The weather is playing havoc with our repairs outside and under the house! It has been raining like we live in a rain forest! Torrential downpours!! The backhoe can’t come in to dig as the holes fill up with water - the water table is very high this year. It has been a very unusual summer so far - a week of very hot weather then rain and more rain - very cold nights almost to zero! Stan is chafing at the bit wanting to finish the job to get back to his own life but the weather is not co-operating. It is sunny now with big fluffy clouds. The ground is slowly drying out. IF it doesn’t rain tonight we should be able to start digging on the near wall and then remove our little porch - yay (I will get my bigger porch after all!! - Maybe with windows to grow herbs and flowers?) I know - I am dreaming!!) at least it will have dog food storage and a place to do adoptions out of the weather. My adopters will like that - me too.

Misty and Lady are adapting well. Neither have tried to jump the fence, dig out or rush the gate. They sleep on the porch with the rest of the crew in crates or igloo houses and lots of soft blankets. The porch has a roof and walls to keep them draft free and the door to the Blue House is usually open - Dave finds it too warm in here! so far I don’t see her anxiety and I do leave them while I go to the Red House - not far away but not in sight either. Even my old dogs are adapting to me actually being out of their sight for a half hour or so.  They have howled and ki-yied and though I yell at them Aardvark and Colby are now deaf and can’t hear me. Maybe Lucy tells them I am nearby?  We are all adapting to smaller quarters. It is surprising what we can do when we have to. It will be another month or two before everything is back to normal but much better than before. For that I am willing to stay here happily. Stan has to leave soon but he wants to make sure the hard work of shoring up the house, putting in the foundation and laying the new floors is done first. Then he and Davy will come back to finish the tile so another two weeks of waiting before we can walk on it. It has to cure to be impervious. But what a floor it will be - clean, shiny and easy to maintain. Floors and dog rooms to be proud of and so very comfortable for the dogs - more homelike so they can be ready for their own families. Yet still a part of our family so they can learn how to be a well mannered companion. TG teaches them first to be dogs then we help them become companions and family members. Thank you "Somebody" for making it possible for Turtle Gardens to continue doing what we do best and to the donators who are meeting the Challenge - we THANK YOU.

A rainbow for Turtle Gardens!

To meet or beat the challenge up to $5000 - your donation is doubled:

Lady - $60.00

From pop cans – challenge other recyclers to meet or beat – Donna - $37.50.

From the professional beggar – Rayla – at the TG Fleamarket - $60.00

In respect for the abandoned dog on Forestdale Canyon Road : $50.00

Sassy from Courtenay : $50
Canines North Dog Club : $100

Miss Maxine: $50
Molly : $50
Razz: $50
Mia : $50
In memory of Shadow: $50
in memory of Rever: $50.
in memory of Kiro: $50

A dog proof fence with a double gate is our goal with the challenge. Please help us reach our objective!

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