My Job

For those of you who are unawares, I work at Semco LLC. They make industrial sized HVAC (air conditioning) units. I am a design drafter for them and thus get to take the occasional trips down to the plants. The picture is of a unit that Semco builds (not one I am working on). This is one of the smaller units. The largest unit we sell I tell everyone would be a great starter home (it ships in many a pieces because it is too large to fit on a flat bed). If you have further questions about what I do, I can't tell you...it's a secret...shhh!!! ha ha ha

Birthday Boy

We had just enough candles to put on his cake :).

The Quality of Dog Collars

We have found out after several attempts that expensive does not necessarily mean better. Since getting the dogs, Cella has had a grand total of one collar. Marbre on the other hand has had a grand total of 6-7...I have lost count.

What you see before you is the last two collars that were Marbre's. Why?! You may ask...one word...Cella. She loves to use Marbre's collar as a chew toy and plays rough by grabbing her collar and throwing her around. It's ok though, since Marbre is now bigger...Cella has found out that Marbre is not so easy to mess with any more, though she still gets roughed up a little bit.

SOLUTION: buy collars that have a lifetime warranty!

BARK of Boone County

At work I signed myself up to be on the "Wellness Committee". Basically we just look for active things around the area that we can participate in. In researching I found this event that tries to raise money for cancer research through this dog day event. I figured since my hubbie is aiming to be a vet that this was right up our ally.

There was an obstacle course that the dogs could do. Marbre thought it would be better to drink from the pool than to walk through it, but William was able to coax her through it all.

We really thought that we could get Cella to amaze the crowds with her jumping abilities. She really is a high jumper....always preferring to be on top of the dog house instead of in it. It was hard to get them to jump over the pole though, they much preferred to just go under it. I did take Cella around the obstacle course with me, but the camera man was too slow in getting the jumping shot I got Cella to do.

Everyone walked around the lake with their dogs sort of as a remembrance thing for those good dogs that cancer took away from this world. It was a nice little stroll and the dogs had fun playing in the water.

As far as really cool looking dogs, there were a few. By far the biggest was this Newfoundland. William wasn't sure about the breed since it had a ton of white on it, so I asked the owner. It was definitely a gentle giant and I thought the bib was a nice touch.