Thursday, July 16, 2009

They do get along...

... at least most of the time.  Taco and Tucker are still trying to decide who is the dominant one in the household, so there have been some interesting "fights" and sounds this past week, but all in all, they get along and miss each other at night when they're not together.  Here's a few pictures to give a size comparison.
Excuse the mess and lack of organization, yes, I'm STILL in the process of unpacking!!
I think this is one of my favorite pictures below... both with their rawhides, and size appropriate.  Haha...

We bought Tucker a pillow bed to lay on in the hopes that maybe he won't get fur all over the place when he starts to shed.  Luckily, he actually likes it.
While I'm writing this, Taco is sitting in my lap, and Jason is attempting to train Tucker lol.  Yes, attempting... Tucker has a short attention span sometimes!  He's doing pretty good though, and knows "sit" very well, "stay" is also pretty good, and is learning "come" very quickly.  Now if only we could get him potty trained so I don't have to keep cleaning up the huge puddles... since lab puddles are MUCH larger than chihuahua puddles!!

Friday, July 10, 2009

Happy Birthday!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON!!!
Jason is 25 today... and therefore, I caved in and allowed this to happen.


Jason found him on craigslist... full blooded AKC black lab, 9 weeks old, and only $50!!  The family that has him bought him, but their 2 year old is terrified of him when he nips (like all puppies do at first)... so we went to meet him tonight and paid for him, but the family is keeping him for the weekend while we go to Gatlinburg.  Luckily they're nice enough people to do so... but he's a really mellow dog at 9 weeks even, so it'll be fun to have him around... as long as Jason trains him right.  He already knows sit, stay, and shake, as well as to bark at the door when he needs to go outside (at least for number 2)... and he's kennel trained.  Ok, I think I got all of his qualifications in there!  Although the previous owner had named him Oliver or Oli, he's still young enough that we decided to change his name.  Jason picked out Tucker, named after his friend that was in the National Guard that died in Iraq in 2005.  

Sunsets are great...

Last night I managed to get a few REALLY good pictures of the sunset from our deck.  Just can't beat that view...




There's nothing quite like coming home from a long day at work and relaxing to nature's paintings.