brown eyed

voice teachin'

Scooter helps me teach voice lessons on Wednesday and Thursday. Scooter likes all the students that come to see him, but he does not like it when they start singing and stop giving him the love. To remedy this dilemma, Scooter likes to climb up on the piano bench to scratch and sniff people until they give in to the power of Scooter. Scooter really knows how to work it...

scooter-glow

scooter gets a booster

Today Scooter had to go to the doctor to get his shots. Scooter does not like shots worth a darn. Scooter was nice to the doctor in spite of the fact that she did not give Scooter a sucker or anything. Poor Scooter...

hairs cut

Scooter got a hair cut. There is a new Petco in our area and so we went there. I think he liked it pretty good. Scooter also purchased a doggy car seat so that he would be able to see better out the window as he travels. We are going to take some special trips this week and will have lots of new pictures of Scooter on the go! Scooter likes travel.

watchin' cnn

goodbye

new bathroom

Scooter is having the bathroom remodeled. He was kinda upset that they took the toilet out of the room two days ago. This morning he had to poop on the cold concrete. Poor Scooter.

new kitchen

zzz

mr. kat on a cold tin roof

This is Mr. Kat. Mr. Kat is me and Scooter's next door neighbor. Mr. Kat likes to come over and visit with Scooter. Scooter don't like it worth a darn. Scooter wants to eat Mr. Kat.

Above - Mr. Kat resting in his little nest on top of the storage shed next door.
Below - Scooter looking at Mr. Kat resting in his little nest on top of the storage shed next door. Notice the layer(s) of confusion in Scooter's little eyes. Scooter thinks Mr. Kat might be a bird.

tater tot hotdish

My B-day was Sunday and so my good friend Missy came over and we made a heap'n help'n of tater tot hotdish. We live in Texas, but Missy is a Minnesota gal and she says that this dish is a staple of Minnesotan cuisine. I know it looks gross, but it was very yummy. We at like pigs. Happy Hotdish!!!

bright pigs

Scientists at the National Taiwan University have successfully bred three pigs which glow fluorescent green in the dark, marking a breakthrough in stem cell research.(AFP/Taiwan University)

whiplash

Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey rides his border collie dog during a break in the Denver Nuggets Phoenix Suns game in Denver January 10, 2006. Whiplash was in town for the 100th National Western Stock Show going on across town. REUTERS/Rick Wilking

baby scooter pic

bravery

This letter released by the Toler family on Thursday Jan. 5, 2006 in Flatwoods, W. Va was written by Martin Toler Jr., who died with 11 other miners in the Sago mine. The note was given to Martin's brother, Tom Toler, by the coroner. It reads 'Tell all I see them on the other side JR I love you It wasn't bad just went to sleep' (AP Photo/Courtesy of the Toler Family, HO)

tongue

window greetings

Santa Claus

A guinea pig wears a Santa Claus costume at an animal show in Moscow November 27, 2005. Moscow's Club of Friends of Guinea Pigs organised an exhibition of their favourite pets on Sunday that included a fashion show and a sprinting contest. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

Panda Puppy

A dog named 'Columbo', a cross-breed between a poodle and a Maltese and dyed to look like a panda, sits on a chair in Tokyo November 30, 2005. The owner dyed the originally white coloured dog, with a special hair dye to cover up stains around its eyes which was conspicuous when he was first found abandoned. As a result, the panda look-alike became the most popular dog in the neighbourhood and the owner said he hopes Columbo's popularity will help rescue other abandoned dogs like Columbo, where in Tokyo last year, 700 of them were put to sleep.

on the attack

Scooter likes to wrestle in the morning. He usually gets on top of my pillow, wraps around my neck and starts growling. I try to go back to sleep, but he usually wins and we spend at least 20 minutes growling and rolling around in bed. Happy times...

waiting for rita

it's the day before
hurricane rita hits
scooter keeps looking out the window
like he is expecting
someone
maybe he is waiting
for her

weather channel
24/7
hunker down
here we go

perfect

flowers
that i picked from my yard
before rita
could blow them away

pugs at polls

Two voters with pug dogs stand in a voting booth before casting their ballots at a polling station in Wolfratshausen, southern Germany. (AFP/DDP/Stefan Kiefer)

made me cry

A small dog is leashed by a rescuer in New Orleans on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005. Thousands of animals have been stranded and separated from their owners in the wake of Hurricane Katrina which devastated the area over a week ago. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

made me cry again

Hurricane Katrina refugee Valerie Bennett, of Slidell, La., presses her face to her dog, Lady, after they were reunited at Emory Hospital in Atlanta, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005. She and her husband, Lorne, had to leave behind four of their pets when Lorne, a liver transplant patient, had to be evacuated in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to a liver specialist for supervision. (AP Photo/John Amis)

new friends

Tanisha Blevin, 5, holds the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina victim Nita LaGarde, 105, as they are evacuated from the Convention Center in New Orleans, La., Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005. Hunderds of people waited several days to be evacuated. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

small survivor

US Airforce Lt. Nathan Brosheal holds a kitten rescued and airlifted to New Orleans International Airport in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana. (AFP/James Nielsen)

canal street

A hurricane evacuation route sign is still nearly underwater along Canal Street in New Orleans, La., Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005. Officials continue to rescue flood victims stranded in their homes a week after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

sinking sand

This set of images made available Friday, Sept. 2, 2005 by the U.S. Geological Survey shows the same area of the Chandeleur Islands, approximately 100 kilometers east of New Orleans, La. The top image, taken in July 2001, shows narrow sandy beaches and adjacent overwash sandflats, low vegetated dunes, and backbarrier marshes broken by ponds and channels. The bottom image shows the same location on August 31, 2005, two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Louisiana and Mississippi coastline. Storm surge and large waves from Hurricane Katrina submerged the islands, stripped sand from the beaches, and eroded large sections of the marsh. Today, few recognizable landforms are left on the Chandeleur Island chain. (AP Photo/USGS)

friends okay

finally heard from my friends
all of them
they are all safe
they are all lost
it is impossible to know what to do
many are not going back
the ones that are going back
are upset with the ones that are not
i am kind of a mess
i wish i could help
fix it
make it better
or at least easier
so many people
so much death
so many questions
the answers-
unthinkable