Things here have been pretty quiet lately. Not boring, but not busy. Ejdo was out of town all last week (in West-by-God-Virginia) so Sawyer and I had some free time to go on walks and to the park. He's become a lot more protective of me around bigger dogs, so I'm trying to take him to the park as much as possible to get him used to them more. New photos of him coming soon....he had an impromptu photo shoot while watching Ejdo cut hair last weekend.

Got recertified as a professional rescuer for CPR last week too. Big excitement...now we don't have to do it every year, just every other. This is great news. Seems like every year they change the compression/breaths ratio, but I think as long as your technique is good you'd be helping the semi-dead person in front of you. I recently read an article that the proper pace can be found by humming Staying Alive by the BeeGees. Its also the same pace as Another One Bites the Dust by Queen, but thats not as good of a visual I suppose.

Wednesday I had dinner with Stephanie, Jason, and the kids at Michelles house. We watched a few episodes of the Muppet Show too. Its fun to watch stuff like that with kids that have never seen it before. Amazing to see things through their eyes.

Did a herd health check at Widewater on Thursday. It was a LONG day. Got down there around 9:30 to put up "Do not enter" signs and didn't get home till 11 that night. But we had a good time, took 9 good deer, and got some good data. I have pictures, but won't post them unless people really want to see, cause lets face it, they're gory dead deer photos.

Friday all I had to do was help flag some trail at Mason Neck, so I took Sawyer with me. While Marc and I flagged, Sawyer ran around and burned off energy. It was a pretty good day.

Saturday Steph and I went with the Perschbachers to look at a dog. Saywer and Laika had to sign off on her before they could get her. Sawyer could care less, but Laika didn't seem thrilled. Steph and I were both hesitant, as we thought the dog would be a lot more work than the foster let on. Turns out after we left, the dog suffered a fairly significant meltdown and started snapping at other dogs. No thanks.

Sunday we celebrated Michelle and Jana's birthdays. Michael just got back from Thailand and had presents for us which was awesome. All the men got carved teak budda masks and all the women got Thai silk scarves. Very nice. Then we watched 2.5 hours of pictures. I was exhaused, but it was really interesting.

So there you go....my week in a couple of hundred words. Add in a few workouts and some less than stellar meals alone and that's pretty much all that happened. Had some nice phone conversations with various family members to keep me from talking to the dog too much.

Love you all!