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chillin'Now Playing: Day 2700-Next GP Chapter... Turning Lemons Into Lemonade :)
No rain today means time to get out and enjoy a bit of the holiday weekend! 
Snoreo? He's all about finding the biggest stick possible while enjoying a quick morning walk along the river trails. Heeheeheehee! Too darn cute!
Littleblue hasn't been feeling very well over the past 24 hours. We have been noticing that her breathing problems are getting a bit worse. This could be due to that time of the year, allergies, which doesn't help any type of pre-existing issues. Littleblue has been on a bronchial dilator for awhile that had been helping. So we aren't quite sure what the change has been to make her feel so bad?. But for now we don't want to risk having her outdoors for too long of a period at a time. Tis better to play it safe! Walking at the trails for Snoreo and less than 5 minute walks for Littleblue. They both don't do very well in the heat or humidity. But for Littleblue and her super thick Siberian Husky fur, it's much worse on top of having respiratory issues.
We have no holiday plans for this weekend since there is still so much on our list of things to do. Eric has to work all weekend, on top of quite a few Band-Aids that once again need placed through out the house. Inside and outside. Hopefully the Band-Aids will help prevent it from collapsing a bit longer while we continue to strategize on what to do next. There are quite a few Memorial Day festivities going on around our little, lazy, river town. But as for now, I am doing my best to avoid any and all stress. That includes the stress of being in the middle of large holiday crowds. Sandwiched among hundreds of loud, hot, sweaty, drunk folks just doesn't sound very relaxing to us. Nor getting run over, ankles first, by hot-rod baby stroller drivers. Heeheeheeheehee! Hey, just being honest!
Today was all about being productive, yet still finding time to enjoy the great outdoors. There is always time for a breather or two.. Even Snoreo has a pastime which includes watching all the deer come up to my homemade food station feeder. Snoreo doesn't bark, but instead just freezes up until Eric sneaks up behind him! Hahahaha! As far as the deer... I think they are just used to not only us, but Snoreo and the rest of our fur children. We have quite an interesting little family and same goes for who shows up at our homemade feeding station. Lately it's been the most unusual wildlife pair ever!
Raccoons and deer can be best friends
Even while eating side-by-side together
A beautiful ending to a most beautiful day!
bright
or what?. 
Eric? He is at a crossroads of his own with regards to our home that we should had vacated out of months ago. Instead, we are still playing a game of the great western standoff to see who will outwit, outlast and literally outlive the opposing side first. The problem with that game just happens to be the other component who is a house with thousands upon thousands of pounds of Bedford stone that could collapse and kill you in one split second. We know first hand by photos shared with us from two engineers on the serious matter at hand. Pictures of homes sitting on unsafe foundations built with Bedford stone. Some with deadly consequences. At this point. Who isn't aware of the dire need to get the hell out of here?! We would had been out of here. If only the next lemon didn't have to magically appear.
We had honestly sold far too many personal items that I care to mention in order to make way for our new temporary home. While the bank and other parties litigate a very serious matter with our home's foundation, fraud disclosure and other private matters. Those parties need us out of this unsafe home. But here we are yet to find a temporary home. Instead I am still dealing with Camping World, Heartland and now the bank who has my new travel trailer loan. Could things get any crazier? I am sure they most definitely could, so for now we continue doing our best in a very tricky situation to remain as calm as possible. Stress at this point, especially for me receiving my next round of new treatments, would do us no good. Who in the right frame of mind would buy a home if they knew upfront the sellers hidden agenda?. Pulling the best David Copperfield of all time while concealing very serious foundation problems. Who has the power to set up a seriously defective mechanical system inside a brand new 36-foot travel trailer? Mind you... All three slides with the same failing mechanical cable system. Sorry, but I can not take the honors of such a lemon when the wrong trailer was sold to me in the first place. Honors to Camping World on that huge mistake.
crazy, that is because it is crazy.
When it comes to my brand new travel trailer purchase mistake. It has now been over 3 weeks. No one contacts us on either side of Heartland Corporation or Camping World. They never have, since why would they, when Camping World has already been paid. I had to once again, contact all parties involved today in hopes of getting some answers only to find out. Nothing has yet to be done nor even started at this point. YOLO remains sitting on a second Camping World back lot in waiting. I was told on the phone today by the service department representative reading a long list of notes regarding YOLO. The body shop manager contacted Heartland Corporation in requests to send a representative down to see the major manufacturer defect. This of course might just take them another 3 weeks, 3 months, who knows at this point?
The RV lemon law applies to every state in order to help protect the consumer. In my case the lemon law states that a major repair must be performed in a timely manner. 30 days is the max. Come next week. I will be past my 30 days and already had paid out two payments later with nothing to show for it. No YOLO. In fact, the insurance has now been cut off. The site is no longer after those who own the site expressed their concern on having a serious mechanical issue with all three slide cable systems that constantly remain under high tension and pressure. They expressed to myself and Eric that if it were to ricochet screws again, but this time through a window and hurt someone. It would be a major liability on their part since they are now fully aware of the Heartland defect. Same with insurance not covering a travel trailer that should had already been recalled and paid back in full by Camping World. Let them deal with Heartland Corporation. Sure, it all makes sense doesn't it?. Easier said, than done. 
Decisions. 
If life were constantly all smiles among a bed of rose. Then how the heck would we ever learn? The hardest struggles bring with them the greatest lessons learned. It is through those struggles that we learn how to be strong! 
Another crossroad getting ready to hit me is with regards to my current scheduled labs and rescans. It is up to me after this next rescan if I want to continue them every three months or wait and rescan every 6 months. Nothing has really changed since my last several scans. It is more so for my sake since I am the type of person who wants to know what I am battling. What I might possibly be facing. My oncologists and specialists have left the decision up to me if I want to continue rescans every 3 months or just do so when complications arise. This is something that I will need to make a firm decision on by early next month. For now it's onto a new specialist and specialty oncologist who will being assisting my team of doctors. 
This is where photography has always been a great passion and joy of mine over the years. Especially when it comes to taking photos of nature and all of God's creatures, both big and small. This is our first teeny, tiny, 1 week old newborn turtle that actually stumbled upon us while walking along the river trails. It's quite fascinating if you think about such a long journey from nesting to now quickly learning to adapt and overcome this brave new world. A quite scary and dangerous new world for tiny little baby turtles such as this baby snapping turtle. Of course we weren't going to leave this little guy in any sort of harms way. So we gently picked this little cutie up and took him home with us to a far safer place. The same place where we placed the rescued box turtle that got stuck in the middle of a very busy intersection just a few weeks ago while on our way to my morning treatment. 
heehee!
celebratory
I can still remember her as a puppy staring at me inside this little cat carrier. Two crystal blue colored bandit eyes. Heeheeheehee! I wasn't sure if she was a Littleblue or a tiny baby raccoon. Littleblue has grown into such a beautiful and super sweet fur child with lots of love for her entire family. Snoreo and Littleblue have yet to truly bond since Mr. Snoreo is still in his teenage rebellion stage. But I have a feeling that sooner than later the two will grow to have a very close bond. 
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Mistake? Let's just say that I was personally WARNED. Actually... VERY WARNED by quite a few prior unhappy customers. Travel trailer, fifth wheel, RV, you name it and their experience was as well, far from any better. One would had thought I would had taken their advice. But NO... I had to once again learn the hard way.
#4-The ticket price means absolutely nothing at Camping World and the same holds true for their online price and even other ads Camping World places online such as RV Trader. Through my own personal experience with Camping World and doing a lot of homework has shown me that the General Manager does a whole lot of scamming with various price changes. Increasing sticker prices all the way up to $25,000. OH YES! Do your homework before stepping into any Camping World.
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HAHA!
Hahahahaha! 
HAHA!
City Regatta was an event where boats from all over the United States bring in different kinds of whiskey~
HAHAHAHAHAHA! 
We could never figure out why he has such a crazy EOS fruit lip balm addiction, but he does. Yep, blame it on the German Shepherd genes after quickly finding out from his trainer that ALL German Shepherds love anything fruity. I could be standing on the opposite end of the house, twisting open the round top of my pink grapefruit EOS lip balm and POOF! There is Snoreo! Hahahahaha!
I personally have never raised a German Shepherd. Snoreo is actually a mix of German Shepherd, Siberian Husky, Alaskan Malamute and the little Caesar dog food mascot breed, West Highland White Terrier. Talking about one strange mix! But we do have Snoreo's genetic lab results to prove his sometimes quite odd, yet every single bit German Shepherd looks and mentality. Smart? YOU BET! Although we tend to believe the only Siberian Husky side of Snoreo is his one single blue eye. His large bone structure is every bit a mixture of German Shepherd and Alaskan Malamute. Temper tantrums seem to be the Caesar dog side of Snoreo. Hahahahahaha! 
heehee!
Negative public perceptions. Thanks to the media, history, popular culture, and surely many mishandled, don't expect to receive a very warm public reaction when outdoors. Some people might automatically get scared due to what they may hear or perceive. We have seen lots of mixed reactions from people who will literally take their time to walk around us and Snoreo to even those who will literally wait in their car until we are out of sight with Snoreo. Hahahaha! Trust me. His objective by breed is to make you as intimidated as possible! But underneath it all, he really just wants your attention. ALLLLL of your attention and lots of spoiling! Heeheeheehee!
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truly happy! 
Regardless of hardships and struggles that each one of us will endure through out our lifetime. There are still plenty of reasons to be happy. There are endless reasons to smile. For me... It will always be the little things. Like my first accomplishment today putting together a new vacuum while Eric ran a few errands. I even surprised myself! TADA!! With a household of fur children. We tend to be quite hard on vacuums. I have lost track on how many we have went through over the years. Far too many to count! Yep, it's that OCD neat-freak in me! Blame it on the ole genetics. Heeeheeheehee! 
I can't believe that the weekend is once again quickly upon us. Where does the time go? This year is already flying by, yet we still have so many things left to accomplish on our full plate. Medically, I still have a lot to accomplish and overcome. I am thankful to have the little things in life to truly enjoy. Each new experimental treatment most definitely puts life in a whole new perspective, not just for myself, but as well for Eric. We have learned a great deal. I will have to admit that each new treatment brings with it an entirely new found appreciation for life. I have lived, learned and yet I still find myself learning something new each and every day.
There are patients, like myself, who are blessed enough to benefit from medical grants. Tax money hard at work helping those who fight each and every single day for another chance at life. Far better days. This bill we received today in the mail signifies how some of those tax dollars help fund grants. For myself, rare cancer grants. Ongoing experimental oncology treatments that are not covered by insurance companies. If it weren't for our tax dollars hard at work. I wouldn't be so fortunate as I am today. 
YOU!