bricks down and a nice base finished for the sculpture as you can see it was dark by then so we rambled through the kiddie part and made our way home. The fair just isn’t what it use to be any more, but the kids still love it and it’s fun to just sit and watch people.

Below is the last of my funny spam now it’s back to the normal crap of drug adverts and extensions for men, plus a few of these one liners then a link. “Could we have some water, please!, Is this the way to the train?, Can you tell me what time it is?”  I saved the good part of the spam comments below and some really are quite funny so I thought you might get a kick out of them.

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