Tag: animals

  • Baby Borrowers

    Baby Borrowers

    Apologies for the blog-silience this week! I’ve been quite busy, and here are a few hints as to why:IMG_8595IMG_8597IMG_8598

    If you guessed puppy, you’re right! But not our own puppy – Chris and I watched my friend Coelle’s dog, Zoey, for a few days.

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    And with that, I think I’m going to cross off #22 and 43 on my 101 in 1001 list – get a dog, and housebreak the dog. I know it’s a stretch to say that I “got a dog” and that I housebroke her on my own, but I’ve decided that this task will fulfill those two items on the list because I realized there’s no way I could keep up with everything else that’s going on in my life if I actually did get a dog in the next couple of years. It’s a full-time job! We had Zoey for about 72 hours, I pretty much didn’t do anything else that wasn’t Zoey-related. I do think we housebroke her for our house though – she only had two minor accidents the first day, and every time after that if we didn’t already anticipate her needing to go out, she walked down the hall and sat by the stairs. She’s such a good girl, and we had a lot of fun having her around! Maybe we’ll eventually think about getting an older dog, but for now that’s a check and check on those two items.

  • Meet Zoey

    My friend Coelle has just about a billion really cool things going on in her life right now. She just recently bought a fabulous new house, graduated from her Master’s program (I’m so proud of you Coelle!), and as if those two things weren’t monumental enough, she has added Zoey to her life. I visited this evening for the new-home tour, and I got to meet Zoey! This puppy is quite possibly one of the wiggliest most adorable things ever and I’m glad I brought my camera along for an impromptu puppy portrait session:

    Zoey is an eleven-week old French Bulldog, and is just the sweetest little thing. She makes the cutest grunting noises and I love her little smooshed face. In addition to exploring her new territories, she has her contemplative moments like this one:

    I think we wore her out after playing for a while. She started dozing off, even while sitting up!

    She’s only been with Coelle for a few days, but I could already tell how bonded they are. Zoey is one lucky pup – she’s going to be well cared for!

  • Our Choice of Subjects

    Chris and I went for our usual walk tonight and took our cameras along with us. We walked along the W&OD trail behind our house where I felt inspired to do some ring shots with our own wedding bands (I know, that’s kind of random), and Chris was on the lookout for good nature shots as always.



    It was funny when we saw this deer – we were almost home and Chris said, “I wish a big deer was just standing right there…” and right where he pointed, a deer peeked out and then retreated back into the woods a bit. (I wish Chris had wished to find a million dollars right there! I wonder if it would’ve appeared?!)


  • The Last of the Green

    Okay, I’m letting myself off the hook for the Project 10/List 2 “green” images by posting another picture of Charlie as #10. At least it’s a little different (fisheye!):

  • Bird is the Word

    Chris and I were really excited last spring to see that a bird had built her nest above the front door of our house. We anxiously awaited the arrival of baby birds, but unfortunately the front door is also right next to our extremely loud garage door, and mama bird eventually left to find quieter quarters I guess. So, no babies.


    I was sort of hoping it would make a good home for another bird (maybe one that is used to noise?) so I just left the nest there. Yesterday was really windy though and the nest finally blew away. Sort of sad:

    But in happier bird news, Charlie is my first Project 10/List 2 image of things that are green: