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547This world is cracked…

posted by nirik on February 5th, 2008

Picture from yesterday:


Cracked

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546walking a leash of greyhounds

posted by nirik on January 8th, 2008

Did you know the collective name for a group of greyhounds is a “leash” ?

Well, up until this last saturday, I was walking 5 of them every day. Of the 5, 3 of them were as easy as can be… Kurt (10.5yr old), Merlin (9.5yr old) and (until saturday) Prince the foster (6.5).
Of the other two, Legs the greyhound means well, but often gets in the way or doesn’t realize where a leash is and gets tangled. He’s nothing next to the last hound however: Nash (1.5yr old) the puppy. He loves the snow. Jumping and making little Nash snow angels. Still, despite that, it’s sure fun to get out and walk them out on the walk.


The pups on a walk

All the pups on a walk.

As you may gather, Prince the foster dog got adopted this saturday! Congrats Prince. I hope he’s having a good time in his new home.
Just in time for us to be heading out to fudcon this weekend.


Leash Tangle

Sometimes after walks, the leashes get a bit tangled. ;)

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545x-mas fun

posted by nirik on December 30th, 2007

This holday season has been pretty nice… we decided to just stay home and relax.
It’s been nice to just have Wendy and I and the dogs around. We’ve both played a ton of Oblivion on the ps3.

I got a nice new camera: a Fuji f50fd. So far I really like it. The image stablization works pretty well, and it takes pretty nice pics.

I am still trying to decide what I want to do about organizing my photos, but as an test I setup a gallery2 site for the new camera pictures…
Follow any of the links on the pictures below to go to the gallery site.

Here’s a few pics from the last few days of playing:


Legs relaxing

Legs seems to be pretty happy living here.


Legs and Wendy

Wendy does too.


Kurt

Kurt is doing pretty darn well all things considered.
He was diagnosed with Lymphoma not long back and has been going thru some chemo, but it’s all been going very smoothly.


Prince

Some folks came and met Prince today. They are going to look at 2 other dogs before they decide…
he seemed to get along well with them…Hopefully he will get adopted soon.

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544some more december pics

posted by nirik on December 27th, 2007

Here’s a few more pics from the recent weeks…


Wendy and Legs

Wendy and Legs on a walk.


Prince

Prince has a nice glossy coat.


Prince

Prince would like back in now…

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543ain’t dead yet

posted by nirik on December 17th, 2007

Sorry for the long delay and lack of posting.

Life is nice and busy… some great things, and some not so great.

Here’s some pictures for now:


4 pups

4 pups relaxing. Kurt, Merlin, Nash and Legs.


Legs and Nash

Legs and Nash really get along well together.


Prince

Prince the foster greyhound (yes, there are 5 hounds in the house with my 3 and Wendy’s 1, and Prince the foster :)

Hopefully I will get some more pics up soon.

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542opening day of faire - 2007

posted by nirik on August 8th, 2007

Here’s some june pictures. June marks the opening of the Colorado Ren Faire.
As usual I spent a lot of time down there…


Nash sleeping

Nash had a blast down there. He loved the attention, and as you can see he learned how to relax too.


T and a lap dog

As usual, my friend T had lap dogs. :)


Merlin

Merlin looking regal as always.


Kurt

Kurt even came up to the front a few times.

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541K’s reception in NM in may

posted by nirik on August 7th, 2007


K

My friend K at his reception. Cake and booze in the background. ;)


Party

This party was so happenin that the next door neighbor dog wanted in on it.


Cake cutting

Cake cutting (with katana).


Kurt and Merlin

Kurt and Merlin in the trailer. Note that Merlin is laying on kurts leg.
I am really enjoying the trailer. I need to try and get it out more…

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540First of many photo catchup posts

posted by nirik on August 7th, 2007

Pictures from may (yikes!).

Puppies and Flowers:


Dandlions

There were a bunch of dandlions.


Nash

Nash had no problems relaxing.


Nash after a run

After a nice run around the yard.


Nash and a friend

Nash found a small friend to play with at Thornton days.


Merlin

Merlin, looking regal as always.

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539hopefully pictures soon…

posted by nirik on July 19th, 2007

I was planning on doing a number of picture posts, but got sidetracked.

Nash had the side of his face puff up again. This time he went in for x-rays and surgery. They pulled a ton of blood and puss out of there. The x-rays looked fine, no sign of cancer or a foriegn object. The Dr did say he saw a slightly diffrently colored area on the back on his throat. It might have been something that jabbed him and then came out the same way.

He looks pretty gruesome right now, although better than he did yesterday. He’s on a ton of antibiotics and I get to rince out his wound 3x a day.

Hopefully if I can find net access down in durango, I should be able to catch up on photo posts. (Heading down there for a family vacation tomorrow).

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538Months of slacking

posted by nirik on July 17th, 2007

Well, I have totally failed to keep up with my postings. ;(

Last post was in mid-may, so just a bit over 2 months ago.
I just grabbed a ton of pictures off my camera, so look for some photo post updates very soon.

Other things that have been going on (in no particular order):

- The Ren faire has been going on. Have been going most every weekend down there with the pups. I have a ton of pictures.
- Camped down at the campground near faire some, and went on another short camping trip up to boyd lake. I really am enjoying my trailer. :)
- Ran out to Austin one weekend for a surprise birthday party for a friend. He was indeed very surprised, and it was a lovely time.
- Went down to another friends wedding reception. It was a blast, and the trailer worked great down in NM.
- Lots more that I am sure I have forgotten.

Look for some photo posts soon to catch up…

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