I have pictures of Jaycup to share with everyone but Jack keeps taking the camera to work with him and I forget to download them in the evening... they will get posted...eventually. He is working out well. Maya put it the best when she said he looks smarter than he is. He is desperate for Shiloh's attention and will bark at her, jump on her, take toys from her to get it. Typical boy! Shiloh, used to Mike's more mature affection (benignly ignoring her unless she seemed to be having a problem), is getting a bit grumpy with this younger man. Actually they are supposedly the same age - but maybe girl dogs mature quicker than boy dogs too. Several people have suggested to Jaycup that if he were to learn how to throw the ball he could have the undivided attention from her that he desires. I on the other hand am acting as the pack leader and jumping on him when I see him being a bully to her. It's a process...


Licorice on the other hand is having absolutally nothing to do with the new comer. She is either in our bedroom or in the study. He is far to intense with his interest in her for her comfort. I have seen her sitting in the hallway a couple of times in the past day or two so maybe she is warming up to the idea of sharing the house with Jaycup. We will see.




BRETT and MAYA were here for the best part of 4 days this week! I finally got to meet the bride-to-be! I could not be happier with her. She is genuine, fun loving, outdoorsy, easy going, intelligent, opinionated, physically bueatiful and self-confident! I may have hugged her to much and plied her with too many questions but she was gracious about it all. I also hugged Brett alot but he is kind of used to it. He is also not very talkative and she is! Yeah!


We discussed wedding plans, Thailand, good books, men, dogs, future plans for them, cooking mexican and thai food, the state of the United States from other countries points of view, the dangers of standing on rim edges, rock climbing, riding motor scooters on Thailand's country roads but not in Bangkok, jewelry, clothes, shopping......

We spent a day going to Crater Lake, The Big Obsidian Flow, and Paulina Peak at the Newberry Monument. It was a sunny, relatively warm day and the pictures turned out pretty great. I posted a bunch of them on Facebook.














This is the only picture of Maya and I that we thought to take. We were just busy doing stuff I guess. They have one picture taken just before they left on Thursday of the three of us that is on their camera. I hope to get a copy of it when they get back to Thailand.

Jack is ready to be done working for this year. Each day he is telling himself that he is working now so he can have fun in Florida! Fun in Florida! Fun in Florida!

I have my clothes picked out for our Florida stay and am just waiting for the end date of his job to start packing them and the snorkeling gear we will be sending ahead of us. The baggage charges make Fed Ex or any of the others rates reasonable!

Enough for now... have to get out in the sunshine for a bit!