We adopted Spirit from the Seattle Animal Shelter last January. Not knowing her actual birthday, we decided to celebrate it on the day she was adopted – 1/11/09. We were a bit late this year. But Spirit didn’t seem to mind.
Spirit laps up the broth I made her from the chicken parts left over. She [...]
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More Word art by Daniel. This stuff really amazes me. He’s so gifted (IMHO).
What a girl! She turned ten today. Here are many shots from her party yesterday.
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It was Molly’s 11th Mother’s Day today – I count the year when Molly was pregnant with Camille and she is nine – so that’s nine years plus the one when Camille was a few months old and one where Molly was pregnant. As usual, we went to Discovery Park for a picnic by the [...]
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Spirit bounds from the water after retrieving a stick. I finally convinced her to retrieve a stick from deep water, this simultaneously solving several problems: how to teach her to swim, how to teach her to retrieve, and how to get her the exercise she desperately needs. I’ll have to reinforce this behavior, but I [...]
I’ve taken to calling Spirit a bog monster. Here she frolics in an urine soaked mud pit that forms at the Golden Garden off leash area. She managed to convince some other dogs to join her in the fun. Spirit’s the black blur on the right. Thanks to Gordon for mentioning the iPhone app Quad [...]
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It was rough night. Camille and I tried to do her math homework as I cooked. Camille was tired and was quickly overwhelmed. Tears came and she was comforted by hanging out with Spirit. Good Spirit!
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