Catching Up With this new job, I don’t have a whole lot of time for surfing or posting, so I’ll probably only be updating my blog once a week from now on. So here is today’s update.

Remember a couple of weeks ago, I posted about our friend who was visiting from Australia? And then we had 3 days of rain? Well, here are a few pics of that week. I just got the film developed the other day, and had them put on CD so I could load them up to my photobucket. My digi cam wasn’t working for some reason, I think I need to go buy a new one. Staples has them on sale this week and I’ve got $32 worth of coupons I could use ;-)

Anyway, here’s James and our friend Allen with the dogs on the Greenway park here in town. I can no longer walk the dogs myself, I need someone to come with me, so they don’t get out much. It’ll be even less now that we’re both working, and can’t always coordinate our days off. Starting the first week of November, I’ll be working 12 hour days 6 days a week until Christmas :-p



Here’s a picture of me that James took. We were up Grandfather Mountain, just a few feet more than a mile high, and I was right at the edge of it, with nothing under me but sky. Its really nice up there, and we had a lovely sunny day. It’s a privately owned mountain believe it or not, and they have a wild animal refuge, with bears, cougars, bald eagles, golden eagles and deer. All of the animals they have, save a couple of newly born cubs, were injured and left to die by inconsiderate hunters. They were brought to Grandfather Mountain to be cared for and spend the rest of their lives there, in a natural but enclosed habitat. The cubs were born to one of the injured bears, and will be released to the wild when they’re old enough to care for themselves. The cubs are kept separate from the public, so that they don’t get used to humans and become nuisance animals when released.



And remember the 3 days of rain? Here’s my mucky puppies, who I had to keep closed up in the kitchen until they dried off, because my entire house was getting filthy with mud!



And, just because they’re so dang cute, here’s one of each of them sleeping on the couch. Same couch in both pics, just with different covers on different days. I had to change it because of all the mud :-p

Here’s George


and this is Bruno. He has figured out how furniture works now, and makes himself quite comfortable wherever he pleases. At 160 pounds, I’m not about to argue with him ;-)



That’s all for now!  ¶ 11:00 AM