slacker
by nirik on Feb.25, 2007, under beer, Uncategorized
I’m a slacker and haven’t updated in quite a while…
Just a few items:
- Nash and I have enrolled in a Basic Obediance Class. It remains to be seen if thats for him to be more obediant to me, or me to be more obediant to him.
- Enough of the snow melted today that I could move the trailer to a level spot and get it all situated right. TIP: don’t leave a case of diet coke in your fridge in a trailer over december and january. (Luckily it wasn’t too bad to clean up)
- Unloaded Nash’es old old crate. (36″). Way too small for him anymore. Anyone want a crate?
- All the toys I left in the trailer got moved inside. The pups were very very happy to see them!
- I had a lovely time on my trip to Boston. For a more detailed write up see: Fudcon Boston recap
- I am REALLY Looking forward to being able to go on camping trips with the trailer this spring/summer.
- I have a bunch of pics on my camera I need to transfer. Hopefully a big photo post soon
- Meadfest was a lot of fun. Pretty nice fun group of people
- Taxes suck. Since this year I have a form K-1 from my dad’s estate, I have to use a service that can deal with that. Turbotax claims to, but they don’t have the finalized worksheet for that form yet. Not until next week.
- We bottled the plain mead we made, and made a Vanilla/Peach. It’s bubling away next to me now
- I also made a porter, just to have something with more immediate gratification. Luckily I had it in the sink, because it Really decided to ferment for the first few days
- My family is doing a trip down to Karchner Caverns next month. I’m considering going, but I need to probibly do another trip in the trailer with Nash and confirm that he’s ok with being left out while I am gone for a while. Anyone planning any camping soon?
- Looks like I ordered a new laptop. I think it should be a good one and my tax return should just about pay for it.
- I have a bunch of stuff I should ebay/craigslist/get rid of. I really should work on that sometime.
Look for hopefully some pictures soon…
picture catchup post
by nirik on Jan.28, 2007, under dogs, photos
Downloaded the 70 (!) pictures that had piled up on my camera in the last week or two…
I see that in this batch I have topped 2000 pictures with this camera. Not bad. I still like it pretty well. I might upgrade at some point if something amazing came along, but aside from a few minor drawbacks, this camera is doing just fine for me.
You can call him Han, or Mr Solo.
He’s doing pretty well. His whining has pretty much gone down to just before meals when he’s wanting his dinner faster, and sometimes to go out.
He still occasionally screams when he is a klutz and runs into something, or someone startles him too much, but thats gone way down too.
A rotted log is such a wonderful toy!
Kurt has such a distinguished face these days.
Snow is yummy.
Hey, whats that in here? More snow you say?
Kurt and Han.
Nash enjoying some downtime after a hard day of playing in the snow.
I really liked the effect here… the shadows were keeping bars of snow from melting…
Spent much of today shoveling snow. I have to pick up the travel trailer from the shop, and so need a place to put it.
Snow moving is hard work. Hopefully I can get enough cleared to get the trailer in.
new foster pup
by nirik on Jan.16, 2007, under dogs
Just got a new foster pup tonight.
He’s 4 years old. Very very dark red brindle (yet another shade of brindle. I think I almost have them all covered
So far he’s kinda stressed, but sweet. He’s a return, his people were having medical issues and couldn’t care for him anymore…
I’m sure he will find a good home soon. Good looking, cat safe, gets along with other dogs nicely, etc.
Will post some pics later…
First post of 2007
by nirik on Jan.14, 2007, under dogs, photos, site
wow… I haven’t posted anything yet in 2007.
Not too much going on… busy work, cold snowy days.
Managed to bottle out Blackberry Vanilla mead the other day. It’s very yummy. I think it turned out great.
We still need to gather up bottles and bottle up the plain batch we did at the same time.
Sierra the foster girl left last week for her forever home. She’s heading out with a group of 30 pups being taken out to the coast.
I sure hope she has a good home, she was very sweet.
Looks like I will be heading out to Fudcon Boston in early feb.
Should be a good trip, I am looking forward to it, although I hate to leave the pups at home…
Now to catch up on pictures:
Ready to head out the door for a walk, Sierra, Merlin, Kurt, Nash.
I have started using Twylas old Soft Touch Harness on Nash.
It’s worked wonders. Before he was pulling up a storm, to the point were it was starting to hurt my hand. 
With the harness he only very ocassionally pulls at all.
I got this $1.75 brush in the horse section at petsmart. It’s wonderfull… I reccomend them for any hound owners.
It pulls quite a bit off of Nash, but it’s worked great on the other hounds too.
This is what the outside of the door to the back yard looked like the other day.
Nice puppy print patterns.
Kurt’s looking pretty stylish in his coat.
Nash loves some snow zoomies.
Kurt and Merlin sharing a couch. Note that kurt has woken up and seen me get the camera, and is trying to decide if it’s
more scary to stay there while they flash goes off, or get up and potentially annoy merlin by removing his pillow.
snow and more snow.
by nirik on Dec.31, 2006, under dogs, photos
Well, we got another nice storm the other day… 8-10″ new snow.
There is at least one person here who is happy with this: Nash
Nash has now started playing with Sierra the same way he plays with Maisey the puppy… and she puts up with it.
He jumps on her and chews on her head and she does the same back to him. It’s very amusing.
Nash and Sierra playing with the chicken Nash got for xmas, while Merlin looks on in disgust.
Still not sure if I am going to go do anything for New Years tonight. I could go to a party or wander out bar hopping or something,
or just stick to my usual tendencies and stay home.
snow, visitors and toys
by nirik on Dec.25, 2006, under dogs, photos
So late last week was the great denver blizzard. I guess we ended up getting about 2.5ft or so here.
Of course as long as net and power are working I was able to work, so it wasn’t much different than most days.
I did have to do a bunch of shoveling to get it so I could pull out of the garage, but otherwise the snow was pretty fun.
Nash had a blast. He loves the snow. Running, jumping, playing, diving into, laying in, rolling in it.
This snow stuff is wonderfull!
You can even burry your head in it.
Nash bursting out of the snow.
Parade of hounds heading out to the yard via the path I shoveled.
Hounds playing in the snow
Majestic Merlin
Pile of hounds.
Nash takes a cool down break.
Nash finds a peice of ice to play with.
On a walk, the shoveled out sidewalk is narrow in places… no problem for Nash, he prefers to jump through the snow. 
Yesterday a number of folks and hounds came by to visit. Including Nash’es favorite dog in the universe: Maisey the greyhound puppy. They played and played and played for about 2.5 hours non stop. Nash sure slept well that night.
Today I opened some squeeky toys for the dogs… they had a blast playing around with them.
The chicken was a big hit.
Later today I need to do some baking and then head up to a potluck in boulder.
I could bring a dog or two with me, but it’s hard to decide which ones I should take… I might just let them all stay home and relax.
Sierra
by nirik on Dec.20, 2006, under dogs, photos
Here’s the lovely little Sierra foster dog…
She probably needs a home with other dogs around. She’s a bit curious about cats, but nothing that can’t be corrected.
Aside from some cat interest she has been a very easygoing, mellow foster.
Sierra and Nash in their crates…man, having 2 big crates is such a pain.
Sierra streeching…
Making herself right at home in Nash’es crate.
water droplets
by nirik on Dec.16, 2006, under Uncategorized
I forgot I took this movie a while back, but remembered when I got things off the camera today.
The movie doesn’t do justice to it, it was very cool.
pictures
by nirik on Dec.16, 2006, under dogs, photos
Here’s some pictures from the last few weeks…
Nash is now taller than Merlin.
Snow is for playing in. Even when you are on a walk.
Pretty hounds all in a row.
Nash has gotten very fond of playing fetch with an oversized ball that I have had for a long time.
He will run and get it and bring it back for another throw. Something none of the other hounds I have seen will do.
It’s a excellent way to tire him out.
Thats all for now… should have some pictures of the lovely Sierra up later.
new foster
by nirik on Dec.15, 2006, under dogs
Haven’t posted any updates in a while… but mostly there hasn’t been much to report.
Working, relaxing at home and being my normal Hermit self.
Today I did get a new foster greyhound however. So far she’s very sweet. Her name is Sierra. She’s a red fawn. Apparently she was named by the adoption coordinator in our group, since the guy who had her since she was 2 months old never bothered to name her. Will see how she does with the kitty test.
I’ll try and post some pictures later this weekend… I’m way behind on pictures. Will try and unload the ones on the camera later tonight and do a photo post.
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