My first real day of Spring Break enjoyment

Today is the first day I've felt well enough to tackle things I've wanted to tackle.....

I had swampy marshlands building in my front yard after relacing a couple of sprinkler heads.... so I dug them up today only to find that I couldn't figure out the problem.  (d'oh).
Lucky for me, my friends dad is a plumber and he came out, figured out the issue (problem with the solenoid) and I think we're good to go.  Now for the swampy marshlands to dry out (give it a day or two ;-) ).

I vacuumed my super hairy carpets (I guess that's what i get for having 6 dogs who shed) and did laundry (linens) and cleaned off the kitchen table that is only really used to collect things and not eat on.... ;-)

I went outside with the dogs, relaxed in a reclining chair and did some reading (of the pleasurable kind and not the grad school torture kind!)

Below are some photos I've taken in the last few days....

When I woke from my nap yesterday, this is what i saw..... :)


Caught the baby being cute :)

Mia wanting to use the iPad

Mia always seems to have a smile on her face :) 

while Kota looks shocked here.... LOL

the family who grazes together..... 

sharing weeds.... now that's love.  

Hi baby Glory!! :) 

A very casual Chance... handsome boy (never mind my weeds and debris pile!)

pretty little blue thing

two pretty little blue things together :) 

May and his momma

Ko and Chan from behind... 

I can't help but think he's just as adorable as all get out - I'm horribly biased tho ;-) 

Can I get an "AWWWW"? :) 

Mason got tired of waiting for the little girls to come in so he laid his head down.... 

and then I turned to a different setting so you could see the whole dog ;-)  

promising to get back into this blog thing..... hope you can handle the pictures!! ;-) 

And one last one, for good measure :) 

The no good, very bad blogger

I've officially been the very worst blogger in all blogdom.  It's been a tough couple of months with school in my defense, and well...  life in general has been a ride.  It's easier to update Facebook most of the time - except when you have so many cute pictures you want to catalog....  ;-)

Which leads me to.....

Most already know (Facebook again) that I added a new kid to the mix this month.  Coedwig Tanalyn's Morning Glory is a Thunder (CH Pecan Valley Blue Thunder) daughter out of my own Chance's littermate, Susie (CH Coedwig's Black Eyed Susan).  When I saw that Leda had 3 blue girls in the repeat litter (first litter created 2 lovely blue girls: Kitty (CH Coedwig's Silver Lynx) and Sandie (GCH Coedwig's A Walk On The Beach) I thought I would ask her about the status of the 3 blue girls in her most recent litter.  I needed another dog like I needed another hole in my head, honestly, but hey.....  you never know if you don't ask, right??  (That's what mom always said ;-) ).

(that's her, right up front between Susie's leg and the black puppy)

That's when I was put a top the list for the blue girls.  *EEK*

As time wore on (they were born 12/27), I started getting cold feet... telling myself that there wouldn't be one I'd like enough to take home....
Alas... videos came and there WAS one I liked.  And NOT the one I expected to like.
"Red Collar Girl" became "Glory" and that was that....

She's sweet, and cute, and funny and fits in nicely with the pack!  She and Mia made FAST friends and Mason is learning to play with someone so little now too.  Chance is not the only blue in the house now, which is fun... :)  I've always heard blue show girls are harder to get your hands on than that proverbial needle in the haystack, so I grabbed mine and ran.  :)  She's just a baby, but she holds a lot of promise.  Leda says she reminds her a lot of Sandie when she was her age.  

All together now... "AWWWWW" :) 

 and one for the 'how is this possibly comfortable' files....

 "Whatcha doin' Uncle Chance?  Huh?  Huh??"

Mia has taken to her new little sister quite well :)

As has Sedona - (she needed her 5 seconds of fame too! ;-) )

Glory got her first chewey today.... :)

Varying shades of tan points :)

The EYE.

 Chan enjoying his chewey

 Sis enjoying hers too!  "Look ma!  No Hands!!"

"Whatchoo got there MayMay?"

Little dog, big chewey....  big dog, little chewey....

 The little sandwiched between the two bigs :)

 Ko missed out on this photo session - his booty is seen in the last few photos.. he was off minding his own, intently working on his own chewey ;-)  He is well, albeit even more gray.  :)

I turned in my Capstone project last week....  my last major academic paper for my graduate program.  I still have a few things left I have to do, but nothing that I will receive an actual grade on... just things that are required by the program to compile.  There's a light at the end of the grad school tunnel....  it's close enough to be a tease, but not close enough to touch yet ;-)

I'm on Spring Break - and what did *I* do for Spring Break?  Get pneumonia.  Yep.  It sucked.  I'm at the 'ewww, you've got yourself a nasty cold' phase now, but it's miles better than the 'EWWW you've got nasty pneumonia'.  :)

Dog show wise, Mason sits at 10 points and his majors... Mia has 1 point still.  She's been growing up nice and slowly, but I've went ahead and entered her in the Turquoise cluster in April.  Mason too.

I'm starting to work on landscaping plans for the back yard - looking at trees and plants and such that i'd like back there...  there will be a major overhaul in the back yard in the next year - but I'm looking forward to having my own little utopia back there :)  The front has come along nicely as well....

In January I put up a fence to contain the beasties :)

and this super cool lawn ornament was brought down in January to top off the look! :) 

I'll try to do better... I will...