Updates, dogs & more dogs...

I'm sorry, I know I've done a lot of posts in a short period of time, but I'm making up for lost time. Be sure to scroll down if you haven't visited my blog in a while, there are 3 other recent posts!

Paul's work is taking longer than planned and since he'll now be waiting on another student to get some results that could take 2-3 months, we felt his time would be better spent (and more happily spent!) back home, studying for the actuary exam while wrapping up the PhD before next September. We still plan to move to Colorado, but our plans change so quickly, I'll wait to give a definite date until the moving van is booked.

We did have some good news. The college gave me an additional class, which makes 4, and means I'm eligible for benefits! Yay!

I also wanted to include some updates on the dogs, though I realize few people care. Humor me anyway, I've become such a dog lover recently!

Last week I found another stray dog and brought it home. That makes the 3rd stray I've brought home this year, and once again was able to find the owners. I've also been informed it will be the last one I bring to my parents' home. :) Hopefully I don't find anymore here as I seem unable to resist...

Maggie & Milo (hereafter referred to as 'M&M') are great. We started intermediate classes at Petsmart last week, which has given us more rules to practice.

There's a group of people who let their dogs play together each night at the park and we passed them on our evening walks for over a month. I finally felt M&M were ready to make some friends and get off their leashes, so we tried it out. It went wonderfully and it's become a surprisingly relaxing time of day for me now. I usually drive over to the park and let the dogs run around chasing each other, fetching frisbees, etc. for an hour or so (we take walks in the morning now). I think of it as M&M's playgroup. Alec runs around and hugs them all as well! His favorite is Torque, a 107 pound german shepherd.

Here's Milo with Cheyenne, a german shepherd. Milo likes to steal her frisbee and get her to wrestle. Never mind that Cheyenne's more than double his weight!

Maggie's not as social and I think it's so funny that if any puppies come, they tend to want to play with her. Here's Tessa, a little 8-week old lab trying to get Maggie to play:

My friend Jill's holding up a chew toy, that everyone suddenly wants. (Most nights we have about 10 dogs running around.) Here she has Torque, Loka (her husky), Cheyenne (her german shepherd) and M&M all paying attention. You can also see the two lab puppies in the back right corner wrestling.