Last weekend Amy, Evan, and I went to some friends’ lake house. We had a nice encounter with some deer (much better than the bear I encountered in my parent’s back yard this summer)

 

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Once again I am watching our friend’s two greyhounds and decided I needed to get some video of the action. It has become harder and harder to make them run together because our dog (the fawn) has increasingly got more competitive (more comfortable) with her friends. Enjoy. PS - Gopher got his name for his buck teeth which I could not seem to capture.

 

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There has been plenty of cicada talk here in the midwest concerning the 17 year cicada. The news covered weddings being rescheduled, teachers at school were making “cicada hats” with their students to try and lessen the scariness of the bugs, and of course, the great Walter E. Smithe commercial. No sign of the bugs yet, but I did want to share the insane commercial for a local furniture chain. Yes - furniture. These guys have a great sense of humor!

I cannot believe it, but Steve Irwin is no longer with us! I spent many hours - avoiding studying - watching him on Animal Planet. Thanks for making science and conservation fun for kids and adults alike!
[tags]Steve Irwin, Animal Planet[/tags]

A quick post to wish my youngest cat - Salsa - a happy birthday (and the iMac) I have been swamped the last few days but think I have figured out how to properly set up MediaWiki to use user permissions without having to hack something together. Now to get some time together to implement it.
[tags]Salsa, iMac, MediaWiki[/tags]

This past weekend A and I watched Triscuit's foster parents' two greyhounds Wish and Gopher. I decided I needed to start taking more pictures, so check them out! The weather was perfect for them and we enjoyed a lot of time out in the back yard running around and sleeping.

The last week has been absolutely crazy.

I had a house full of house guests from Thursday until Sunday
Amy and I brought Ava to her new home on Saturday where she has a 14 year old greyhound sister as well as a beagle too
Huge storms here on Sunday/Monday...so strong our front door (glass/screen) swung way open and shattered)
Ookles is no longer a secret and I have tons more to do!
I fought, once again, to get my SSL cert in order with Apache and mod_ssl (damn IE and the ciphers)
Network Solutions had an outage this morning for two hours
My iPod died...well sort of (more later)
In typical Jen style...when I am busy, I redesign, so jappler v14 came out
I missed Pita's birthday (April 1)

I seriously need a vacation!!
[tags]Network Solutions Outage, Ookles, dead iPod, jappler.com[/tags]