This blog is turning out to serve as a baby book for Bodhi.
Thanks to the stranger friends who said the nice things about the doggies yesterday.
When Maddie was little I started calling her Maddie Pookins.
Bodhi still has his puppy fangs and was climbing on me the other day to give me some love with his fangs bared. I have started calling him Bodhi Monster.
I wonder if I am gender stereotying them already.
Bodhi also has a rasta name - Bodhi Mon.
I know what it looks like when a girl dog squats to pee but I am still getting used to what a boy dog looks like - so I can be effective at house training. Not sure if all boy dogs stand this way but Bodhi stands like a telemark skiier - one leg in front of the other with bent knees and ankles. Will try to get a picture.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
New Kid Pics
He is more docile than Maddie. She was the spunky puppy of the two available yellow females. Both available chocolate males were docile. It was difficult to decide. But we picked this one for several reasons. He bit me less than did the other one. He followed Maddie around more than did the other one. He wagged his tail more when I talked to him than did the other one. He seemed to be a little bigger than the other one. This was a consideration only because he will probably be smaller than Maddie anyway - but if he is less smaller then he might have less of a complex about it.
She was born 06/06/04 and came home 08/02/04.
He was born 11/29/07 and came home 01/25/08.
I believe it is the case that any color combination of parents can result in any color of offspring - black yellow chocolate - within the same litter. The only exception is that two yellow parents will produce only yellow offspring.
Maddie Loves Bodhi !
& Bodhi Loves Maddie !
After much thought and talk with friends and family and meeting the new little guy - the new little guy shall be called Bodhi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi
He was going to be Barkley during the whole drive down to pick him out. But when we picked him out - his name was not Barkley. But after many suggestions from Ed and Kim and Cheryl on Friday evening - none of which ended up being his name - I realized that his name is Bodhi.
He is a bit of a different puppy than was Maddie. He is the same age that she was when she came home but he is much smaller. She was 16 pounds and he was/is about 9 pounds. His birth parents are about the same weight as Maddie - about 70 pounds - but they are both considerably shorter and stockier than Maddie and her parents. So I expect that he will be shorter and stockier as well.
Her birth parents are Onyx [black] and Grace [yellow].
His birth parents are Elvis [chocolate] and Pryscilla [chocolate].
All four parents are AKC registered - and Maddie and Bodhi are both eligible for full registration - but I do not plan to register them with the AKC. They are special enough as it is - this will not do anything to enhance that!
After much thought and talk with friends and family and meeting the new little guy - the new little guy shall be called Bodhi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi
He was going to be Barkley during the whole drive down to pick him out. But when we picked him out - his name was not Barkley. But after many suggestions from Ed and Kim and Cheryl on Friday evening - none of which ended up being his name - I realized that his name is Bodhi.
He is a bit of a different puppy than was Maddie. He is the same age that she was when she came home but he is much smaller. She was 16 pounds and he was/is about 9 pounds. His birth parents are about the same weight as Maddie - about 70 pounds - but they are both considerably shorter and stockier than Maddie and her parents. So I expect that he will be shorter and stockier as well.
Her birth parents are Onyx [black] and Grace [yellow].
His birth parents are Elvis [chocolate] and Pryscilla [chocolate].
All four parents are AKC registered - and Maddie and Bodhi are both eligible for full registration - but I do not plan to register them with the AKC. They are special enough as it is - this will not do anything to enhance that!
Friday, January 25, 2008
Home Again
We are home again - for those who care about such things.
All is well with double trouble in the house.
Will post more soon.
All is well with double trouble in the house.
Will post more soon.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Travel Day Tomorrow
Thanks to Dad, Nicole, Kim, Laura, and Keith for all their advice toward the name of the new little guy.
Maddie and I are traveling tomorrow/Friday to Douglas AZ to pick him out and bring him home. I think I need to wait to meet him to name him but I am leaning toward one particular name.
He is one of these - either the one in the dark green collar or the one in the black collar - and check back for updates once he has been picked:
http://cochiselabradors.com/Litters/Pryscilla/11-29-07/male_puppies.html
Maddie and I are traveling tomorrow/Friday to Douglas AZ to pick him out and bring him home. I think I need to wait to meet him to name him but I am leaning toward one particular name.
He is one of these - either the one in the dark green collar or the one in the black collar - and check back for updates once he has been picked:
http://cochiselabradors.com/Litters/Pryscilla/11-29-07/male_puppies.html
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Island Music
I heard a great Jimmy Buffett style band - called the Beach Bums - on one of my earlier trips to South Padre Island. The last time I heard them was June 2007. I looked them up on the web before our Thanksgiving 2007 trip to try to find the locales and dates and times of their gigs. Could not find anything but an email address for a band member so I emailed him asking for locales dates times. Did not hear back from him before our trip - but on our trip I learned that the band had dis-band-ed. But I heard from him after our trip - saying that the band had dis-band-ed. I did not reply - but only because I am a huge email slacker. And then I heard from him again a month or so later. I have not yet replied but that is next on my extensive "to do" list. One of my resolutions is to catch up on - and to keep up with - email. Here are some very cool excerpts from his second email:
"I hope you'll come back to the Island again and look me up. I don't know for sure if I'll be playing solo or have a new band next year, but I hope you'll give me (or us...) a listen if you can. I want to tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to look us up. I moved here 14 years ago because I wanted to catch people on vacation, and help them have a good time. Your e-mail tells me that it wasn't completely in vain, and you wouldn't believe how much that means in December. Thanks again"
P.S. My blog is titled "Migration" because this is the Buffett song that is my current favorite.
"I hope you'll come back to the Island again and look me up. I don't know for sure if I'll be playing solo or have a new band next year, but I hope you'll give me (or us...) a listen if you can. I want to tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to look us up. I moved here 14 years ago because I wanted to catch people on vacation, and help them have a good time. Your e-mail tells me that it wasn't completely in vain, and you wouldn't believe how much that means in December. Thanks again"
P.S. My blog is titled "Migration" because this is the Buffett song that is my current favorite.
No Decision Yet
Now I'm vacillating between Barkley and Gilligan. Input still welcome!
Re: Barkley - the pun is partly intended.
Re: Gilligan - because he would be Madeline's little buddy.
Might shorten it to Gilley as necessary when speaking.
Arg!
Re: Barkley - the pun is partly intended.
Re: Gilligan - because he would be Madeline's little buddy.
Might shorten it to Gilley as necessary when speaking.
Arg!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Chocolate Brother
I think his name might be Grover or Gopher instead of Barkeley or Berkeley. But I am not sure yet. I went through this with Madeline too. Mostly again with regard to how it should be spelled and pronounced. These are not trivial decisions.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
First Day of School
Big Fat Yippee
More on the new chocolate brother. I think I have put more thought into getting my dog/s than many people put into producing their human children. The latest news is that we did not travel yesterday to pick a brother. But rather we will travel next Thursday or Friday when he is old enough to actually come home with us. Thanks much to Laura for this brilliant idea that saved us a road trip yesterday. And I have been re-thinking his name and the merits of spelling it Berkeley versus Barkeley versus something different altogether. I welcome any constructive feedback on this issue. It has been easier to get ready for this new offspring than it was for the original offspring - I have a pretty good idea of the stuff I need to get for him and a pretty good idea of how my lifestyle will change for awhile. But I am hoping and planning that it will change less than it did when I got Maddie and was a brand-new first-time puppy parent. I have acquired LOTS of experience over the past 3.5 years!
More on the new chocolate brother. I think I have put more thought into getting my dog/s than many people put into producing their human children. The latest news is that we did not travel yesterday to pick a brother. But rather we will travel next Thursday or Friday when he is old enough to actually come home with us. Thanks much to Laura for this brilliant idea that saved us a road trip yesterday. And I have been re-thinking his name and the merits of spelling it Berkeley versus Barkeley versus something different altogether. I welcome any constructive feedback on this issue. It has been easier to get ready for this new offspring than it was for the original offspring - I have a pretty good idea of the stuff I need to get for him and a pretty good idea of how my lifestyle will change for awhile. But I am hoping and planning that it will change less than it did when I got Maddie and was a brand-new first-time puppy parent. I have acquired LOTS of experience over the past 3.5 years!
Friday, January 11, 2008
Busy & Changes
Lately I have been quite quite busy getting my financial and emotional and physical life in order! I have spent much much time this week working on estate and financial planning and investing as well as contemplating adopting a chocolate brother for Madeline. His name would be Berkeley (pronounced Barkley) and we are going to travel on Tuesday to meet two lab puppies. We put down a deposit and now we just have to see if one of them fits our family. I have also gone running every single day of the new year thus far. More on all of this later!
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Thursday, January 3, 2008
SPI Lodging & NM Bird Parts
2 miscellaneous tidbits of information~
Marco and Ed and I were having fantasies about buying a house in Port Isabel and living there all summer for windsurfing. Then we saw an ad for a flipped house for $155k and met the owner by chance. Then we looked at the house while out on a jog - the house looked nice but the neighborhood looked sketchy. We opted out this time. But here is the wisdom of considering all options before making such an investment. Dad wisely pointed out that investing the $155k in something that does not have to be cleaned and maintained can generate enough interest to pay for a lot of hotel rooms.
There were lots of bird feathers on my front walk when I got back to NM after being out of town for the holidays. I did not think much of it because birds hang out there a lot. This irks me though because they leave a lot of bird poop. This morning I noticed that there were bird feet as well as bird feathers in the mix. Cats and dogs do not generally roam free in my neighborhood so I wonder if it might have been a coyote as my neighborhood borders the desert. At any rate I hope it puts an end to the bird poop. I have left the feathers and feet where they are.
Marco and Ed and I were having fantasies about buying a house in Port Isabel and living there all summer for windsurfing. Then we saw an ad for a flipped house for $155k and met the owner by chance. Then we looked at the house while out on a jog - the house looked nice but the neighborhood looked sketchy. We opted out this time. But here is the wisdom of considering all options before making such an investment. Dad wisely pointed out that investing the $155k in something that does not have to be cleaned and maintained can generate enough interest to pay for a lot of hotel rooms.
There were lots of bird feathers on my front walk when I got back to NM after being out of town for the holidays. I did not think much of it because birds hang out there a lot. This irks me though because they leave a lot of bird poop. This morning I noticed that there were bird feet as well as bird feathers in the mix. Cats and dogs do not generally roam free in my neighborhood so I wonder if it might have been a coyote as my neighborhood borders the desert. At any rate I hope it puts an end to the bird poop. I have left the feathers and feet where they are.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Happy 2008
Choose your metaphor - there is love in the house again - the wolfpack is intact again - whatever your pleasure - Maddie and I are home and together again!
We were in bed just after 10 pm last night - the stroke of midnight on the east coast - the time zone for which I celebrate all holidays. Earlier in the evening I had a nice dinner with Laura Keith Ian Erik and canines Clyde Kayley Kaiser in El Paso. Very much earlier in the morning I had to wake up at 4 am EST - 2 am MST - to make it for a 6 am flight.
I have watched a surprising amount of college football this holiday season - but no full games yet. That will change this evening as Maddie and I watch Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. I learned from Dad that Hawaii is the only undefeated team in the nation. So I hope this changes tonight. I learned from the online version of the local paper that NMSU will get between $400k and $600k because their WAC rivals made it to a BCS bowl game.
Remember to eat your black eyed peas today.
We were in bed just after 10 pm last night - the stroke of midnight on the east coast - the time zone for which I celebrate all holidays. Earlier in the evening I had a nice dinner with Laura Keith Ian Erik and canines Clyde Kayley Kaiser in El Paso. Very much earlier in the morning I had to wake up at 4 am EST - 2 am MST - to make it for a 6 am flight.
I have watched a surprising amount of college football this holiday season - but no full games yet. That will change this evening as Maddie and I watch Georgia in the Sugar Bowl. I learned from Dad that Hawaii is the only undefeated team in the nation. So I hope this changes tonight. I learned from the online version of the local paper that NMSU will get between $400k and $600k because their WAC rivals made it to a BCS bowl game.
Remember to eat your black eyed peas today.
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