June 23, 2010



Fern and Digby

Denise and I helped out at another Children’s Workshop.  This time was at a Boy Scout Day Camp. The boys were earning their disability badge. Denise and I were at the vision station and had a special treat of having Mr. Paul and Guide Dog Rawhide work our station. Mr. Paul showed the kids all his neat toys to help him find the correct color for his clothes or read bar codes for when he goes grocery shopping and more.  After Mr. Paul’s presentation, Denise had the kids try on different glasses to show what it was like not to see.  Then, she had them blindfolded and try to put together puzzles, tie shoes, string shapes on to ribbons.

Vision Station were the boys where blind folded and had to put puzzles together, string beads, count out play money from a wallet, and tie a shoe



Mr Paul and Rawhide show all his cool toys from color reader, bar code scaner and his talking watch



Glass with Mr Paul's blindness

June 16, 2010

Fern

Yesterday, my brother, sisters and I turned ONE year old. My sister, Finley, decided to have a birthday party for us. So Farah and Echo and I came to celebrate ME! We even had hats and puppy ice cream!

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Finley, Fern, & Fergie

Fern

June 9, 2010

Denise and I went to help with the GDA information booth at the Thousand Oaks Wellness Fair. Denise talked with lots of people about GDA while I received all the love and belly rubs I could sneak in. I really like “working” the information booths in exchange for all the love I get and good naps under the table.

June 9, 2010

Denise and I visited the Lakes in Thousand Oaks. There were a lot of Koi in one of the ponds. I wanted to investigate them, but Denise would not let me catch one so I laid down as close as I could to watch the fish as they watched me.

June 5, 2010

Tonight Denise and I went to see my sponsors at there annual Square Dance benefiting GDA. It really was fun leaning into the ladies big fluffy skirts and watching the dancing.

June 4, 2010

Today, Denise and I helped with the Chatsworth Elementary children’s workshop and worked the harness station. In this station the kids work in teams. One child puts on a blind fold and another child pretends they are a guide dog and puts on a “harness” that goes around their waist. While Denise and Lynne supervised the kids, Jax and I took a nap in the shade.

May 31, 2010

The next morning we got up real early to clean the Scout house and pack, since we were leaving today. We walked to Erik Shat’s bakery for breakfast and picked up Grandma B’s order of bread. When we left Bishop, we made a stop to see the Manzanar Internment camp where we watched a 20 minute film about the camp and then walked around the museum.

Bishop Scout House

Manzanar

Louise (friend) with Fern and Ember

At lunch time, we stopped at Alabama Hills for letterboxing, lunch and climbing before we said good bye to the girls and went home. It’s been a really fun weekend and I hope we go on another fun trip again.

Letter box Rattle Snake Dick in Alabama Hills

Alabama Hills

May 30, 2010

This morning Denise, Pam, Ember and I went to Mass at the Catholic Church. When we went up for communion, I tried to shake but Denise would not let me all the way up the aisle. When we got to the front of the church, Denise did not catch me and I gave a really loud tail slapping shake in front of everyone.

After mass, we met our group at the park for a pancake breakfast with the local Lion’s Club before we left for Laws Museum. Laws is a very peaceful place with lots of old buildings to see and a nice green lawn and giant cottonwood trees for shade. They had a couple trains and one trolley to ride, but we didn't.

The girls were put on puppy duty so Ember and I had a great time exploring with them and around 1:00 pm, we met up with the adults and had a picnic lunch. The girls wanted to go swimming at the pool in town so Denise, Pam, Kathy, Ember and I stayed a little bit longer at Laws to explore. While we were there, some people asked Denise and Pam if Ember and I were the “Catholic dogs” so I guess we made an impression on everyone.

Denise and Pam

The Ass shoot with the Girl Scout Troop

Around 2:00 pm, we went back over to the park and pool where we dropped off Kathy to find the girls. By 4:00 pm we were all hungry so we went back to the fairgrounds for dinner and met Cari and her guide dog, Denver to watch the final show of the weekend.

The girls, Fern, Ember and DenverDenise & Fern, Pam & Ember, and Carri and Denver