Athena has arrived!

I wanted to introduce our newest family member - Athena. She's named for the Goddess of wisdom and war.

We swore NO MORE PETS!!! Everyone knew that. Well, we were at my aunt's farm and my cousin told Arielle, "Happy early birthday" and handed her this adorable little Smokey grey kitten. Aaarrrggghhh! I said to ask Randy and he caved.

Athena is fitting in well. Aphrodite just ignores her, but the evil Darth Mittens is another story. She hisses and growls at us and the kitten. She thinks she's punishing me by not letting me hold her. Ha Ha the Jokes on her. I'm sure she'll get over it once she realizes she now has an apprentice to teach the dark side of the force. ;) That's when we will truly face the wrath of Darth Mittens!

Will add a photo when I start up my laptop in the morning. Can't seem to get the Droid to do that. All it says is Uploads Disabled. Anyone know why?

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Just realized I hadn't added my camera critters' entry for the day. Since we were out hiking, thought I'd add Aphrodite on the trail. She came home covered in mud and completely exhausted!



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Aphrodite wanted to play a reindeer for Christmas, so she's wearing her horns and showing off her favorite gift, a giant three-foot bone. :)


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Photo Hunt: Sad

The theme for this week's Photo Hunt is "Sad". I'll use one of our dog Aphrodite. She is always sad when the kid leave for school. She'll just stay in the chair with one of her stuffed toys or lay on the floor with her ball, then mope around until the kids get home from school at 3 p.m. When theme for General Hospital comes on, her ears prick up and she runs to the door to great them. It's a riot to see her. She knows exactly when to go to the door based on a song. As soon as the first chord of the theme plays, she goes right there to wait.




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I wasn't able to sit up yesterday, so I'm a little late on this one, but still wanted to participated. This is our Golden Aphrodite and one of her many babies. She carries these things around until they get so gross I toss them out. Then she just goes and picks out another one from A's room.




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First day of school

So today was the big day, summer is officially over and my kids are back into the institutional grind called public education. Good thing? I wouldn't say that. I prefer to homeschool, but my health hit low and I can't keep up. We have a very authoritarian administration in rule at the schools and are pretty anti-parent involvement. Can you guess we don't get along very well?

It's a rainy, cold, miserable day, just perfect for sending them back and away from me all day.



A is in 10th grade and T is in his final year at junior high in 8th grade. Where did all those years go?

Aphrodite is miserable without her kids. :( She won't perk up until the General Hospital theme starts at 3 p.m., when they come home. Her ears will go up and she'll go stand by the door, just waiting to see "her" kids.



The evil Darth Mittens already went back to bed before they even left.

Aphrodite the mighty squirrel huntress!

I'll add my weekend snapshots now. Been a long couple days.



Anyway, these were taken while we were out backpacking. A squirrel ran across our path and Aphrodite went after it. The squirrel was lucky she was leashed!

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The sweet Aphrodite

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Aphrodite is waiting for her share of the Fourth of July BBQ feast! We had ribs and boneless chicken breast, so she got to sample some chicken and all the bones she could eat.

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We were outside working on the yard this morning and Aphrodite decided it was time for a new formal photo. She's a really sweet dog. Just wish my boy could be out there with her.