Kitchen shiplap decor wall and a Rescue story

 

On my trip last weekend to Michigan I found this old vintage chippy frame.  I loved the patina on it.  So that came home with us.

It had several layers of wood textures.

I also found these French cottage signs and thought they might look good on the shiplap wall.  They are in glass frames but I might try and find some chippy old frames for them too.

I took my old vintage watering can and added some wild flowers and hang that in the middle of the frame.

I am looking for an old farmhouse apron up cycled with some old lace and material to hang on the hook.  For now my regular apron will do.

Hope your week is filled with lots of fun.
The weather here has been so nice and more springlike than winter.
Loving every minute of this nice weather.

This little girl is a rescue story.   This sweet dog was brought to our attention in a very unusual way.   One of those meant to be stories.  

I have always been a big believer in God bringing people into our paths for a reason.  Either to learn something or for us to teach something or to help in some way.

By accident I stumbled upon this sweet girl and her story.  I was at a point in life after losing our sweet Buddy a year and a half ago to not have a dog.
Terry and I have been married for 44 years and never have not been with a dog or two.
Now we are preparing for retirement in a few years and we were getting use to our freedom from having a dog.

By coincidence and/or  accident I found out about this sweet girl and her story.

She is being fostered by a retired RN like myself and her husband is a retired Fire Chief like Terry.  How weird it that!!!!  They have always loved basset hounds and dachshunds like us.
Another lovely set of coincidences.

The hurdle was how do we get her to us in Illinois from Georgia.

The Foster mom said she was about 3 to 4 hours from Nashville Tennessee and would meet us there.  That way Terry and I would only have to travel 7 hours instead of 11 to 12 hours.

Terry and I will travel to Nashville at the end of this week to meet this sweet girl and bring her home with us.
She is a very small basset hound and is about 5 years old.

She is very tiny for a basset hound.  When they found her she was starving and only weighed 20lbs.  After a month with the foster family she has put on 10lbs.  Probably will never get over 35lbs.  

In Georgia they have retention places that they put found dogs in for a week.  If anyone has lost their dog they can go to these retention places to claim their lost dog.  No one came to claim her.  She was not microchipped, no tags and had several skin infections and was neglected for some time and the Vet thinks on the run for some time.

They treated her for the skin cuts and infections and brought her up to date on all her immunizations and also spayed her.  The Foster mom said she is doing so well with eating and gaining some weight.  Her skin infections are all cleared up and her hair and skin are coming back in nicely.

The Foster Mom said this is one of the sweetest and gentle basset hounds she has ever met.