My Book – Lula’s Second Chance

Update: It is here!!!! The books were delivered yesterday!

It is almost ready to go to the printer! After about a year of work, my book is going through a final review by my editor, Pam, then Becca, my designer, will make the final adjustments and off it will go! We are going to have both a printed version and an e-book  (I am the high-tech Chessie you know!) version.

We are self publishing so we are trying to get a quantity for the first printing so if you are interested in purchasing a copy or 10, please help us out by pre-ordering or pre-purchasing. All of the proceeds will go the Chesapeake Retriever Rescue of Wisconsin to help all of our foster dogs, especially the senior and special needs fosters like me that will never leave the rescue and have healthy vet bills.

So here is a special page on the CRROW web site where you can pre-order or pre-purchase my book, Lula’s Store. I also included my Lula Note Cards! Please help me spread the word! Spread it far and wide as ALL proceeds from book and note card sales go to CRROW!!! to help all my foster Chessie foster friends.

Dog with mystery past needs you to throw her a bone

Here is a story about me and what we have learned about my past. This story was written by John Lundy of the Duluth News Tribune on Saturday January 15th, 2011.

Encore Post : The Thanksgiving Lula Ate the Turkey

In honor of Thanksgiving, I am thankful I still am alive and have a home after the stunts I have pulled and the life I have lived. The following story is my best/worst stunt to date!

http://lularescuechessie.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/the-thanksgiving-lula-ate-the-turkey/

Happy Thanksgiving!

Lula

Busy Summer

Wow it has been a long time since I have had time to sit down and write! I will try and give you a quick update on the last few months.

First, we are VERY busy as are most families in the summer. Pam, my head staff, is training for Ironman Wisconsin on Sep 11th and she is either working, training or sleeping so we (Hershey and I) are often left in the care of our crates and part-time staff. Which is great cause they take very good care of us! Big bonuses for us on this Ironman training are:

1. We get to travel to Pine Lake most weekends, so Pam can swim, bike and run long on the weekends. Pam’s parents take care of us. Plus Pam says the swimming is MUCH better in Pine Lake and worth it! I agree because I get to swim every day after she is done working out! Then we get to go for boat rides! During the day we hang out in the cottage and don’t have to be confined to our crates. I get put in my sometimes cause I find a lot of fun stuff to get into like toilets, trash cans, ovens…. It is great when everything is on one level! Lots to explore!
2. Pam is using her Ironman training to help raise funds for the Chesapeake Retriever Rescue of WI (that is the organization that rescued me and takes care of me – Pam fosters for them). We are hoping to raise $703 by July 17th and then reach the $1,406 goal by September 11th. HOWEVER, it would be even better if we could raise the total of both! To learn more about or help with the Ironman for Chessies, click here.

One thing you will notice is that I always have to be on a leash. I am not quite sure this is fair but I don’t argue. I have been known to wander off in the water! I am much faster and more agile in the water and tend to leave my designated swim area if I am not on a leash. I also have to be on a leash when I go outside to potty because I sneak/drag my hinder down the hill to the lake and swim away! Hey, give me a break – I am a Chessie! I LOVE the water!

Here are a few photos of me swimming at Pine Lake:

Ahhh, I love to swim! You would not believe how much faster and more stable I am in the water! It not only takes all the weight off my hips and knees, Pine Lake is spring fed so it is really good for icing my aching joints and cooling me off in the summer!

Pam takes us swimming after she is done with her Ironman training, Hershey is learning to swim but I am a GREAT swimmer. Hershey is my current foster brother, he is looking for a forever home check him out on www.crrow.org

Have you seen "Finding Nemo"? My motto is "just keep swimming"!!!

Doors that stick…

Every once in a while you find you have a door that sticks. My crate door got stuck Tuesday afternoon after I tried to let myself out. Even though Pam doesn’t keep me crated for more than 4 hours at a time without a potty break, Tuesday that was not soon enough! I had to go potty! So I tried to let myself out. That didn’t work so well and in fact made life a little tighter inside my crate. It took Pam a few minutes to get the door panel to an angle where she could at least get the door open and let me out. She then had to work the door panel free as I had completely disconnected it from the rest of the crate but it was firmly wedged in between the side and top panels. Not to mention the rest of the mess inside the crate! I was gladly hanging out in the yard waiting for my bath. Luckily, I was not hurt and our neighbors were home so they could keep an eye on Hershey and me while Pam was gone on her scheduled training ride (Pam is training for Ironman and has to do 2 workouts most days plus she is raising money for the Chessie Rescue of WI as part of the challenge). She was able to bring in my smaller travel crate for me to use until she could go buy me a new crate.

My new crate with fresh bedding and my beloved food ball. I think my new crate is a bit larger than my old one!

My Belly and the U. S. Gov’t

Are they really that similar????

Pam teaches an Intro to Business class in the evening at the local technical college and had to lecture about Our Financial System (i.e. stock exchange, Fed Res, monetary policy, supply of money…. ) the other night. Pam is a marketing consultant so she was dreading the topic since she doesn’t really “get it”. She mentioned it on Facebook and my favorite Chessie rescuer, Meredith, suggested she use me as an analogy! Argh!!! I don’t know that I like that!

Here is a bit of the conversation:

Meredith – “Maybe just to liven it up throw in a few words about how Lula’s stomach is much like government spending, she likes to eat more than what is available.”

Pam – “LOL That’s a great idea! I think Lula could write a book based on that analogy – starting with why our gov’t should be “crated” to keep them from “eating” too much!”

Meredith – “Right and the dog food company shouldn’t be so stingy in how much they put in a 40 lb bag of food – 20 lbs of food and 20 lbs of air. They could represent the stock exchange portion. “

Charles (another Facebook friend of ours) – “Don’t forget Lula’s “off shore” deposits and diversion of Turkey funds in ‘banks’ other than the reserve crate…” (reference to my Turkey story)

So I am wondering if maybe I should start a new career as a politician or should I submit my resume to the Fed??? Or maybe I should just write a book on the subject????

I am thinking politician! I already have the philosophy of a politician down as long as someone reminds me to think food! I am pretty sure I have mastered kissing babies (even adults and I don’t get slapped for kissing – most of the time). No one can ever figure out what I am thinking or what I will do next!

What do you think? I think I am best suited to be a politician – How about “Lula for President”????

There goes the snow…

The Last of My Snow and I am guarding it!!!!

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE snow???? Did you know I am originally from Duluth, MN and they have a much longer and colder winter than we do in La Crosse and I miss it. I am not a fan of summer or hot weather so I am not happy about spring and the melting snow.

Now this photo was a few days ago and the pile is MUCH smaller but it is still there!!!. This morning I went outside and guess what???? More Snow!!! The entire yard was white!!!! YIPPEE!!! Well now it is raining and I am sitting my my crate watching/guarding my snow pile from afar. I watch it all day but someone sneaks in and steals a little bit of it every day! They must watch for me to nap and then attack! Maybe Hershey (my new foster brother) will help me guard it!