[Ag-eq] test

[nfoster at extremezone.com]

Susan:

I'm glad to hear that Dober is doing so well.  To bad he won't be able to make
all of his wonderful hound sounds.  I love the sound of a baying hound!

Have you been able to plant any of your garden yet?

Take care.

Nella

Quoting Susan Roe <dogwoodfarm at verizon.net>:

> Hi Jody,
>
> Dover can wine, do a bit of a low growl and a quieter version of what we
> call hound talk.  He can't do the loud sort of yodel howling that a walker
> hound can do and they also can be rather vocal with wines, moans, huffing
> and other sound vocalizations that almost seems like they are talking to
> you.  Dover can still do some of this still along with pushing and rubbing
> his face, head, neck and shoulders up against you.
>
> When I'm sitting on the porch, he stands tall enough that he can just plop
> his head and neck right across my belly and he canpress his chest and
> shoulders all across my knees.  You might as well give him a minute or he'll
> just stand up on his hind legs, put a paw on your arm and shoulder and
> litterly be nose to nose with you.  The silly dog.
>
> When Dover was laid up inside, he wanted to do the same thing with laying
> and rubbing his head and neck all over you.  The only problem with that is
> he had the two open drains and all of those exposed stitches.  Now I have a
> thing about tuching stitches, they just creep the crap out of me.  So when
> Dover insisted on this sort of attention whenever I was sitting down, I'd
> just catch him at the chest with my sock feet and keep him at that distance
> so I could still pet and rub his head, ears, and muzzle without tuching his
> stitches or being covered with his drain liquids.  He unfortunately thought
> this was a fun game for me to slide him backwards with my feet on the slick
> wooden floor, so he blessed me with doing it quite frequently until I had to
> call for Matt to rescue me from the goofy beast.  LOL
>
>   We're thinking about downsizeing the garden this year because we have had
> two locations and with the terrible drout we had last year, we just about
> lost everything because we couldn't irrigate because we lost power the first
> of July for 1 week.  No power ment no running water anywhere and the
> generator couldn't help because the pump is hardwired into my house fuse
> box.  We had a hard enough time bringing in water from about 10 miles away
> for us, the animals and his one row of grapes.  The grapes got enough water
> to survive, but they didn't produce any grapes and we were expecting about
> 25 gallons of grapes.  I would like to see him cut back on volume and
> increase his veriety.  With him working 12 hour nights, 4 nights straight
> and then off 4 days straight, it really messes with your awake and sleep
> times.  To keep up with a place like this, it has to be enjoyable and not a
> non-ending burden.
>
> Susan
> dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jody Ianuzzi" <jody at thewhitehats.com>
> To: "'Agricultural and Equestrean Division List'" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 7:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] test
>
>
> > Hello Susan,
> >
> > Oh I am so glad hat Dover is better but what a shame he will never bark
> > again.  Can he make any sound at all?
> >
> > Why do you want to shrink your garden?
> >
> > JODY
> >
> >
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