Saturday ay 5, 2012 New Puppy

After looking high and low... going through Craig's list and scanning the local shelters we finally found a new member for our family. Little Chloe. She is part Dachshund part ??????? She weighs about 20lbs, is 1 1/2 yrs old and is sooooo cute! The first few days she was very scared and timid, probably looking for her 'temporary' parents. But after I explained that WE are her forever parents... she seemed to feel a little more comfortable. We found her an Craig's List, they said she has lived on a farm and they just couldn't keep her any more. She doesn't lick, and we have yet to hear her bark... AND she doesn't even know what people food is. Gonna try to keep it that way if I can get Ben to not feed her Ice Cream! LOL. I can't wait to find out what her personality is like after she gets used to us. She is so sweet. I wanted to name her Ruby, but Ben won out (Surprise, Surprise) and we named her Chloe. When we got her they called her Isabella, Ben didn't like the name. She has sooo much energy compared to Zoe. When I take her for a walk I actually have to trot to keep up. LOL, that should get me in shape!


Saturday April 28, 2012 Tuff Truck

Port Townsend Tuff Truck Competition

Nicole and Anthony invited us up for the weekend to join them for the Tuff Truck competition. Anthony spent most of the morning trying to get his poor beat up Toyota running.... then it was time to load up and head for Port Townsend. The event is kinda low-key... there were a few exhibitor booths, some selling the usual jewelry and just, another booth sold those stickers everyo9ne wants on their rig,,, like 'This is NOT my husbands JEEP' or 'JEEPS are for Girls' LOL. There was a bull ride for anyone who was feeling adventures. Anthony rode the bull with Kale, although I don't think he enjoyed it much. LOL

There was a fishing hole stocked with trout for the kids, Kale tried but didn't catch any when we were there, although I heard after we left they went back and caught a BUNCH. The Tuff Truck competition was kinda just a free-for-all. A dirt track where everyone drove like crazy. I understand that at this event every year Anthony rolls his truck... didn't get to witness that this year. BUMMER. Even Nicole took the wheel and ran the track for best time. (She beat Anthony's time. HA) Wouldn't let Ben take the Jeep through.... After all, It's MY Jeep!!!!



Saturday April 15, 2012 Earth Day Clean-up

QuadraPaws / Tahuya Park Clean-up.

For our second run with the club we headed to the park for a day of trail clean-up. Apparently in Washington you have to PAY to take your garbage to the local dump... so many people decide to just take their garbage to the woods and dump there. We found couches, old speakers, a computer monitor???? and other assorted strange and interesting stuff. The best part was spending the day with friends..


AND as an added bonus we get 'hours' from the DNR that we can use to get next years park pass. For every 16 hours you put in as a forest volunteer you get a free pass. So Ben and I earned 8 hours between the two of us, only 8 more to go and next years pass is FREE. I love being in the park, in the woods. It was another beautiful day, it actually got hot enough that I had to strip down to just a t-shirt and Capri's! (GOD I love summer). Our 4X4 group has 'addopted' the 4X4 trails in the park so we do alot of work on the trail system, adding rocks where needed, blocking off trails we don't want people traveling on, the club is even building a XXX trail for hard core rock climbers!

As an added bonus... Ben sold his 4-wheeler when we got home! YAH... now we have the money to fix this #%&^%$## boat!

All in All a GREAT Day!