Less than 48 hours away!

Are you excited yet?  We have less than 48 hours to the debut of BLogville's very first novel, "Frankie Furter Price, the Pirate King of Blogville"!

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Happy BIrthday! Jan of Jan's Funny Farm

Happy Barkday to one of BLogville's own, Jan!

Are you ready?

The excitement is palpable concerning Tuesday- the debut of Blogville's first literary effort!  Lots of illustrators and writers are burning the midnight oil polishing up their creative efforts  (limericks, haikus and poems are also welcome!  Anything that you wish to share, just let WHN know via email Saturday that you are pawticipating so that she can include you on the blog hop list!)- 

NOW we have the following to share!

The PugRanch Tavern will be open for business and serving whiskey and ale to any pirate gents and ladies who would like to stop by and wet their whistles

Tuesday is shaping up to be a fabulous BLogville event!

Are you coming?

One week to go!!!!!

WE, THE DWM ARE SPONSORING A BLOG HOP ON JULY 1ST TO CELEBRATE THIS MIRACULOUS RECOVERY OF OUR BELOVED MAYOR!  ALL OF BLOGVILLE IS INVITED TO PAWTICIPATE SO SPREAD THE WORD!  The blog hop is the debut of BLogville's very first NOVEL!  Each and every pawticipant will be writing a chapter for the pirate anthology  Life of Frankie Furter, Pirate King of Blogville!  The chapter does not have to be about Frankie himself, but should be pirate themed.  OR, if you so desire, just post a photo of yourself or peeps in pirate themed attire!..(the novel will need to be illustrated so we will need photos!) 

Now, we have a lot of creative BLogville residents, but we also have some very shy residents too-D ot worry!  If you do not want to write, then post a photo!  Limericks, poems, haikus are also welcome! Ann of Zoolatry has donated this fabulous badge for the day and isn't it grand!  Goon, take it and share it around Blogville!

Please email WHN with your blog info by this coming Saturday so that she can have the blog list up Monday!

Maddie the 10 Week old Dachshund learning to ring a service bell!

RRRRRRRRR U READY????

Coming to BLogville on 1 July 2014!!!!  

RRRRR U READY?

POTP - PUDDLES DUDDLES RAINWATER!!!!! ANd a Frankie Furter Update!!!!

PUDDLES, Blogville's beloved Queen of Merriment and Mayhem, has been injured and is in dire need of POTP.  Please head on over and leave her POTP!!!!



MAYOR EMERITUS FRANKIE FURTER PRICE (cut and pasted from his blog!)

WONDERFUL NEWS for FRANKIE

It was NOT a Mass....   

Here is the Diagnosis:

      POSTERIOR SYNECHIAE of the LEFT eye and DRY Eye in BOTH eyes...

 

 Now what that MEANS....     Frankie's TEARS were OUT OF WHACK

    Tears are made up of three Parts    Mucus, Water, and Lipids.... 

 What LOOKED like an Infection was NOT that...  when the three parts are Not producing in the proper proportions.... it can cause a Yellow Green Discharge...    The Eye Drops  DID help with that, however it did not cure the problem.   

     ( Frankie has ALWAYS had what we call EYE BOOGIES ...   and those were actually caused by his tears not Ever producing in the CORRECT Proportions)  All this time .... I just thought it was NORMAL ... for Frankie.       It was actually a Symptom of the tears being incorrect.

 

    NOW for the "MASS"

 Posterior Synechia Means that the IRIS gets stuck to the LENSE and distorts the Pupil...     It was the RUMPLED and IRIS (BROWN in Frankie's eyes, Blue in some dogs)...    THAT Dr. Hustey and Dr. Welsh saw... and said looked like Brown Cauliflower ...    TODAY the Doctor used some different instruments to look at it and discovered that it was NOT Thick      NOT Growing   and NOT BLACK    Any One or More of those would indicate a Tumor/MASS... which was NOT the Case...          

     THAT condition can be caused by One of Two Possibilities..

1. Previous inflammation INSIDE the eye due to Trauma or Immune Mediated (Body Attacking Itself)

OR...

2.  Previous CYST...  inside the eye...  and THIS is what she suspects it was caused by.       She said that when the Cyst ... Collapses on itself... it PULLS the Iris and causes it to get   STUCK TO THE LENS. 

 

TREATMENT:     He will need to have "DROPS of Ointment" in his eyes Twice a day (Perhaps for Life).       THAT will put the TEARS into the proper ratio.

    The Iris that is STUCK to the Lens will Need to be Monitored...  to make sure it does Not get Worse..   (She does NOT believe it will)  

    We have to go Back to MedVet for a check up in one month.

 

Frankie did NOT have to have an ultrasound of his eye...   Dr. Webb had Several Instruments that a REGULAR Vet. Practice Does NOT have.   It was One of those (I don't know its Name) instruments that enabled her to get a GOOD LOOK at the Stuck Iris.      

 

I can NOT tell you how RELIEVED I am....   I had expected Frankie to lose his eye.    THAT will NOT happen NOW.        I believe that it was the POTP that all of YOU sent to Frankie...that made ALL THE DIFFERENCE In The WORLD.        YOU and your Positive Thoughts and Prayers and KIND WORD...   SAVED Frankie's EYE.

 

He and Ernie were VERY well mannered and Frankie was So EASY for them to Work With.   

     I am both RELIEVED and PROUD.  

 

THANK YOU       THANK YOU       THANK YOU  For Having OUR BACK!!

 

There will be pictures on the Blog... butt NOT tomorrow...   We will be CELEBRATING the GOOD NEWS,  and APPRECIATING  our WONDERFUL FURENDS.   

NOW FOR THE IMPAWTANT NEWS!!!!  WE, THE DWM ARE SPONSORING A BLOG HOP ON JULY 1ST TO CELEBRATE THIS MIRACULOUS RECOVERY OF OUR BELOVED MAYOR!  ALL OF BLOGVILLE IS INVITED TO PAWTICIPATE SO SPREAD THE WORD!  The blog hop is the debut of BLogville's very first NOVEL!  Each and every pawticipant will be writing a chapter for the pirate anthology  Life of Frankie Furter, Pirate King of Blogville!  The chapter does not have to be about Frankie himself, but should be pirate themed.  OR, if you so desire, just post a photo of yourself or peeps in pirate themed attire!..(the novel will need to be illustrated so we will need photos!) More details will be posted on MOnday!

Having Hope Always the Movie

This movie is about our former foster, HOPE!  She lives with a great pack and has fabulous pawrents!

POTP needed for Mayor Emeritus, Frankie Furter!

Blogville's beloved Mayor Emeritus, Frankie Furter, is experiencing medical issues concerning his beautiful brown eyes. Please head on over and leave him, his brother Ernie, and his mom and dad, POTP!

POTP Needed!!!! Grandpa Bob

Snoopy here, Muffin's Stud!!! 

Grandpa Bob,  Lily Belle and Muffin's Grandpa, is back in the hospital and POTP is needed.  

Here is what they say at their blog:

Grandpa Bob needs POTP

Grandpa Bob is back in the hospital again. Mommy noticed today that his leg's and paws were really swollen and red. She put him on the scale and he weighed 10 pounds more this week than last. (That's a classic sign of heart failure.)


Mommy called the Cardiologist and after reviewing the symptoms with him, he said to take him immediately to the ER. They were waiting for us when we arrived.


Grandpa Bob right after arriving in the ER. Sound asleep!


After doing a lot of poking and prodding on Grandpa Bob, they are admitting him for his severe heart failure.


Right now they are giving him a lot of medicine that makes him wanna lift his leg and pee all the time. We've got our fingers crossed that this will work for him again! Gotta get rid of this bad fluid.


I know Mommy has her hands really full, so I'm just going to thank you all in advance for your good thoughts and prayers for Grandpa Bob.


Hugs,
Lily Belle

Please drop by and give them your POTP!!!!!

V for Victory!: Seventy Years

V for Victory!: Seventy Years

Seventy Years

FDR's address to the nation on June 6, 1944.

My Fellow Americans:

Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.

And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest -- until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.

For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.

And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them -- help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keenness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment -- let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace -- a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

Thy will be done, Almighty God. Amen.

Omaha Beach, D-Day, 6 June 1944

6 June 1944, D-Day- Operation Overlord

 Today is the 70th anniversary of D-Day.  Please remember the sacrifices of those brave men who fought and died to liberate Europe and the world from the horrors of Hitler and the Nazis (who were left wing socialists, btw).  Pray for their memories and their sacrifice and if you know one, thank him.  Below is the annual D-Day posting from one of my favorite blogs for you to read and remember these brave men.  WHN and Dad always watch "The Longest Day", and she weeps during the St Mere Eglise scenes and the scenes of the beach landings.  

NAZI- German, short for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei, National Socialist German Workers' Party.

Every year, V for Victory!commemorates the anniversary of the Longest Day: D-Day, the Normandy invasion.  It is necessary to keep alive the memory of the men who sacrificed so much to fight evil, especially now that evil threatens to engulf us once again, this time from within.  

Herewith a digest of classic D-Day posts:

FDR's radio address to the nation on June 6, 1944

Eisenhower's D-Day address to the Allied Expeditionary Force

President Reagan on the 40th anniversary of D-Day

The Great Signal: Verlaine's "Chanson de l'Automne"

President Sarkozy thanks America for liberating France in 1944

Our Lady of the Paratroopers  

Thursday, June 06, 2013

June 6, 1944: The Longest Day

"Believe me, Lang, the first twenty-four hours of the invasion will be decisive...the fate of Germany depends on the outcome...for the Allies, as well as Germany, it will be the longest day."

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel to his aide, Capt. Hellmuth Lang, April 22, 1944

From Part One, Chapter 13 of The Longest Day, by Cornelius Ryan (available, by the way, on Kindle):

Now Eisenhower stood watching as the planes trundled down the runways and lifted slowly into the air.  One by one they followed each other into the darkness.  Above the field, they circled as they assembled into formation.  Eisenhower, his hands deep in his pockets, gazed up into the night sky.  As the huge formation of planes roared one last time over the field and headed toward France, NBC's Red Mueller looked at the Supreme Commander.  Eisenhower's eyes were filled with tears.

Minutes later, in the Channel, the men of the invasion fleet heard the roar of the planes.  It grew louder by the second, and then wave after wave passed overhead.  The formation took a long time to pass.  Then the thunder of their engines began to fade.  On the bridge of the U.S.S.Herndon, Lieutenant Bartow Farr, the watch officers and NEA's war correspondent, Tom Wolf, gazed up into the darkness.  Nobody could say a word.  And then as the last formation flew over, an amber light blinked down through the clouds on the fleet below.  Slowly it flashed out in Morse code three dots and a dash: V for Victory.

Now you know where the title of this blog comes from.

Some classic D-Day posts:

FDR's D-Day address to the nation

Ike's D-Day Address to the Allied Expeditionary Force

President Reagan commemorates the 40th anniversary of D-Day

The Great Signal: Verlaine's D-Day Poem

And from Life magazine: color photos, before and after D-Day

The Normandy Beach landings- D-Day)...

Adrienne's Corner: Normandy Landings - June 6th, 1944 (D-Day)...: remember.

More D-Day photos in remembrance of today- these come from another of WHN's favorite sites.

Commemorating the grit of priests and D Day with manly photos

Commemorating the grit of priests and D Day with manly photos

 Commemorating the grit of priests and D Day with manly photos

June 6, 2012 By The Crescat 1 Comment and 11 Reactions

… I contend there is no other religion more manly and burlyand punk rock than Catholicism. I know Google forgot, but today is D Day. Eh, they’re a bunch of commies anyway. To honor the occasion and the grit that makes up Catholic priests I offer you these images to consider.

Fr. Francis L. Sampson blesses the dead

Fr. Sampson of Sioux Falls, S.D., gives absolution to American paratroopers killed in action, in Saint Marie Dumont, France, U.S. Army Photo, 7 June 1944 (Note that bodies are wrapped in parachutes)

Read the bio of Fr. Sampson here.

Photographed by Frank Scherschel - Priest administering Last Rites and the Eucharist to a soldier in France

photographed by Frank Scherschel- A priest says mass in the dappled sunlight of France

Source – Before and After D Day – Rare Color Photos. See all 26.
I love our priests.

The Digital Hairshirt: Because once is not enough . . .

The Digital Hairshirt: Because once is not enough . . .: This is Jim Martin. On June 6, 1944, Jim Martin was with the 101st Airborne and parachuted into Normandy on D-Day. Jim is 93 years old...

This is Jim Martin.

On June 6, 1944, Jim Martin was with the 101st Airborne and parachuted into Normandy on D-Day.

Jim is 93 years old.

And tomorrow . . . Jim is going to parachute - again - into Normandy to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the first time he did it.  In the uniform you see him wearing.

Which begs the question - where did they find a set of fatigue pants to fit the enormous stones this man has?

God bless Jim.

God bless all the men who were there on that longest day.

Normandy Speech: Ceremony Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Norm...