So, here is Cassidy, born around
Christmas 2001 -- a date frought with portent
-- at points unknown. A female Australian Shepard
mix -- probably
Lab -- her history before late April 2002 a blank
chapter, she gave us that "look" at
the Helen Woodward Animal Center with one blue
eye and one brown that said: "take me home,
please." And, so we did, tagging her Cassidy,
as in: Butch CASSIDY and the SUNDANCE Kid, get
it? Yeah, OK, nevermind, she comes when called.
Of course, she also wants to eat Sundance,
an unfortunate instinctual hazard requiring a
lot more repressive training or, more likely,
parrot biting.
Like Folly, she's a smarty having
already learned a stock bag of tricks including
roll over, sit and lie down. A formal six-week
training course begins June 8, which should help
increase the discipline quotient. She has a happy
and accepting temperament and is calm around people,
kids and other dogs and, like all puppies her
age, she loves to play, tear around the house
and jump on the bed whenever the urge strikes.
She recently survived a birthday party with a
house full of adults and young rambunctious kids,
so she should be fine when John, Patricia, Nathan
and Dedra come visiting at the end of the month.
Here are some candid pics
Nathan
Comes Calling, mom,
dad and Dedra with Bailey, too!
On
the occasion of Gran'pa Dennis's annual Sun Party,
the tribe from Oakland made the flight to San
Diego for the celebrations with a night and a
day on beautiful Barona Mesa. My first visit to
the airport in about a year for the pick-up, and
it took a bit to figure out how to get to the
terminal from the parking lot. When I finally
got there I could have had nefarious intentions
for all the good the security did. I guess San
Diegans are just genetically incurably laid back,
a hazard of living here too long.
Everybody
appeared fit and happy, even Nathan seemed unfazed
by his first airplane ride. Dedra is very much
the mommy-to-be; it's a girl and she will be dubbed
Bailey Jeslyn Brothers when she makes her appearance
in October if all goes as planned.
A
late next morning and relaxing day with lots of
time for baby ogling and holding for Gran'pa,
Nana Paula, and Great Gran'ma and Karen who motored
up from the city for a Nathan fix. A patio feast
was prepared with Gran'pa Dave firing up the new
gas grill while Dedra, Patricia and Nana Paula
whipped up some corn-on-the-cob, salad, fruit
and wine coolers. John's friend Tim, his wife
Gilda and their son Mark arrived in time for a
nibble and some after dark entertainment in the
"theater."
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probably
Lab -- her history before late April 2002 a blank
chapter, she gave us that "look" at
the Helen Woodward Animal Center with one blue
eye and one brown that said: "take me home,
please." And, so we did, tagging her Cassidy,
as in: Butch CASSIDY and the SUNDANCE Kid, get
it? Yeah, OK, nevermind, she comes when called.
Of course, she also wants to eat Sundance,
an unfortunate instinctual hazard requiring a
lot more repressive training or, more likely,
parrot biting.
Nathan
Comes Calling, 
