Bear - Senior German Wirehaired Pointer

Bear
Bear is a senior German Wirehaired Pointer
he is in foster care in Minnesota
Dec 30, 2011
He is looking for a Fur-ever Home
He is a great dog

Wise Family Christmas 2011
at Eric and Jessica Wise Betzlers' home
Left to right front row
Jessica, Eric, Gavin, Trevor, Rachel, Great Grandma Clarice, Karley, Bronte, Kristin, elle, Carolina
Backrow left to right
Gordon, Steve, Brad, Kaylee, Natalie, Kendra,
Great Grandpa Floyd Leslie, Joshua, Linda, Brian, Jeff,
Andrew, Soren, Bekah and Glenn
Monday, December 26, 2011
60 degrees and no Snow
Andover, Minnesota

Last Minute Chocolate Moose

Simple, Quick Chocolate Moose
1 - 8 oz container of Chocolate Cool Whip (seasonal item)
1 - 8 oz container of regular Cool Whip
1 1/2 to 1 3/4 Cup of Milk
1- 4 oz Box Of Chocolate Jello INSTANT Pudding Mix
Optional Chocolate Shaving for garnish

Make Jello INSTANT Pudding according to package direction to make a 5 minute Pie

After pudding is blended, add the whole 8 oz container of Chocolate Cool Whip and mix together

Spoon Chocolate Mix into serving dishes/glasses of your choice
then add some regular Cool Whip on top of the Chocolate Mix
then garnish if you wish with Chocolate Bar Shavings
Ready to Eat in 5 mins - but much better if chilled for a few hours
This recipe made 6 desserts

Enjoy

Christmas Time is Here

I love this little scene
It just reminds me to
appreciate what we have
it may not be much or it may be
alot
but the end is to appreciate whatever your place is.
I remember a few Christmas' like this, highway workers were cutting down trees, so we went and
sawed off a top of one of the trees and brought that home. I had been saving all our 'wishbones', from the past year and they became our ornaments.
Another ornament was eggs that I had hollowed out and hand painted, another Christmas we decorated the tree with Christmas cards we had received.
One year we were so broke the kids got pencils for Christmas... but someone from Church brought gifts and food and even food for the pets...
Do we give back now that we are a little more prosperous... you betcha!!!
This year I am healthy, last year I was soo sick as
was our dog, Argo.
Both the dog and I went to the docs right after Christmas - we were both diagnose wrong.
It almost cost Argo his life and me it just took
longer to get well.
Argo and I are alive, happy, and healthy this holiday season.
Without Christ in our lives and his blessings upon us I don't know how we would have made it though some really rough times... and I am sure we will go though more.... but as one saying is if you are going through hell ... don't stop... just keep going
I like that...so if your year has been a bit rough and it has been one hell of a year.... don't stop...
just keep going
It gets better - eventually - it really does
I truly do wish you all...
a very Merry Christmas and a
Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year

Sugar Cookie Cups - Part two - Enjoy

This hole can be filled with the  Chips of your choice, the center maybe not quite done
after filling the cups, put the muffin tin back in the oven for about two minutes, then take out and cool
one a wire rack

The hole to be filled - it could be a little undercooked in the center
but fill it with your little chips
put the filled muffin tin back in the oven for about 2 minutes
take out and cool muffins

Cooled - Ready to eat - I used Milk Chocolate Chips and a few Cinnamon Chips in
Each cookie cup  - the Cinnamon chips are pretty strong in flavor so one or two chips
are plenty - place you finished treats on a pretty plate, platter or serving tray
and ....

ENJOY

Sugar Cookie Cups w/Little Chips

Sugar Cookies Cups
filled with Little Chocolate Chips

Sugar Cookie Mix
Mini Muffin Pans
1 Egg
1/4 Cup Butter (4 tablespoons, Soften, not melted)
Chips Your flavor choice
Rolling Pin - to make the hole
Muffin Cups - or - Baking Release Spray

Pre-heat oven to 375 degrees
Cooking Time  approx 12 minutes - or -
until lightly golden brown
Now lets get started....
Mix Egg, Cookie Mix, and Butter together
until crumbly

Crumbly - then roll individual balls - about the size of a walnut
and place into the muffin tin

About this size - maybe a little bigger - maybe not
Now fill all the cups and put muffin tin in the PRE-HEATED OVEN
375 degrees and cook until puffy and light Golden Brown
remove from oven and immediately get your 'hole maker'
and insert into the center of the cookie/muffin

I used the Rolling Pins Handle

Argo vom Windswept - Blastomycosis Free 12/14/2011

See the right side of his xray where it is a solid
white mass - that should not look like that
January 2011

Argo vom Windswept
in January of 2011 Argo was very ill and almost died from a fungal infection called Blastomycosis
Most dogs do not survive, if treatment is not started soon enough. The first two weeks are very critical weeks and a lot of dogs don't survive  those weeks either, the drugs are very powerful, and the Blasto is very hard to kill.
Argo has been on the drugs for one full year.
We almost lost him those first two weeks of meds, but he pulled through.
Argo has had lots of xrays to see if the blasto was dying, and blood and urine work too.
Finally after a year - his xrays are the same from the last ones - and even though there is a bit of scaring on Argos' lungs he is doing fine.
Argo got his AKC Championship Title in July and has been hunting this Fall... Blastomycosis fungi is very hard to kill off - so we have to keep a close eye on him for a long time yet to make sure there is no relapse.
But for now Argo has been declared Blasto free
YIPEE

see the white fuzzy cotton ball size circles on the xray
that is the Blasto

December 14, 2011
notice his right side, no solid white mass,
you can see his ribs and his lungs now

These are Argos lungs a year later  - no fuzzy circles
December 14, 2011
Argo is one of the lucky dogs to live