Happy Halloween

When I pulled into the parking lot at work one day last week, the sun was just about to rise, and this beautiful sky with reflected color on the clouds was just beautiful... I had to take a photo so I can try and paint it at some time in the future.

Since I have been working two full time jobs for almost a year now, my office at home is starting to resemble that of a hoarder's closet. It doesn't help that Odin likes to shred cardboard and what ever else he can get his teeth into. But the good news is that I have nothing in my "in-box" today, so I might actually get to do a little cleaning in here.

My friend Jan is having a halloween party tonight, Jeff and I might go over there for a little while. Matthew is up in Lansing for the weekend. He played a gig with his band last night, and will return in time to go to work tomorrow. He has a busy schedule with college, calculus 3, biology and computer science classes, working part time at Menards (a really big hardware store for those of you who don't live in the US), and these occasional trips to Lansing to play drums with his heavy-metal bad.

Time to go clean the bathroom, and then hopefully have energy to start tackling this messy office. I hope you all have a happy Halloween!

Odin is ready for Halloween

I couldn't resist this little sweater for Odin... He's ready for Halloween. He moved a little as I took the photo, but you can still see how handsome he is in his new outfit.

Silver linings

Someone is always finding ways to get into trouble. I was working, and Odin found a piece of cardboard. After constantly telling him "no", I relented, and decided that it would keep him busy for a few minutes while I tried to get some work done. He doesn't eat it, he just spits out the little pieces... of course, he made more work for me to do, when it was time to pick up the mess, but I had to admit, it was easier to get little pieces of cardboard into a trash bag.... so I guess that was the silver lining in the cloud of Odin's destruction.

Day at a St. Joseph Michigan Beach

We took Matthew and Odin to the lake last week. They played frisbee and Odin went in the water to get it. Matthew had to go and get Odin once, because the puppy couldn't find the frisbee, and was going out too far into the water. I started to panic! But Matthew came to the rescue.

On vacation...

Fall is coming. I took this photo out in our yard a couple days ago... 

It's been six months since I started my new job.... so I took a couple days off because Jeff had the week off work. Yesterday we went to Tabor Hill Winery. We had never been there before. The food was overpriced, but the tour was interesting, and I loved taking photos of the grapes on the vines... and the wine was good.

Odin - Hittin' The Bottle

He's not even a year old, and Odin is already hitting the bottle! I swear he looks like he is laughing here! I took this photo as I was trying to get the bottle from him... but of course, Odin's favorite game is "keep-away from Mom"... and as soon as I would stoop to grab the prize, off he would run like a little bat out of hell! I finally got it away from him, just as he managed to get the top off... not that there was anything left in it... but I don't need a tipsy puppy!

Mom's curse...

Here is our handsome boy with a little photoshop filter work. Odin is so spoiled! Here he was looking at Matthew waiting for him play... Odin thinks he has to play all the time! Odin is 27 lbs. now... 27 lbs of non-stop action and adventure! He loves to run around the yard and recently has been playing "keep-away from Mom!"... Doesn't matter what it is, a sock, a pen, anything he can get in his mouth... as I was running around the living room end-table trying to catch him with some "thing that is not yours"..., I thought of my Mom and the times she would be chasing us around the dining room table... I think my "Mom's curse" ... you know the one... "you better be good, or someday you are going to have kids of your own and they will be twice as bad as you are".... well... I'm thinking since Matthew didn't live up to her "expectations" in that regard, she sent me this puppy! I'm just kidding... he's a good puppy... when he's sleeping!