Archive for October, 2006

Trick and Treat

31 October 2006

Doorbells and dogs are not a good combination.
We recently started training Alex to do a Down/Stay when the doorbell rang rather then barking, running frantically to the door and jumping on guests. Since we don’t get that many visitors it was a slow process. In fact, we’d probably worked on it about three times [...]

Crippled

31 October 2006

I picked up a Garmin StreetPilot 2820 a few months back and it’s been a great little GPS unit - with one exception. One of the advertised features is Bluetooth compatibility which allows you to make and receive calls through the unit with a Bluetooth enabled phone. This wasn’t a huge draw for me [...]

The Dance

25 October 2006

The Routine
Drew gets up with Alex most mornings. He goes outside, does his business and then cuddles on the bed with me while Drew showers. When Alex needs to get up earlier then the alarm clock he’ll start tapping the side of the bed indicating he needs to go out.
The Theory
Alex will get Drew [...]

Colorado Bound

24 October 2006

We decided over the summer that Colorado may be our next home. We definitely don’t want to stay in Vallejo for the rest of our lives, much less raise kids here. For the longest time we thought the Pacific Northwest would be our destination based solely on the amount of family living there [...]

Do the Right Thing

23 October 2006

After much thought we decided to take the kittens to the Benicia/Vallejo Humane Society. It was a hard decision, but we were not in position to feed and take care of three more cats. The neighbors took poor care of the dog they had (chaining him in the backyard and not looking for [...]

That Elephant Has a Name

19 October 2006

Cancer. It’s a big word. It can fill up a paragraph or a page or a room.
I just found out my step dad has prostate cancer. Luckily they caught it pretty early, and it’s not an aggressive cancer as those things go. He is, however, only in his 50’s which isn’t that [...]

Deliverance

17 October 2006

That Tempur-Pedic mattress… There is no love lost there. Mancini’s wants you to sleep on a new mattress for at least 15 days before they will do a one-time exchange but we’d had enough. After 4 nights of poor sleep we went back to find new mattresses and set up delivery for Sunday, [...]

Tempur-Spastic

12 October 2006

Almost everyone has bought mattresses at some point in their lifetime, and most of those people know that comparison shopping and price matching is a joke. The reality is that every store that specializes in selling mattresses will take the same base model and slap a different cover on them or change one layer [...]

Cats in the Cradle

12 October 2006

Last month we noticed the next door neighbors had a slew of new cats hanging out in their window. New kittens to be exact. And I love kittens. Every time I went by the window I’d watch them jumping on each other, climbing the screen or sleeping in the sun. Did I [...]

Dogs Rn’t Us

12 October 2006

After Harvey passed in January we knew that we’d get another dog eventually to keep Alex company. In fact, we got Alex to keep Harvey company so it seemed only natural to pair him up with a new buddy - a new “pack” as it were. No one should spend their days alone. [...]

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