[nagdu] Now I know WAS RE: What do you do when...

Fri Feb 4 07:31:15 UTC 2011

We all do things like this. It's not like you're going to get in trouble for 
double checking. It's better to be safe than sorry.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tamara Smith-Kinney" <tamara.8024 at comcast.net>
To: "'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 11:17 PM
Subject: [nagdu] Now I know WAS RE: What do you do when...

> So poison control was the right first call, suggested police nonemergency
> for an air check, which I had considered but didn't know if that was the
> thing to do or not...  So I did that, a couple of officers came out to 
> sniff
> the air or whatever else and agreed that there was indeed a very strong
> odor...
>
> Which they identified as mulch.  /lol/  The minute they said that, I could
> identify the blend of odors and realized that indeed that was what I was
> smelling.  Kinda nasty mulch, but just mulch.  Of course, I had taken 
> Mitzi
> into the front yard where it wasn't as strong about the time they showed 
> up,
> so she barked a time or two when one of them spoke to me, which woke up
> Daisy, which woke up Wayne anyway.  So he came out, heard the mulch
> diagnosis and took a deep whiff.  Oh, he agreed.  That would be mulch.
>
> So now I feel relieved to feel very very very stupid for calling out the
> authorities to sniff the air for that horrible poison that was going to 
> kill
> my dog the minute she had to go out to do her business, which turned out 
> to
> be just nasty mulch.  She'll live, but I'm kinda mortified.  /grin/
>
> Happy the nearby neighbors haven't taken up cooking meth, too.  No thank
> you.
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Tamara Smith-Kinney
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 10:14 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: [nagdu] What do you do when...
>
> You go out into the still night air on the back porch and breathe in 
> before
> sitting down to light up a nice relaxing smoke...  Then stick your head 
> back
> in the door to rant at your roommate to come see if *he* can figure out 
> what
> that smell is because it is *wrong* and you need a second opinion about
> whether something needs to be done about it...
>
> I couldn't identify the smell, but after going through a number of
> unpleasant options that wafted through my mind (with unfortunate visual
> imagery) and ruling them out, I sat down and lit up thinking my own fumes
> would cover it.  So then I decided to wander out back to see if there was
> any difference there.  Honed in on my sense of smell now.  Cigarette smoke
> really stinks if you stop and think about it.  /smile/  I came in to 
> report
> further on my findings and what my brain kept telling me it might be (if
> you've ever been camping and walked past poorly buried human waste, you 
> know
> the closest odor I could come up).
>
> So DD came out and stuck his head out the door.  Not raw sewage, he 
> agreed.
> Not somebody smoking pot (preferred option), not garbage, not one of those
> (expletive deleted) kids taking a dump on our yard...  Nope!  Smells like
> drugs, alright.  Smells like someone's cooking.
>
> Did I mention absolutely still air here this evening?  It is really, 
> really
> close!  My first thought was that if they blow up our house when they
> finally get around to blowing up theirs, I am going to be really 
> (expletive
> deleted).  Especially if our dogs get singed!
>
> So off to bed went he with his dog, having agreed that there is nothing to
> be done except feel vaguely unhappy and disgruntled about it.  So I 
> decided
> to just get on with that solution, checked on my dog and gave her our 
> usual
> after everybody else is in bed rub and sweet talk, then out of habit went
> out to see if I could talk myself into relaxing again, especially my
> muscles, which still need a lot of coaxing to stay happy....
>
> It's worse!  My throat is still burning, even after I just sacrficed the
> cigarette and came indoors.   Absolutely furious, because it had suddenly
> occurred to me:
>
> Pretty soon my *guide dog* is going to walk through that to do her 
> business.
> In the morning, both dogs are going to walk through that to do their
> business...  Insert expletive deletes to taste.
>
> The solution this evening is to take Mitzi out the front door when she's
> ready to do her thing before bed.  That's not so good an option with 
> Daisy,
> since we -- and pretty much everyone -- we keep her in the fenced part of
> the yard unless big strong DD is holding her leash.  She does okay these
> days in Halti, which I guess I need to find hers for morning, but DD does
> *not* like it when I take her out even then just in case she gets loose.
> She's doing really well these days, a sweet sweet angel, but...  She *is*
> Daisy, and fear aggression is forever.
>
> More cusswords, please!  If it affects me, I don't want either of my 50
> pound dogs breathing it in!  And one of them *is* my guide dog.  I am so 
> ...
> you know, the expletives and all.
>
> Does anyone anywhere know what one is to do in these situations?  Can I
> expect anything to happen (beyond snide laughter on the other end of the
> phone) if I call law enforcement to tell them I smell something nasty and
> I'm afraid it will hurt my guide dog (or me, but I'm pretty sure my throat
> will recover...).  What about poison control?  I'm not sure what they're
> supposed to tell me, but it's clearly toxic, so that would be poison, 
> right?
>
> Okay..  Also, apparently my computer is have a serious senior moment while 
> I
> am typing fast, so I went to check my search results and discovered enough
> letters were missing from my search query, that Google wanted to know if I
> meant pain control...  Which is what I need to be doing right now and 
> which
> does not involve being uptight about poison in the air, thank you for 
> point
> that out.  /lol/
>
> Suggestions welcome!  Meanwhile, I'd better take this rant away from
> keyboard before I start forgetting to deleting my expletives!
>
> Oh, if anyone has some of those to add to my existing supply, let me know!
> I'm bored with my own repertoire just now.  /grin/
>
>
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Tamara Smith-Kinney
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 8:11 PM
> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users'
> Subject: Re: [nagdu] Getting back your cane legs
>
> Only when there are lots of people around when I'm doing it.  /lol/  Or is
> that just because these days I only use a cane to shop and go around the
> shopping center while I'm waiting for my poodle to get her hair done? 
> /lol/
>
> In cane anyone is wondering, my cane sucks at the "find" command.  One day 
> I
> was thinking especially hard about where the aisle I wanted was in 
> relation
> to where I was standing and got really mad at my cane for not obeying
> "Forward! Left!"
>
> Then again, DD starts giving me the guide dog commands to tell me which 
> way
> to go when we're doing whatever it is together.  /lol/  Tami, forward.
> Okay, now, left.  Halt!  I said *HALT*!  Left.  /lol/  Now I know how 
> Mitzi
> feels.  I'd bite me if I were her.  I might bite him at those time if I 
> had
> her teeth.  Teehee.
>
> Tami Smith-Kinney
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
> Of Cindy Ray
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:52 PM
> To: NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users
> Subject: [nagdu] Getting back your cane legs
>
> I had a lot more trouble adjusting from a cane to a dog, but even now it
> isn't too difficult for me to switch to the cane. I rarely do because the
> great doctor to whom I used to be married said to me before I got my first
> dog, "When you are getting a dog, you need to think of all the places you
> would rather not use it or think it would be difficult and then do it." 
> Now
> I know there are places where this is inappropriate counsel, and, of 
> course,
> I think he did, too, but he was saying if you are going to have a dog, use
> it. I miss the dog when he isn't with me much as I would miss my child, 
> and
> I miss the tug on the left side. That's partly why the awkward feeling. 
> Has
> anyone ever given his/her cane commands?
>
>
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