News and Views

Here are some pictures I took of Apollo today. He was 8 pounds when we got him (6 weeks old), and is about 22 pounds now at 11 1/2 weeks. He looks and feels more than 3 times as heavy! Looking in through the kitchen window With his master He sure is a friendly, good […]

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Here’s Derek’s puppy Apollo at 9 1/2 weeks old. He seems bigger almost every day. Here he is in his usual mode — biting! He doesn’t try to hurt and usually it’s just a gentle nip, but his baby teeth are sharp and once in a while he breaks skin. I can still outrun him, […]

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Poor puppy! We took him to the vet today for his first visit. We found out why he has been scratching: Scabies! These are little mites that live in the skin. So he had to get a shot for them, and has to go back in 10 days for a follow-up shot. Then they tested […]

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We drove back up to Snowflake yesterday (through falling snow and slush on the road) and brought Derek’s new Siberian Husky home with us. We built a pen for him in the corner of the kitchen, and Derek spent the night on the sofa right next to him. In fact when I woke up this […]

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We drove up to Snowflake, Arizona today for Derek to pick out his new Siberian Husky puppy. Here’s the one he chose. Snowflake is about 20 miles north of Showlow, in the White Mountains. It was pretty cold up there! (OK, almost Siberia is an exaggeration, but for a Phoenician it was freezing!). We have […]

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Devon got a 2007 Toyota Prius for an early graduation present. Pretty cool car; very high-tech. It is a hybrid, with both a gas engine and an electric motor. The combination gives almost double the gas mileage of an equivalent pure-gasoline engine car: 60 MPG city according to the EPA. It has other futuristic features, […]

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After half a semester at the U of A, Derek has decided he needs a break from school, so he has moved back home. He’s not sure if he will take any classes anywhere in the spring, but is looking out to next fall. In the mean time, he is (slowly!) looking for a job. […]

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Gisele and I are in San Francisco this week — got here on Wednesday, and go back home tomorrow (Sunday). Staying with Gisele’s sister, Angela in the Richmond district. Besides eating lots of interesting food and visiting bookstores, nothing exciting going on.

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I just bought another TV. If you remember, I bought the 60″ Sony SXRD rear projection LCOS last spring. After having it in my house for 3 weeks, I took it back. Since then I’ve been waiting for something better to come available in my price range. Today I brought home a 65″ LCD TV. […]

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I’m testing putting a video clip into my blog. I know there is text in the middle of the picture — it’s a trial version and I don’t know if I want to buy it yet. What do you think? This was on our famous Peruvian bike ride. If I buy it, would others be […]

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