Foster Dog???

I've never been one to want to have too many pets. Yet, I've always felt that if you have one species running around the house, you need a second. I think that animals can communicate with each other on a different level and that they need each other. No matter how much love you give them, I think and feel that they are better off with one of their own kind.

In the house right now, we have 3 dogs and 2 cats. We got the third dog because the eldest, Lady, is such a good dog, I knew she would be a good trainer. And she has not let me down. The pup, Eko, who is now a year old, is so well behaved. She lacks a little bit of confidence, but hey, we are all flawed. I think she's a little upset about her size compared to the others, but I don't know.

Last night, we ventured into a world that I knew I wanted to try out at some point in my life. We got our first foster dog. She is a white pitbull pup, probably around 6 months old. Full of life, we fear she may have a hard time with her sight and hearing. However, we also have a theory that she is so desensitized from being with a pack of 94 and no one ever paying a bit of attention to her except for feeding her, that she had no reasons to use her senses.

She struggles going up and down stairs and using her nose, but she is so awesome!!! She gets along with the cats, actually, she doesn't even know what they are. She sleeps with her back up against the couch and loves having room to run. She was exhausted after about 20 minutes of play yesterday. Our (my wife and I) goals are for her to be able to go to a good home, but not before she we work on some of these things. She has really never had a reason to know her name or to smell or to see more than a foot in front of her. She has never run free and had fresh grass to smell. Never stuck her head out of a car window or probably never seen a bird. Last night was the first night of the rest of her life.

GOLFING

All summer, Pops has been calling me down once a week to play golf at Goose Creek.  I've never been the avid golfer, but the sport intrigues me because I suck at it.  Being involved in athletics my whole life, I usually can play any sport to a competitive level.  Above the golfing, and I'm sure this is why we play, there is nothing like being able to spend a few hours with family.  When living at home during my adolescent years, this was definitely not the case.  I wanted to spend every moment outside of the house.  Now, it seems like I would rather hang out with my family, whether it be on my wife's side or my side, rather than going out.  Our days are limited and you have to always respect those who will give you unconditional love no matter what.  I hope through the limited technologies of today that we................I can continue to document some of the great moments in life.  With people always loading pics up on FaceBook and Flickr or whatever else, I just hope that it will be as organized as it was for me in my families photo albums.