A Little of Asia (part 1)

Was anyone wondering where I was? Well if you were here's part one. (warning, there are no Boxers here)

The end of January through the beginning of February I had the opportunity to go on an amazing trip to Thailand. I was engaging in serious underwater therapy with the SHAPE Sub Aqua Club and spent five days aboard the Junk June Hong Chian Lee cruising around the Similan Islands, Surin and Richelieu Rock.

How could I not share? So here's a little sampling of when we weren't underwater and hopefully when the club photo sharing is done I'll be able to show you some of the sea life.

The first day we went to see elephants and found these babies.

Unfortunately he was too big for my suitcase.

This wasn't our first view of the Junk, that was at night, but this one shows just how pretty she is.

This was just one of the amazing views in the Similan Islands.

The Junk's Boatswain dressed the pirate part on our last day at sea.

The most amazing dive group a person could ask for, enjoying a few margaritas.

Look closely at this one. Go figure the first flag I saw back in port was Canadian.

Just one of many shrines to be found on the streets of Phuket.

to be continued...

Sharing Some Joy

Sorry for the lapse in updates, a little bit of fun going on around here that we shall get into as we go along.

For today I bring you a special little bundle of Joy from April Grear.

"Foster girl Joy came to us on Jan. 18th, a bundle of energy and inquisitiveness.  She absolutely radiates 'joy'.  She is a typical 5-6 month old puppy that loves tennis balls and toys.  Joy empties out the toy basket at least once a day so the house is littered with her toys and balls.  She plays fetch and will also entertain herself for short periods of time batting a ball around or hiding it under the chair or a blanket and then 'dig' it out.  Joy and Bella play several times a day and get along well.

Animal Control said she is a boxer mix.  I do see some boxer in her but don't know what other breed(s) she is, anyone care to guess?

Joy will be up for adoption when she goes into the prison training program.  She will probably be ready for her furever home the middle of May.  For information on the prison training program see www.rpsm.org.  We had a visit from a lady interested in maybe adopting her last week and she took some amazing photos of Joy.  She was kind enough to share them and gave me permission to share with others.  This little gal will be hard to give up but there are others waiting to be saved."

How Best Friends Are Made

Today we have the treat of seeing Mary Liz Singleton's boys, best of dog friends. I'll let Mary Liz explain.

"I'm sending you some pics of my two boys in case you have a chance to feature them in a future blog.

Ace is the brindle boxer, and Willie is the Boston Terrier.  As you can see, they are best buddies.  We brought Ace home as a "temporary foster" from Austin Boxer Rescue 12/24/10.  Although he had a terrible case of kennel cough, we all fell in love with him, and I was completing paperwork to adopt him within 24 hours.  He was a loving companion to our beloved Moses until we lost him 9/9/11 at age 13.  Ace is estimated to be approximately 3 years old.

After losing Moses, and being displaced for 3 weeks by the Bastrop wildfires, Ace was lonesome and bewildered.  My husband and I decided to adopt a Boston Terrier for several reasons:  (1)  at our age (60s), we thought a BT would be more manageable than another boxer, Ace is our 5th boxer, and we will always have at least one :), (2) my son has two Bostons, and I love my grandpups!  So we adopted Willie (estimated to be approximately 3 years old) from Big Dog Rescue in October.  Poor Willie was rescued from a puppy mill, and after almost 4 months, he still will not let us pet him.  However, as you can see from the pictures, he adores Ace, and they are constant companions.  They are sleeping side by side in their crate (with the door open) as I type."

The two of them in Ace's crate together within hours of Willie joining our family.

The two of them in the bed together in their typical yin/yang position.

The two of them on Christmas Day, awaiting our guests.

The boys snoozing on the sofa.  I eventually had to put the pillow away because Willie kept grabbing it and running around the house with it!