Happy Halloween (from the desert)!

The Great Pumpkin

Dagny was very excited that Patrick brought home a pumpkin tonight, although I'm not sure if this was because she was glad to have a pumpkin or because she thought it was a giant orange

B-A-L-L.

Dagny LOVES the pumpkin Poor Hank the Puppy . . .

Our House - The Dining Room

Some people have asked me to post pictures of the Arizona house like I did for our house in Athens. I'm gonna do that, but since I just can't manage to get the entire house clean at one time, I decided to post one room at a time. And, while I'm at it, I'll try to make them slightly more interesting than before since it is basically all the same furnature just in a different place.

I unfortunately am not as skilled photographer as I'd like to be, but humor me, Okay? - I'm in need of a creative outlet . . .

And lastly, the "thing" I have attempted to strategically leave out of all the above pictures: Our fabulous, gorgeous, eye catching light fixture.

It is really just as bad in person as it looks here - maybe worse! It is a remnant of the former tenants (who had also painted the entire house bright blue and purple from what we can tell). I have given Patrick my list of replacement "options," so hopefully it will be magically disappearing after Christmas - wink wink.

San Miguel de Allende Video

Link for video:
http://www.terrazassanmiguel.com/heart_of_mexico.html

Rose Canyon Lake

CLS Retreat

This weekend the Christian Legal Society had our retreat - camping at Rose Canyon Lake on Mount Lemmon.
Here are some of the pix:

The Ball Tree

A lot of you have been asking me how the puppies are adjusting to life in Arizona.

Well, while they quickly seemed to grasp that this was their new home, they did not embrace the backyard quite as easily. Both seemed rather weary of this new place where it is blistering hot, oddly dry, where in place of grass there are sticky weeds, in place of red mud there is white dust, and where the critters for them to chase were not quite as cute (chipmunks = cute; bugs = not cute). For a while, when we put them outside, they didn't run around and play (even in the evening when the temperature drops down). They just stood at the back door, motionless, and waited for us to let them in. Even when Patrick or I went outside, they would just stand in the doorway observing us, instead of venturing all the way outside (just in case we were trying to trick 'em). Dagny even refused to drink water for a few days - I think out of protest - turning her nose up at the bowl every time I sat it in front of her (thanks, mom - for teaching her that being hand fed ice cubes is an acceptable way to remain hydrated ).

And, while they still do some of these things from time to time, life did get a little better on the day that Dagny and Hank discovered the BALL TREE!

And don't tell me that balls do not grow on trees . . .

Grapefruits, balls, same difference.
Until he saw it for himself, Patrick even thought I was kidding when I came in one day and told him that Dagny and Hank thought that the grapefruit tree was a ball tree. I am truly not exaggerating in the slightest. They are not ripe and certainly not falling off on their own, yet, there are now grapefruits ALL OVER the yard. At last count, they had pulled off 12, but that was about two weeks ago.

Posing with their tree
"I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine."

Hopefully waiting on the patio: If you still don't believe me . . .

Oh, and for those of you thinking, "well, y'all just shouldn't have thrown them in the place" . . .We didn't! They pulled them off, and they thought this all up on their own! You just can't make this stuff up.

P.S. We actually think Dagny got so sick because she ate part of a grapefruit, but they have not stopped bringing them to us . . . darn.

Some Observations of Arizona People

Arizona People . . .
4. Think that pedestrians have the right-of-way . . . silly Arizonians
5. Are kinda like Environmental Nazis
6. Are the ones wearing the heavy wool and fleece coats in class this week

Monday

High: 72
Low: 39
Precip. Chance: 0%

Tuesday
High: 74
Low: 51
Precip. Chance: 0%

Wednesday
High: 87
Low: 58
Precip. Chance: 0%

Thursday
High: 90
Low: 63
Precip. Chance: 0%

Friday
High: 93
Low: 65
Precip. Chance: 0%

Sick Puppy

Dagny is feeling kinda pukey today. Patrick got her a purple elephant to make her feel better.

Sick Bay

Just so you know . . .

Foods that can be toxic to dogs:

- Alcoholic beverages
- Baby food
- Bones from fish, poultry, or other meat sources
- Cat food
- Chocolate, coffee, tea, and other caffeine
- Citrus oil extracts
- Fat trimmings
- Grapes and raisins
- Hops
- Human vitamin supplements containing iron
- Large amounts of liver
- Macadamia nuts
- Marijuana
- Milk and other dairy products
- Moldy or spoiled food, garbage
- Mushrooms
- Onions and garlic (raw, cooked, or powder)
- Persimmons
- Pits from peaches and plums
- Potato, rhubarb, and tomato leaves; potato and tomato stems
- Raw eggs
- Raw fish
- Salt
- String
- Sugary foods
- Table scraps (in large amounts)
- Tobacco
- Yeast dough

Georgia v. Arizona State Game

Here are some pictures from two weeks ago when Mom and Dad came in town to go to the Georgia v. Arizona State game for my birthday:

Bulldogs 27, Sun Devils 10