How we ended up with another dog...

I realized that I hadn't yet blogged about are latest edition to our household and since I'm sure she will at some point come up, I should probably tell the story of how we found her.

It all begun when Chad and I went over to eastern Washington, near Ellensburg, to hunt coyotes, or cougars, or just camp, and shot some guns a little. It ended up being just the latter of the three, though we did give it our best shot with game calls, and hours and miles toward making it a successful hunt.

The weather was cold at night, and during the day when the sun came out, everything turned to mud.

It's too bad we weren't hunting for elk, because there were plenty of them spending their winter months in the sage brush.

So we didn't come home with any dead animal, but we did bring home to live ones!! We found these to 8 month old dogs wondering near where we were camping. As you can see from the picture, they were very happy that Chad got out of the truck and game them some food. After that they followed us to our camp, and never left. We tried to find their owner, went to a local vet to scan for an I.D. chip, and called the Animal Shelter, but no one was looking for them. It seemed the had been abandoned. They were both a little thin, and it seemed they hadn't had any food for awhile.

How could we just leave these puppies? Chad had been wanting a dog anyway, and Xica and I had been toying with the idea of getting another dog, mostly for companionship for Abby.

It was pretty cold camping... the dogs helped warm up the tent that night though!

So Chad liked the red dog, and we took that black and tan. We named her Ellie, since we found them just out side of Ellensburg.

Abby and Ellie are getting along just fine, and have fun playing together.

And maybe a little biting!

Theft

This morning Xica was going to take her car to school, and found it missing the back wheel!!! Sometime in the night, someone jacked up the car, took the wheel, and threw a cement block under it. I think the only time I had seen this before is in the movies when they're trying to portray a ghetto, I didn't know people do this in neighborhoods, and right in our driveway, while we were sleeping! Its very frustrating, especially when it is just under the insurance deductible, so it just comes out of our pocket. I found a replacement wheel today on eBay, so hopefully it gets here quickly, so we are back to two cars. Its interesting how we get use to having two cars(which is a luxury in most of the world) to get to the jobs we have, and don't know how to function with just one.

I think I'm going to buy some locking lug nuts.