Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone has a great and safe Thanksgiving.

~ Wolf Lover Girl

Our men in green - having fun!

Glad to see our men in uniform are having fun! Sound is a must

Click here to watch the "Cha Cha Slide USMC Style"

~ Wolf Lover Girl

Dog Park Etiquette & Rules

As I sat at the dog park today with M&M there were a few things I noticed:

• Rule is if your dog takes a poo - pick it up. Now just because your dog poo's on its way to the actual enclosed fenced area doesn't mean you shouldn't pick it up. If you don't carry the little bags with you then go inside the park and grab one of the ones they provide for you, go back out AND PICK IT UP! Dumb *ss.
  
• Kids are not allowed inside the park. Not surprised when one kid who was running across the park was being chased by a dog. Kid kind of stopped, a little frightened, and continued on to his destination. Mom? Sitting on the bench talking on the phone. Clueless!
  
• So when the second kid, looked a little younger than the first, was being chased (by the same dog) I was surprised when mom finally got off her *ss to go help - phone still pressed to the ear mind ya.
  
• This is the first time that I've noticed someone come into the park with a bag 'o beer. He looked college age. Probably just turned 21 and just can't get enough beer. Or maybe he had a really hard day at work and just had to have one, even if it was at the dog park.
  
• And when you start to notice too many little scuffles going on its time to grab the dog and head out.

One nice side note though. They have done some nice improvements to the park we go to. They've added several more picnic tables and benches for us humans to sit on.

~ Wolf Lover Girl

Really dislike

I'm really disliking this time change thing. I don't recall it ever effecting me so much as it has this time around.

By late afternoon in my work schedule the clock tells me I have one more hour to work, but my body tells me its time to go!!! Boy that last hour is a struggle to do anything.

And then it feels like at 6pm that its already dark. I have to make sure that if I want to walk M&M I do it earlier in the evening than I'm used to.

Seriously... what's the point?

~ Wolf Lover Girl

New President

Finally! The election is over!

As everyone has been talking about today, as I mentioned earlier and I'll say again... what a day in history. To think - America, "home of the free" - finally has an African American President!

I just hope that everyone who voted, whether for or against Obama, voted because of the "promises" given or the better of two evils and not because the color of the skin.

Whatever the case - Good Luck Obama, we the people of the United States, along with the rest of the world, is now watching.

Did I mention - Finally!! The election is over!!! The thing I'm most grateful for? No more freakin' campaign ads!!! YEAH!

~ Wolf Lover Girl

Fireworks from TRF

As promised, here are my firework pictures from when sis and I went to the TRF. They were shooting them over a lake, which you can kind of see the reflection in one of the pictures. When we were watching I didn't know if I was getting anything good. I was just snapping away with my new little camera and had some really amazing shots. I hope you enjoy!


~ Wolf Lover Girl

Halloween

We had a great time this year. The weekend before Halloween we threw a little party with our close friends. Everyone dressed up really well. Mr. M and I actually rented costumes this year - we might have to do that again....

Mr. M? The Joker! Fits his personality to the T.

Me? Catwoman. Mr. M really liked it. ;-)

And since M&M had just finished her winter shedding we took her the day before to get a bath, brush, hair dry, nails trimmed, teeth washed and ears cleaned. She was sooo pretty. We got a special Halloween bandana, which she wore for the occasion.

On Halloween night we had lots of fun handing out candy. My sister had given me some of those glow in the dark bracelets so I was handing those out as well as candy. Unless one of those big groups of kids came and I just did candy. We had a few little kids that were afraid to come up to our door because we had these 2 huge spiders - one hanging over the door frame and one in the bushes.

It seems like we had more kids this year. Granted last year we didn't participate and the year before was our first one but since the nieghborhood was still so new I don't think many were coming around.

I think that since Halloween was on Friday this year that kept a lot of the teenagers away - maybe to football games? We had a few younger teens but at least they dressed up.

M&M was having so much fun. We tried to leave her in the backyard so we wouldn't have to worry about her but she didn't want any of that. So everytime the door rang she jumped up and ran to the door - "People visiting us!!". Mr. M would hold her while I handed out the candy. So many kids were loving her "OH a snow dog", "wolf dog", "Alaskan dog", "sled dog"... it was funny. "Can we pet her? Will she bite?" She was loving the attention.

Then this little two year old came strolling up our sidewalk with his wagon (which was his "bag"). He finally got it up on our step and started walking in our house. We figured he was just going to pet M&M and all of a sudden he just took off up our stairs. His mom came running over in shock "I'm so sorry can I go get him?" We were just laughing, also in shock "of course". As she brought him down she just kept apologizing "can you tell this is his first Halloween?" I've never seen that happen before.

Hope everyone had a great and safe Halloween this year. Can you believe that Thanksgiving and Christmas are just around the corner?

~ Wolf Lover Girl

It Happened! Holy Crap!!!

$1.95!!!!

You read it right! Gas is now at $1.95 by our house.

Mr. M and I were driving home from dinner and we passed a station that said $1.99. At first I didn't read it right and I thought it said $2.99 and I was thinking, "wow, that sure did jump almost a dollar." Then I looked at it again and I realized that was a $1 that I was looking at.

So Mr. M decided to stop by the QT by our house and it was $1.95! Nice!!

~ Wolf Lover Girl