Well, where nothing else seemed to be helping, it seems the thoughts
and prayers, Boxer vibes and paw crossings must have done the job of
getting them out here to get our power back on. Thanks a heap
everyone, and to all the Boxers as well.
Our power went out Friday about 4:30. It came back on Sunday around
4:00. Then it went back out Sunday at 7:00. We stuck it out here at
the house till about 9:00 Sunday, so drained, heads hurting and poor
Willie panting his head off. We then went to a hotel not far from
here and rented a room. Amore Mae, the Rickets foster girl we too to
Cathy Coyer's on Saturday shortly after we got up due to the heat and
my not being able to see her in the very limited light from the
battery powe3red lanterns on Friday night. Saturday evening Bogie
went home with Carmella Wilbur after we had unloaded everything that
hadn't yet gone bad from our freezer to take to her house and Tammy
Randolph's to put in their freezers. It was amazing how much had
already melted, defrosted, and gone bad in both the refrigerator and
freezer in just the 24 hours since the power had gone out
Friday. Goes to show just how hot it was in the house and all, even
with the windows and sliding glass door were open.
Willie of course stayed with me, as my Guide Dog for the Blind and
Visually Impaired. Where there had been a little bit of a breeze
coming in on Friday night, there was NOTHING on Saturday but a steam
bath in the air on Saturday. Wayne had left around 6:00 for
work. So, when Carmella, her Son Cory, and Bogie left on Saturday, I
filled a HUGE travel mug with what had been left of the ice tea in
the refrigerator, which I had tasted to make sure it hadn't gone bad,
to the car. I also took the charger for my cell phone, my Kendall
(larger one they make) , it's charger, and Willie and we got in,
cranked the car and ran the air conditioning till Wayne got home at
almost 4:00 AM.
We then all got in the truck and went to Waffle House to get
something to eat since I had not had a way to fix anything since I'd
eaten right before Wayne left to go to work. Heck, we'd started
cooking before the power went off at 4:00, but it wasn't done. We
finished that so we could eat before he left for work, on our gas
grill on the back deck. Once it got dark, even with the little
battery operated lanterns, I couldn't see good enough in the pitch
dark to heat anything on the grill even.
Wayne came home from the hotel at 10:30 this morning and found our
power was back on. A neighbor told him it had just came on right at
10:00 this morning. We had been by at around midnight last night and
was off still then for sure. So Wayne called me on my cell and let
me know he was making coffee (not from Waffle House or the gas
station) in our maker to bring back with him to the hotel. I got
busy packing everything up to bring back home. The hotel had been so
kind as to extend our check out time for 11:00 till 1:00 so we would
have a chance when we got up to come home and check the power
status. So we came home right at 1:00.
The house is not as hot as it had been the last couple days, ranging
anywhere when we stopped by. from 89 to 94 (inside). But, it is only
down to 80 at the moment, so still not comfortable by any means, six
hours after the power came on. When it gets so hot in a house it
takes forever for the AC to cool it back off again. sigh:: I've
already got a headache from the heat again. sigh:::
I've got my e-mails downloaded but haven't started reading just
yet. I had been checking voice mails on the home phone each day, but
didn't on Monday so listened to those messages that came in yesterday
and earlier this morning and have returned those calls. Friday
night, Saturday and Sunday till we went to the hotel I could answer
the home phone when we were here since we use AT&T and still won two
old style phones that only need to plug into the phone jack, not
needing electricity.
Barb Campbell, whose power was out too from Friday evening till late
Saturday night and I chatted earlier. She has cable for her internet
and phone so using an old phone didn't work for her. I asked if she
could use her laptop. Nope, couldn't do because the wireless in her
house also come through the cable modem. None of the wifi in her
area works at her house. In my opinion that's a good reason to use
the phone company for home phone and internet.
In this instance there's another reason for having the phone company
for those two things. Our cable, which we only use for TV, had gone
out on Friday about 20 minutes before our electric went down. When
we got power back on Sunday from 4:00 to 7:00 when it went out again,
we still had no cable. At 7:00 Sunday we all, us and neighbors
around us, went outside after hearing a boom, the power going out
again, and the fire truck was coming down the street to put out the
fire that had started in a tree in a cross-the-street neighbor's back
yard when the line broke AGAIN. I mentioned to a next door neighbor
that I had just started to download my e-mail to my computer after
clearing out the spam from my web mail, when the boom and power
outage happened again. She was incredulous when she asked how I had
got on the internet at all when she couldn't. I looked at her and
said, you must have cable internet. She said yes, and I said well we
have AT&T DSL. She was really upset that the phone company hadn't
gone out but the cable company had. I told her we'd never had the
phone go out here in all the time we've lived here, since 1994. even
though the electric and cable companies both have gone out numerous times.
Friday night I was so bored. I couldn't read my Kendall after it got
dark outside as the battery powered lantern didn't give off enough
light for my vision to read. From around 10:30 till right at 4:00 AM
when Wayne got home from work, I sat at out dining room table on the
phone plugged into the phone jack, talking with Sherri Taylor (for
those who don't know, she is Ann Stone's Daughter and our GOBR Web
Master). Boy did we talk about a LOT of things. LOL I'd tell her
I'd be back in a minute, lay the phone down (no wireless without
electricity) and go let our Foster girl, the Rickets baby, out to go
potty for a minute or so, then bring her back in, sit back at the
table and pick up the phone again, continuing our long discourse.
The cable for our neighbors and us is still out. I understand it is
still out for lots of folks around the area. Can't get through to a
live person on the phone. Heck, their one phone is on their own
service and you can't even call it! I did get thought to one of
their toll free numbers, but no person, just a recording that says
lots of people in the area are without cable, they apologize and are
working as fast as they can to restore it, however they could not
give any estimate on when it would be restored, and just because your
electric may be back on, that doesn't mean the cable will
be. sigh::: Heaven only knows when it will be back on! At least
with the power company we won't have to pay for power that was not
used, but the cable company will for sure want us to pay the whole
month as usual. Well, me and them are going to have a big
conversation about that - we should not have to pay for service not
provided by any means!!!
Please keep us, and everyone else who have been dealing with all the
power outages and so on across the Eastern side of the US, as well as
the wild fires in Colorado and so on, in your thoughts and prayers
and continue those Boxer vibes and paw crossings. Pray those who now
have power won't loose it again, like we did on Sunday.
A huge thanks to Sherri Taylor for keeping me entertained Friday
night, as well as updates on some e-mails to the group, and for
sending Maryann Watkins e-mails last night (sorry I didn't think to
ask her to do that before then) so everyone on the BML would know why
I hadn't been heard from since Thursday. She also helped handle a
couple GOBR Administrative things over the last few days.
A huge thanks To Cathy Coyer for taking in yet another dog at her
house, a special needs one at that, with the others she already has
there. She is fostering the boy that had came back to GOBR with
possible Meningitis who seemed fine when he came back last Monday but
then Wednesday night started hurting again and who we took to the vet
on Thursday at same time we took Amore Mae, the Rickets
foster. Cathy says he is feeling better now and let's pray he stays
better, and can soon be totally cleared up. So Amore going to her
house gave her two special needs fosters.
A huge thanks to Morgan Cassidy and Linda Orvis for contacting me
regarding an unusual issue with a Boxer that was due to come in to
GOBR on Sunday and helping to get that situation all worked out.
A huge thanks to Carmella Wilbur for coming to take freezer stuff to
hers and Tammy Randolph's freezers, and for taking Bogie Bear home
with her, even with her already having her own two Boxer girls, her
two cats, her two young Sons, and the four of the five mixed pups
that were born in GOBR three months ago. She then wound up with a
boil order for the water where she lives due to a water main break in
the area, then the water tower for the town sprung a leak and they
got ordered not to flush the toilet and so on unless they absolutely had to.
A huge thanks to Julia Allen and Tammy Randolph for offering on
Sunday to let us come stay at their houses since they had
power. Julia's had been out but had come back on, I think early
Sunday morning, but then it went out again Sunday afternoon. We just
felt, after our power went back out Sunday evening that it would be
best for us to go to a hotel/motel as both Tammy and Julia would have
to get up early to go to work on Monday morning. Wayne is off on
Sunday and Monday nights, and we always try to stay on his schedule
as much as possible on his days off. We especially wanted to be able
to sleep as much as we could, in the hotel, since we had not slept
much, and what we had was not restful on both Friday and Saturday
nights (mornings) after he got home from work.
A huge thanks to Barb Campbell for, after she got her power back for
going in and ridding my e-mail of spam and the e-mails about Cocker
mixes in SW Texas, the Beagle in GA, and so on out of my inbox
through my web mail. Also for answering some of the inquiries that
had come to me about dogs needing in, and dogs we have up for
adoption and so on.
A huge thanks to Mary Rue for calling to check on us Saturday after
she heard about the storms coming through here and hadn't seen any
e-mails from me.
Thanks to everyone who has been sending us thoughts, prayers, Boxer
vibes and crossed paws!
"Rescue Boxers are Adoptable Love"
Rachel Osborn <mailto:boxers@ameritech.net>boxers@ameritech.net
Director, <http://www.goboxerrescue.com/>GO Boxer Rescue, Inc. (GOBR)
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<http://www.boxerrescuefoundation.com/>Boxer Rescue Foundation
Owner/Admin Boxer Rescue List
Phone: 937-277-4652
P.O. Box 621, Dayton, OH 45405
Willie B, Guide Dog for blind/visually impaired, DOB: 4 Dec
'05, n/m/w Boxer http://cinnamonboxers.net/willieb.html
Bogie, 22 Dec 08, m/w Boxer
Tanker (forever in our hearts), Guide Dog for blind/visually
impaired, CGC, Delta, TDI, n/m/w Boxer
21 April '99 - 22 May '06 (Rainbow Bridge by Lymphoma - WAY, WAY TOO YOUNG!)
Toni, 7 March '01 - 3 May '09
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