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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

A Sense of Doubt blog post #3073 - Happy Birthday Satchel!



A Sense of Doubt blog post #3073 - Happy Birthday Satchel!

Yesterday, Monday, July 17th was Satchel's 11th birthday.

Satchel had quite a year.

We moved to her third home in her life time (Kalamazoo, Woodland, now Kalama).

Three years after her other knee surgery, she blew the other knee and had surgery again. Since we were putting her under, we chose to have them also remove a fatty lipoma.

Unlike years ago, I now have a dog walker to help, so Satchel got regular exercise that is difficult for us to give her when we're at work. Satchel recovered even better and faster this time. Pictures and links below to her post surgery life and the stroller we bought to take her on walks before she could actually walk, both before and after surgery.

And she is 11 years old now.

We think we observed her have a minor and brief seizure a couple of days ago, the day before her birthday. We just ran some tests as I writing this from the future. Her x-rays were clear, so no major cancer or other systemic ailments observable that way.

Happy birthday to my Booness, her Booness, duh Boo. 11 years young!

May she live forever!

Links in the last year featuring Satchel:


Sunday, July 17, 2022

Satchel new bed 2208_12





Satchel and the new Stroller 2208_26









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Monday, June 27, 2022
A Sense of Doubt blog post #2687 - Dad's Visit 2022: Gordon House FLW House as a birthday treat








Satchel in the future - taken 2307.19, two days after this post was published.








A Sense of Doubt blog post #2707 - Happy Birthday Satchel - Ten Years Young!

It's Satchel's tenth birthday today.

It's been an amazing ten years.

Though I want her to live forever, I will be ecstatic if we get another ten years with her.

It's a happy day, and I will celebrate her birthday with her all month; however, it's also sad because it reminds me of the life span of beagles and springer spaniels (as Satchel is a mix of both).





Blog Vacation Two 2022 - Vacation II Post #143
I took a "Blog Vacation" in 2021 from August 31st to October 14th. I did not stop posting daily; I just put the blog in a low power rotation and mostly kept it off social media. Like that vacation, for this second blog vacation now in 2022, I am alternating between reprints, shares with little to no commentary, and THAT ONE THING, which is an image from the folder with a few thoughts scribbled along with it. I am alternating these three modes as long as the vacation lasts (not sure how long), pre-publishing the posts, and not always pushing them to social media.

Here's the collected Blog Vacation I from 2021:

Saturday, October 16, 2021



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Happy and Hot Satchel on 1807_18

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2342 - Satchel's Ninth Birthday

Apparently, I did not post a Satchel birthday blog entry last year.

I cannot believe my Satchel is NINE YEARS OLD!!!

Happy Birthday to Satchel.

She will get special treats and special excursions all weekend, though possibly tomorrow.

I love my Satchel Paige with my whole heart.

She is the most special dog I have ever known.

Ellory and Noodle are okay, too, I guess.


Our dogs all begging - 1812.26

Our dogs at dog park 1808.23

Enjoying the sunny backyard 1907.21

Puppies hiding with me in the toilet stall of the master bath
scared of fireworks - 1907.04

Satchel 1807.05

Satchel 1808.29

Satchel 1812.09

more sunshine enjoyment 1805.25

Satchel "supposedly miserable" at Columbia Canine Cottages
while we're in Michigan for Piper's wedding 1909.14

Satchel's birthday treat 1907.18

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Satchel misses her Mom
sleeps by her slippers - 1905.08

Satchel at dog park - 1908.07

Satchel rolling in grass - 
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Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1189 - (SoD #1703) - Satchel's Birthday; Surgery Tomorrow


Amazing picture of seven-year-old Satchel
at WSU Vancouver seeing the Corpse Flower.Just us; No Ellory. 1907.17
Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1189 - (SoD #1703) - Satchel's Birthday; Surgery Tomorrow

Today is the date of Satchel's birth for another month. Her annual birthday for another year old comes around each July, as the following reprint will share.

Today, she is seven years and three months old.

Given all that has happened since July, I am having a difficult time accepting that her yearly birth date was just three months ago.

Remember, I am in low power mode because life is overwhelming and stressful.

So, with that in mind, please enjoy this reprint from Satchel's birthday in July of this year (2019) as a way to keep up my daily content without much work.

I am so worried about her.

LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.



A Sense of Doubt blog post #1609 - Happy Seventh Birthday to Satchel!

I could go nuts with this post, but the point of it is to keep it short. Find more pictures via the links.

My Satchel archive contains all the Satchel-centric posts.

Today Satchel Paige Tower is seven years old, which hardly seems possible.

It seems as if I did not do a Satchel birthday post on 1507.17, which was just twelve days after I started the daily HEY MOM feature.

In 2016, a Bunch of pictures and this one....

https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2016/07/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-375.html



In 2017, a proper send up for her fifth birthday.



Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #741 - Happy Birthday Satchel, a five-year old Beagle
https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2017/07/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-741-happy.html




The 2018 birthday post:

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1243 - Happy Sixth Birthday Satchel
https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-1243-happy.html

Happy birthday to my Booness.

I celebrate her Booness' special day with links to some of my best Satchel content plus a reprinting of the entire Happy Birthday post from last year.

I am trying to get us out for a special birthday walk later. We did the regular walk this morning.

There are some of my favorite Satchel pictures included in this post along with the links to some of my best Satchel posts.

Happy birthday to my first and ever special puppy Satchel Paige.

I love you, Booness.

(Obviously, I also love Ellory as seen in some of these photos.)

BEST DOGS EVER - TRIP WEST DAY SIX


sleeping in the car - 1708.21

SATCHEL AND CAMP SNOOPY





PUPPIES!! A special puppy photo album


Satchel and Ellory napping together 1612.26

SUPER DOG!!





SATCHEL DISLIKES THE STEREO

Satchel upset by music new stereo VictoriaLand 1508.03


One of my favorite posts:
https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2018/07/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-1099.html
from - http://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2015/11/hey-mom-talking-to-my-mother-131.html

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #131 - Satchel does chickens

Hi Mom,

Time again to have a puppy on this blog.

Knowing Satchel as I do, this is a great picture of her as she is telling me: "Dad, it's time to do chickens."

"Doing chickens" means that she gets in to the side yard, which is currently closed to her. In the morning, we let the chickens out sometime between 8 and 10 a.m.

Satchel runs full tilt to the gate to the side yard and then sprints for the back fence, checking all her spots. She has not responsibility in the morning when we let the chickens out of the coop to roam, and she has more time to explore and sniff her spots if I have to change their water and/or food.

At night, we put the chickens away. Sometimes, we time it right, and the chickens are already in the hen house. But if they are still in the yard, Satchel gets to wrangle them, shooing them back to the coop.

Recently, some chickens did not wish to be shooed, hunkering down in bushes next to the fence far from the coop. There was a terrifying ordeal of many minutes attempting to herd the chickens. I feared that Satchel intended to grab one in her jaws and carry it like a bad puppy to the coop. In the end, I carried one chicken back.

Satchel is a very good puppy. She does not try to hurt the chickens, though if she gets into the side yard during the middle of the day, she will chase them back to the coop anyway.

One thing that makes her extra excited is that she gets a treat each time her returns from the side yard both in letting out the chickens and putting them back in the coop, which is partly why her is so excited. This is how we talk about her. We just use "her" for everything.

Satchel eating her birthday treat!
a special cheesy cookie in a bone shape
I gave half to Ellory...



An example of how difficult is to get Satchel to "pose" for a photo.




























Happy Birthday, My love.

Satchel "duh boo" Paige Tower, Her Booness, heart of my heart.

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A Sense of Doubt blog post #1620 - THAT ONE THING: Sunday at the river with the dogs

Eagle Cliff Park - Lewis River and Swift Lake - Sunday 1907.28

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1620 - THAT ONE THING: Sunday at the river with the dogs

Sunday, today's date on this post, July 28th, we went for a drive and intended to take a hike, but we missed our turn, which is okay because we found Eagle Cliff and a nearby campground, a great place to spend some time.

In keeping with my THAT ONE THING, I am abandoning my original post for today, as I did not finish it, and just posting this.

It's been a great day.





After some time at Eagle Cliff campground and park, we drove back here and had some of the BEST BURGERS EVER. The dogs hung out with us on the deck of the restaurant. Very nice.




I need more days like this one.


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A Sense of Doubt blog post #1763 - "If You Could Save Yourself (You Could Save Us All)" - Musical Monday for 1912.16

Satchel 1810_22
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1763 - "If You Could Save Yourself (You Could Save Us All)" - Musical Monday for 1912.16

It's time for a puppy.

I have a student to thank for the next quote and the two videos on this post, one of which is a song for MUSICAL MONDAY.

I had not thought of WEEN in quite some time before a student reminded me of their existence.


"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way."
~ Satchel Paige


from 2003's album QUEBEC









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A Sense of Doubt blog post #1705 - Satchel's surgery - second of 2019

Satchel has cruciate ligament repair surgery yesterday. It was her second surgery this year, the first in April to remove fatty masses.

It was all traumatic enough as we were worried about Satchel psychologically as she became needier and clingier after the surgery earlier this year, but two things added to the trauma significantly.

First, I left my smart phone at home, which I discovered when trying to look up an alternate contact phone number at the vet. As I was on my way to teach in Portland (it's about 7:45 and I teach at 8:30 and TRAFFIC), I had not time to go get it. This meant being without my phone for 5-6 hours. When I got to school, I borrowed a student's phone to text my wife. I arranged to stop off at the vet on the way home around noon.

Then, after running two errands and getting to the vet for the report on Satchel, my car did its mysterious not starting thing. Usually, if I wait a period of time, which in the past has been as little as twenty minutes and as much as four hours, the car starts. I have a variety of theories as to what's going on with it and why it fails to start (as it forgets how) and then manages to start (as if it now remembers). There's no pattern, no discernible cause, and the incidents are often months if not a full year apart. It has exhibited this four times since moving here: once on the way here in the mountains of Montana with NO phone service (zero), next almost a full year later after a dinner at a brewery in Portland when Chris and Lisi visited (so I had help). The third time came about five months later when Ivan was visiting for Thanksgiving, and then the fourth incident occurred earlier this year at Safeway and I managed to snag a ride home from my neighbor.

I have been lucky each time, but yesterday, I feared that this may be the time the car does not start and with Satchel needing to be picked up later, I couldn't risk. So I called Liesel, I called a tow truck, and then it started. I drove it to the repair shop and asked them to replace the starter because this is likely the cause, and if it's not the cause, the actually cause will be inexpensive but just hard to find and isolate. I am hopeful that the problem is solved.

Satchel was very groggy post-surgery and hates the cone collar. She did not eat after we got her home and by 10:30 was crying in pain because she can only take the meds with food. At this point, I am asleep, so my wife wakes me up, and somehow we get her to eat, take her meds, and sleep. We all sleep in the living room: Satchel in her crate, Liesel on the floor, and me on the couch. Ellory finally realized I was not coming back to bed and joined us, sleeping in a large chair that she likes.

Unwilling to repeat this camping out scenario, I made a bed for Satchel on the floor next to my bed, a safe spot for her, which she likes, and we all slept in the master bedroom as we usually do this night, hours from the publication time of this post, but hey, I am writing this on Sunday.

Satchel is ambulatory but taking it easy. She can hobble outside on her own and pee. I have not yet seen her poop but surely she will need to do so tomorrow (Sunday, which is really today in reality).

We're smothering her with love as you may imagine.

AFTER SURGERY






BEFORE SURGERY


snuggles - 1910.04

Snuggles 1910.08 1 of 2

Snuggles 1910.08 2 of 2

neighbor Kian treats Satchel after potty break while I am at work


Ellory: "We must share the crate!"

Satchel: "Whatever. Just be ready to get out of my way when I want out!"

crate sharing 1910.12

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Friday, July 23, 2021


Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1227 (SoD #2348) - Celebrating Satchel's Ninth birthday

Hi Mom, Satchel's ninth birthday was last week, July 17, 2021.

As per usual scheduling, I did very little to celebrate on the 17th because I typically work Saturdays (welcome to the life of an adjunct professor). So on the day itself, I showered her with the usual love and wished her a happy birthday a bunch of times.

We celebrated on Sunday the 18th and really the rest of the week because the cookie was SO MANY calories that I would not let her have it all at once. ELLORY got some, too.

So, for Satchel's birthday, we started our celebrations going to the PET STORE for treats and canned food. I think this was the first time I took BOTH OF THEM into a PET STORE. Oh my stars and garters. Grappling two curious and exuberant dogs with a cart in PETCO was a challenge, and I forgot to put a mask on. Even though I am vaccinated, to set a good example of what taking a public health crisis seriously looks like, AND to protect myself and others against the DELTA VARIANT, I will be wearing a mask from now on, maybe forever.

After PETCO, where they were given treats to munch by the cashier in addition to the ones I bought for later, including Satchel's birthday cookie, I had to stop at a grocery for some probiotic water.

Then we went to PARADISE POINT PARK for the first time since the pandemic!

It would be helpful if Google timeline allowed an easy list to all the times and dates that I visited the place.


Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #976 - Comic Book News, Dog Walks, and Recovery - Throwback Thursday 1803.08


It was a good walk. I got a few pictures.

It was a great day, but I wish Satchel would stop getting older.

HER has to live forever.

(Using the wrong pronoun is part of our puppy speak around here.)

Good talk, Mom.

More next time.





























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NEW (written 1708.27 and 1907.04) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom. Dropped "Talk to you tomorrow, Mom" in the sign off on 1907.04. Should have done it sooner as this feature is no longer daily.

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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.


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