Piper's great adventure, and the Great Pumpkin

In an effort to get Piper out more new places, I took her with me to work so I could go in and check on my fish. I have a 10 gallon tank at work with about 15 of my baby Mollies... I have a fish feeder, but I wasn't sure how long the food I left them with would last, so I needed to check. Plus I was meeting a co-worker who I had bought Gold Canyon candles (the very best - ever) from at school.

Piper walked up the school as brave as any 16 week old Cardigan would..... UNTIL she saw her reflection in the windows of the school (floor to ceiling glass windows and doors in the front office). Beverly was about to fall over, she was laughing at my doofus of a puppy so hard! :)

Once we were inside, Piper was cool, but cautious. Unsure of her surroundings. She met another new person (Irene - one of the ladies at the front desk) and then decided she could check out the school.

There are lots of weird smells and things to see at the school for Piper, not to mention big heavy doors and hallways that strange sounds were coming from (they were doing some work on the alarm systems and bells). We got to my classroom and I let her loose. Again, she was cautious, but once she was there for a minute, she was ok. Below is my attempt at being funny :)



Piper on the table where we do our work....


Piper in the beanbag....

Piper as the speech teacher.

Then I remembered that I needed more puppy food, so I took the opportunity to go a few other places with her. I also remembered I needed to pick up an audio book from the library. I tossed her over my shoulder and went into the library to the reserve section, which is right inside the main doors. I checked myself out and left promptly before anyone could yell at me for having a dog in the library... but again... good experience. New smells, new sounds, etc.

From there we went to PetSmart, where she hadn't been since the day after I brought her home. This time I let her walk and take her time going into PetSmart and around PetSmart. Again she was cautious but gained more confidence the longer we were there. She had a hard time figuring out her body placement in regards to the big cart I was pushing, but she managed not to get herself run over. ;-)

Piper led me to the Halloween toys and when I saw this toy, I knew it had to come home....

I've ALWAYS called Sedona "Pumpkin face", so we needed our very own pumpkin face toy! They all love it!


"this is MY pumpkin toy - stay the heck away from me!!!"

Piper managed to steal a few minutes away with it.... it's a hit, as most smallish squeeky toys are around here... :)

Aside from this outing, it's been a pretty quiet Fall Break for me.... I've got school work a plenty keeping me busy, and I'm trying hard to keep the amount of pee in the house to an absolute minimum. We did VERY well yesterday with only one accident in the house, I think....

Just enjoying my time off and enjoying being with my dogs... I'm trying to soak up as much puppy love as I can because I know that the next time I stop and look at her, she'll be a bigdog. :( She's totally toothless in the front.... haven't found any teeth yet. She's been doing a good job of sleeping on the bed, and waking me up with puppy kisses in the (all too early) morning to let me know she needs to go outside. Aside from getting into everything, she's a pretty good puppy. My cousin's girlfriend even wanted to kidnap her and take her back to MI with her! :)

over population

The fish had more babies today. *sigh* The male died the other day and the two were separated for a good while before that... so I shouldn't get more babies, but WHAT THE HECK am I supposed to do with all these fish?! I'm going to get a fish tank this weekend I think, and take some to work... but good golly these Mollies!! LOL

a photo journal :)

*disclaimer* I've had A LOT of time of my hands.... :)

06-18-09

isn't he a beautiful silvery blue??

Sort of funny that the only picture I managed to get on her ACTUAL birthday is of her looking like a gigantic beeyotch. In her defense, it was her last day of her cycle and Kota was being a HUGE pain in the rear!!

06-21-09

The baby fish are growing fast!! They're 18 days old now!! They're starting to take on color, which is cool, but they're still super small :)

And the expectant Mama Molly... due to drop this next "litter" in T minus 12 days or so...


This picture really is for Kathy - see? Kota sleeps with his tongue out too - silly dogs we have, Kathy!


I think I disturbed his slumber, but he's so cute all tucked up like that....

06-22-09

All snuggled up... he's so pretty....

06-23-09

This is a pretty typical place to find the crew...


The rays of sunlight shining out of the clouds one evening


we had a beautiful sunset that night...

06-26-09

My beloved boydogs...


Think we have too many toys??? *sigh*

GRAPES!


I've seen this bush growing each year, but wasn't sure what it was - now I know!!

06-27-09

She's SUCH a princess - couldn't bother to move when I got up...

So I picked Chance up and plopped him next to her for a photo op! :) My dogs are such lumps of goo! :)

two 'dorable babies

The kids and their "goods" from PetSmart

Ko...

love this dog...

isn't he just a handsome devil?? :) Nah, I'm not biased ;-)
an eye study :)

06-28-09

Looking directly above this evening...

and out - not spectacular, but I liked how the light framed the big cloud in the distance... you can see it when you open it up bigger. :)

So that's been about it... too much time on my hands (obviously!) :)

in place of a litter....

My Mollies would like to announce the newest addition to our family....



I *thought* she might have been expecting - but heck, I wasn't sure. I didn't know how long it took to make baby fishes... I got the dalmation male in hopes that we'd have baby fish, but HEY, check it out! I have baby fish!!! Over 20 baby fish. can't count all the tiny little things! let's see who hangs on and see how many i end up with... eek! :)

I guess it's what i get in place of a litter of puppies... a new little school of fry. :)

time to introduce the "rest of the family"

I've had fish for several years - and I added a few new members recently :)

Seeing as how I'm home sick from work, I figured what better time to update the blog ;-) (still working on whether I'll be moving from Blogger or not - that decision is yet to be made).

This is my Golden Gourami who was named Spotty by a friends daughter when I first got it.
And here's the same fish with my new Golden Snail. I had one before, but it went to snail heaven.
Here's a picture of my Creamsicle Lyretail Molly - tho I can't find a page that shows them well... I've been told it's a female based on the fins.
And another picture of the creamsicle molly and the dwarf gourami
And here's the new guy in town... my Dalmation Lyretail Molly. I was told he's a male.
Here is my little Leopard Cory catfish...
my creamsicle lyretail molly again...
my new guy...
and here's my Red Fire Dwarf Gourami
and another shot of him.
I only have a 20 gallon tank right now, but it's a good size. Maybe someday I'll increase the size of the tank, but it's a good, easy to care for, size :)