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Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening!

How's that for an opening? I figure it covers all bases. As for when I'm typing this, it's evening here, Joe is about 3 hours into his dialysis treatment, and Lucy is amusing herself by throwing a bone around on the floor. Actually, right now, she's sniffing everything in sight. She usually alternates between the two.

After work I took her for a nice long walk. Yesterday, Joe and I actually brought her to this dog park (sponsored by Petsmart - the Walmart of the pet industry) that is aonly about 4 miles from our apartment. It's pretty freakin' huge. There is a large area where mostly the larger dogs play, and there's a smaller fenced area for dogs 20(ish) pounds or less. The big dog area, while not filled with TOO many dogs, was a little intimidating and, being her (and our) first time there, we figured the smaller dog area would be a good start. She was first chased around and around by a couple cute little dogs and we could tell she was a little skittish. But after awhile, she loosened up and actually became the "chaser" herself.

It's a neat place. The dogs for the most part were pretty well behaved and many of the pet owners were very friendly (and, obviously, dog park old timers because they all knew each other). It's open until 10pm every night, so we'll probably start taking her there a couple times a week. I would take her there tonight, but I'd rather Joe be there. He was actually making fun of me a little bit yesterday because I was being a "paranoid mother". I had just never been around so many dogs "off leash" before and sometimes it's easy to mistake playing for fighting...the chasing and play growling that went on sometimes made me think it was dogs being mean to each other. But the dogs never fought once, it's just playing. So there's definitely more to learn about dogs. I guess Lucy isn't the only one who's being enlightened. ha ha

Anyway, I just thought I'd fit in a quick blog to let you all know that we're a-okay. I'm actually starting to feel better now. Since I didn't mention anything about it before, though, I'll just quickly tell you that I've been sick since last Wednesday. It started with allergies, I ended up having a fever of over 100 for about 5 days straight, chills, congestion, coughing like crazy, plegmmy, sweaty, yummy goodness. Yesterday was my first day of not having a fever and this afternoon I FINALLY started feeling normal again. My head is still a little foggy and I'm still a little weak and definitely congested, but I'm on my way back to health again (which is good, because every time I accidentally leave a tissue somewhere, Lucy always seems to find it and rip it to shreds).

I'll try to get some pictures up soon. Nothing really new in the photo department, but it's nice to liven up the page every once in a while.

Hope all is good and well with everyone!

Until next time,
XOXO