Foster Puppies!: August 2009

Heat, Smoke, Fire

I am staying inside as the air is in the "unhealthy for sensitive groups" category, and I am a sensitive group. I'm gittin' a little stir crazy.

Daisy was just standing in the middle of the room barking, and now she is whining. I presume she is also feeling a little stir crazy and wondering who turned her yard into an oven.

The bright side: we are not on fire!

Four Weeks

Wet Dog Parade

The 98 degree weather seemed a good time to give puppy baths. They tend to make quite a mess at mealtime, walking through the food and stepping on each other's heads. We gave them warm baths in the sink and then took them outside to dry.

Alpha:

Oso:

Hope:

Jethro:

Bravo:

and Nai-nai:

and more Nai-nai:

and one more Nai-nai:

Sleepy Time

Nai-nai, Hope, Jethro and Alpha are starting to get shaggy! Now I am very curious to see what they will become!

Tuesday Afternoon Photos

Annie and Nai-nai:

Haley with Jethro:

Oso eating dinner:

Napping after a good meal:

Three Weeks and Three Days

The puppies sleeping soundly after I trimmed all of their sharp little claws:

It is a personal victory for me. Since I cut the wee thumb of my firstborn, Tim has handled all of the nail/claw cutting duties in the family. I am feeling quite independent and capable! :)

Grandma's Sewing Table

I wish I could use my Grandma's sewing table in the house, but thanks to 50 years of cigarette smoking, it is relegated to the front porch.

It still makes me very happy to have it. Somewhere along the line, my Grandpa turned it into a make-up table for my Grandma, and I have lots of good memories of watching my Grandma and my Aunt Reen apply their make-up at this table when I would spend the night at the beach house.

Of course, there was always cat urine on the sheets and a scary fox stole in the closet. So I guess they aren't all good memories! :)

Jane and Oso

Daddy Love and a Pack of Puppies

Annie holding the entire litter in the baby sling:

Nai-Nai Three Weeks Old

Duckie

Nai-Nai

Two weeks and 5 days old.

Road to Recovery

The puppies are improving, and they got to formally meet Aunt Jane and
Aunt Daisy today.

Inspiration

“Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.” -Rich Mullins

"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." - Socrates

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." - Helen Keller

"Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.” - Henri Matisse

"What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts." - Ray Eames

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." - Matthew 6:19-21

"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

" I am not afraid... I was born to do this." - Joan of Arc

"People new to Ivey's world see a puzzle missing pieces. But, I am convinced, unwillingly convinced, Ivey is WHOLE. She is all of the things we all should be, minus the things that really are unimportant." - Gwen Sirmans

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