the S*C blog

Long overdue 'update'.

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 18:50:32 -0400

If anyone is still reading — or even if anyone just started — they’ll notice that there’ve been NO updates to this site for an embarrassingly long time. I could bore those (wonderfully tolerant, patient) people with excuses, but instead, I’m going to just explain that I’m working on getting some new software up and running along with an entirely new/different setup. All of the entries from here will be migrated over, and there will be a few interim posts that don’t exist here added as well. The new address will be thescblog.com (much easier to type, and not all that hard to remember)...

I sincerely apologize for the delay.

Oh, but how cute is Noa (pictured above)?! She’s our fifth fur-kid.

We’ll describe how awesome she is in greater detail later. For now, check out some of the worst pictures I’ve shot in a LONG time and see how everyone is growing up.

Merry Christmas!

Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:20:40 -0500

This should have been updated a while ago.
In fact, this page should have been updated several times before now.

But I’ve been busy with work, and recently, sick, and all sorts of things have conspired to work not-quite-right.

But that’s not particularly important because pretty much everything is all good now (though I’m still on the mend).

The puppies are still as goofy as one could possibly imagine, and Santa was as generous as he was jolly — for the record, Sickmas is not nearly as much fun as Christmas is.

There will be more before the New Year arrives.

Till then, be well!

Cervantes has a new home!

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:57:04 -0500

I am absolutely elated to be writing that Cervantes has a forever home!

He’s going to be living in Colorado with an absolutely awesome couple and their two greyhounds. It’s going to be a crazy flurry of activity to get him to the airport tonight, but I know it’s going to be stellar for everyone involved.

Here are the last pictures I took of him while he was here (on my lunch break before we left for Atlanta).

His forever family has a website up for him here!

Turkeys.

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:41:00 -0500

What happens when you combine a holiday, a roadtrip, a moving truck, and a whole bunch of dogs? Lots. But mostly, we just took pictures of the dogs.

Stacey’s parents were kind enough to store some of the stuff from our house and garage that didn’t fit in the moving truck back in September (some of it would have been all sorts of convenient to have, but that’s another story), and so, with the help of our neighbor, we got a pretty smokin’ deal on a Penske truck, loaded up the dogs in the Hellement, and set out to eat some turkey and finally finish moving.

Shortly after we hit the road, it became apparent that Cervantes was feeling a little overwhelmed in the mighty Honda, so he ended up being my shotgun-rider in the truck from Spartanburg, SC all the way to Waynesville, OH (and then again on the way home). Cloud, Giselle, Phoenix and Meg hung out with Stacey in the Element, and their bladders dictated when we’d stop along the way. Despite the traffic, it seemed pretty darned easy compared to the roadtrip to Denver and back — aah, the virtues of experience.

Anyway, it was a cold and damp weekend in Waynesville, but that definitely didn’t stop the dogs from having a darned good time... with a combined total of eight of them, I imagine they’d have a difficult time not having fun. That said, it was an immense undertaking taking them out, but an even greater one bringing them back in [and wiping each and every paw]. At least Cervantes made it 25% easier than everyone else — and check out the shots of him in front of the trees! What a handsome lil’ guy!

November is for frolicking.

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:26:59 -0500

The climate here in Greenville has allowed us to hang out outside a lot more than we would have been able to back in the frosty wonderland that is Ohio. We picked up a longer lens, so we get to get up in the doggies’ faces without actually getting in their faces — this is a particularly good thing because it means that there’s less tongue/nose interaction with the glass we’re trying to shoot through. Anyway, examples of both of the above can be seen in the pictures posted here. For reference, apple peels seem to make pretty good environmentally friendly doggy play-things.

It should probably go without saying, but the doggies will, naturally, do doggie things. This sometimes involves trying to eat each other, sometimes trying to dig holes in the yard, and sometimes, generally just basking in the sun. Examples of all of the above are not difficult to find, even in the course of just one afternoon.*

*In case you happen to be paying particular attention to naming conventions on those gallery pages, please don’t let the absence of NovemberII disturb you — I ended up combining a gallery to make life “easier.” Or something.