My apologies

I'm so sorry I've been away so long. Things have been very stressful in my personal life... but now we are finally in our first home!! I have a few photos of the monsters in our new BACKYARD but I haven't done anything with them yet.
In the meantime, here are a couple shots.
Max at the dog park down the street from the HOUSE!
And Clem playing possum on the chair in the new living room!!


If you want to see the latest knitting projects, you'll have to go see my other blog. : )

*tap tap* Is this thing on?

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday! I'm sorry to have not posted but I was on a vacay... my parents as well as my sister and her husband all came to town for Christmas! It was wonderful to see them all but they kept me busy... so no posts.
But I'm back now!

I borrowed a 60mm macro lens to try out for a few days. It was fun to be able to get up close and still focus. That's a problem I run into with my current lenses. Ideal would be a wide angle, almost fisheye, that allows me to get up close and personal with the furries yet still get lots of background in the shot! Must do research... uhhh... and save up lots of moola!

Anyway, here are some of the playing around and testing the 60mm macro shots.
Maxi Pants' baby browns:


And his sniffer!


Applicious' doe eyes:


And Uni... and her white eyebrow!


I'll post some photos from the family visit later this weekend. Right now I seem to be on my second cold of the season so I'm gonna hit the sack!

Happy 2009!!!

A Few Recent Photos

of my pups...
Max loooooves stuffed animals. He picked up this teddy bear, flopped down onto his bed, and passed out.


Apple goes bonkers over the dino cuz! I squeak it and she makes wookie sounds and jumps around trying to grab it!


And Professor... he got a furcut! We had started thinking that he was gaining weight and he might need to go on a diet... but then they cut off all that insane fur and lo and behold! He's skinny under there!

Max...

needs a home.

If you missed my post about Max, it can be seen HERE.

Chris is ready to keep him but we also know our apartment is too small. Plus we already have three other pets and can't really afford a fourth.
He is up to date on all his shots and is fixed. He weighs about 65 pounds and is supposedly, according to the vet, 1 1/2 to 2 years old. He has the energy of a puppy.
Therefore, he ideally needs a home with another big dog or children who actually spend a lot of time in the yard with him. I think for your sanity, and his, he needs a fenced in yard.
He knows commands and listens well. He does get excited and jump so he needs someone who can be firm with him. He also needs lots of exercise.

If you, or someone you know, might be interested, contact me. My husband will probably ask you a thousand questions but if you are right for Max, then we will all be ecstatic.
And know that if you ever need a dogsitter... seriously, I'm all over it!

Plus, your dog is famous! He's all over my business cards! : )

Maximus' Story

Things we know about Max...
~He's got a gorgeous face.
~He loves to shake paws. So much that if we don't acknowledge it, he'll shake with BOTH paws!
~He's housetrained...
~He gets really excited when you come home from a day at work and sometimes (really it's only happened twice) he pees a little.
~He's great with other dogs. Even our two little ones.
~He ignores cats! Thank goodness... I'd hate for Uni to rip his nose off should he chase her.
~He's fantastic with kids! He lets them pet him and crawl on him and he never gets upset or jumps on them.
~He definitely knows how to work those big brown eyes. He knows that if he lowers his head and looks up at you (me), he'll get whatever he wants.
~He recently discovered the pond at the dogpark. He jumps through it like a deer... it's a riot!
~He needs a home with wonderful people, perhaps another big dog to play with, and a yard.
Please read his story which I will post at the end of the photos...
We aren't in a hurry to find him a home. We want to make sure it is a good one. And we are a bit attached now that we've had him almost a week and a half.

These shots are from our outing last weekend. We took him over to my in-laws' because they have a fenced in yard. I have more photos from around the house and also from the dogpark. I have to send my camera in to Canon to have the screen fixed tomorrow so maybe I can finally catch up on editing rather than just taking more and more photos. I have over 500 from the dogpark!







Max doesn't generally show a lot of interest in balls... but he seemed to be curious about this tennis ball so I threw it a few times. He would run up, sniff it, and then run back... without it. After doing this a few times, he finally decided that he would play along!










Chris' brother and sister in law live behind his parents... they have a big pup named Sam. Here are Max and Sam meeting for the first time:




It appears that Sam decided that Max was okay... I love the look on Max's face!


Isn't Sam gorgeous?!


Here are a few that give you a better idea of Max's size... and he's under a year old by our guess. His feet are huge still!


Max and Malisa and Mary...


Worn out...




And ready to go home!


Okay... so Max's story. I'll try to keep it short-ish.
I work for the National Park Service... definitely the only disadvantage to working there that I know of is the fact that it tends to be a place where people dump animals. Max isn't the first dog I've brought home.
Last Friday, one of the guys on our maintenance staff calls me and informs me that they have a "puppy" over at the shop. I'm a mush ball so I go over to check it out. Said "puppy" is HUGE! And has a collar. And is clean and well behaved...
So I take some pictures of him, make a sign, and we pass it out to the vet down the road and the grocery store in the area... as well as hang it in the park. I'm CERTAIN that he's just lost. But it's Friday at 4 pm and we are about to close up and I can't stand to just leave him out there... so I bring him home.
My husband and I took him to our vet to see if he had a microchip... and he did!! So then I call the microchip company to find his owner.
Well... the owner had a block on his account so the microchip company is only allowed to give his information to shelters or vets... not to individuals. Weird... you'd think they would just want their dog back! But that's okay... the microchip company called the owner to leave a message. Ummm... yeah. The cell phone they have for the owner now has a voicemail with a different name and a company name. They leave a message anyway with our information.
The weekend passes and we hear nothing.
Monday I called again. This time they suggest that we get our vet to call in, get the owner's info, and tell us. They also send the owner an email.
Tuesday we get the owner's name. I'll call him J. We also get his address and his cell phone number.
We looked up his address and it's a condo but there was no unit number for him. So we went there. J wasn't in the directory at the gate but someone let us in and there were no signs hanging around the mailbox for a lost dog or anything.
So then we used his name and address to look up his home number. It was disconnected.
The cell phone was a business cell phone so my husband went to their offices. J used to work there but does not any longer... so when Chris explained why we were looking for him, they pulled his file and called the numbers they had for him too. Disconnected.
My optimism for finding the owner is gone. I think he had something come up so he ditched the dog and left town. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me because Max was so obviously well taken care of. He's fixed, well-mannered, and sweet as can be.

So we still have him. We took him to the dog park with our friends yesterday and he had a great time. We are still saying we want to find him a home with a yard but I guess we aren't in too much of a hurry. He's really SUCH a good dog. I hope we can find him a good home... but it's going to be harder and harder the longer we keep him.
Maybe he can be the Furrie Fotographie mascot!! : )

Business Stuff

I spent the better part of yesterday morning downtown going from office to office attempting to get my business license. Now at least I have paperwork to fill out... Whew.
And I'm still working on the website but I think you'll all be impressed when I'm finally done... which will hopefully be later this week!
AND last night I worked on business card #1...
This one features Max!


and here's the back too:


I think next I'll make one with Apple... or maybe Uni!

Max sneak peek...

Look at this FACE!


And that NOSE! And that funny lip thing going on where he's lying on it... hee hee!