just a reminder I do commissions for art work.

Since people also like to know where there money goes .

Anything I do in the next little bit is going to be going towards a liberally estimated $900.00 vet bill to get Austin checked out.  If you have gone thru my gallery Austin is the littlest miniature schnauzer . He was a foster failure back in 2008, and we adopted him that year .

 
Austin needs :

bloodwork.$150
dental, he has a cracked molar. $150-$250
aspiration/biopsy of the lump on his chest. $90-$150
skin scraps taken from a few raised scally “moles” on his skin on his lower legs .$90-300
+ office vistit : $45.00

abt $900.00 total . 

Austin is still generally healthy. So blood work and dental should be first, skin and lump can probly wait up to a month. Although if he is going to  be knocked out for a dental that would be the best time to remove any lumps .

The  lump on his chest in a location that could be cancerous (lymphoma )I really want to get it biopsied . He also has scaly spots on his lower legs that are also at a higher risk of being malignant melanomas .

I really just want to get him in for the screenings hopefully it will be nothing but this is more then the standard $45.00 checkup cost .

when it rains it pours..

I am not asking for handouts . I’m asking for people to buy some art work I Do customs pieces .

paintings, prints,acrylics, and sculptures .

I’ll be doing a few sculptures once I return to CA .

In other news Matt my husband  has apparently found a new job. He had moved to IN back i n September while I stayed behind in CA to work. HE lost his job due to untreated ADHD in November he   and will be giving it another go. But he will have to move again to do it , and probably will not be settled right away .

I’m currently helping him wrap some stuff up here in IN  and hopefully  getting  his doctors stuff sorted out. My insurance doesn’t cover him in IN so it’s again out of pocket for me .

I do commissioned art work and web design . My day job isn’t terrible, I can get my regular bills paid , but I have a lot of things hitting me hard all at once right now and any little extra I can earn will be a blessing . see my  Etsy store and price lists here at [link]

I’ll be posting sculptures/Jewelry soon as I have a few completed.

If you’d rather buy “stuff” i also have a zazzle store
[link]

or you can pick out prints from Deviant Art . both have a smaller return and do take longer to clear paypal but at this point any little bit helps .

Posted on Monday, April 06, 2009 4:07:00 PM by STARWISE

Cowards killed Marcus Luttrell’s dog, Dasy.

*snip*

One of suspects remains at large — there is a warrant for his arrest.

Have you seen Michael Edmonds?

If you have any information about his whereabouts, please call the Texas Rangers in Huntsville, Texas at: (936) 435-0152 and ask for Sgt. Steven Jeter.

 http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/23658/

Glenn Beck: Teen punks murder American hero’s dog

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ATTENTION separation of church and state threatened in CT,

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Monday, March 09, 2009

Outrage in Connecticut — Committee Hearing on Bill to Dictate Catholic Church Operations [Jack Fowler]

I received this extremely troubling e-mail over the weekend from my paisan Peter Wolfgang of the Family Institute of Connecticut:

Big Turnout Needed Wednesday, March 11th to Stop Major New Attack on Religious Liberty!

The [Democrat]-controlled Judiciary Committee has introduced Raised Bill 1098, a bill aimed specifically at the Catholic Church, which would remove the authority of the bishop and pastor over individual parishes and put a board of laymen in their place. Yes, we’re asking the same questions you are (Where does the legislature have the authority to do this? Isn’t this a blatant violation of the First Amendment?), but we assure you that this is not a hoax.

We need as big a turnout as possible for the public hearing on Wednesday, especially from non-Catholics. As Ben Franklin told the Founders while they were signing the Declaration of Independence, “either we hang together or we will all hang separately.” Legislators need to understand that this bill is an attack on everyone’s religious liberty.

If the legislature can replace a bishop with a board of laymen in the Catholic Church, they can just as easily replace the governing lay structure of Congregationalist or Baptist churches with someone set up as a bishop. In fact, it was resistance to such government interference in the internal life of the church that gave birth to several of our most historic denominations. Thanks to this awful bill, our generation must now rise up to defend those hard-fought victories for religious liberty that were won for us by our ancestors.

The Judiciary Committee will hold a public hearing on R.B. 1098 on Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 12:00 P. M. in Room 2C of the LOB. Please submit 45 copies of written testimony to Committee staff at least two hours prior to the start of the hearing in Room 2500 of the LOB. Testimony submitted after the designated time may not be distributed until after the hearing. Sign-up for the hearing will begin at 10: 00 A. M. in Room 2500 of the LOB. Sign-up will conclude 30 minutes before the start of the hearing. Speaker order will be decided by a lottery system. Anyone wishing to testify after the drawing is closed will be placed at the end of the list. The first hour of the hearing is reserved for public officials. Speakers will be limited to 3 minutes of testimony.

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/09/c … ic-church/

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Connecticut moving to regulate the Catholic Church?
posted at 8:11 am on March 9, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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According to the First Amendment and the Establishment Clause, the government has no business dictating to religious organizations how they should structure themselves. In Connecticut, though, some lawmakers seem to have skipped over the Constitution. A new bill will require Catholic parishes and dioceses — and only Catholics — to organize their parish leadership in a way that pleases the Connecticut legislature (via The Corner):