Week 30

MEET MOE!

We did it, we went out to the pound and got a dog. We didn't get a puppy as you can see, we got Moe. He's an authentic Alabama Ditch Hound of very good temprament and bad confirmation. He's very laid back and cool. He met Annie last night and you would have thought the circus was in town as excited as he was. They chased and chewed and wrestled. It was great fun. Jack kept standing in the middle of the runway laughing and waving his hands at them. I was a little afraid he was going to get knocked down, but he was alright.

Reading: Still reading Native Tounge (it's not long or complicated, I've just been distracted (see photo)) and started The Other End of the Leash as well. It's one that I've had on a wish list for a while and I happened across it in the Vet School Library.

This is the weekend we move Steve and Lynne out of their house for their trip to Conway. I can't believe it. It is very sad for me to think about them and Benji & Peyton all leaving at all, never mind within a fortnight of each other. I really wish it wasn't happening at all, but I guess I can't fight fate, and good jobs are the reasons we go to college after all.... and if it weren't for college I never would have met them in the first place.

I did some piecing on the juki machine (finally found the 1/4 inch foot) and it seems like it works just fine. I can cut off points as well with this machine as I could with the Kenmore. *that's a joke y'all*

Week 29

Dietrich and Heather had their baby yesterday July 22. His name is Tristan Hans. I went to see her at lunch time today, and she had him in the room holding him. She said he'd slept so much that day that he wasn't even interested in eating, just sleeping. I tried to get an order of sushi to take to her as a happy, but Umi's is closed on Mondays.


I posted a note on the MQA list about looking for a sewing machine, and Leslie responded that she was looking to sell her Juki for $400. SOLD! so I picked up the machine from my mom's house this weekend. Got it set up and was patient as I figured out how to make it sew. So I'm mostly set for the quilting class next month. I just wanna play with it for a while to get at least passable with it before it starts.

We went to the beach this weekend with Ricky, Danielle, Camric, Sheila, Eric, Rhonda, and Drew (oh, and both puppies) so it was a great weekend. Got a litte sunburned, but as Wade says, just enough to remind you you went. We grilled 1 night and went out for supper 1 night. Great crab place with a huge pile of food. Friday night there was the beautiful light show outside due to a cold front and some heat lightning...

Reading: Native Tounge by Carl Hiaasen. I took it down to the beach as a simple book to read when I finished Bleeding London by Geoff Nicholson. I've got a couple of other dog books that I've read this week as well, with an eye towards getting a puppy in the next little bit.

Week 28

Almost done with camp finally!... only have 2 more registrations, this afternoon and Monday morning. We are going to the Beach next weekend, becuase of registrations I can't go this weekend.

Floated the Okatoma this past weekend. It rained about 2 inches in the morning before we went, so the river was very very high. The chutes and rapids that are normal for that river were so flooded that you could tell where they were, but they were marked by standing waves rather than waterfalls. There were very few places to stop because of the excess water.

There was a group going down the creek that was planning on camping on the river.... there were 31 of them. Most of them were not having a good float. Everytime we saw them somebody would have dumped themselves and their stuff into the river.

I've spent a lot of time on the internet this week looking at dog training pages. Clicker training is so cool, and I'm looking forward to working with that technique when we get our new dog in the next couple of weeks.

Read: Second Hand Dog by carol lee benjamin, GRRR.. dog aggresion (I'd bought it before, but just finished it) by Uncle Maddie, and am in the middle of Tales from Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffett. (it's short stories)

I've actually started working on the background for my Summer Memories challenge quilt for the Tupelo guild. I hope that I can get it done in time.

We went and saw Transformers with Benji and Steve and Lynne. It was a terrificly fun movie. Left completly open for a sequel at the end.

Week 27

Well we had to do it.... we put Doobie down on last Friday afternoon. Here is the tribute that I wrote up, and posted to the GA List and family.
http://www.in-memory-of-pets.com/personalfamilystories.php?ID=67105
We are missing him for sure. There is nothing that makes me sigh sadly worse than having to bend over and pick up a piece of dropped sausage. We will get another dog soon, Steve wants a puppy :)

July 4th was Wednesday this year, we went over to Jon's house and went swimming and grilled on his new gas grill. It was nice to hang out with him and sonja and huxley. Huxley is a big goof, all play and energy, but settles down very nicely no begging at the table or anything. Apparently he is still chewing on things, and needs more excercise than he gets, but he seems to be a nice dog all around.

I heard in the news that Disney has gotten the rights to make a movie of the John Carter of Mars books, so I got the 1st one from the paperback swap to read. It's pretty bloodthirsty, dunno how they are going to make it suitably kid friendly.

Still hot and dry here... but getting a few afternoon showers at least. Flooding in Texas for like 3 weeks now, and we are 15 inches low on the yearly rain count.

We are going to Eric's this weekend to float the Okatoma and boil shrimp. Looking forward to it very much. I hope Steve is too; he's seemed a little down the last couple of days, and I'm not sure what to do to cheer him up.

The Tupelo quilt guild was this week and was a failure of a meeting in my opinion. They warned me that the owners had to be gone by 8 pm... So I nixed the program that I'd planned in order to not run late at all, and then ended up with less to talk about that I'd planned I guess, cause we were done at 7:25. We were deffinatly out by 8 though, which was my primary goal. I told them at the outset that it was going to be a boring meeting. I will be really glad to be done with this office that I'm holding (vice president) and when I'm done with that, I might be done with that guild for at least a while. No one will volunteer to do a program so we are pretty much stuck with whatever I can come up with month to month.