Christmas 2008Christmas Eve started at 3:30 pm when the UGA Provost decided to let us go home early. Whereas many co-workers rushed home to get festive, I grabbed the dog and drove 6 miles to Sandy Creek Park to run her on this gloomy day before they close at 6 pm but alas! they had the same idea and were gone. We drove back to town and straight to the intramural fields which incidentally are walking distance from where we live...
15 minutes into our training and play session it started raining. Put the camera in the car and took Tessa back to the field on the check-cord to lunge her much like a horse - Tessa loves to run wide circles at the end of the 30-ft cord, and in a bind, it will do.
15 minutes into our training and play session it started raining. Put the camera in the car and took Tessa back to the field on the check-cord to lunge her much like a horse - Tessa loves to run wide circles at the end of the 30-ft cord, and in a bind, it will do.
December 24, 2008Lake Herrick, Athens, GA
For Christmas Day, we have been invited to join my friends' and adoptive family annual Coastal Christmas Extravaganza in Savannah, GA. We tried...we failed...Tessa's education has not progressed enough to make her eligible for the visit.
Tessa is still simply impossible around other people and whenever there is lots of interesting stuff to be found around the house - any house. We're working on it. But Christmas didn't wait for us to be done and I didn't see a way to pull off a Christmas party with 30 people which
would include a pregnant woman, two toddlers, several elderly over 80, two of which had broken their hips before, another dog or two, a Christmas tree, presents, children's toys, decorations (orchids!) and food everywhere and all in easy reach. She would have DESTROYED that place. So it's just the two of us...not a bad thing, really. I'd rather have it this way, than not have her in my life at all. Because this is only one day, and my life is everyday.
December 25, 2008
Lake Herrick, Athens, GA
Christmas Day started just as gloomy as Christmas Eve ended, but in the afternoon, the sun came out for an hour and we headed to the intramural fields for a walk through the woods. It was a warm day - no jacket required, much less gloves or hat. In the photo below, Tessa jumps in pursuit of happiness in the shape of her Orbee ball. Many people commenting on this photo thought she looks like a golfer making an approach shot to the green.
December 25, 2008
Lake Herrick, Athens, GA
Tessa is still simply impossible around other people and whenever there is lots of interesting stuff to be found around the house - any house. We're working on it. But Christmas didn't wait for us to be done and I didn't see a way to pull off a Christmas party with 30 people which
would include a pregnant woman, two toddlers, several elderly over 80, two of which had broken their hips before, another dog or two, a Christmas tree, presents, children's toys, decorations (orchids!) and food everywhere and all in easy reach. She would have DESTROYED that place. So it's just the two of us...not a bad thing, really. I'd rather have it this way, than not have her in my life at all. Because this is only one day, and my life is everyday.
December 25, 2008Lake Herrick, Athens, GA
Christmas Day started just as gloomy as Christmas Eve ended, but in the afternoon, the sun came out for an hour and we headed to the intramural fields for a walk through the woods. It was a warm day - no jacket required, much less gloves or hat. In the photo below, Tessa jumps in pursuit of happiness in the shape of her Orbee ball. Many people commenting on this photo thought she looks like a golfer making an approach shot to the green.
December 25, 2008Lake Herrick, Athens, GA
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