Lil Devil ears
Originally uploaded by Julienne:).

Walden ponds

We had to give her back.. :( I am pretty bummed because she was turning out to be a GREAT dog. However, delayed sensitivity.. my arms would break out in hives whenever I petted her for any length of time. Some dogs just illicit this response from me and China's hair is so fine and soft that I don't get this reaction from her. Roxy's hair was much more coarse and oily.. Ah well. Sad.

Note to self, on Unwrapped last night on the Food Network this place is the self proclaimed best fried chicken ever (in Lakewood, Colorado). Also serves corn fritters, biscuits, and lemon meringue pie. Yum.

This is Matt and my 4th year anniversary present to each other..

Introducing Roxy! We adopted her from the Longmont Humane Society yesterday. :)



She is a 2 1/2 year old great dane/pointer mix who is taller than China but 20 pounds lighter. She has a snake face and is a very good girl who loves her crate, can sit, lie down, and has the lip capacity to carry around 3 gallons of slobber. She doesn't bark and needs to learn how to recall when off leash. It's amazing how fast this little girl can run!

She had a very sad story.. her old family's house burnt down and they had to give little Roxy up because they couldn't keep her anymore where they were going. Very traumatic, but fortunately she was only at the humane society for a week before we decided we wanted her.

When we went to look, we passed her over the first time because she wasn't on the window side of her dog run. The runs are in a windowed room, so the dogs really can't hear when people approach their runs. We decided to do a second pass at all the dogs and she came over to where we were standing and just stared at us for the longest time. She stared at me for a while then at Matt, wagging her tail. As we left to go to the front desk to ask if we could meet her, just put her paw on the cage. We met her, she got along great with China, and then we went home to think about it Saturday night and all day Sunday. It was a tough decision with a lot of questions.. ultimately, we decided we would be giving a less fortunate creature the ultimate good life and all our 'con' reasons were just selfish, and brought her home Monday night.

First night went very smooth.. she just snoozed in her crate all night long and didn't get up or make a peep until I let her out this morning. Then, she's just a little bunch of energy that observes and stares at you waiting to go outside. China loves her and has already tried to hump her several times (very good sign).

Welcome little Roxy!

Went to a hunt rally this weekend with a sound Isabella, hooray! I jumped her for the first time and my teammate and I ended up with first place. It was HOT but a good experience. I'm pretty sore today..

Matt and I are still vacillating back and forth on if we should adopt another dog. The dog we looked at is at the humane society.. she's a 2 1/2 year old dane/pointer mix. Black (just like China likes em) and big (just like China likes em). She's house broken, not leash trained but sensitive so has potential, happy go lucky, doesn't get excited with people or other dogs. Sounds great doesn't she? Her name is Bonnie. But we're just not sure...

Wednesday is our 4th anniversary.. we're eating sushi. :) Mm... I'm happy and thankful every day to be with such a cute, kind guy who loves me.

I'm being cautiously optimistic. This morning I went for a 7 mile ride with Isabella. Earlier this week I hopped on her bareback and trotted her around the farmer's fields and she felt even. On our ride today she felt even. She hasn't felt even in AGES! Hooray (shhhh).

Debating whether to take it easy or go up to the Shamrock ride in Wyoming over July 4th and do a few days of the 30. I might just do one day and come back depending on how Isabella is holding up.

Josey on the other hand (changed her name from Penny to Josey. Penny was her previous foster mom's name and I heard she didn't like her - the horse - very much), is in recovery from lameness as well. She tweaked her right hind when the family came to visit and last Sunday she was still off on it. So she will have a few weeks off.

While I was riding today I came across the concept of one day having two sound horses.. and that day might come in a few weeks. What will that be like?? It boggles the brain.

The mosquitoes here are terrible so I don't get much riding in when I come home. During dusk, they come out in clouds and they just love me. Matt doesn't even have one bite.

Work at the moment is quite stressful. There are other issues involved that I won't delve into here, but it has been very trying at the moment. I'm doing my best not to burn out and so I'm trying to stick to reasonable work hours and forget about it in the evenings and weekends.

China went to get her rabies shot last week - she was 85.6 pounds!! She lost about 10 pounds since her surgery, no doubt from all the running she does in this house. Too many squirrels and rabbits to chase, not enough time.

Off to Costco.. ciao!

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More crazy clouds

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Crazy clouds

It's been super hot here (mid 80s or so) and barely cooling down at night. What have we gotten ourselves in to?? Yikes.

Because we're in the middle of farm country, there is a lot of standing water, and a lot of standing water means a lot of mosquitoes. Currently I am nursing about 20 mosquito bites, all from this past weekend. Matt has zero, ZERO. I am trying not to succumb to the evil and not scratch, but a few times during the night I wake myself up scratching myself on the sheets.

I wore a dress today at work and none of my coworkers are here to witness this monumental event.