North Carolina

Tonight I was looking through old photos while simultaneously surfing the web and listening to my "Jack Johnson Radio" station on Pandora

I found some of my old photos from North Carolina and slapped them into a collage. This is what came of it.

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Ah, the good ol' days

For those who, like me, listened to every minute of the presidential debates, I think you might appreciate this short clip. I think it just reiterates the amount of tired-head three debates cause.

Also, I am pretty sure I had nightmares that looked and sounded just like this...

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Dutch 101

Little Duchess, my personal Yoda, again exemplified a great life lesson today while I was eating lunch: "Don't Worry, Be Happy."

She couldn't choose between two skinned tennis balls...
She thought and pondered over the choice for several minutes. Then, all at once, pounced on a ball...
She fully committed to playing with that ball, she didn't even look at the other one again...
We played fetch for awhile, then hide and go seek until I had to go back to work. (It didn't take long for her to find the ball in the Tom Thumb bag.)Got me thinking about how much time I spend worrying about the decisions I make on a daily basis. Why worry? I should just make up my mind and make the best of it. Thanks Dutch!

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Random Duchess

Duchess, Dylan and I were out in the backyard playing fetch the other day. Well, let me rephrase, Duchess and I were playing fetch and Dylan was doing her best to get in the way. At any rate, eventually Dutch's ball inevitably became dirty, but she never seems to mind.

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Father to Son

Made me think: what story will the next photo tell, 27 years from now?

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Weekend at mom's

This weekend I took Dylan out to my mom's place both Saturday and Sunday to let her run free for a couple hours. She really enjoyed just being able to explore and use her great nose. Here she is on a relaxing walk through the back part of my mom's land.
Dylan also experienced for the first time stickers, in the field. We were just walking through the field and I looked back to see her in a complete hobble. I looked at her paws and they were covered in stickers. She looked so pathetic as she tried to find a position without pain and just stared at me. I ended up picking her up and carrying her the final 200 yards or so to good grass and cleaning up her paws.

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Two Years

Heather knows that I am a flawed man and somehow she loves me, in spite of me. I can't remember a single day she hasn't shown me love and I can't express what that means to me. Here's to her on "Andrew and Heather Day."

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123 Days Later

Heather and I moved into our lovely home 123 days ago. Since then, every day of the past 123 days we have been bathing. Not just bathing in general, but actually sitting in a tub and taking a bath. We have had 2 occasions to take actually showers in the past two months, both at hotels. It has been a long wait, but this morning Heather and I had the privilege to both take showers in our own home today! And everyone rejoiced!

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Typical Duchess

Duchess absolutely loves sleeping in our bed. She has come to expect Heather and I to save room each night for her. She burrows to the very foot of the the comforter, about faces, and crawls back just so her snout peaks out the top of the comforter.

In the afternoon, she uses her teeth to pull the down comforter into a large gathering than crawls atop and methodically finds her spot. It is actually pretty amazing to watch first hand. I tried to catch her in the act, I think I just annoyed her.

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