Blue died very suddenly and we think painlessly. She was sleeping and let out a whimper. When Sarah went in the room she was dead. We think it was from old age. She was 11, had arthritis and was a little over weight. They didn't do an autopsy so it's left to our discretion. I also think it may have had something to with her heart as she had really bad breath which means she had a lot of build up on her teeth...and this build up has a bacteria in it that is known to cause heart failure in older dogs if swallowed. Either way it wasn't expected and she went quickly in her sleep.

I have some sad news. I think most of you who read this already know, but I just wanted to say that I will miss Blue. She was a good, happy dog. Despite her bad breath I enjoyed having her around. She seemed like a fixture around the Taow's house and was always happily greeting everyone. Rest in Peace Blue...we all miss you :(

On a lighter note, I finally have the correct link for Sterling's blog up. I suggest you all check out the free running video he and his friends made. Sterling is in it and I believe his code name is Juice? Maybe Tang? I don't remember. It's not a professional movie, but it's cool.

It's snowing!!! (in an angry tone...not excited). I was supposed to take 30 people planting today. It would have been good to be able to do that. On another note, some really good things happened this week: I lead my first 11 :) and Kona jumped up into the back of the truck on her own for the first time in the 1 year and 3 months that I've had her :) This is very good for those days when she gets really muddy/dirty and I don't want to touch her but I need to get going. It's also good when I'm in a hurry, or have my hands full. ok, that's all for now...I have a stack of paper work to do and no more excuses.

Check it out :) This is what will be on CH 6 news on the 18th! Just select the spawning fish one.

http://www.tightlinemedia.biz/pages/timeout.html

Hopefully I'll get more pictures of my week up later. I feel like so much has gone on I can't even write about it. Here's a quick version: I went to Utah to see my family. Bruce, Sarka, Misha, AnnaMarie, Kristina, Stacy, Sterling, Brian, Mom, Dad, Kona, Danger and I were there. You could say it was a full house. I had a lot of fun. Things went really well. Then I went back to work on Monday and it was even worse than normal mondays. I had 152 emails to sort through. How long did it take? 0 hours because it didn't do it! I now have 164 emails in my in box and a few upset people. The reason for this is not procrastination or laziness, but I've been busy doing other things. Like planting over 1,000 shrubs with the Bureau of Reclamation in 40 mile an hour wind (my face is chapped) and thinking of clever ways to get out of spending the evening with a 40 year old who wants to do "dinner and a hot tub". Not to mention the fact that our computers went down for the entire afternoon on the only free day I had. So I went to watch Alex play soccer. It was fun except for the WIND. I'm not joking, the news said it was 30 - 40 mph!! That cuts through any windproof anything and I was freezing. My only hope was to cuddle with Kona but she was soo hyper (from being kenneled all day and then having soccer balls with people chasing and kicking them all over the place) that it was all I could do to get her to not strangle herself on her leash=no cuddling :(

This is my niece christina. She loves animals.