I Went To Prison

Yes, I was in prison this week and last week.  Mansfield Correctional Institution...Manci for short...has a program called:  Manci Cell Dogs.  Google it and you'll come to their facebook page and it explains the program.  The Reader's Digest version is this: They take dogs from shelters and have the prisoners train them to be re-homed.   It gives the dogs a second chance for a good life and it helps the prisoners in many, many ways.   We really weren't looking for another dog after Chubbs passed on, but a friend who got a dog from this program had me hooked when I looked at the page.  I found a sweet face named Londyn.  She was a puppy mill dog from an Amish farm.  She's very scared and skittish of humans since she was kept in a cage her whole 5yrs of life.  Hopefully she'll become more at home here at the Pines.  It will take time and patience but she's very sweet and obedient.   We've changed her name to Zoe since she doesn't answer to her old name anyway.

Such a sad face...and my greatest joy will be to see her tail wag one day.  Welcome sweet girl!  In other news  we have quit complaining about our nonexistent Spring.  Today is the 100th day of January.  Snow was flying yesterday but in true Ohio fashion it's going to be 70 on Friday..maybe then we can move into Spring!   One other crazy event happened that really has me believing in the power of prayer.
I lost my Fitbit on Saturday.  I couldn't find it anywhere in the house so I realized it had to be in the Creepy Woods.  We were up there riding around in the gator trying out Jack's new tires.

Pretty aren't they?  Anyway, I decided it was a lost cause.  I mean, seriously, looking for a needle in a  haystack kind of moment:

Sunday afternoon I took a walk in the woods with my camera like I always do.  I said a little prayer about finding the Fitbit.  Then I thought to myself, why would God care about a stupid Fitbit?   I turned around to head back when I looked down and saw this:

I had to click a pic because I'm sure nobody would believe me.  I was tempted to pray quickly about a few other things since He must have been listening at that moment but said thanks instead and moved on.  Yep, be a believer or not but I'll take any prayer answers whenever they are given!  Hope your week has many crazy moments and answers to prayers!