Bright & Sunny

Taking advantage of the sun being out, we headed outside over the weekend to tire out the dogs.

Front of our house. Gotta love dull-looking base housing.

Our backyard

Ruca loves to pick up and carry leaves and small pine cones and parade them in front of us.

A hot day for us: 15 minutes into playing fetch and he's already wimping out and panting.

Adorable picture even though she's chewing a plastic gun leftover from a recent birthday party.

Handsome as ever

Ruca is slowly learning how to play fetch. She's still a peanut so she gets nervous to pick up whatever we're throwing since there's a big chance that Bogey will crash into her.

View from our backyard. (Which makes up for the ugly exterior of our house.)

Blue sky!

D and Bogey playing fetch in the river.

Took Ruca on her first walk with Bogey over to the new boat launch by our house. This is looking back at the base housing.

View of the boats (left) and station (right-ish) from the public boat launch

Sent Bogey fishing again.

Ruca would have loved to play in the water but she has to wait until she's caught up on her shots. But she was very concerned about what Bogey was doing.

Spring Walk Through Our Neighborhood

Left side of Waikiki beach at lowtide

Right side of Waikiki beach at lowtide

Found this while walking on the beach. It's a chair with a picture (left) of an elderly man. I'm not exactly sure but it's obvious that this is some sort of tribute to someone who recently passed away. 

(D thinks it's the fisherman who recently fell into the water in a very dangerous area. Coast Guard couldn't get there in time to save him. Even if they could there would be a very slim chance he'd make it.)

The Wild

A couple weeks ago I purchased a new bird feeder from a local "general" store. (Yes, those do exist here) We hung it in our living room window to watch all the birds come and go. We get so many different colors and types of birds.

Note the sunny day we're having. 

Seriously. 

Getting a little too crowded

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Trekking through the marsh in Chinook. This is a great place to bring dogs if the beach is full of Portland/ Seattle visitors.

I guess this day we were only taking pictures of each other from the back. 

Beautiful day!

Wading through a yucky river. The water nearly came up to the top of my rain boots. Every time you tried to step forward your foot would create a suction in the mud/ water. 

That black dot in the center of the picture is a black bear. It was a pretty good size. He went his own way when we started shooting D's gun to get Bogey used to the sound. 

(Not that productive of a gun-training day. I ended up covered in mud from Bogey jumping on me to pick him up. Wimp.)

Side note: our little Ruca came gun-trained. She doesn't even flinch!

Tiny New Addition

Over the weekend we added a new German Shorthaired Pointer to our family. She's from a local breeder in Oregon. We've named her Ruca, which means "pretty girl" or "girl chosen over all others." As of yesterday she's 9 weeks old.

Bogey is no longer the lil pup in the family. He's doing great with her and seems to only care when she attempts to play with his toys. At first she was afraid of him because of how tall he is compared to her. But, she's instigating a lot of the play now.

Still working on potty/ crate training. We've had some accidents but it's getting a little better. We're also upping her food intake as she's a little underweight.

Stuck

A few days ago D got stuck in the ocean's wet sand.

Using his body to try to pull his foot out.

That didn't work so he tried digging his foot out. (While trying to save his flip flops)

Showing off how far down his foot was in the sand. He was able to save his flip flops. 

D was stuck for a good 15 minutes. 

Instead of helping I took pictures. 

(snicker)

Panoramic

Me 

Benson Beach. 

Sunday

(Click on picture for a better look) 

Final Days in California

Got to see our itty bitty kitty, Dallas. She's not so itty bitty anymore.

Besties

Tree and acorn

Stopped by to see my Lilli-vanilli. She'll be 4 this year!

Putting chapstick on Bogey

She was NOT happy that we had to go.

Bugged my big bro at work.

Delightful grilled cheese and limeade from Sonic. Didn't even think to get a picture of any of the four times we went to In-n-Out.

I think it's after driving for 7 hours that you start to have a mini photo shoot in your car.

That's right- the lil pup uses an airplane pillow. He's classy like that.