I just was looking at my previous posts and realized I had forgotten to update on him! Luke was adopted! His family is a wonderful older couple who think he walks on water. They are such great people and I am so happy for Luke! Yes, I miss him tremendously, but have had my hands full for the last 9 weeks with 7 puppies and a new dog ( Read more... )

Over 10 weeks ago, I found a stray black lab by my work. A very pregnant stray black lab. She had 7 puppies on 10/26/09 and surprisingly, they all lived and were very healthy. I have since found homes for 5 of the puppies, but still have 2 females left. I've named them Lena and Bella, but obviously those can be changed. They will be 10 weeks old on ( Read more... )

I just bought my airline ticket from Omaha to New Orleans for November 17th through the 22nd. That weekend is the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Annual Convention and I am presenting research at a poster session with one of my professors. I'm really excited to go down there! I was having issues trying to decide if I should wait to see ( Read more... )

I am sad to say that my Lukie, Luke Skywalker, is no longer staying at our house. He is being fostered up in Sioux Falls with a great lady who fosters tons of dogs at a time. Nolan was getting sick of Luke and was not patient with him at all. We had brought Luke to Sioux Falls for a week for several reasons: To have his teeth cleaned (they were ( Read more... )

We're moving to a new (rental) house. Really had no say in it, but since we called the city regarding the bat colony taking residence in our house, and the city calling our landlord and basically telling him he either fixes it or vacates the premesis. And what did our landlord do? Did he fix the problem (after over 1 year of complaints from us!)? ( Read more... )

My house is clean (well except for the laundry room, office and the bedroom needs to be dusted and vacuumed)!  My dogs are clean!  I have Nolan's birthday presents (besides the bike and fountain pen I gave him money to buy) and our families are coming to visit!

I don't have the groceries I need for this weekend nor do I have all the booze I'm sure ( Read more... )

We were under a blizzard warning all day yesterday and into this morning.  I had heard contradicting reports about the amount of snow we were to get: 1-2 inches, 3-6 inches, 8-12 inches!  I think we only got 2. It's very heavy snow and wet.  I know snow is wet, but when it was falling, the snowflakes were huge and when they hit the windshield they ( Read more... )

Six months ago yesterday, Nolan and I attended GermanFest in Sioux Falls and brought home Luke Skywalker as our first foster dog.  This past week I found out that someone has applied to adopt Luke!  I am so excited, but so terribly sad to know that my little Lukie Luke, my pal and shadow will be leaving me soon.  He has completely blossomed from a ( Read more... )

So, we now have 4 dogs at our house! Jelly Bean and Monty are our's (Nolan's and mine); Luke is still with us, the foster dog from Dakota Dachshund Rescue; and we are "temporarily" fostering Scooby, a 10 month old miniature dachshund. He is so much fun! I really want to keep him, or at least continue to foster him until he goes to his forever home ( Read more... )

Yesterday was a wonderful day. I am so glad I was able to watch President Barack Obama's inauguration and witness the change our country has needed.  It is so interesting that I feel more hope today, President Obama's first full day in office, more hope than when he won the election back in November ( Read more... )