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This year our backyard view was great! It was like having our own private firework show!
A slight breeze was headed inland so no smoke was in front of the fireworks so we had the clearest view ever!!!
This is the final 3 minutes of the show.

Couldn’t believe when I looked out & saw 2 Trees on fire! My worst nightmare!! Here is a Video Clip of the brush fire on the hill behind Two Trees off of Barlow Canyon Road in Ventura California. As of 3:50pm they have saved Two Trees and are working on putting out the rest of the hill.

This product is HIGHLY TOXIC to all dogs and cats

I don’t usually blog about bad news as the world is full of it but this is different. I love animals and I love to garden so when I found out about this I just had to pass it on.

Over the weekend, the doting owner of two young lab mixes purchased Cocoa Mulch from Target to use in their garden. The dogs loved the way it smelled and it was advertised to keep cats away from their garden. Their dog (Calypso) decided the mulch smelled good enough to eat and devoured a large helping. She vomited a few times which was typical when she eats something new but wasn’t acting lethargic in any way. The next day, Mom woke up and took Calypso out for her morning walk. Halfway through the walk, she had a seizure and died instantly.

Although the mulch had NO warnings printed on the label, upon further investigation on the company’s web site,

This product is HIGHLY TOXIC to dogs and cats.

Cocoa Mulch is manufactured by Hershey’s, and they claim that “It is true that studies have shown that 50% of the dogs that eat Cocoa Mulch can suffer physical harm to a variety of degrees (depending on each individual dog). However, 98% of all dogs won’t eat it.”

Snopes.com site gives the following information: http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/cocoamulch.asp

Cocoa Mulch, which is sold by Home Depot, Foreman’s Garden Supply and other garden supply stores contains a lethal ingredient called ‘Theobromine’. It is lethal to dogs and cats. It smells like chocolate and it really attracts dogs. They will ingest this stuff and die. Several deaths already occurred in the last 2-3 weeks.

Theobromine is in all chocolate, especially dark or baker’s chocolate which is toxic to dogs. Cocoa bean shells contain potentially toxic quantities of theobromine, a xanthine compound similar in effects to caffeine and theophylline. A dog that ingested a lethal quantity of garden mulch made from cacao bean shells developed severe convulsions and died 17 hours later. Analysis of the stomach contents and the ingested cacao bean shells revealed the presence of lethal amounts of theobromine.

** PLEASE PASS THIS ON**

Now which house will you remember next year???

2010 Family Organizer & Wall Calendar

2010 Giant Grid Wall Calendar

We will be posting the entries until Friday November 6th when our judges will pick the winner!

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