Showing posts with label bostonterrier. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bostonterrier. Show all posts
Roxy & Tink
Thursday, September 13, 2012
5 years ago, I met my neighbor when I saw her Boston running around in her backyard while I stood on my back porch. They just moved in. I picked up Roxy and she held up Tink and we smiled at each other. We became instant friends. Today both dogs are gone; sadly Tink left us today, Roxy is missing; and my heart is heavy and sad. I hope Roxy and Tink are together, friends forever. {very sappy today..}
Welcome Miss Francesca Ruby Abeling
Friday, March 2, 2012
Meet Fancy, our newest addition. After months of debating and searching, I found the this little lady at a breeder in Arkansas. I spent about 2 weeks verifying that she was legitimate, that I wouldn't get scammed, and that the doggie I saw on the advertisement was the same dog I was going to get when she arrived to me. I had no luck finding a puppy with another blue eye, but that's ok. I think the fact that she doesn't look like Roxy Roo will help.
Two weeks earlier, dan's sister Alex happened to find an almost IDENTICAL little brown Boston, she named Louie or Lulu. They could be twins right to the very same spot on their heads.
The breeder had fancy driven out to Texas - these types of dogs don't do well on an airplane. When Fancy arrived, she was about 5.5 pounds and I instantly fell in love. She was born on December 6th and has quite the personality. For about 2 hours her name was Pixie Rubydust per Nicky, however Dan overruled and we named her Fancy. Miss Francesca Ruby Abeling, to be exact.
I am sure there will be more posts about her in the days and years to come. She has made me so very happy and she loves Rango and Zeus. Zeus can not be bothered. here she is! And YES, that means we have three dogs and three kids.
Two weeks earlier, dan's sister Alex happened to find an almost IDENTICAL little brown Boston, she named Louie or Lulu. They could be twins right to the very same spot on their heads.
The breeder had fancy driven out to Texas - these types of dogs don't do well on an airplane. When Fancy arrived, she was about 5.5 pounds and I instantly fell in love. She was born on December 6th and has quite the personality. For about 2 hours her name was Pixie Rubydust per Nicky, however Dan overruled and we named her Fancy. Miss Francesca Ruby Abeling, to be exact.
I am sure there will be more posts about her in the days and years to come. She has made me so very happy and she loves Rango and Zeus. Zeus can not be bothered. here she is! And YES, that means we have three dogs and three kids.
Hello March
It's March 1st (2nd now) and I haven't written in a while. Feb was a very busy month for me. Work was crazy and it kept me busy every day and all night long. I also haven't felt inspired but my guilty conscious has brought me back to Abelingland - I know I will never forgive myself if I stop now.
So much has happened in the last month - I exited January, preparing for three big work events in Las Vegas for VMware's Partner Exchange and I was swamped and drowning. I spent the remaining hours I had with the boys or searching for a new puppy. I pulled the trigger at the end of January and bought a new puppy. Her name was "Salah" and I knew when I saw her she was perfect. She was different enough from Roxy, but still had some of the features I love about the breed. More on her later.
On Feb 10th, my mom turned 65, Nicholas became 2 months closer to 4 years old, and Brandon celebrated his 32nd month birthday! We all hopped on a plane and headed out to Vegas for the weekend to celebrate. It was also Papa Ray's birthday and we met Dan's sister Alex and brother FA in Vegas for a great weekend of gambling, food, and more gambling!
See what's been going on in pictures below...every Monday my friends who blog, do a "Hello Monday" - where they post ~ 10 pictures about their lives and I thought that its a fun way to capture special moments. So see you on Mondays!
So much has happened in the last month - I exited January, preparing for three big work events in Las Vegas for VMware's Partner Exchange and I was swamped and drowning. I spent the remaining hours I had with the boys or searching for a new puppy. I pulled the trigger at the end of January and bought a new puppy. Her name was "Salah" and I knew when I saw her she was perfect. She was different enough from Roxy, but still had some of the features I love about the breed. More on her later.
On Feb 10th, my mom turned 65, Nicholas became 2 months closer to 4 years old, and Brandon celebrated his 32nd month birthday! We all hopped on a plane and headed out to Vegas for the weekend to celebrate. It was also Papa Ray's birthday and we met Dan's sister Alex and brother FA in Vegas for a great weekend of gambling, food, and more gambling!
See what's been going on in pictures below...every Monday my friends who blog, do a "Hello Monday" - where they post ~ 10 pictures about their lives and I thought that its a fun way to capture special moments. So see you on Mondays!
Hello Love of my Life
I decided that every time I turn on my phone I should see Dan and me. Our relationship needs to stay strong and this is a great reminder of why I am still so in love with him and happy to have his support, love, and friendship in my life.
Dan hates this picture
Hello Brandy Boy
Brandon is getting so big.
He is so much more independent than Nicky was.
I love his silky blonde hair and when he pouts, I see me.
Hello messy mess.
This is what my upstairs looks like after a day of play.
and why I pay to have someone clean
Hello Angels
The boys sleep together. and they love their Dr. scrubs Grandma Booba bought them for xmas
they wear them constantly
I love watching my precious angels sleep
Hello Ella Bella
This is Nicky's best friend. He ADORES her.
They are married.
He still wants to marry Kylee Jo too
Hello Thursday Night
Grandma Booba and Papa Bob still take the boys every Thursday
Thursday nights are my favorite
But I miss them every second they are gone
Hello Vegas!
We celebrated my mom;s birthday in vegas.
I wish we were all wearing crowns
My mom knows what she is worth after 65 years.
i hope I get there one day too - and not give a shit :)
Hello Swagger Wagon Movie Night
The boys have to watch shows in our car before bed now. I love it. They love it
its so ghetto
Hello Auntie Val
I found this picture from Thanksgiving
Its become tradition for Valerie to take a picture with the boys everytime she sees them so she can update her FB picture
Brandon missed her and Auntie Shauna SOOOO bad.
He says with a big huff - Mooomm-ah, I'm sooooo sad. I miss ValandShauna (sounds like one word)
then he pouts.
Hello Best Nanny Ever
She loves my boys. I love her for loving my boys.
More on this later too
Hello Baby Luke
His name is officially Baby Luke now.
He is so happy.
My love affair continues with this incredible little human
Hello VMware Monster
yeah, we have a vm monster costume
no words
Hello VMware Wedding
You consumed my life
See ya next year
Hello Nickle Pickle
Do you know how much I adore you
He's trying to write his name
He's three
and this was my Valentine
Hello Goodbye for now!
Four days now
Monday, November 14, 2011
My beloved Roxy is gone for another night. She isn't with me and I can't stop thinking about her. My heart is heavy and I ache. I am still numb and I don't know how to stop going.
I just know I haven't done everything I can. Over the last 4 days I have frantically done everything you can do to find a lost pet. I think we indirectly made this happen. See Roxy and Zeus get out under the fence a lot. They love it back there. We call them they come back. We knew we had to finally do something, so we blocked the exit. Roxy found a new spot to squeeze through. I think she got out, but Zeus couldn't follow her, but then she couldn't get back in the new hole. She must have waited for a while.
We were not home, just our Nanny. She didn't realize Roxy was missing. We got home about 30 minutes later, and by 45 minutes we were searching. She could not have been out for longer then 45 minutes before we started searching for her. But by then she wandered off to find a new way back and got lost, and {we think} someone picked her up....so this is what we have done.
It hasn't been easy. On Friday I caught the HOA red handed tearing down my signs. I but I kept putting them back up. So did my team of helpers.
Friday night I was emotionally drained and crushed. I was working with a local Texas "pet rescuer" who referred me to this: guy who tracks Pets with their scent and he is in Dallas. He may come to Austin."
I called the number and there was no voicemail. 10 minutes later he called me. Apparently she contacted him for me. {now I think she was in on it too}We talked, but he was actually profiling me, judging how much he could take me for. I believed him. He was so convincing. I knew his "team of bloodhounds" would find Roxy and I gave him my heart. I sent money Western Union and waited. I never heard from him again. With him, my hopes were crushed. Not only did I waste hours waiting for them, but I lost precious time trying to find Roxy.
Saturday I had to regroup. We spent more time searching for her, posting, handing out fliers. I had beautiful posters made up and I posted them up and down the street. I found the "hoa minions" tearing them down. We had a confrontation in the middle of the street. Me hysterical. Them running to tell the HOA about what I am doing. At the Holiday bazaar, I stomped in on "The Which of SR HOA" and defiantly posted fliers all over the front door to the HOA. I screamed at her (in front of lots of staring people, mind you) that she was evil and who could she tear them down.
She stood there in her fat mom jeans, and terrible 1980 haircut, and I knew this is all she had and how sad her life must be. BUT i still told her she was rude, in bed with the developers, and completely inconsiderate. I told the HOA that they are a joke of an HOA and that I am ashamed to live here. I also told her she needed to actually try to help the home owners in Steiner rather than be a barrier. I told her I will continue to post fliers everyday until Roxy comes home. Then I went home. 20 minutes later the cops showed up. She actually called the Sheriff on me. UN. F-ing. Believable.
I turned it on the cops and told them that now I feel threatened, and harassed by my HOAHOA has to waste tax dollars and $$ to call the cops on me, someone who just wants to get her dog back. So I had to re-strategize.
During this time I also found a K9PI named Karin. She must have felt sorry for me when I was sobbing on the phone about "Claude the bastard Pet Tracker" that she helped me. But she was on her way to St. Louis for an assignment. So I searched for a reputable Pet Search specialist and I found Bonnie Hale. She came to my rescue early Sunday. Her and Murphy, her tracking dog went out in search of Roxy. My only rule was that if she found a body I didn't want to know about it. There was a false start tracking a different scent, and then we think Murphy picked up Roxy's trail 2 times. If this was the case, then Roxy has been all over the neighborhood! that little rascal.
The best assumption is that Roxy is not alive out in the green belt and hurt, there was no signs of decomposition or a new body. That she must have been taken. Either at the corner of QPR and BSO or inside our own development, just a block away.
Bonnie left with a lot of tips for me to do - basically now I have to make sure everyone knows that Roxy is mine and missing. This is when we upped the reward to $1000. I had 2 friends even offer to double it for me. I can not being to tell you how amazing, thoughtful, and incredible that offer is. But no, we can't take it. I spent the rest of Sunday staring out the window, waiting for Roxy.
I took today (Monday) off to make more signs. I placed these on the entrance in and out of SR. I also put them at four points intersection and along 620. I hired sign spinners who start tomorrow.
Then karin, the K9PI called me today. She was back on assignment and got my text from Sunday and wanted to see how I was doing. We talked. She said, I cost $2500. I can either come to Austin, or you can up the ante and make someone give her up, turn on their neighbors, and get Roxy back. So we are starting all over again. I have 25 signs to hang/post tomorrow and three 2ft by 4f banners to post in the 3 ways out of the area. I hope by tomorrow afternoon EVERYONE will know that ROXY is mine, missing, and desperately wanted. Our new reward is $2500. And here are the new fliers and banners. These will debut tomorrow.
I will get her back.
I just know I haven't done everything I can. Over the last 4 days I have frantically done everything you can do to find a lost pet. I think we indirectly made this happen. See Roxy and Zeus get out under the fence a lot. They love it back there. We call them they come back. We knew we had to finally do something, so we blocked the exit. Roxy found a new spot to squeeze through. I think she got out, but Zeus couldn't follow her, but then she couldn't get back in the new hole. She must have waited for a while.
We were not home, just our Nanny. She didn't realize Roxy was missing. We got home about 30 minutes later, and by 45 minutes we were searching. She could not have been out for longer then 45 minutes before we started searching for her. But by then she wandered off to find a new way back and got lost, and {we think} someone picked her up....so this is what we have done.
- We spent a cumulative of 20 hours walking our greenbelts, driving around calling her name
- I posted on Craigslist, HomeAgaian, PetHarbor, FindToto, and PetAmberAlter
- for 3 days reverse phone calls were made to homes in a 20, 30, then 65 mile radius
- faxes of my fliers were sent to over 45 animal rescues, hospitals, vets, shelters, groups, clinics, and foster homes in the Austin Area
- I put ads on Facebook and the newspaper (Thank you Valerie)
- I have placed her poster/.flyer/picture on every local Facebook page I can think of
- posted to all Austin Boston Groups
- I call 311 (animal services) every day, three times a day
- Made in person visits to the Shelters
- the HOA did send a Lost Pet email alert (more on that later)
- 1,250 fliers have been made and in process of being passed out to homes, cars, local business, posted in bathrooms, food trucks, schools, day cares, nail salons, coffee shops
- i've spent hours staring at the back fence begging for her to come home
It hasn't been easy. On Friday I caught the HOA red handed tearing down my signs. I but I kept putting them back up. So did my team of helpers.
Friday night I was emotionally drained and crushed. I was working with a local Texas "pet rescuer" who referred me to this: guy who tracks Pets with their scent and he is in Dallas. He may come to Austin."
I called the number and there was no voicemail. 10 minutes later he called me. Apparently she contacted him for me. {now I think she was in on it too}We talked, but he was actually profiling me, judging how much he could take me for. I believed him. He was so convincing. I knew his "team of bloodhounds" would find Roxy and I gave him my heart. I sent money Western Union and waited. I never heard from him again. With him, my hopes were crushed. Not only did I waste hours waiting for them, but I lost precious time trying to find Roxy.
Saturday I had to regroup. We spent more time searching for her, posting, handing out fliers. I had beautiful posters made up and I posted them up and down the street. I found the "hoa minions" tearing them down. We had a confrontation in the middle of the street. Me hysterical. Them running to tell the HOA about what I am doing. At the Holiday bazaar, I stomped in on "The Which of SR HOA" and defiantly posted fliers all over the front door to the HOA. I screamed at her (in front of lots of staring people, mind you) that she was evil and who could she tear them down.
She stood there in her fat mom jeans, and terrible 1980 haircut, and I knew this is all she had and how sad her life must be. BUT i still told her she was rude, in bed with the developers, and completely inconsiderate. I told the HOA that they are a joke of an HOA and that I am ashamed to live here. I also told her she needed to actually try to help the home owners in Steiner rather than be a barrier. I told her I will continue to post fliers everyday until Roxy comes home. Then I went home. 20 minutes later the cops showed up. She actually called the Sheriff on me. UN. F-ing. Believable.
I turned it on the cops and told them that now I feel threatened, and harassed by my HOAHOA has to waste tax dollars and $$ to call the cops on me, someone who just wants to get her dog back. So I had to re-strategize.
During this time I also found a K9PI named Karin. She must have felt sorry for me when I was sobbing on the phone about "Claude the bastard Pet Tracker" that she helped me. But she was on her way to St. Louis for an assignment. So I searched for a reputable Pet Search specialist and I found Bonnie Hale. She came to my rescue early Sunday. Her and Murphy, her tracking dog went out in search of Roxy. My only rule was that if she found a body I didn't want to know about it. There was a false start tracking a different scent, and then we think Murphy picked up Roxy's trail 2 times. If this was the case, then Roxy has been all over the neighborhood! that little rascal.
The best assumption is that Roxy is not alive out in the green belt and hurt, there was no signs of decomposition or a new body. That she must have been taken. Either at the corner of QPR and BSO or inside our own development, just a block away.
Bonnie left with a lot of tips for me to do - basically now I have to make sure everyone knows that Roxy is mine and missing. This is when we upped the reward to $1000. I had 2 friends even offer to double it for me. I can not being to tell you how amazing, thoughtful, and incredible that offer is. But no, we can't take it. I spent the rest of Sunday staring out the window, waiting for Roxy.
I took today (Monday) off to make more signs. I placed these on the entrance in and out of SR. I also put them at four points intersection and along 620. I hired sign spinners who start tomorrow.
Then karin, the K9PI called me today. She was back on assignment and got my text from Sunday and wanted to see how I was doing. We talked. She said, I cost $2500. I can either come to Austin, or you can up the ante and make someone give her up, turn on their neighbors, and get Roxy back. So we are starting all over again. I have 25 signs to hang/post tomorrow and three 2ft by 4f banners to post in the 3 ways out of the area. I hope by tomorrow afternoon EVERYONE will know that ROXY is mine, missing, and desperately wanted. Our new reward is $2500. And here are the new fliers and banners. These will debut tomorrow.
I will get her back.
Is it Fall yet??
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
We had a really busy weekend, even though it felt like we did nothing. Friday night we took the boys to Waterloo Ice House to meet up with some new friends, the Molers. They have kids the same ages as Nicky and Brandon and I know in a year from know we will be very happy to sit back with an ice cold beverage while they play with Davis and Anna.
Saturday we got up to go to Gymboree's Fall Party, and when we got there we found out its this coming weekend. Opps...so we went to Chair King and bought some new patio furniture for our outdoor courtyard. Here we are enjoying our new loveseat. Its impossible to get both boys to look at the camera!
Nicholas also got a new table. He is a serious art student, so we bought some fine crayons and art paper to help him hone his drawing techniques. Then he ate them and made some pretty orange marks on the new walls.
Saturday night Dan and I went out by ourselves! We got a sitter, the wonderful Lori Sweeney and we went to The Paggi House for one of the best dinners I've ever had in Austin. Dan had lobster bisque, salmon tartare, and leek and corn risotto. I had the beef tenderrloin with truffled fingerling potatoes and wild mushroom ragout. Soooooooooooo good. I highly recommend it.
This weekend, the temperatures actually dipped below 100 degrees and we even got some sporatic rain.We tested the new stroller and fell in love. The Valco has lived up to his reputation so far and the boys seem to like it too. Its very easy to control and drive. Plus its very sophisticated to look at! :)
We visited Matt and Kristi Brown for their Labor Day party, and Nicky went to Colin Cooks birthday party. We capped the weekend off with a day at the pool and dinner with Grandpa Ray Ray.
I think the highlight of the whole weekend was Nicky saying Val for the first time. He was so proud of himself and I know it made Val's year and has crushed my mom that he hasn't say Booba first. We're working on it, and we're close...Bubba. But the first family name he said was not Val, but Zeus!
until next time!
xoxo,
Vicci
Saturday we got up to go to Gymboree's Fall Party, and when we got there we found out its this coming weekend. Opps...so we went to Chair King and bought some new patio furniture for our outdoor courtyard. Here we are enjoying our new loveseat. Its impossible to get both boys to look at the camera!
Nicholas also got a new table. He is a serious art student, so we bought some fine crayons and art paper to help him hone his drawing techniques. Then he ate them and made some pretty orange marks on the new walls.Saturday night Dan and I went out by ourselves! We got a sitter, the wonderful Lori Sweeney and we went to The Paggi House for one of the best dinners I've ever had in Austin. Dan had lobster bisque, salmon tartare, and leek and corn risotto. I had the beef tenderrloin with truffled fingerling potatoes and wild mushroom ragout. Soooooooooooo good. I highly recommend it.
We visited Matt and Kristi Brown for their Labor Day party, and Nicky went to Colin Cooks birthday party. We capped the weekend off with a day at the pool and dinner with Grandpa Ray Ray.
until next time!
xoxo,
Vicci
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