Wow I’m loving all the new pics on here!

I got back from a week in Florida with my parents and their friends, only to find all my agility equipment tossed along the back of the house, grub killing POISON all over the yard, Chopper and her dog beds covered in filth and also filth all over the carpets and the walls, my favorite bath towel tossed in the trash bin with something like poop or mud or both all over it, scum growing in the dog’s big water pail, hair and leaves coating every surface including the ceiling, and ripped up/chewed up remnants of trash about the house. Oh, and before I left we got a Wii and while I was gone, Phil had re-arranged the living room to accommodate playing the Wii (as in, all the furniture but the couch and Wii accessories were moved somewhere else).  Hmmmm. And Phil wonders why I don’t call/e-mail home much while I’m away…I don’t want to KNOW what’s going on at home or what I’m coming home to! Phil said my dog trainer said to tell me that now I have a taste of what could happen if we ever have “real” kids and I go on a vacation, lol. I’ll remember that…

The good news is that I spent all day cleaning the house, the dog crates, and the dog bedding so things are now relatively neutral smelling and back in order. Phil handed me a paper saying the grub killer is not bad for dogs (I guess the landlords came and did this), I *think* grass is starting to grow in the yard and the “lake” towards the back is receding, and Chopper appears to have decided that Phil is not so bad after all.

In two weeks we’re going to Chicago for a wedding and the dogs are going to this ridiculously expensive pet spa for the weekend. They get flat panel TVs in their “rooms”! The next trip after that is the usual two weeks to the lake in the summer but I’m taking the dogs along even though my mom says “NO PETS!” every year.

Here I am on my vacation. Sorry, no Chopper pics. I *wish* she could have come along! Maybe next year if we take our own car. I saw so many dogs on the beaches and was jealous.