Bad Dogs and Leash Laws

This critter is the main reason why I have been missing from the web for the last week or so.  I live out in the county where there is no leash law.  Dogs are allowed to roam as they please.  They are only required to have a collar and rabies tags.  My neighbor got a puppy about a year ago and sometimes lets him loose.  Consequently there are times when I walk out my door only to get this greeting.  This was taken while I am still on my front porch. This photo was also taken last fall and the dog is now bigger and meaner.

Anyway about a little over a week ago I checked for the dog (something I don't feel like I should have to do) and since he was nowhere to be seen and the owner's car was not there; I went outside with my dog, Rascal. Rascal was a proper puppy and on a leash. Unfortunately this dog and another of the neighbors dogs came around the side of the house and came after Rascal and me; both of them barking and growling.  I was able to control my dog as he was on a leash, but in doing so I wrenched my arms and shoulder, sprained my knee and sprained my fingers.  I was able to keep my dog from getting hurt, however Tom had to come out to chase the dogs away.  He heard the dogs and came to my rescue, for which I was very grateful.  I ended up in the ER from all the jerking around (I only had strains and muscle pulls but by the next day I felt like I'd been beat all over.  I hurt all over.  This also caused a fibromyalsia flare which just added to the pain.  I was unable to lift my laptop, set it on my lap or type without pain so no blogging, no facebook and little visiting of other blogs.

Spalding county used to be made up of farms and houses on acrages where the lack of leash laws made sense.  This is no longer the case.  I guess I am going to have to get politically active and try to get the county commissioners to change the leash laws.  I now have a couple of movies of the dog (the photo is one frame from one of them) and medical bills to show them.  Wish me luck.

Johnina  

Hawke Free Childrens Library

These are the photos I was taking when I fell and hurt my knee.

After I started on the pain killers and the muscle relaxants I was really out of it and if I laid down to put my leg up I went to sleep.  Of course the doctors orders were to lay down with my feet up so I've pretty well slept since Tues.  Today was the first day where I was coherent.  Tues I called Laura and told her about falling and she told me about Hayden's day at school and how one of the teachers had told her Hayden was her favorite.  On Weds she asked about the teachers comment and I had NO recollection of the conversation at all.  Sweet Laura just said "oh, good than I get to tell you all over again."  So much better than being mad because I didn't remember.

Anyway I finally got around to editing some of the photos I took.  See Tues post for a regular front shot of the building.  This is a nicely preserved old building in downtown Griffin that is now used by the school district, I think. 

I went to take these photos because I had taken one from the stop-light and so many people liked it; I went back to get the building from several different angles.

There are times when I edit that I am surprised by which photos I like best when the edit is done.  Do you have a favorite?  If so which one?  I would be interested in knowing.

I still have other photos to edit but I think I got some pretty good shots from many and varied angles.  I hope you enjoy them.

Whooops!!!!

Today after going to physical therapy; I stopped to take some pictures of the old Griffin library, first known as Hawke Free Children's Library.  It is really quite an impressive old building that is now used by the school district.  I had taken a couple of pictures of it while waiting at the stop light there, but I wanted to get more pictures from different angles for a photo site I just joined Paintmyphotos this site is for photographers to share their photographs with artists to make derivative pieces from.  Something I would like to do as I started taking photos for reference for my own drawings and paintings.  I really think it would be neat to have someone choose one of my photos to paint.  I'd really like to see what they would come up with.

However I had a bit of bad luck and my bad ankle which is why I go to PT gave out from under me and down I went. HARD. Onto the concrete walkway.  I seriously twisted my knee and ankle and spent 5 hours in the ER.  They cast my knee because it was so unstable, making it even harder to walk at least for now.  Consequently I didn't have time to edit very may photos; maybe tomorrow I can.  Doesn't the temporary cast look like fun; crutches too.  Oh well at least it's temporary.