Kayaks, Injuries, Drugs & Houses...

.... so... our life...

Kayaks

As promised, here are pictures from an actual camera (thanks Elisa) of the boys (I mean "men") afternoon kayaking..

Getting back in the kayaks after a brief Red Robin "refuel" break... I thought I had more than 2 pictures.. but.. nope, that's all.

This really doesn't fit in the post, but it got imported with the rest of the pictures. I mostly think it's funny to see a whole herd (and yes I am aware that geese don't travel in "herds") of geese outside your office window. There are very few places (Bend being one of them) where you can look out your office window and see geese. And there are even fewer places where you can pull up to work and have to "shoo" geese away from the doorway before you can ENTER your office. Which is especially funny when you work in a busy commercial area of town. (I did get a picture of those geese, but I don't know where that photo went, so you just have to imagine it)

Injuries

Bailey basically ripped out one of her dew claws (the claw that is like their thumb, farther up their leg).. It was a traumatic experience, because the vet that we took her to (it was a Saturday and our vet was closed) has big windows that allow you to see back into what they're doing, and they had her muzzled and basically just held her down while they ripped the rest of it out. It was terrible to watch, but I couldn't look away, I felt so terrible for her. My mom pointed out how much more difficult it will be when we have to take our baby in to the doctor... so I decided that we just won't ever take our baby to the doctor, because it's just too hard to watch.
She was really drugged up after...

Drugged up and a bit of a wuss.. bad combination.. but Luke loved on her.

Drugs

And he took some of the drugs himself.. just for fun.. as you can see..

Bentley did not like this day.. he lost his play buddy.. and we were focusing most of our attention on Bailey.. 2 things that don't go over well for Golden Retrievers..

This was the little kennel we set up so Bailey could sleep without Bentley harassing her.

But.. she didn't want to be in there alone.. so.... I slept with her.

And Luke thought it was funny.. and took a picture..

Houses

lastly, this is the dog house that we had made to match our house. I think I posted about our backyard earlier, but if not.. here's the nutshell version. We turned the side of our house into a dog run, so that we could start relandscaping, and have it NOT be destroyed by dogs this time..
since they don't have access to the garage for shelter anymore, we had this dog house made.. and it's really big..

Luke and I actually got in it (it's brand new, so it's clean) and hung out for awhile talking about how if we ever became homeless we had shelter from the elements, it's actually pretty cozy in there.

So Seth.. we've decided to drive down to Mexico and live in the dog house for awhile so we can be closer to you.