Hudson was rescued by B.O.N.E.S. from a bad situation in Limington, ME. After the gentleman called 911 (and subsequently passed away), the local ACO found 20 dogs living in squalid conditions.
B.O.N.E.S. took most of them and found them new homes. Overall, Hudson was in very good shape but when he had his physical, they found a serious mast cell tumor in his nose. As much as possible was removed.
B.O.N.E.S. wanted to find a wonderful home for Hudson and we did. John is a long-haul trucker that had lost his beagle companion of 13 years. He wanted a new companion. Luckily John found Hudson (or Hudson found John). It was a wonderful match. Hudson reported in regularly, and we share his "Chronicles" on this page.
Greetings from Knoxville, TN. John and I are waiting to unload in Maggie Valley, NC in the morning.
Since the last update, we have been busy running out to the mid-west, then down south and back home.We have had a couple of oversize loads out of Maine going to Cleveland. This has been tough for John. the tolls have been around $100.00 each trip. He is such a cheap-skate that it is fun to see the dust fly out of his wallet when he gets out the cash. From Cleveland, we went down to Charlotte, NC with a Forklift and a truck cab. From there we loaded a little go-cart race car and some more snow guns from Cataloochee ski area. John has been there so often that I feel like we work for them. They are a great bunch of guys. They always say hi to me and tell John to let me out of the truck so I can explore. They also make fun of John which is a bonus. (especially after he caught the telephone wire the last time we were there).
We took the snow Guns up to Berkshire east ski area, another place we have become familiar with, and then delivered the go-cart to Falmouth High School. They have two of these cars and are going to make one of them an electric powered car. I think this would be a fun car to cruise around in, just my size.
We spent a few days home so John could move his three storage sheds. He is having a large driveway put in so he can get the tractor and trailer home. He also spend the good part of a day trying to get his other truck running so he could get that out of the way too. He was successful in getting the truck running, but couldn't get the brakes to release. A friend came by to help and It was kind of fun to watch from inside the warm house as these two guys were crawling under the truck with pipes and hammers pounding on the brakes trying to get them to release. I don't know if it was the cold or the approaching darkness that made them give up but, the truck still sits where it is.
Later that evening, we headed down to Newport, RI with a delivery of one bundle of lumber. John was told that it was a tight place to get into so he decided to get there the night before. Well, it was in downtown Newport, which is full of narrow streets. John got to the street we needed to be on, but there was no street sign, so he pulled over to ask directions. He saw a policeman so he asked him if this was Thames street and the kid said it was, and told home where he had to go. I said kid, because it was Halloween, and the kid was in a costume. I'm glad he was, because he was wearing short-shorts as part of his "uniform". He was dressed as the cop from the series Reno 911. I'm still not sure when,or if, John realized this was a costume. He's made it this far in life,so I don't worry about him anymore. So down the street we went. It was a narrow, one way street and about 10 blocks down, John had to turn down an alley that was a dead end. He was delivering to a yacht building college, so they blocked off the parking section so he could make the swing onto the alley.
We unloaded the unit of lumber the next morning and two of the guys stopped traffic so John could back out of the alley and try to find his way out of there. I have to give him credit, he was able to get out of there without running anything or anyone over. From Newport, We headed to metro Cleveland for the rest of our deliveries. We had a large magnet from a scrap yard to deliver in Maple heights, Ohio, and then down to Wooster to deliver a truck that was going to have a crane installed on it. We loaded the truck in Carmel, ME the previous Friday. John has hauled for this company before, but maybe this will be the last time. He had to use his ramps and while driving up the ramps, the truck started bouncing and it fell off the ramps! It didn't really fall off, but one tire slipped off the ramp so that the axle was resting on the ramp. They fired up the forklift and guided it back on the ramp and up onto the trailer. John admitted that the bucking was probably due to the fact that he was in 3rd gear instead of 1st. I was so embarrassed! They all laughed and compared stories of things like this happening before. John has been lucky in dealing with good people. After we unload tomorrow, we head out to Colorado to pick up a snow groomer coming back to Massachusetts. Let's hope we can get in and out of there without encountering any major snow storms.
That wraps it up for now.
Hudson, the semi-beagle
