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Dear Charlotte region Rescues and Animal Lovers;

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to help care for ANIMALS CONFISCATED FROM HOARDER

STARTING FRIDAY, AUG 29th ~ PLEASE COME IF YOU CAN HELP BETWEEN 8 AM and 10 PM.

Well, this is news I know you don't want to hear because the last thing we need more of in this region is more homeless animals.?Most of you have seen the news over the past 2 days about the animals seized by authorities?from the?private residence in Denver, NC.

The final count of the number of animals seized from this?hoarder has NOT been finalized, but?as of tonight, there?were 393 animals accounted for and they are not done doing inventory. So far the types of animals include: dogs, cats, goats, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, llamas, etc...

Many of the animals are not in good shape and are being evaluated and treated?by vets on-site. They are being held for the next 2-4 weeks at an abandoned factory in Ranlo, NC (Denver proper). The building the animals are being temporarily housed is an abandoned factory building owned by R-ANELL (a mobile home factory). There is no street # on the building, but there is a BB&T bank and Baptist church across the street. Below is a link to the BB&T, but PLEASE DO NOT GO into the bank. Look across the street when you get there and you will see the old R-ANELL factory.

Please check in at the front door so they can assign you to help if you are able to do so.

Here are the closest directions: 3560 N Highway 16, Denver, NC 28037

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=BB%26T,+Denver+NC&fb=1&view=text&latlng=8063888415607365776

(You will see?two gates at the front of the factory. One will be locked the other will be open. There?should be some type of security or check in there. Just follow cars and park in the factory parking lot.

They are in dire need of volunteers who are?experienced with handling animals to help care for them at this holding facility?in many different ways throughout the next 2-4 weeks until they can be moved into foster care or permanent home.

They are also in need of the following items:

dog food, cat food, litter, towels, paper towels, leashes, collars, bedding for pets, clean up supplies, etc....

Please do not bring opened bags of pet food.

If you are able to volunteer some time to help, please just come anytime between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. starting Friday, August 29th.

If you have any questions, please call our director, Ron Simons, at 704-533-0864 or email me.

Links to some of the stories that ran yesterday before the total # of animals was counted:

http://www.thecarolinascoop.com/authoritiesseizeanimals.html

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/275/story/152415.html

http://news14.com/content/local_news/598729/hundreds-of-animals-taken-from-home/Default.aspx

http://www.wbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8903311

Thank you to all those who have donated or loaned some of your crates and carriers. As you can see from the photos, they have been put to good use.

God help us all,

Erin Powell
Board of Directors
SPCA ALLIANCE
P.O. Box 30484
Charlotte, NC 28230
704- 714- 4288
www.spcaalliance.com? (web & PAY PAL donation link)

Remember these scarves?





Well, if you really like them, now is your chance to buy tickets for the raffle in which they will be given away.

Akita Rescue of Western New York is holding it's Annual Akita Picnic/Fun Day on Sept 13, 2008. At this picnic, raffle drawings will be held for a wide variety of Akita related and non Akita related items.

My 2 scarves will be raffled off as a set. You can own these 2, OOAK , 100% Silk scarves, for mere dollars in the grand scheme of things.

So buy your raffle tickets now. Buy LOTS. all proceeds benefit Akita Rescue.}:)

We're buying a good amount and putting them towards the dog bed/toy basket.}:) Our next Akita won't want for toys if we win. Heh.


And remember, these scarves won't be offered up anywhere else. If you want a silk scarf, and want to help a good cause at the same time, there are still Dante-Inu Memorial Scarves available. 2 Silver and 11 Copper. 50% of each sale goes to Akita Rescue.

A fellow Etsy seller and all around great person, Rebecca of Rebecca's Soap Delicatessen is having a contest on her blog.

You could win 25.00 worth of her awesome handmade soaps!

I personally bought and use some of her soaps, and gave some away from Christmas last year. My MiL and Mom love them.

Rich, creamy, won't dry your skin, richly scented, even unscented versions and every one of them is 99% organic.



Swing by the Etsy shop, then go to the blog entry with your picks, up to 25.00 worth, to enter the drawing. You could win what you chose!

The Sage and Cinnamon is currently in the bathroom and smells great.}:P

So we go out to the car this morning for Mark to go to work, and I can have the car for the day, to go get groceries, etc. And... it won't start. We had to get a jump from the neighbor. I hope it's just the battery, as I've said before, we need to consider getting a new one as this one was looking rather ragged.

We get to Mark's work, he turns it off because he wants to make sure the car will start again for me.

It won't start. The battery should have been recharged by then.

He ended up taking a sick day, so we could go get a new battery. Yeah, there went the extra money we had set aside from this week.


We went grocery shopping with what we had left, got only what we needed or would run out of in the next week. We did good, I must say.

Get home and my damn cell phone is ringing. My father in law had wanted me to call him yesterday, only they weren't home. So he called me back today. Apparently, when the bro and sis in law were up in New Jersey last weekend, they mentioned my thinking of selling the Demon Truck to a junkyard.

He wanted me to consider donating it to Goodwill or an organization similier. I'd already thought of that, when I first thought about getting rid of it. Only Goodwill and similier around HERE, won't take a non-running vehicle and it's not worth it to me to fix it. Kelley Blue Book only goes back to 1988, the Demon Truck is a 1986 model, so I can't even really get a market value on it, essentially it's worthless.

I have also considered calling up the local high schools and seeing if they have any shop-type classes that might be interested in it. Told him all this. Well, he had a name/number of an organization that apparently takes vehicles in any condition, running and non. Hmm. Ok, worth checking into to see if they're in my area.

Then he said, well, you consider donating the Truck, I'll give you $3,000 towards a new vehicle.

I looked at Mark, my jaw dropped. Then I explained that we weren't planning to replace the Truck with getting ME a new vehicle, but that sometime in the next year, we hoped to trade in the Car for a newer vehicle. So he said he'd give us the $3,000 towards that if we wanted.

Wow. Just wow.

So now I need to look up this organization he gave me and see if they're in my area, as well as go get a new title for the Truck.


So lately, I've been really missing Dante. Just her companionship in general. Really wishing it was January already so we can start looking for a Rescue pup. Been trying to come up with a good name for our next Akita as well, one that would sound relatively nice in Japanese, to keep with the naming thing we had with Dante-Inu (French-Japanese for Devil Dog) and to go with the fact that Akitas are Japanese dogs.

Well, I had thought 'Phoenix' would be a good name. 'Phoenix Rising' would be even better. Hmm, let's translate that to Japanese...

Phoenix- Fenikkusu Not bad, ok, not great but, we can work with it. Let's continue...

Rising- Joushou, Kishou, Shinkou, Botsubotsutaru, OR Ryuuki

Err, yeah... No.

Any combination of Fenikkusu with ANY translated Rising just... doesn't work for us. Bummer. Just doesn't sound good.

Back to the drawing board. *sigh*

Patience is a virtue...

In that regard, I finally was able to get a couple good, clear shots of the newest resident. He still needs a name, despite being here nearly a month. He thoroughly enjoys the 30g fish tank-



He is currently mad at me, if fish can be, as I used a flash on that shot. Otherwise he looks likle this when the light is low-



Eventually, I'll come up with a name.

What type of Fae are you?
Ok, I just really read this. The last line? Is very true.


Note to self- need new small sterling hoops. Especially since Chuck's new puppy ate one today. *sigh*

Spent the day at the In Laws- am feeding their cats while they are out of town- doing laundry, being chewed on, rubbed against by a kitten nose, licked to death by said kitten and generally having a 4 month old kitten glued to me. The 2 yr old cat generally ignored me, except to hiss at me. He hates most anyone except his 'own caretakers'.(Cause we all know cats can't be 'owned'. Heh) Except when I went outside to meet Chuck's new puppy, Ghengis. Yeah, she's a handful. A Burmese Mountain Dog mix, 5 months old, roughly. Apparently, that was the second earring she tried to eat, except she ate mine successfully. Pup has a bit of crow in her, likes the shiny stuff.

I have officially, 55.05 gigs worth of music on my external drive. I am loving my new 80gig Zune. And still have 24.77 gigs free. Yeah. That's 8690 songs. Nice for LONG road trips or train rides. Yup. It's also half the thickness of the 30gig and takes some getting used to, as it's lighter as well. But I'm liking it more than the original 30gig. No problems thus far setting it up exactly as I had the 30gig, complete with background photo of Dante-Inu.

Haven't written Chapter 5 to Blackblade Clan. Don't foresee meeting my 'every 2 weeks, post new Chapter' deadline, yet again. Haven't played Sims since last week. Haven't WANTED to.

Been watching Olympics and quilting like mad. Had a good idea as to something to do to make the Chinese Hanji on ArtQuilt Project 2 really stand out. Need to finish detail quilting first. Hopefully it'll work and not ruin the ArtQuilt.

Rue, (a Rex rabbit), needs her nails trimmed more than twice a month, judging by the 8" scratch on my right forearm when I was attempting said trimming. She was being a right pain in the ass today. There's also scratches on the backs of my hands from her, as well as the dustup resulting in one nail being trimmed too close to the quick and her bleeding. Argh. Usually she just lays there and let's me trim away. WTF, rabbit?

I think the blackberries and raspberries I tossed out the backdoor in early spring actually sprouted. No other way to explain sudden 4ft thorny brambles sprouting from that area. Hmm. Didn't actually think they'd sprout, otherwise, I'd have picked a way better spot.

It's cloudy today, so needs to hurry up and just rain already.

Luckily there's not a whole lot of quilting to do on the 2 pieces I want to enter into this fall's quilt shows. Especially since the drop off deadline for the first show is Sept. 22.

I put a box on the floor for Aries to sleep in if he wanted. He got to do so exactly twice. Max has since taken it over, as per usual.

I'm hungry but not sure what I want to eat. Heh.

Scarf sales have dropped off. There's still 3 Silver and 12 copper left. As well as the several 'Reserved Listings'. End of the month, I'm donating what I have, and will donate the rest whenever they sell I guess.

It appears, that despite initially registering, ie the computer recognizing that, yes, I have plugged in my device, when I tried to remove music from my 30gig Zune, it decided to go belly up.

Yup. It completely stopped responding.

When I tried all the troubleshooting tricks the website says, it still didn't work.

When I tried to submit a repair request, because that's what it says to do if you tried to reset the device and get a certain screen instead, the damn repair request website kept crashing.

When I tried calling Customer Service and tried explaining this to them, that I could not get past the submit screen, that I tried three times now, their response was, 'Oh we see the repair request right here'. Yeah, well that doesn't help ME one bit when I have no confirmation number, no address to send it to, no packing instructions, no NOTHING, now does it?

After attempting to explain THAT to the stupid bint, I got so frustrated that I told her to just cancel the repair request and hung up on them. This is the second time I've tried doing anything with the Customer Service via the telephone and have gotten nowhere.

Screw this. Other than the Customer Service, I've not had any issues with my Zune. It'd be easier to just go buy a new damn one. Which is what is going to end up happening by Thursday.

Been saying I needed an 80gig after all.

Because there are apparently quite a few who would outright disagree with this in so many ways...

You Are a Question Mark

You seek knowledge and insight in every form possible. You love learning. And while you know a lot, you don't act like a know it all. You're open to learning you're wrong. You ask a lot of questions, collect a lot of data, and always dig deep to find out more. You're naturally curious and inquisitive. You jump to ask a question when the opportunity arises. Your friends see you as interesting, insightful, and thought provoking. (But they're not always up for the intense inquisitions that you love!) You excel in: Higher education You get along best with: The Comma

What Punctuation Mark Are You?

Walked downstairs and into the kitchen to do... something. I don't know why.

Ended up grabbing a SF Dark Chocolate pudding cup, a hair stick from the table in the living room where I've been working on ArtQuilts and watching the Olympics, and back upstairs.

And here I sit. Typing up a journal entry.

I got the windows open, the A/C off. There's a wonderful breeze blowing in the windows. It's days like this that I'd sit outside with Dante, and just enjoy it. It's just not the same sitting out there alone. Max and Aries still won't willingly come out the back door, that's Dante's domain in their minds.

2 months, 5 days.

Some days it feels like it was only yesterday that she left me, others it feels a lot longer.

This secret posted in PostScret hit me hard yesterday. (I get the syndicated feed on LJ).

I wish Dante was still here to share winks with me.


I guess I'll eat my pudding cup, go do dishes that really need it, and maybe go outside to do some gardening. Or I might end up uploaded and editing for posting the latest pics from the garden.Or maybe I'll end up doing both.