Sunday, December 16, 2007

Welcome to the family!

While TRF was immensely fun, it is so nice to be home, and just in time for Christmas, too.
The other day Eddie and I were trying to decide what to get each other for Christmas this year, and I confessed that I have been seriously considering adopting a second dog for a long time now and have been doing a few searches online. Well, it just so happened that last week Eddie ended up near the animal shelter and came home to tell me that there were two malamutes up for adoption. Hmmmm....

We went the next day to visit them, only to find that one had been adopted already, and the other was pending adoption. I didn't want to really pay attention to the dogs - and they were SUPER gorgeous and WELL MANNERED - because I didn't want to get attached to them since they were adopted anyway.

Saturday, the lady at the animal shelter called us up and it turned out that WE could adopt the remaining male. I was out in MD when Ed called, and we decided that he would go pick him up and adopt him!

So, now we have a new dog! And he's a BIIIIG one: a 110 pound malumte mix, but he is a total gentleman. He's very impressive. He and Ceilidh have been going for walks together and doing some occasional rough-housing; they seem to be getting along just fine.

He's already attached himself to our family and claimed us has his new pack, and will whine and wimper if we are not all in view. Strangely though, we have had him since Saturday night and he has yet to bark. He is completely silent. Though earlier when I took him for a walk, he heard some dogs barking near by and he threw his head up as if to howl. I can't wait for him to do that, I bet it is gorgeous.

We think we are either going to name him "Koda" (which means 'friend' in I think Chereokee...I could be mistaken, we looked at so many names recently) or "Hacuma" (Ha-KUMA) which is a mixture of Inuit and other languages meaning "Fire Spirit".

He's a jem!!

Smiling wolf

Our handsome boy.." 'Cuma "

...And our pretty girl Ceilidh...


My two wolf-men ;-)

He loooooves his belly rubbed!

Just chillin'

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

More pics from Texas Trip 07

...Texas still hasn't gotten the memo that, 'hey it's FALL now'! Last weekend at faire was painfully hot...and supposedly this is November.
Hard to believe we will be going into our 6th weekend at TRF 07 this coming weekend, and MDRF has already come and gone.
Here are some photos from second weekend at TRF....



To see the rest of the photos, I've uploaded a bunch to the Picasa website here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/TerpsichoreRed

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Photos from Opening Weekend @ TRF

Hard to believe it, but, I did not take any photos the entire trip down from VA, and didn't actually break out the camera at Faire until Sunday. (Well, actually, the camera had to be found first....) Everything went pretty smoothly; their music is just so wonderful and fun to dance to. I thought I was going to melt dancing in this Texas heat...someone needs to tell this state that it's almost the middle of October, it didn't get the memo.

Sunday morning at TRF

Looking tired from the day before


Me and Roxanne and her 'dance partners'

"Where is he going??"

"OK, not so cute anymore!"

"Yes, go back to Mommy...."

Roxanne





Tartanic!!

Thursday, October 4, 2007

Armadillos, Bozoukis, and an awesome gypsy band

We have made it safe and sound with wonderfully smooth sailing from our home in VA all the way down to San Antonio! We have joined forces with our friends' gypsy band, E-Muzeki (www.emuzeki.com), and will be playing the entire run of Texas Ren Fest with them this year in Plantersville TX. Last night we had our first practice, and Eddie sounds fabulous on the drums! Mark is awesome in letting me play a song or two with them on guitar. We're having such a wonderful experience with everyone. Hopefully everything will go great on opening day of TRF and their fans will except us....*crosses fingers*
I will post some road pics here when we have them!

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Luray Caverns with the family

Eddie's parents came in to town for the wedding a couple of days before the 7th. After their long excursion to find our house on the first day, we took them for another excursion into Luray Caverns! Despite the huge hike in entrance fees, we all had a great time. I am truly blessed to have such an awesome family. They are truly wonderful people.

Ma Jo and Dad Woddy

Teaching Mom to pick a lock??

Eddie, Woody, and Jo





CAAAAAAAAVVVE TRRRROOLLLLL!!!



Rare fatherus Woodyus sighting!



Beautiful underground lagoon

Happy family

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Look what we found!

(Or rather, look who found us!)
While Eddie and I were out for a walk early one morning about three weeks ago, we came across a young bear, and his very large (300lbs.!) mama. So glad we got shots of them, though blurry.


Big Mama

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

I hear large crashes upstairs....
The beginning stages of the 5 day paint job...


Smile! This is taking us forever!

Too tired to go on...
Starting to look cozy
The room is all painted, hooray!
...and now our junk has been moved in, hehe