JIM'S LITTLE BLOG

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Adi can stop to smell the roses

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Adi can sniff out a golf ball for me

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Adi can smell not so good some times.

Adi can be very patient while waiting for her bath.

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Adi can smell so good after her bath

it makes her frisky.

A frisky, clean beagle likes to play with her

teddy bear.

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Adi can help dry herself off

by licking her feet dry.

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Adi can smell like strawberries after her bath.

She shampoos first with Suave strawberry scented shampoo.

Then she shampoos with oatmeal doggy shampoo.

Last is her Suave strawberry conditioner.

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At our house, when Karen was still here, we had this thing going between us.

We told anyone who even acted like they wanted to hear, that our feet smelled like strawberries.

Well, now her doggy's feet smell like strawberries too.

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Mine still do smell like strawberries, just ask Mrs. Jim.

I think Karen's feet still smell like strawberries too, just ask Billy.

# posted by Jim : 6/03/2006 12:10:00 AM  3 comments

Adi packs a big bag for her visit. As you can tell, I think she may be a bit spoiled. I am wondering if Jim packs this much stuff for his incarceration(s).

Adi seems to have no problem being around Amber. Sometimes they even cuddle when no one is looking.

Adi Can....checkout my new golf clubs.

Adi seems to be impressed withe them but she is not sure how much they will actually help my score. After all the rain stops, I will have to try them out.

Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Amber, Animals, Family, Humor

# posted by Billy & Karen : 10/16/2006 08:06:00 PM  14 comments

There is more:

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n) I take three medicines and three vitamins/minerals every morning. Adi is my helper with this. We are in the kitchen beside the sink. o) Before taking the first medicine I get a glass of water and eat one rectangular piece of graham cracker. Adi eats a small piece from one end. p) She waits patiently while I take the rest. I have a small routine [programmers, would this be a subroutine?] doing this so that I don't take one medicine twice or skip one. My secret is to take out of my shoe box the three pill bottles. As I take a medicine, I put the bottle back in the box. Can't go wrong that way. q) After the last pill, which is a generic EyeCap, we eat the other rectangular piece of graham cracker, just as we did the first. r) Next for Adi is 'breakfast.' . .That for me is one half package of two (i.e. one piece) pieces of granola bar and coffee. . .Mrs. Jim eats the other piece/half package. Adi waits for the granola bar ritual. s) I pour coffee for Mrs. Jim, who is now reading the paper or getting e-mail. Adi waits for the granola bar ritual. t) I open the granola bar package. Adi is still waiting. u) I eat one third of my granola bar piece. Adi gets a corner, about the size of a large pencil eraser. v) Mrs. Jim sips her coffee and has a one third piece of her granola bar. Adi gets a corner, about the size of a large pencil eraser, from Mrs. Jim. w) We repeat this procedure four more time, two each for Mrs. Jim and me, with Adi and her piece, and the granola bar is gone. Adi has had a total of six bits. x) Adi goes to the utility room to get a drink of water. y) Adi tries to get me to play toss and take-away with her and her teddy bear. z) Adi gets tired from playing teddy bear with me. Or she gives up trying to get me to play. I'm old, you know. aa) Adi gets in her breakfast room bed for a long nap. bb) If the sun is shining I always fix a blind so there is a sunny spot on the carpet and she sleeps there instead. That is Adi's morning ritual. Every morning except Sundays. On Sundays, the paper goes into the back of the car on our way to church so we don't do the front yard part. So on Sunday, Adi does her thing out back while I'm putting my shoes on, sitting in a rocker on the porch. Then we do the medicine/vitamin bit. I'll let you figure out which steps from above are omitted. There are additional steps. Adi goes in the utility room and gets into her 'kennel' with a treat. She eats the treat while I put the baby gate up. Adi takes a nap until we return. Ah, life in the fast lane. That is her and my routine. I thought it might get close to being 26 steps. So I was surpised when the list got to 28 discrete items (four of the granola bit were lumped into one, at step 'w') Of course at 9:30 or ten, Mrs. Jim and I have a sweet snack with coffee. I take another pill. Adi gets into this act also. Are you in the fast lane?

Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Eating, Family, Health, Humor, Procedure, Routine

# posted by Jim : 2/08/2006 12:54:00 AM  5 comments

Source: Kelley of Regis and Kelley today
Picture of the day:
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Yesterday Adi was a working dog. We visited residents who live at Hearthstone Assisted Living Center in Conroe, Texas. We have made several friends there, they like to visit with us. Adi sure gets a lot of loving and petting there!

We sign in at the front desk after visiting the residents who are sitting out front, either in wheel chairs or the rocking chairs always there. This is the South you know, even Mrs. Jim has a white wooden rocking chair on our porch.

After that we walk through the halls stopping at the parlors, game area, and puzzle place. Most times we stop in at the Harbor, a portion of the center especially reserved for Alzheimer afflicted residents. Today we ran out of time and couldn't.

We did have pretty long conversations with two of Adi's friends in particular, we look them up every time we come. The rest of the time was spent with shorter visits with so many I lost track. I'm sure Adi did too.

We are a certified Pet Therapy Team, certified by the Delta Society. We are trained, then have to pass both a written test and a two-part suitability test which shows Adi's training and her gentleness, and how well we handle ourselves in different simulated 'surprise' situations. [Delta Society link]

Adi and I belong to the Montgomery Pet Partners (link) which consists of teams, an animal and an owner/other, who assist in various situations where therapy animals are helpful. Our people visit hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living centers. Interested persons may also join our group but cannot participate with an animal until certified by the Delta Society (tests are passed).

The other aspect is reading, Adi is a reading dog as well. This involves tutoring a child where the child reads to the dog (and owner of course) and in weekly visits to the children's reading programs, mostly on Saturday mornings.

Now, all work and no play make Adi and Jim dull kids:


Our morning began with a nice walk back from the golf pro shop where Mrs. Jim dropped us off for her 8:40 tee time. She went golfing with her buds. Actually my day began with a Tuesday morning Bible study with about 15 other men at the club house. Then our walk. [super sized picture]
Too bad Adi isn't a counting dog, she could enjoy herself counting all these horse apples that the winds from Hurricane Ike blew off. Adi can count to two and six, one bite of graham cracker is never enough when I'm taking my medicine. She has one bite and then the second when I am on pill number six. [super sized picture]
We ended up down in the quiet area of the golf course. It is down from our house just a short walk away. The lake is up after our rains but it will be lowered soon for inspection of the dam. Hurricane Ike may have damaged it as did Hurricane Rita three years ago. That year the lake remained empty all next summer still while the dam was being repaired. [super sized picture]

Adi got tired, she is tiring more easily now in her older years. (My Autumn poem link)

In case you don't go to that link, here is the picture I have posted there:

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Word of the day:

Word History: The existence of the synonyms helpmeet and helpmate is the result of an error compounded. God's promise to Adam in Genesis 2:18, as rendered in the King James version of the Bible (1611), was to give him "an help [helper] meet [fit or suitable] for him." The poet John Dryden's 1673 use of the phrase "help-meet for man," with a hyphen between help and meet, was one step on the way toward the establishment of the phrase "help meet" as an independent word. Another was the use of "help meet" without "for man" to mean a suitable helper, usually a spouse, as Eve had been to Adam. Despite such usages, helpmeet was not usually thought of as a word in its own right until the 19th century. Nonetheless, the phrase "help meet" probably played a role in the creation of helpmate, from help and mate, first recorded in 1715

Plans for the day:

Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Animals, Dogs, Jim Does, Status Report, Update

# posted by Jim : 9/24/2008 01:54:00 AM  8 comments

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Labels: Adi, Adi Can, Dogs, Humor, Jim Bunch Eats, Stories

# posted by Jim : 12/28/2008 12:00:00 AM  7 comments

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This is Adi, our therapy dog

She specializes in reading with children

and visiting assisted living residents

This morning Adi saw a deer for the first time. There were two for her. They were nice sized, the little Texas deer. Not nearly so large as the Colorado/Nebraska or Canada ones.

We had ridden to the proshop with Mrs. Jim. and were on our way walking back. Mrs. Jim is playing in the Chili Open tournament today, I call it the Chili Dip. We kissed her goodbye, wished her well, and started home.

Adi was riding on my lap going up and not running along side like she sometimes does. So she was ready to smell all the sites on the way home. At one we even got to use the pooper scooper we had brought.

One more thing. I am not supposed to be walking. Doctor's orders. I do walk some though to keep myself somewhat operational. My podiatrist said not even to walk with Adi in a leisurely 'dog walk' pace. We ended up walking a couple of miles this morning.

We were on the home stretch, coming down the slight hill towards our house. All of a sudden Adi perked up, like she does when she sees a squirrel or rabbit. She loves to chase these guys but never can catch them. The two deer were new to her and they crossed, going from left to right, from east to west, the street twenty or thirty feet ahead of us. One had a large horn array, the other didn't have any. [one boy and one girl deer, I think]

They crossed very fast and went onto the par three hole number seven, with the fountain up and across the house from our house. We walked up on a berm but they were already gone. [There's an Eagles* song (link) like that, "Already Gone."] Adi picked up their scent right away and away we went, Adi at the end of the retractable leash with her nose almost on the ground. I was as far behind as the long leash would let me be.

Sometimes we would go so fast that she would miss a turn the deer had made. She then would zig zag smelling the ground to pick up their scent again. We never got past zig and off we would go again. We went over the tee box, down the fairway to a vacant lot, across the lot and through another vacant lot onto the fairway behind our house, a five par hole number eleven.

We crossed that into another vacant lot by that tee box. When we got to the first house Adi slowed way down. She was sniffing around and finally decided the deer had run out in the street at the front. I was thinking they would go behind into the little creek and woods behind our sewer plant.

So we lost her there and we headed home. I circumnavigated the number seven green where we first picked them up. I wanted to test her by crossing their known path again on the way back home.

When we got to their trail Adi picked it up real fast. Beagle like, she always walks with her nose to the ground and it was what I had expected. She is a good tracking dog. I let her follow them a ways, then we came home. I think the scent had lessened because this time we couldn't go full speed, but had to do the little zigs of the zig zags.

From all this, I know Adi would be able to find rabbits and flush them out for me. I hope one day we can try that. We had a just plain nice morning doing just the tracking part. Of course Adi wanted to catch up with these first deer she had seen. We both had a good workout trying.

*Already Gone

Well, I heard some people talkin' just the other day

And they said you were gonna put me on a shelf

But let me tell you I got some news for you

And you'll soon find out it's true

And then you'll have to eat your lunch all by yourself

'Cause I'm already gone

And I'm feelin' strong

I will sing this vict'ry song, woo, hoo,hoo,woo,hoo,hoo

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The letter that you wrote me made me stop and wonder why

But I guess you felt like you had to set things right

Just remember this, my girl, when you look up in the sky

You can see the stars and still not see the light (that's right)

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And I'm already gone

And I'm feelin' strong

I will sing this vict'ry song, woo, hoo,hoo,woo, hoo,hoo

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Well I know it wasn't you who held me down

Heaven knows it wasn't you who set me free

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains

And we never even know we have the key

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But me, I'm already gone

And I'm feelin' strong

I will sing this vict'ry song

'Cause I'm already gone

Yes, I'm already gone

And I'm feelin' strong

I will sing this vict'ry song

'Cause I'm already gone

Yes, I'm already gone

Already gone

All right, nighty-night

[Wilson Phillips all girls group also sings this song in the California album, http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Wilson-Phillips/Already-Gone.html]

# posted by Jim : 1/07/2006 11:08:00 AM  5 comments

My other hobbies are wanting to come out of the closet, namely:

• getting my Old Ford V-8 going for the season;
• finding a garage for Mom's Mustang II;
• honing up on my golf (I want to be a little presentable in Scotland [jail again!] later in the spring);
• getting my ham radio station back on the air [I'm making another two meter antenna with the Conroe radio club this evening];
• teaching a Bible class on 1, 2, and 3 John;
• getting my office shipshape if I can;
• doing some doctoring [my health is ok, just little things and checkups needed here and there]; and
• just a lot of other things not mentioned need my attention too.

Those are hobby things besides computers, blogging, and YouTube.

I have work to do too. We have the house fairly well painted and updated inside, now the outside and the yard are beckoning. Mrs. Jim can find some things as well.

# posted by Jim : 2/08/2007 10:33:00 AM  7 comments

• In the northern United States, the name is applied to the numerous species that are known as May bugs in the southern United States, where they emerge earlier. The brown, stout-bodied adults are about 25 mm (about 1 in) long and feed on leaves. From Everything about June Bug, Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2006 (link)

To be fair to Rachel (April 17 blog), the article further goes on:

• In the southern United States, the name green June beetle is applied to a similar green-and-brown beetle that, in the adult stages, feeds on ripe figs and other fruit.

So Rachel is correct too, as she is from the south, born and raised??

Why until last night? Because last night another one came, bit the dust, and was lying on the back door mat this morning.

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My Blogdog, Adi

First pea?

Now Adi is a real trouper. She goes with me almost everywhere, except when I leave the house. She goes outside with me, but not very often in the car, although she loves riding. Adi likes to be in my blogs, so far she has been mentioned in my blogs 82 posts since December, 2005.

The bed you see goes with Adi wherever we are. In the car, it sits behind the passenger sear. When we are in the kitchen (or breakfast room) it is where you see it, under the breakfast room TV. When we are in the living room her bed makes it to between our recliners. If we forget to bring the bed,she lays in front of the couch on the rug.

Back to blogdogging. She is a buddy, more so, she is a watchdog. Look carefully, she is sleeping with one eye open. And her nose will twitch and ears perk up, just a little, if an event happens.

I don't hear the doorbell very good, Adi hears it real good. Either she will bark or run to the door to look through the glass window. One problem, she can't tell between some TV doorbells and the real one. It is a mystery to her how the TV bell can ring and no one is at the door.

Squirrels, yes, she sees them through the back bedroom window, just above her bed. Birds and cats too, or the neighbor's dog, don't escape her notice. If only, if only I 'd let her out.

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Marty Morrow's Blogdog, Sebastian

[Find Sebastian at Marty's blog]

The other pea?

In case you don't want to go there right now, Marty said: (I confess, I got the blogdog idea from him, he has a handsome blogging buddy as well, his Sebastian.)

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  "My Blogdog.... This is sort of my view as I blog. As you can see, I have a constant companion who loves to watch outside between naps and keep one eye on me in case I decide to go outside. The squirrels can see Sebastian through the window and know he can't get to them so they prance around on the lawn about 15 feet from here. He use to get excited and bark but anymore, he just sighs and watches them in this position."

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Labels: June Bug 1

# posted by Jim : 6/15/2006 12:03:00 AM  5 comments

Adi can guard the Mustang we washed Tuesday.

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Adi can also stop on our walk to admire the flowers. Do you think she likes them?

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What is Adi looking at? Maybe for these ducks we saw on our walk?

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DAILY STATUS REPORT:

Health check--

blood pressure/heart rate . . . . 112/59/65 at 5:50AM.

Day's biggies--

Get Mrs. Jim off for hair appointment

Go to out patient surgery place to stay with family of friend who is having arthoscopic knee

Go to a funeral with Mrs. Jim for friends middleaged son who died unexpectedly

Visit Billy's mom in the hospital after her surgery

Continue work on the Sunday school lesson I'm teaching this Sunday

# posted by Jim : 5/11/2006 06:05:00 AM  2 comments

Labels: 2019-20 Dubai to Cape Town, Adi, Adi Can, Animals, Dogs, Eating, Friday's Weekend Roundup 07, Reflections

# posted by Jim : 7/09/2021 07:57:00 AM  8 comments

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Away in the distance, now looking west, is the clubhouse from where I took the previous picture. Adi was feeling good the day that we took this one, as was she when I got home yesterday.

After taking my triglyceride medicine we would go for our Tuesday walk. We got a was late start because I am now going to a 7:30 Tuesday morning Bible study at the clubhouse.

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# posted by Jim : 9/21/2006 12:12:00 PM  11 comments

 - "If you ever  ... do that again I'm going to ..." knock your block off.  (Actors here are my great grandson "JV", soon to be two years old, and my granddaughter "KP".) (see the label below for more "KP" postings)

(1b) "I" is for "is": President Clinton made this word famous, especially the meaning of the word. (check it out, click here)

- "Stop him, he is getting away!!"

(1c) "I" is for "in".

 - "Now you're in deep trouble and you'll have to spend time, time playing with Grandma."

(1d). "I" is for "it".

Believe I got away with it one more time!!!

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(3) Nose:  How about this 'selfie'?
I took it after my Mohs Surgery for basal cell carcinoma, four cuts/digs, back in 2013. 

The problem is now gone but my nose isn't so very pretty anymore.
But I can still touch it with my tongue.

You can read all about it here:  http://jimmiehov.blogspot.com/2013/02/my-alphabe-thursday-2nd-letter-o.html

Why did Adi have the peanut on her nose?  She would sit still like that until the command to her was to "eat the peanut."

Then she would toss it up just a little bit, back quickly and snap it up with her mouth. 

Adi was sooo sweet.  She died in September 2012.  Adi, Adi Can,

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Labels: Adi, Family, Friday’s Hunt # 03 - 2017, Grandchildren, Jim Does, JV, KP

# posted by Jim : 3/03/2017 06:31:00 PM  11 comments