New Opportunity

Well, Mike left for the new job today. I sent him off in style... homemade biscuits with eggs and bacon for breakfast, then I packed the rest of the biscuits for him to take on the road. For lunch I made lamb in a tomato sauce over garlic-parmesan mashed potatoes. I wanted it to taste like the lamb I had in Ireland because it was the best I've ever had, and I did it! Of course the whole day has been bittersweet because we knew how it would end. For some reason this trip was harder than the rest, maybe because he'll be there for a while so he took a lot of stuff and it feels little like he's moving out... it never gets easy but I thought I'd gotten used to it.

So instead of becoming a house cleaning maniac like I normally do when he goes, I uploaded the Spanish version of the Bo-Bo book. It even sounds fun when you say it - Sr. Bo-Bo y los Waggy-Colas! (did you shake your butt a little when you said it? you did, didn't you?) Still waiting on the English print version's cover to be approved by Amazon so I can order a proof and get that going, and I have a little work to do on the second book before I start the process all over again (but I have learned a lot and it will be easier this time around!).

People here at WA have been so incredibly kind... I want to say thank you to everyone who has been so supportive and gone above and beyond for me lately. I love it here and hope I will be able to stay for a long time to come. It seems that a great majority of people here are going through hard times and I'm no different, but I have a positive feeling and I think things are starting to turn around. I hope I have been able to pay it forward with some of you and will continue to try and do so whenever I can.

In that vein, Ive had the opportunity to collaborate with a few WA'ers in various ways. One of the most recent is with Sandra (tmmom). I will be linking up with her site to share the story of how she adopted her Tibetan Mastiffs and it will introduce a new page on my site called Adoption Stories. If anyone else has an adoption story they want to share -- I know there are a lot of dog people here -- you can either send me the story to publish on the AS page, or if you put it on your website I can link to it when once I add it to the AS page. So it's a potential backlink opportunity for you, or just an opportunity to talk about your dog. :)

I'll let you know when Sandra's link goes live so you can check it out. Her adoption story is a great story.