
I felt something…dark & evil watching me. I’m not crazy, am I? I only had one drink…
’tis the season. (insert evil laugh)

I felt something…dark & evil watching me. I’m not crazy, am I? I only had one drink…
’tis the season. (insert evil laugh)

He & his brother were left, he was about 3 months old. His brother was wild & had Sophie’s Jacket in his mouth & Sophie was just laughing. In the car behind me was my 3 month old baby boy. The little girl being held by a solid white husky, I looked at the other dog, hiding in the corner. I asked the owner, why he was hiding. She said,”That one is very shy” I thought shy is good because of my 2 year old, 3month old & 7 year old. My husband had left for duty first in Dubai, he said buy that Husky you always wanted, the dog will make it easier to stay alone. “Hi Blue” my brother Michal had come to help. I picked up Blue & put him in the crate in the back seat handed over a $400 dol.lar check in her hand. “Hi Blue”
I though it would like to go on walks with us in the double stroller. It was like dragging a boulder. He wanted to go home. Here is a very small patio with a door to a small back yard. He got his exercise pacing in front of the door terrified. So, Blue is an inside dog. Hates walks, likes going outside without a leash, we have no fence, but he doesn’t leave the property much. This morning he decided he could not come when called. So Nala who is on a leash, go inside. It’s 5 a.m. I woke up at 3:30 again so it was dark when we went out.I knew that as soon as Blue noticed we had gone in, he would run up the back deck doors as get his only exercise, pacing & scared. So I let in my 100 pound almost 9 year old Beastie, I touch his back. I don’t remember doing that. But I had left evidence behind, Blue has Cobalt Blue Hue paint was on his back. I was painting & for some reason I get paint in the strangest places & it would drive my husband CRAZY about paint everywhere. Now, it just rolls off his back. I left the blue paint on Blues back, to show the kids, who will think its too funny.
The photograph was given to me by April she the big cheese of Alabama Siberian Husky. I was friends with the Alabama Siberian Husky on Facebook, so I could look at cute dogs.Then I see on FB this face of an angel. It said that she & her brother had a week left before she would be put to death. So I wrote to April & she said I had to fill out this form. This was serious business. She came to the house to see if we would be good fosters for Nala ( the kids named her, they had seen, ‘Lion king’ the day before) Nala came in very sore from being fixed. The rescue fixes & checks for heart worms & other things, they get all there shots, then we got her & a gift bag full of dog toys. & thats when I learned, I have just met the woman with the biggest heart in the world. I made this for her, from her photo. Two weeks with Nala, April started telling me that I need to put pictures of her & stories. So she can find her forever home. I kept thinking, this is her forever home. I told April the first week she was hurting, so we couldn’t figure out her personality. The next week she felt better & we realized her last name was Saab. We called April & paid her the low price of 300 dollars. My children have a box for charity & they wanted the money to go to the “Human Society” But they gave every bit of their money to April. She sat in our chair with her baby & maybe 50 dollars in quarters. This was during our interview, the kids wanted Nala,so badly. We have always given our charity money to our Temple Tots preschool. This year its gonna go to the lady with the big heart that gave us Nala. PLEASE, PLEASE if you want a special breed, PLEASE look on line to see if your desired breed as a rescue program. Or rescue a dog who is on death row. I will never buy from a breeder, I will rescue/foster first.

Last year when those massive Hurricane ripped the earth, & the people who live on that earth went very close to University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa & headed up to Birmingham. The storm was so big, that an F2 Hurricane RIPPED up through Cahaba Heights. I live in Mountain Brook. I live 3 or 4 miles from Cahaba Heights,When I think about that morning, my husband was out of town, I woke the kids up because rain was slamming sideways into my bedroom & the wind was so loud. We went downstairs to our basement. I let Blue out the door to pee, I watched him, his coat blown so hard, he was squinting. I thought the wind would take Blue from me. My house is surrounded by 100 foot pines 4 in the back & many more in the front. Not one fell, but i watched the trees bend over so far I thought they would crack. Reminded me of the quote,’If you don’t bend, you will break” Not one tree broke. They just bent over enough to believe I was in a dream. I called my husband, freaking out. “Amy, you’re going to be fine,”. Needless to say, That conversation lasted no longer then those words. What I didn’t’ know was that F2 Hurricane was just down the road, less then a mile. People’s house ripped, but not taken. Big trees fell on the cars & houses & some of the shopping center. That beautiful building Chickadee now resides in was destroyed, shame on me for not remembering the name of the store that was there. I think something about sheep. If hit Elizabeth’s antiques, I remember driving by the store & the was unidentified pieces of peoples lives the wind had just picked them up & dropped them where it want to, When I saw the damage, it looked like a war zone. I just cried & cried for all these people. But they rebuilt & the houses looked better then before. I still cry. They pulled up their boot straps & rebuilt their houses, replaced their cars & their lives. I wonder if I would be that strong had it me.
-amy
p.s. When David came home & he tried to see the houses & all the power trucks blocking the road, he came in the house, found me, & hugged me & said he was sorry that he wasn’t so supportive. He said,”I could have lost you, the kids, everything.” And it was very, very sincere. So Chabah Hieghts came back, some classics, some new, some chose to close, but the shopping center with all the boutiques was not there before, they are wonderful. I bought that mirror in Elizabeth’s 10 years ago, I carried it with me through 4 moves. & I still love it, maybe a little more, because of where it had come from. The Wind did not take everything, Sometimes, the earth shows us who’s boss & leaves people lost, or they died in the storm. We are a resilient bunch of people, we rebuild. We come back stronger then before, in hope that the earth will be gentle for a while.