February 2016


February 28th: Leap year? We don't need no stinkin' leap year... Dad went ahead on the 28th anyway...


As you can see, I still haven't had time to figure out how to do the website differently. You are probably happy about that anyway, because like me you don't understand why companies feel it is necessary to change things every so often when it worked just fine the way it was and don't they understand that they are just annoying you (their loyal customer) in their quest to win new customers by having an ever "cooler" website even though you can no longer find what you were looking for and they've replace the phone number to an actual live human being (that might be able to help you if only you could figure out that accent) with a link to an online "chat" service where you have to try to explain your problem by typing out the whole long story about how you are just looking for that same sweater you found online last week but now you can't get back to that page because the whole site has been changed and all you can find are ugly sweatpants and then after the whole big story is fully explained all you get back is a strange error message that says your chat session has ended and you just know the people back at the so called help desk are just laughing their butts off...

But I digress.

This month was Harry's 10th birthday, and he has now been gone from our lives almost as long as he was with us. I'd say more about that but I've never been good at talking about what he meant to me and I already can't see what I am typing any more so I will just stop and say that we love Harry very much and miss him terribly.

A few other events also happened in February so you can see the pictures of the rats and dogs and horses... oh my! And yes there are no pictures of the horse show, but there is some video if I ever get around to doing something with that... Lucie did well and got 68% on the more challenging test this year.

Harry's 1st birthday Harry's 2nd birthday Harry's 3rd birthday Harry's 4th birthday
Harry's 5th birthday Remembering Harry through the years This year we, and many of our friends, collected 48 stuffed animals to distribute at Doernbechers Harry's 10th birthday
Cheesecake had to have surgery to remove a tumor. Dr. Sid doesn't think it was cancerous and Cheesecake seems to be recovering nicely! This is just me getting up close and personal with Cream Cheese... And this is just Dad messing with his new camera lens to give Buttercup a big head... And this is just Dad thinking he is funny putting a picture of me in with the other two...
Dad said this Aunt Maggie being a "cell phone mom" ignoring her new baby... Allie See the family resemblance? Allie (nee Noel) is Buttercup's little sister! What?! Having a new puppy in the house (only briefly - she went with Maggie to California) doesn't let me break all the rules?! Maybe we can create an Emoji that means "Why are parents such a pain?"...
Preparing Morgan for the big show... Don't worry he's secure enough in his manhood to handle the braided tail... Warming up for the show... Remembering to take off the GMM zip up hoodie and warming up for the show... Dad didn't play but we had a good time even if none of us really had a clue... get it? Clue? Ha ha ha... I crack myself up...