Friday, March 17, 2006
Top of the Morn to you
March 16 to March 17
Hope you all had a green St. Patrick’s Day — we did. My sister Carol and her husband Darryl drove 400 plus miles from Tyler, Texas to Port Aransas on their motorcycle for a weekend visit — I get a sore behind and stiff legs just thinking about it.
The four of us were sitting in the trailer chatting when a neighbour from across the road came over and asked if we could help her. She saw a dog jumped through the screen window of the trailer beside us and could not catch it. The owners were out and she was afraid that it would run off. The dog was about 50 pounds, definitely had some black lab in him, and looked dashing in his shamrock bandana, but was very skittish. It didn’t take long before there were at least 15 people, many armed with treats trying to coax the dog to come. Someone tried the door of the trailer and luckily it was unlocked. The second dog was brought outside and attached to her rope with the trailer door was left opened. This maneuver worked as the black dog ran into the trailer to get away from all the helpful people. It turned out the owners were just down the road visiting at another trailer and the dog was a foster dog that was still somewhat traumatized.
A couple of hours later we were enjoying dinner when we heard a number of sirens and were quite surprised when first a EMS vehicle raced by our trailer then two police cruisers, a fire rescue truck and a fire truck. Looking down the road we could see smoke coming out of a trailer and a man with a hose spraying the roof down (turned out he had been a volunteer firefighter and knew what to do — handy person to have around). The trailer owners were at the club house working at the St. Patrick’s day dinner and dance but their dog was in the trailer. Luckily, neighbours knew this and someone broke into the trailer and got the dog out. The EMT rescue workers gave the dog oxygen and she was taken to an emergency vet. clinic to be treated for smoke inhalation. Everyone cheered at Sunday’s Ice Cream Social when it was announced that she had come home that day. We heard that the fire had started in the air cleaner — makes you really think about what matters.
The fires out.
Hope you all had a green St. Patrick’s Day — we did. My sister Carol and her husband Darryl drove 400 plus miles from Tyler, Texas to Port Aransas on their motorcycle for a weekend visit — I get a sore behind and stiff legs just thinking about it.
The four of us were sitting in the trailer chatting when a neighbour from across the road came over and asked if we could help her. She saw a dog jumped through the screen window of the trailer beside us and could not catch it. The owners were out and she was afraid that it would run off. The dog was about 50 pounds, definitely had some black lab in him, and looked dashing in his shamrock bandana, but was very skittish. It didn’t take long before there were at least 15 people, many armed with treats trying to coax the dog to come. Someone tried the door of the trailer and luckily it was unlocked. The second dog was brought outside and attached to her rope with the trailer door was left opened. This maneuver worked as the black dog ran into the trailer to get away from all the helpful people. It turned out the owners were just down the road visiting at another trailer and the dog was a foster dog that was still somewhat traumatized.
A couple of hours later we were enjoying dinner when we heard a number of sirens and were quite surprised when first a EMS vehicle raced by our trailer then two police cruisers, a fire rescue truck and a fire truck. Looking down the road we could see smoke coming out of a trailer and a man with a hose spraying the roof down (turned out he had been a volunteer firefighter and knew what to do — handy person to have around). The trailer owners were at the club house working at the St. Patrick’s day dinner and dance but their dog was in the trailer. Luckily, neighbours knew this and someone broke into the trailer and got the dog out. The EMT rescue workers gave the dog oxygen and she was taken to an emergency vet. clinic to be treated for smoke inhalation. Everyone cheered at Sunday’s Ice Cream Social when it was announced that she had come home that day. We heard that the fire had started in the air cleaner — makes you really think about what matters.
The fires out.
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