I’m posting on all my blogs in the hopes that you will learn of this fantastic group who work to help people in arid regions of Africa to care for their environment and to feed themselves.
The Edenland Foundation: http://edengardens.org/
Founded by a fellow Ridgeback owner’s family from Sweden.
Hoping you’ll join me in donating to this great cause. You can send money via PayPals to:: loverescueoperation@gmail.com
I loaded the whole gang and we went over to visit Gail and Bill Thompson on the bay. Oz, Sizzle and Darla had all been there before, but this was a great adventure to the younger ones: Guy, Magic and Prize. The Tompson's RR, Kona, has recently passed away, so they were in need of a ridgeback fix!
There's a nice sandy beach in front of the house, but the dogs were busy ripping around full tilt and when they came back to the beach, they didn't expect such a big drop.
They soon conquered that and enjoy an ear rub by Bill on the low end of the bulkhead.
After romping hard, they made for the water. Sizzle, that water is salty!
Darla stalks a water monster.... an odd shaped piece of driftwood that she eventually decided was okay and picked it up.
Magic was in a stalking mode, too.
A group wade...the younger ones weren't sure about all this water, but Mama Sizzle is quite the swimmer, so they went with her.
Whoopee! That water's making Guy lively!
Then they all discovered barnacles. Must be tasty, too, because they were gnawing away at them.
Ah, crunchy seafood..,,,,,
...and a salt lick to boot! Except for the lingering "barnacle breath", they are all sacked out after the great adventure.
Atlas, Ursala and George's new rescue pup, is spending the day with us while his owners play host to family with a toddler. Atlas isn't mean at all, but he's a bit of a clumsy puppy and they were afraid he'd knock down the kid and the parents would be upset...they are non-dog owners.
We all went out for a walk about and over to the pear tree where mine were waiting for me to hurry up and throw them some pears. Atlas didn't quite know what to do with his.... he wasn't raised eating fruit, like mine, so he's not too sure of what he's supposed to do. ....but the way he loves food, it won't be long!
He followed me around the yard, then decided to go back over to the pear tree, just in case some steak fell on the ground.
Prize ate hers and is wondering what else she can do...
Atlas gives up the steak hunt and hurries back across the yard to continue the walk.
The pears are finally ripe...not that the dogs haven't been eating them since they were bumps on a twig! They've jumped and gotten all those they can reach, so now I climb up the tree, get some for me and toss the gang a few.
The group "munch"... all happy, everybody's got one.
Guy and Oz chow down.
Guy gets a good mouthful and you can hear the crunch and the slurpyness as it's going down!
It's HOT! Magic grabs a second wind before charging in on the group set-to.
Sneak attack...Prize nips poor old Guy's leg...
Henna (L) is a 14 year old Rhodesian Ridgeback. That's ancient in RR years! Here she is in Sept 2011 playing with Magic ( 2 yrs) while visiting my house.
Henna's mom, Liz, fell and broke BOTH her wrists recently while trying to load some itmes during a move. Liz is a master gardener and a maker of fabulous jewelry - unfortunately, she's not going to be doing NEITHER for the next 4-6 weeks!
To help relieve the stress of bills to pay and no money coming in, her friends are going to have an auction for her beginning the latter part of the week or whenever all the donations are in.
Even if you aren't a "dog person", there are wonderful items in there that anyone can enjoy and we'd love to invite you to partake in the auction! I've already begun to add items to the site, so feel free to check with us each day.
Liz's Auction web page
I took Magic and Prize over to meet Atlas, the new rescue of the Romanos.. I thought since he as only 10 mos, they'd play a bit. Didn't go as planned...it was too hot outside.
Mine got there, check out Atlas, marked the entire yard, Prize was trying her best to get in George's lap, Atlas was wrapped around my legs.
After a while, all three went off into Ursala's flower bed.....
....they conferenced a bit.....and came out deciding that everything was okay, but it was too hot to play.
When George headed to the house to get them some water, they went, too. Determined to get in the cool!.
Magic was still trying to go in, but Atlas came running back. Eventually, we all went in, brought in the new toys I got for Atlas to play with and then I took my two home. Perhaps when he comes over here to stay a couple of hours, they'll be comfortable enough to run and play.
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