Leslie and Halas's Blog (26)

I was thinking this morning about the value of time.  Specifically, the 10-15 minutes Halas and I spend on our morning walks.

For the last couple of months, if I leave the house for my morning workout, I take Halas for a walk when I get home.  After that, I get ready and head off to work.  So these walks mean that I get to work about 10-15 minutes later than I would otherwise.  I got to thinking this morning about that 10-15 minutes, and what it's worth.

Getting to work 10-15…

Halas turned 5 yesterday (9/1).  We were going to have his birthday dinner last night, but we were without power for 6 hours, so ordering pizza seemed like a better idea.  His birthday dinner was rescheduled for tonight.  We are dog-sitting my friends' cockapoo, Bubbles, and my mom's maltipoo, Barley, came over, too.  It was a three-doodle party!  The following is my advice on how to have a successful Birthday Dinner / Dinner Party.

Step 1:  Buy some yummy stuff at the store.  I…

Halas here.  The weather has been great here this weekend, and I got to spend a lot of time outside.  Yesterday afternoon, my mommy took me on part of her run.  It was really fun, but it made me tired, and it made my hair look like this:

OK, fine. My hair looks like this a lot.  But I'm blaming the jogging this time.

Today, we went for a nice,…

My mom has had Barley for almost 3 weeks now.  He's had all of his shots, been groomed, and been neutered.  He's spent a lot of time with Halas, and they are getting along great.  Halas loves getting Barley to chase him around, and they take turns stealing toys from each other.  I figured Halas would have an influence on Barley, but I think Barley is having an influence on Halas, too.  Barley is either making Halas more brave, or Halas just doesn't want anyone to think that Barley can do…

In October, Halas and I went to a huge flyball tournament in Indianapolis.  Besides ducking out because he's afraid of another collision, he also ran very slowly.  He was really apprehensive, but also tired.  So we got as many positive things out of the weekend as we could, and we worked on a plan going forward.

For the next few weeks, we worked a lot on his drive.  He was apprehensive to leave me to run to the box, so he was running really slowly towards the box.  His speed coming…

This is only partly doodle related, and, no, it doesn't mean I can't participate in yappy hour any more.

Three weeks ago, I went in for minor, outpatient surgery on my wrist. My ECU tendon in my right hand/wrist had been hurting for almost 2 years. As a matter of fact, it was exactly 2 years ago today that I hurt it.  An MRI didn't show any problems, but with the pain still lingering, the surgeon was just going to do a quick, simple tenosynovectomy. The surgery takes less…

Laurie's blog about her beach trip reminded me of the trip we take to Maine each year.  My friends (well, their parents) own a place in the middle of nowhere in Maine.  I've known the family since 4th grade, which was 1978, but a few other friends and I finally started going with them to Maine in 1996.  Counting this year, which we're missing, we've only missed 4 years since then.  I'm really missing it this year.  The property is a collection of a few small cabins on a pond.  There's the…

I'm picking up this painting of Halas tomorrow at our doodle romp.  I think it looks great.  I can't wait to see it in person.

Here is the painter's info.  She said she would love to paint more doodles.

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