Boof is a Gonner :~(

Well I know it has been some time since I have told the tale of our poor misfortunate friend, Boof Verhoeff. As of late the Dr. was telling me the next steps in bringing up the chicken from the bloated belly of Boof.

Dr. (Mr. Helpful) tells me I have to induce vomiting. Now I wasn't sure how to give a dog the Heimlich maneuver, and I thought that was only for people who were chocking....I waited for the grim description, and he said....




You have to have the dog drink a quarter cup of Hydrogen Peroxide...

What, isn't this guy crazy, don't you use that stuff to clean your cuts when you get dirt in them, isn't this the stuff you use if you want to bleach out your hair? Was I to send the dog to its doom tonight? Dr. Mr. Helpful asked me if I had a Turkey baster and I said, "isn't that the long eye dropper but for greasing up the Turkey." "Yes and he said put that down the dogs mouth because she won't want to drink the Hydrogen peroxide otherwise. Once down it should take about 20 minutes for everything to come back up, if not give another quarter cup. I left the Doc and began looking for a Turkey baster.



Well we didn't have one so I got Anya to hold a measuring cup over the dogs mouth as I pulled on her bottom jaw wrestling with the dog as we tried to fill her mouth and have her drink without me letting go. All this did was have Boof cough and spit Peroxide all over me and the kitchen. What were we going to do? Then I remembered that we had some syringes left over from when I had to give our cat some vaccinations. But the problem was that our syringes were only 12cc. That is 1/16 of a cup. Well we had to get Boof's insides out and this was our ticket home.

Once again I pulled Boof's jaws open Anya filled the syringe up and jabbed it to the back of her throat. But once was not enough we had to do this 3 more times. All I can say is wrestling an 80 pound dog wet with Hydrogen Peroxide while prying open its mouth isn't what I call a day at the Rodeo.

After about 5 minutes of this we waited. And to our surprise every time Boof would like her lips her tongue was a little more yellow. I guess the peroxide was bleaching out her mouth. tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, the minutes seemed to creep along as we waited. I decided we better take Boof for a walk. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. Nothing was happening and it had been 4o minutes...I didn't want to give her more, I didn't know what to do.

So we locked her in the Studio downstairs and I read her some Harry Potter. Another 20 minutes went by and I was getting worried, what was I to do, so I went up stairs to ask Anya and by the time I got downstairs there was the dog munching on a huge white frothy pile of dog stomach acids, hydrogen peroxide chicken bones and whatever else was in her stomach. I quickly pulled her away to keep her from re-eating everything she had just exhumed. Poor old Boof had been saved...hip hip hurray, hip hip hurray.

And right by her side was her trusty companion Elliot the cat. Comforting Boof on her nights adventure....what a good cat.

For the next few weeks Boof and the cat played all day, a new lively skip was to be seen when Boof was chasing the cat, she seemed to be much younger and would play harder and cuddle closer. It seemed almost as if boof was catching up on something, perhaps the last bit of life that was left in her. She knew the end was near.

Well boof is gone now but not forever she will be remembered by the Radvanszky's (Jeremia, Anya, and Elliot the cat) and every time we think of her it will be happy thoughts. A tear will be shed in the absence of that sweet old dog, until we go and visit her up in Calgary where she is now with Anya's parents, oh, I bet you thought she was dead, sorry, no, just gone from our doggy sitting care. Ah, it sure feels good to have saved Boof Verhoeff's life. Thank you for following along

jer

P.S.
If you read this before I get home tonight you won't see the pictures of the real Boof, I will add them to this post again tonight.

Ohh..Boofff :( Dead at 98????

Well I know it has been a long time and you have been dying to know if Boof Verhoeff has made it or not....but I figured like any excellent episode of Prison break, 24, or Lost you couldn't just have the end without a little pain...so here is the rest of the story.

So after phoning the Pet hospitals it didn't look good for Boof, you see many dogs and mongrels out there eat whole chickens, turkeys and even the occasional Ostrich all the time so whats the big deal, but you see this is all eatin's for the young pup. What I mean is that Boof isn't a spring chicken anymore she is 14 people years, I guess that equals about (14 X 7 = 98 years old). She has survived a stroke and each morning we hide heart medicine in her doggy treats. Let me assure you, Boof of any dog should not be eating a basketball sized chicken skeleton and skin....

A waring to anyone with a sick pet is to get a second Doctors advice. The First Doc. that we spoke to said it doesn't look good, if Boof is still kickin in the morning bring her in for x-rays (I know x-rays don't come in the visible light range and don't have colors we can see...) to see how many bones are stuck where. What kind of crappy advice is that, I wanted answers so onto the next flashy add in the yellow pages. The second Doc, at the Highland Pet Hospital was amazing. He broke it down and espeaky me lenguigh (he spoke my language). He asked what kind of chicken Boof had eaten and then told me the kind you buy from the food store are GMO and fed growth hormones so they can grow that big in 6 weeks, their bones are kind of like jelly and shouldn't be a problem. If it had been a Huterite Chicken, we would have had problems, dem bones sharp like needles.

He told me the real problem is with the fat in the skin and gristle. Dogs aren’t supposed to be eating this much fat and especially 98 year old dogs, because it causes major problems with their Pancreas and can cause bloat, this didn't look good because even before the vet told me this Boof was making gurgling sounds in her stomach and was getting very bloated....

....Now the skin on my back was crawling, I had just sentenced my mother-in-laws dog to a long painful death, is this how they were going to remember me for the next 20 years of Anya and my "till death do us part", was this to be the first of a long list of me murdering my newly married families pets...and if so, what am I to do, am I to get the dog stuffed and have the taxiderm put a BIG fake red tongue hanging out of Boofs mouth with lifeless beady glass eye balls forever staring up at them and me...




so then the Doc. said you have to.....

gotta go to class, will write soon, I promise...sorry, and hold on Boof, just hold on poor girl!!!!

the Night I (Jermia) killed our doG?!?!

It all started on a quiet Sunday evening. We had a wonderful weekend with a visit from our Oma and Opa Verhoeff. A weekend of food, drink, merriment and games. To set the stage I want to express that my wife Anya is a wonderful cook and makes most things from scratch and very healthy.

This was one of those occasions as she bought a roasted chicken cut and prepared the meat for a wonderful chicken noodle soup. Her cooking is always to die for, but usually not literally. You see after cleaning up from the weekend I managed to leave the garbage out after I was done. And as I am thoroughly into reading Harry Potter I thought I would sit down for a moment and read, well one moment passed to another and after about 30 minutes of moments I went to steep a tea but to my surprise there was garbage everywhere. To this was Anya's shock that Boof Verhoeff, (the Dogs name) had eaten the entire carcass of the chicken including the bones. It was weird as a cold sweet came over me in a helpless understanding of what an entire skeleton would do to the insides of a dog, so I called up all the 24 hr pet hospitals and asked what would happen to the dog and what I could do.

Are you ready for this....well I will finish my tragic tale when I get back from class.....

Don't be fooled, Quack, Quack

Every time I see a flock of little ducklings I run or get out my axe....well maybe not an axe, but when we were in Vict0ria this is what we saw and were appalled by the sight of the moral and social degradation that has lead to ducks doing the inconceivable... robbing the innocent. This almost feels like a sick backwards Robin Hood, with the ducks robbing from the poor and giving to the rich, I bet they are giving all this money to Petroleum executives to make their pockets even thicker, I bet these ducks would even steal candy from a baby!! What has happened to our society? I give up, if you feel like you can muster it leave a comment about this sick sight..ahhhh

jer

Ohhhh boyyyy, where have we been?

Well, hello our friends, so sorry for the long delay in writting to your about our adventures, here are some of the things that are new, well maybe a little covered in dust since we last met.

SETTLERS OF CATAN CHAMPIONSHIP!!!

My wonderful wife has risen up against all the world at SABC for the first ever Settlers of Catan tournament. She played nearly flawless and came away winning a limited edittion 3D copy of the game. For those interested there will be a tournament each year in January with all monies raised going to the camp. For $35 per couple you can't go wrong. Check out this sweet board. I am so proud of my lovely wife.

This is the tough crowd for the final. 4 drooling games.....


This is the final out come, Anya is Blue

Look at the four finalists and that babe named lord of CATAN!!!

We spent our christmas in Victoria and had a wonderful time with family, friends and even a violin playing Darth Vadar, so cool!! I was loving it, what a beautiful place the west coast is

These are our party hats that we all were wearing for New Years supper, very funny.

Me and my favorite villan Darth

We love the West and especially the romantic dream of owning a boat and sailing around the world, well thats more like crazy but it would be fun to sail on someones boat one day...

Well that is all for now, we will try to update about ten times as often and thanks for checking out our home away from home

rads

p.s. If you could go to Anya's blog and read her articles and comment on how they impact you and what your thoughts are that would be great as it will help out her grade in her ed class. thanks, jer

What we havn't been tellin you....

Over the last few weeks or more we, the rads, have been having alot of fun and have not been filling you in with the details.

To start with about 4 weeks ago SABC had their high school retreat. It was a blast, and I Jeremia was able to teach some young adults how to crochet a touque as well as intoduce everyones tastebuds to a delectable morsal like none other....Prairie Oysters.

Next I want the World to know about the best student teacher in the World, that is Mrs. RAD. Or as the little kids say Mrs. Fancy, or Raddelanpsy, or Radvansssss.....it is funny to hear little grade ones trying to say Mrs. Radvanszky's last name...ha ha. Here are some beautiful pictures that her class did for Art.

This is a snowplow that one of Anya's students drew with pastels. Anya had an amazing story about the different things snowplows do and how the people driving them keep the roads safe for drivers...very cool

Anya taught her students about snowflakes and symetry, this is one that a student made with vegitable stamps and paint, very beautiful

Next special event was going up to Red Deer and seeing Rudy, our grade 12 brother win Provincials. This weekend was amazing with Calgary Christian not loosing even a single set. You may be thinking to yourself, wow, thats pretty good, except that there is more. This was a David vs. Goliath provincials. You see Calgary Christian is a 2A school, meaning they have less that 300 students. Provincials was against the 4A schools, which are larger than 1000 students, some of the teams that Calgary Christian played had over 2500 students. Now I think you can see how amazing this team is. 16 strait sets without a loss. Part of the enjoyment was that some parents put in money and bought t-shirts for everyone cheering for Calgary Christian, in the end there were more than 130 people in green cheering. By far we were the dominant volleyball team.

Look at Anya The Proud Sister

Then about 2 weeks ago I, being Jeremia, continued on with a tradition that has been ongoing for many years now, actually this is the 5th annual Jeremia Christmas tree hunt. But I was able to bring my Wife this time and two other friends. It was fun snowshoeing around Beaver mines and pulling the three trees out of the bush. We have the largest at about 9 feet, Becky has the next at 7 feet and Richard has the smallest at about 4 feet tall, only strong enough to hold up two strings of lights, very fun.

Richard with his little tree, shoulder height

This is us with our tree right behind us, gotta love those organic Christmas trees, a little less full but all character

Also durning that -27 degree stretch I continued to bike to school every day, but had to make some minor adjustments, most noticable is the ski helmet in place of the bike helmet, the googles replacing my sun glasses and not present in this picture are the snow pants and boots. It was fun in the cold when dressed up.

About 2 weeks ago we also went to visit a friends family up in Wetaskwin and Jeremia snowmachined for the first time, hours and hours of fun were enjoyed in the frigid north.

An ongoing event in our life has been Elliot, our new well not so new anymore kitten. We got him at about 2 months old, small enough to fit in one hand, now he is growing and about 4 months old, loves to fight, climb, eat your toes, pounce on your head from ontop of the couch and play in anything that krinkles...Jer used to call him Rusty Nails because he crapped on all of our curtains...A quote from Jer, "crazy little punk, he's as anoying as a Rusty nail in your foot, hence his name for Elliot. Jer has come to love him and even lets Elliot sit in his lap while he was studying for Finals

A sneak picture of Anya and Elliot, what a cute couple.

Most Recent is Jeremia bringing in the Christmas season with a pan on his head playing Starwars with Payton and Cole, what a funny buch those three.

Well that is about all for our life over the past month, glad we could write and hopefully eveyone has a Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year. Remember the reason for the Season.

rads

Free Hugs Campaign. Inspiring Story!
Just click away, you might even cry, pretty amazing. Give someone a hug today, how about giving a hug to every somebody

Enjoy and have a great day.

rads

Look up!!

My First Birthday.... Since 25

Well this last week was one for me to reflect on how old I have become. For some I am just a young buck but as I have heard over the years I am getting old. When I turned 20 I entered the old man club as my punk Jr. High kids said, then at 25, the song that people were singing was another one bites the dust. But now that it is my 1st birthday since 25 things seem to be going a little better.

It all started at 5:30 am with breakfast in bed, which is a Verhoeff tradition.


Throughout the day I had more little special memories like my 5 year old gymnastics class all singing me happy birthday infront of all the manly male gymnasts...ahhh. That evening Anya and I had dinner with my parents and I was given the most amazing Birthday cake in the world.

A Lord of the Rings cake with Ents (talking and walking trees), Frodo, Aragorn, Elves, Orcs, and many other things on it. Truly amazing and my favoritest (I am so happy I use made up words) in the entire Universe.

I don't know if things are better on birthdays because I am now 1 or because I am married or because of amazing cakes but my 1st birthday since I was 25 was a sweet dream of a birthday.

Thats all for now, can't wait till I'm 2....

Jeremia

Feature of the Week!

Well, I sometimes think that I have a lot of friends and one of them is in "New Media" here at the University of Lethbridge. This young and SINGLE man has some talents and our feature of the week goes out to him, Mr. Brendan Coffeey (don't make the mistake of spelling his name COFFEE).

He is very special to my heart because he is presently in my small group, I have seen him in action out at camp as a counselor in 2005, gone to concerts, YQ and am in a Math class with him. Lets all get to know this fantastic guy a little better.

Brendan likes to take nice strolls in the river bottom as you can see him here walking down the tressel train bridge. He likes to wear hats that are Red, colorful shoes and dark clothing, a little mysterious I would say. I think that Brendan has also had an injury like an attack by a heard of black bears as a child that disfigured his face, becasue he always has a smile, that can't be normal.***

Where you can find Brendan on any given night.

Well on Thursday nights he works the post-supper pre-night shift at VHQ on University drive, so if you want a great recomendation on a movie he's your man. On Wednesday evenings he is a sponsor for Jr. High youth group, it takes a special man to work with Jr. Highs, and on the other evenings....well as I said this is the get to know you edittion, and that is all I know.

If you would like to know more about this outstanding batchelor just follow the link to his growing webpage where there are movies he has created and pictures he has taken and made. Well for this weeks feature it has been a joy getting to know Brendan a little better, ta ta for now, te te for later

J rad

***All things said about Brendan Coffey are true except the black bear thing, as he has no concious memory that far back and no scars on his face to prove or disprove the non-maybe-a-little-fictious claim

House is done, framing Memories

Well our house is done and as I was looking back at some of the pictures I got a little teary eyed today, the house and me had alot of good memories, black fingers and bumped heads while in the rafters. I have added some photos taken from framing. The skeleton of our house, so fun.

HalloooOOOOooOOOOOoeeennn

This Halloween was a treat for your senses and your fight or flight response at the Rads. This scary looking scarecrow is me, Jeremia. I sat lifelessly on the straw bales by my front door and when the kids or party guests came over I jumped up at them...mwa ha ha ha.... A lot of fright that night!!!

Also Anya and myself had an enjoyable time carving pumpkins not only did we carve a mask that I put on my head but we downloaded some stencils from a very funny webpage called homestarrunner (link on the side) The four pumpkins together are the King of Town on the left then The Cheat then Strong Sad and finally the guy with the boxing gloves is Strong Bad.
The Cheat is my personal favorite, a little yellow sidekick to Strong Bad that looks like a yellow piece of cheese and mumbles in very high octaves.

Well to all you ghouls and ghosts have a great year till next HalloooooOOOeen

Some of Our Favorite things

Some of our favorite things to do in the entire world are to....well BABY SIT! It is like having your own kids but then you get to get rid of them after you have sugared them up, kept them up past their bed times and do crazy things that.....well...there mothers wouldn't let them do. Here are some of our fonder moments of baby sitting and hanging with our friends kids.


Here we have a couple of kids that would normally not be allowed to eat an entire plate of cookies, but while being baby sat by the Rads, oh yah, a big plate of double chocolate cookies, and look how happy they are!!! Not only does grandma spoil the kids, so do we....

Next on our list is the famous baby stair crawl races, you may see the potential danger is this but I have heard that little kids can heal from broken bones in half the time of adults, so no big worries. And look at the determination on little Norah's face as she is trying to pass her brother Nolan

Here we have Cole, you can see how excited he is to be over at my grandma's basement, this used to be my batchelor Pad for 7 years. Cole was asking me for future advice on how to trick out his baby room and what sleeping in a real bed would be like one day. Since he is only 1.8 years old and doesn't speak english very well I just gave him an L.E.D flashlight to play with.

Some times this happens when you are being sat by the rads. Sometimes Jeremia gets a little crazy and starts to hog tie the kids up. You can see how worried Nolan is in the back not wanting Jeremia to find him, while all the while Payton is very relieved to have Anya save him.

Finally, all the super cool kids having a wonderful meal at the little table for Coles 2nd Birthday. What a great smiles they all have.

So you can see that having friends with kids is very fun, you get all the benefits of having your own and none of the mess to worry about. Well for now that is all, and if you can, get involved with someone's kids, it is so very rewarding and you will make a huge impact in their lives an in yours.

the rads

A bad hair day!!??

Each one of us wakes up in the morning and has a bad hair morning, but what happens when it continues till lunch or supper or even till you go back to bed? I would love to hear or see pictures of some of your worst hair experiences. Maybe some of you have had some pretty cool hair-do's in the past. For instance there was one time when I used to shave my head and do different things to it. And for one particular shaving I had strips of tape put to my head before the shaving and was left with a wonderful checkered head that people at school actually played a game of chess on. Well let me hear your stories and if all you have is bad memories of hair I hope Sam the ugliest Dog in the world can brighten up your day....ahhhh this thing is scary.

Rads

What my Friends are reading

A little while ago I asked people to write and inform me as to what they are reading while they are on the toilet. Some responses have been, the weekly Future Shop flyer, to the plain old ads, "because I don't get the newspaper", some are reading Lord of the Rings books, but my favorite was from my friend Jan, who sits and reads the shampoo bottles. Thanks for taking time to write and if you still want to add to the survey you are more than welcome to.

Have a great day and if you have a question as to what's the best hair product, you can ask Jan.

rads

How we love the Fort!!

We would love to tell the world how wonderful SABC is and through this blog we are able to do that. Today I updated some more pictures of our experience at the Fort. So many amazing things happened this year while we were the directors. To start with the staff that we had was truly amazing, and everyday it was a joy to work beside them as they taught the Love of God and showed it to the campers here at the Fort.

I love to see the pictures of campers and staff that are not posed, because they show a real sense of fun, excitement and enjoyment. The pictures added are from these moments, of caught on the camera fun. Just check out the smiles and laughs and pure crazyness. It was a "Fancampingtastic!!" summer. We sure do miss our summer, but life back home is more than exciting and full of fun, as we finish our house, coach at youth group, start dancing lessons and bike to school every day in the rain, snow, and wind.

Have a great day and try listening to CBC a little today, it just might bring a smile to your face

Don't forget to click the link to the Fort Photos

the rads

To Read or not to Read...

So I was wodnering as I put the cream cheese onto my poppy seed bagel, what do people read? And not only what do they read but do they read different things while they are sitting on the toilet? I want to conduct a survey to find out what the world is reading on the lou. So please write in the comment section what you are reading, be it the newspaper, a book or an instruction manual let me know, also if you feel it, you can send a picture of what you are reading to jerandanya@yahoo.ca. Now lets keep this G rated I don't want to see any photos of you reading on the toilet, only what you are reading while on the toilet. Lets see how big we can make this servey, send a link to all your friends and get them involved as well.

Well happy trails, excellent reading, and don't put your finger through the toilet paper

Jeremia

Some much anticipated photos of the Fort

Well, if you have been checking out the blog you may know that we like to add pictures. But there has been a serious shortage of summer photos from Camp. But have no fear I have put a nice handful, or two, or three handfuls up tonight, check out the link for the Fort Photos. And don't forget to check out Camps webpage as well.

Have a good night

rads