Happy Birthday Buddy

Today is Bear's 10th birthday. I don't have digital photos of him when we brought him home from the pet store but he was a very cute ball of apricot fluff. When we bought him he was four months old which is old for a pet store dog and I feel blessed that we found him. He is a sweet, good dog. Scared of most everything except dogs three or four times his size, but we all have our quirks. This is a picture of him enjoying his birthday hamburger. He's not a cake kind of dog, he much prefers meat so that was what he got. I apologize for the photo quality; he was moving very fast to make sure he didn't lose out on any of the burger! Happy Birthday, Bear. We all love you very much.

It's been in the 90's here since Saturday - our first official heat wave. We've all been standing in front of a fan waiting for the heat to break. Honestly, I don't mind it too much. The heat is draining (I'm exhausted now and haven't done anything except walk outside to take pictures) but it feels like summer. Isn't this what I was waiting for when it was snowing in January? And just to remind myself what that looked like...
This was taken on December 31st. Not quite 6 months ago. How quickly things change.

Yesterday was my last day as a blond. Now I'm back to my regular color. Not my natural color, mind you, but I'm no longer fair haired. I don't miss it though. It was fun to be blond but really it washed me out since I am so fair skinned. It's a little too red for my liking right now but I know that in time it will fade. Red does that.

My roses have gone crazy! The heat and the rain we had last week have lead to a bumper crop of blooms as I'd hoped. Take a look! Enjoy.