Jackal like to swim!

 Sorry all of these pictures are poor quality, they were taken with my cell phone.  

My husband was working on Faran's bridle and put some stuff aside. . . on Jackal lol!  He didn't move except to give me this pleading look (above).  He went to the lake with us a few weeks ago and went for a swim (below)!  We had been walking for a while so he was hot and thirsty.  When I took him to the lake boat ramp my friend let her dog go swimming so I decided to let Jackal join her (I don't really like him going in ponds or lakes because of his tendency to get yeast/bacterial infections in his ears).  He had so much fun!

He started off with just laying in it to cool off (he's on a concrete boat ramp).

 

 And then he went swimming out to my friend and her dog.  I love his tail sticking straight up.

Oh and my friend is taller than I am so that water is deeper than it looks and Jackal is only 19 inches tall.

 

He's laying down in the last picture.  I think he was shaking his head or just about to stand up or something lol.

We had fun!  The crazy thing is he didn't smell like a wet dog and his coat was so soft afterward.  Weird!

Happy Twelfth Birthday Storm Glory!

 Happy Birthday Storm!!!!  I can't believe my baby girl is twelve years old!  It's unbelievable how quickly time flies.  I was a teenager still living at home when I brought her home as an adorable ten week old puppy.  :)

Storm may be a very high maintenance dog with her abundance of fur, high prey drive, crazy exercise requirements, Houdini escape artist abilities and selective hearing, but I love her and she's been the best "first" dog ever (first is in quote because we had a bunch of dogs when I was growing up, but she was my first to pick out, train and raise by myself)!  I've enjoyed the past twelve years with her and I just can't even imagine my life without her.  She's such a good girl.  :)

I think she was five months old here.  This was before her coat grew in lol.  She looks so naked!

Here are the rest of the pictures from today.  Sorry they are grainy, it was almost dark when we finally were able to get pictures.

 

First I brushed her so she'd look nice for her pictures.  I should have taken a picture of all the fur!

 Me and her.  I make her look small lol.  I'm 5'11" and she's 23 inches tall.  :)

 Staring at her candle.  She was not sure what to think about the flame LOL!  Oh and those plants behind her are our pumpkin plants growing on our homemade bamboo trellis.  :D

 

 I cheated.  Her candle is stuck in a dog cookie!  I didn't have time to make anything homemade.  Poor girl!

 Eating her birthday cookie.

My beautiful girl!!

New Camera

I don't remember if I mentioned it but my nice digital camera that my husband gave to me as a wedding present three years ago is having issues.  It's called a lens control error and is going to cost quite a bit to get repaired.  It still works sometimes, but from what I've read it will get worse and worse.  So I got a cheap compact Samsung digital camera that is 14 mega pixels with a 5x optical zoom in case it dies so I won't be completely without a camera.  It will be cool to have one I can carry around in my purse too.  :D

So anyway here are some pictures from the new camera.  I think they turned out pretty nice!!  All I did to them was crop them and add a watermark so they can be considered straight off the camera.  :)

 My husband's gorgeous eyes.  :D

The last harvest of green beans from our garden.  I should have got a shot from the side too.  They are in a standard horse bucket.  I forget how big they are . . . I think a gallon or two.  We will use these as treats for the horses.

 Our first harvest of corn from the garden.  My husband said it tastes great (I don't like corn).

 One of our young male Muscovy ducks.

And some pictures of my gorgeous dogs!  First the outtakes . .  .

 Silly Jackal's tongue is sticking out.

Haha!  This cracked me up!!

Storm giving her intense "wolf" stare and Jackal just being . . . weird.

 And finally the good ones.  :)

My gorgeous puppies!

 Looking good for a dog who is going to turn twelve years old in nine days!!

I still think Siberian Huskies are one of the most beautiful breeds of dog on the planet!  ;D