Indy Watching TV and Hurricane Season Not Over

Sunday has become Dog Park day.  Looked like it was going to rain, so I took her over around 1 pm.  Pull up and I have her look out the front window and boy did she get excited.  We enter, these two dogs were the only other dogs in the park at the time. She goes over, turns around and follows me to the bench I sit on.  The other two dogs gave her a quick sniff, but did not follow us.

Did not take long and she went right over to join them. Eventually she and the white dog were chasing each other all over the area.  The other brown dog joined in a little, but did not want to run as much.  Both of these dogs are adults, and Indy is still a puppy...she was slightly bigger than the other two, and much faster.  Two other dogs arrived, both smaller than these three, but they did not come over to my area, and Indy was off exploring the smells of the park.  Never saw her mark the territory so much, like six or seven times!  She came over to me and I could tell she was tired, so we left.  She is REALLY getting to love the Dog Park. 

Ended up that the rain missed us completely...but with the very HIGH humidity, I am glad we went early.

So-Far-So-Good on the Condo and Service Dog notification we sent a couple of weeks ago.  Since the form, which we worked out through a mediation through HUD and the Condo Association back in 2014, is NOT an application but a "notification", there is nothing they (association) should vote on or approve.  But earlier this year with Bubba the Board, as it was constituted then, tried, to no avail, to take action.  We shot that down very quickly.  I have a feeling that with this new board president, things will go as smooth as it is suppose to go with Indy.

So that we don't have to watch the bombardment of Political TV Ads, and the bombardment of the Medicare Commercials and the "Abused Boy Scouts" Commercials, we have been streaming McLeod's Daughters, a Canadian TV Series which ran eight seasons from August 8, 2001 to January 31, 2009.  It is just one of those shows you can watch without having to worry about what is going on in the world.  We entered season six yesterday, so by the time we have word on how the election turned out, we should be done with it.  Unfortunately, the Boy Scouts commercials will run through most of November, and Medicare will run into January and beyond.

But the thing is that Indy has been watching the TV too.  Sometimes she will get up from her bed or the floor she is laying on, give a growl, and go over to the TV and stand on her legs.  Many times a baby or another dog or a horse will have caught her attention, but sometimes it is just whatever is on.  I have tried to get a picture of her doing this, and finally got this one above with my phone.  (The reaction from when I push the "take picture button" and the picture actually being taken under poor lights made it hard to capture.)

We have a couple more weeks of the Hurricane Season.  This one has been very active, but has missed Florida for the most part...although Hurricane Sally took a bridge out in the Pensacola area along with damage to some structures.  Above is the predicted path of Hurricane Zeta, taken days before it actually hit the US.  For the most part it followed this path, although the time line was sped up by a day or two.  It is amazing how well they are predicting these things now days.

Paul Dellegatto is the local Fox station weather guru.  He has been with Fox-13 since 1990, and has been the Chief Meteorologist since 1997.  He worked as a Meteorologist in Portland, Maine then became a Chief Meteorologist  in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  By far he is the area's Hurricane expert. Hard to say how many hurricanes he has monitored, and unlike "some" weathermen, he does not go out into them for "show"...he has a huge respect for them.  He is also a huge Tampa Hockey, Baseball, Football and Soccer fan.  I think he likes Hockey the best.  And with the "lock down" he has been doing much of his weather from home, and his dog Brody is famous for interrupting one of his broadcast. (youtube it)

Anyway, his latest tweet about Tropical Storm ETA (above) provides a bit of an apprehension as if we will dodge the Hurricanes this season or not.  Look at this latest NOAA forecast below...

So our eyes will be once again watching another Hurricane.  The "what ifs" are many right now, with a worse case scenario of it turning into the Gulf of Hondurus, follow a path between Cuba and Cancun and head right for the Tampa Bay area.  Then again, it could just head north and hit Louisiana again, or make a U-Turn and head over Cuba and out to the Atlantic. 

Lots of "what ifs" now, but we should know within a few days.

Indy and the Condo - All's Quiet on the Eastern Front

 

Here she is, 5:15 on a Saturday evening, and she looks pooped out.  Well, it has been about 10 days since we got home, and everything is finally caught up, and we are all pooped out.  But with ALL we have gone through with the Condo Association with Skruffy and with Bubba, just how is Indy doing being in the Condo?

Friday I get the motorhome into storage.  There are a few minor items still in there that need to come to the condo, but nothing that can't fit in one bag.  So Saturday I decided to print out the forms needed to make Indy 'legal' in the Condo as a service dog...and the printer does not work.  Something about the ink head.  So I soak the ink head for a few days in Rubbing Alcohol, and put in new cartridges, all to no avail. We rarely print anything, and the Cannon Printer probably had not printed more than a few hundred pages during its lifetime.  It has now been replaced with a HP printer.  Submitted the forms Wednesday, and had a talk with Ken the maintenance person who the board has used as a liaison between them and us in the past. He told me that with the new President, AND with the person who bought a unit about six doors down from us who also has a Service Dog, that he did not expect any problem whatsoever with the Board this time since they just went through it.  (Kinda implied that they talked to the lawyers again.)  Well, so far, so good on that front.  (Eastern Front since we are in Florida.)

On Monday Indy and I dropped Marcia off at Bible Study, and went over to the motorhome...a weekly thing while it is in storage.  I run the engine to get the batteries up to snuff (they did not need it this time since it had only been there for 3 days), but Indy was a bit excited to see that we still have the motorhome.  She settled right in while I listened to the radio and I caught up on emails and blogs and stuff.  90 minutes later we were in the parking lot of the church waiting for Marcia.

The first thing on Marcia's mind after getting home was getting her hair cut after five months of growth.  She was able to land a Saturday appointment (week ago), and here is Indy looking at the entrance of the beauty shop looking for Marcia to come out.

And here is the result.  (Picture taken with my phone...had I had the camera out she would have never looked over at me.)

On Sunday I knew that Indy was dying to run around for a bit.  So I took her over the Public Library where they have a back lawn, nearly fenced in, that I could allow her off leash for a good running around.  She really enjoyed it.  She also enjoyed seeing the Sand Hill Cranes that frequent the pond in front of the Library.  Amazingly, she did not bark at all.

On Wednesday I gave Indy her first Condo haircut.  She did pretty good since this was her second haircut that I had given her.  Another few and she will be an old pro at it.  So on Thursday I took her to the Dog Park in Tarpon Springs.  Here (above) she is greeting a new arrival.  This dog is 12 years old and they frequent the Dog Park just about every day.

In this picture she is looking at the adjoining park for larger dogs.  Amazingly, she did not bark once.  It was a good first visit, and we will be back soon.  She did not "RUN" like she does, but she got her exercise.  By the third of fourth visit she will be so eager to get out of the car when I pull up...

Above is a 30 second video of Indy in the Condo.  A few times a day she gets into this mood and she just starts running around the Condo.  She might have her Squirrel toy, or her favorite ball, or a chew stick.  Sometimes she just runs for no reason whatsoever. This time she had the remains of a chew stick.  If you listen to the video at the end I say "Thanks Sis", in reference to Sandy who found Indy and helped us get her.  What a joy of love she has been...and it has only been a few months now!