Time for an update

Even the nasty messages stopped asking when something new was going to get added. Figured I should prove we are alive and well in Arizona. 2007 has had it's challenges. We still have not sold the first house and that's been causing a definate financial strain to say the least. At the moment we do have two offers on the house and trying to work thru them with our Realtor. My postion at work changed partly for the good and party not. After 10 months of working 7 days a week and being on call the hours I wasn't there I took a position as recruiter and trainer. With one of us gone more then half the week and with (then) three dogs at home it was just too much. So the upside is I'm pretty much working 5 days a week with regular hours but also took a cut in pay. Holding out so far but after labor day It's time to start looking for another job again. Meanwhile Dan's still happy flying although he's always got some good stories about passengers. Good and bad. Rude and happy flyers. And of course some they left at the gate.

We took on an addition to the family a few months ago. On a trip to Petco for dog food we happened upon the mobil kennel for the county animal rescue people. So of course we had to go look. There's always stray dogs out here. sometimes running in good size packs. Big ones, small ones and all dogs in between. And all too many dogs here dead on the side of the road. So at least some do get picked up and given a second chance. So when we went in to see what they had for dogs there was one we both found ourselves falling in love with. We looked around, did our shopping at Petco and left. Well we did take this one out and walked him too. There was also another guy there looking at him too.

So we left and stopped to get some lunch. Both of us were talking about this dog. But figured the other guy was going to take him and he'd end up with a good home. This other guy also had at least one dog at home too already. And we had 3. But when we got back in the car it didn't go home, it went back to Petco to be sure this dog got a good home. All the way there saying we were sure he'd be gone. NOT!! He was still there.

The rescue people were so happy to see us come back. I'm sure !! So we took the dog out for another walk. We spent a good hour there and finally decided we'd take him home to join our family. After doing all the paper work the other guy came back again too. But too late for him. The Bloodhound was going home with us. So now we have 4 dogs. A 2-3 yr old Bloodhound we named Clifford.