Birdie Update

Our nesting bird finally hatched some eggs! Unfortunately, one of them has already gone the way of the dogs. I hope the other two make it.

Aren't the cute?


Here you can see where there nest is located. It's electric!

The Houston Rockets

Sadly, the LA Lakers beat the Houston Rockets in game 7. Unfortunatly, it wasn't even a fun game to watch. We went out to Brian O'Neals with a group of friends, then went to the Chocolate Bar

afterwards. Mmmm.

ConocoPhillips

The Executive VP of Exploration and Production left CoP today. He will now be the CEO of LyondellBassell, a company that filed for bankrupsy last January.

Is that a new dog?!?

Nope, Sundog, a.k.a. Budbug, got a haircut today! I think this was the 3rd time I got him groomed in the 4 years I've owned him. He is actually a brindle Cairn, very rare. I found him on the street.

These are the before pics taken by the groomer. She was recommended to me by my hair stylist, and she lives down the street!

And here are the after pics. What a cutie!

Greek Fest Fall

I had a pretty bad fall at the Greek Fest a few months back, and the injury is coming back to haunt me. My pinky and ring finger of my right hand feel like they're falling asleep, and have felt like this for at least 12 hours now. I fell directly on my elbows, it hurt so bad I couldn't move my arms for a couple days, and it was a couple months before I could lean on my elbows.

I'm no doctor, but if I were to diagnose myself, I'd say the Greek Fest Fall damaged my ulnar nerve. If it doesn't get better in a few days, I'll start to try to treat myself. I diagnosed myself with Crohn's Disease years before the doctors did, we'll see if I did it again!

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I love otters!

Dressage

Today we went to see Aunt Karla (my Mom's older sister) compete in Dressage. This is a sport neither Jared nor I knew anything about prior to this weekend. We had a great time, and hope to see more shows!

Here are a couple pictures of Karla with her horse Venus.

Here is Karla riding. She had three rides today.

This is one of the horses grazing after a ride.

And I loved the look of this horse. The rider is an engineer, maybe I could do it too!

Dog Park!

We went to the dog park this Saturday. There is a very large park, 20+ acres, about 20 minutes from our house.

Here is Tancred running by the pool. He runs the entire time we're there, and he won't swim in the pools, only the mud puddles.

Here is Kirsche running to me. She is good about staying close and coming when she's called, the other two are not....at all.

Here is Tancred, panting like crazy.

Here is a little video of Tancred rolling in something. He smelled terrible when we left.


Here is one of the few pictures of all three dogs. Sundog typically hangs out under trees and walks along the fence. Tancred found a mud puddle to roll in.

Yay mud!

They have an agility course here, but our dogs won't jump through anything.

Here is Tancred in another mud puddle. He could actually swim in this one. Why won't he go in the pool?? The other two dogs hate water.

And here they are on the ride home. So tired and stinky. My new Matrix has stain resistant fabric, everything just wipes right off.

Outside House Pictures

I've shown most folks pictures of the inside of our house. Here is the outside!

Here is a panoramic of the front. We have much foliage.

Here is the front door.

Here is my car with one of our magnolia trees.

Here is the front sidewalk. We should probably trim those plants back, but I like them!

Here is the side of the house. I want to get a real gate put there.

Here is another panoramic of the back area.

Here is the backyard.

Here is Sundog, doing his favorite thing. He will sit outside for hours and hours. Notice the boards and chairs shoved under the fence. He also loves to escape.

Here is the bird that lives on top of our fuse box. I feel bad for her because I'm pretty sure she's sitting on an empty nest. More than one egg has fallen out, the dogs then eat them. It makes me so sad!!

End-of-the-Year Night Out

Sadly, it was a Wednesday, a work night, but I went along anyway. Both the Jones School classes of 2009 and 2010 went out to Club 26Ten in the Galleria area. Jared and I were 10 minutes early, the first people there, because we're used to driving so much farther when going out. We did get free parking, and I got pictures of the club before it was packed.

Self portrait, ready to go out!

Here is the entrance of the club. Dark and empty! It is a nice place.

Here is Jared getting to know the bar tender. He served us our gin and tonics all night.

Here are the fun moving wall lights.

Upstairs there is a sushi bar. The sushi was delicious! Here is the seating area.

The sushi was a bit more expensive that where we usually go, but we usually go to happy hours on Kirby. I was still happy with Jared, Jared doesn't look quite as pleased pulling out the wallet.

Aneesh started an angry face contest. Colin won.


They had the game on to try to keep people from leaving. Some folks left, we left for about 10 minutes. Houston lost, but hopefully they'll win tonight!


Here we are, being weird as usual. The place is now crowded.

You know it's getting late when the glow sticks come out. We left not long after this, it was a good time!

Traveling with Dogs

Eventually there will come a time when I need to fly my dogs somewhere, and I worry about it. Here is an article on the subect.

I would like it if they offered a few pet flights where pets of all sizes (that could fit on a seat) could fly with their owners.

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Jared and I went to the Offshore Technology Conference today. I had a lot of fun, and probably could have spent a lot more time there. Hopefully I will make it to one of the luncheons.

Here we are, on our way! Jared is driving my Matrix, I didn't want to deal with the crowds.

First we had to make a stop at Dapper Dan's. I love the name!

Here is my good luck charm. Jared got me a funshine bear after my surgery, I've liked it ever since!

Here we are at Reliant Stadium and Reliant Center.

So many people, such a long walk.

We couldn't take pictures inside. It was a lot of standing and walking, my feet hurt!

HEY!!! That's my car! That's the second time I've seen someone else with my car in Houston!