Tag Archives: Dogs

We interrupt this silence for a brief message…

12/8/2006 – 5:24 pm

I’m a working stiff with three kids and an hour-each-way commute. I think that’s all the explanation needed for the long break, right? :)

It’s not like I didn’t have anything to write about. [...]

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The prodigal son returns

5/15/2006 – 11:27 am

On Friday afternoon, I called home as I was leaving the office, as usual. Before I had a chance to say much more than “hello,” Susan said, “guess what?” Not knowing whether it was something good or bad, I asked, “what?” She replied, “the prodigal son has returned.”

A neighbor down the street from us had found our dog! This nice young lady had first spotted Spirit wandering around on Thursday, and thought that he didn’t look like he should be wandering around on his own. [...]

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Not a good day

5/10/2006 – 1:35 pm

Today, so far, has not been a good day.

Maybe it was an omen when our dog ran away this morning… I opened our front door to let him go out for his “morning consititutional”, but he spotted a rabbit in the yard across the street, and he bolted after it. [...]

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Got a dog

11/10/2005 – 11:04 pm
A picture of our new dog, Spirit

Our new dog, Spirit

I had hoped to post about this sooner, but several weeks ago, we got a dog. [...]

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Woof!

9/28/2005 – 10:55 pm

We’ve been talking for a while about getting a dog. We had been leaning towards a golden retriever, but now we’re looking into maybe getting a border collie, due to their smaller size, and because they’re just darned cool. We know that, generally speaking, border collies tend to be very active. [...]

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