Friday Funny

 Katie: Hey!  Why did you turn that off. *to Ellie about turning off a song she was listening too*

Ellie: It was just the ‘A A Yay A’ part.

Visiting Dog

We have friends who helped socialize and train a puppy to become a seeing eye dog.  We loved Brandy as a puppy, back before Ellie was born.

Brandy went off to learn to serve a person with a visual impairment.  The trainers found that she was too obedient.  She could not bring herself to refuse a command, such as when her handler wished to cross a street, but it wasn’t safe to do so.

She moved on to training in other fields, but was too skittish for those jobs too.  At that point, our friends were asked if they would like to have her back.  With great joy, they said yes.

Fast forward many years, and a year of working from home later, they teased the kids that they should just take her home one week...  so we did.

Brandy came home on Sunday evening, to Lucy’s great excitement and frustration (Brandy got to go to Katie’s room to sleep, since she isn’t kenneled at night).  The next morning, I thought I had made a horrible decision.  Lucy was so excited and so loud.  

But then, we worked on the, “Quiet,” command, which we haven’t used much before.

They played, they went for walks, and they slept.  On repeat for a few days.

We took Brandy back today, but we think she had a good time!

Lately

 We had some blue sky, beautiful days this past week.  I finally had enough of being cooped up, so I took the crew to visit the property our church has purchased to build on.

It has a little creek to cross, that then runs along side the trail. Lucy thought the creek was the most amazing thing she had ever seen.

This is where we think our sanctuary will be, along with a soccer field, play ground, pavilion, and fire pits.  We can’t wait to see!

The trail is a bit rough right now since we recently had some flooding over it.

That evening Katie and one of her friends had their Boards of Review for their last AHG level award (Dolley Madison).

Here they are at their Harriet Tubman Boards of Review (2 years ago)

And Lewis and Clark Boards of Review (4!? years ago)

To celebrate, the passed Board, we got Katie movie tickets.  She and Gabby saw Chaos Walking.

The girls joined their AHG troop in bringing 708 pounds of supplies to a local pantry (many of our neighbors were kind enough to pass donations to us).

Saturday afternoon, Justin and I went to play mini golf.  We had been running children to and fro every night the past week except Monday, so we thought it would be nice to do something together without the crew, who have become, delightfully self sufficient for short stints!

That’s life here lately!!