thebeckybug

Turns out it was only because of the Olympics. At this rate it will be two years before we see the floor again.

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About once a week I walk into my house and an overwhelming filth infiltrates my senses as I make my way through the front door. On these days I usually decide to complain and wallow in three inches of dog fur and add a couple takeout boxes to the mix and watch TV until it’s […]

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Hint: Stop me before I do that one thing, remind me that it will put me in “one of those little moods” no matter how much I protest at first.

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This is the first photographic evidence of a trick Shade has trained so hard to learn. Yes, that is my checkbook. No, I will not use it to buy him his own gold medal.

Chuck has been a big inspiration to both of us.
Now, if I could only teach him how to pause the […]

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This is a true account of my Sunday, the Sunday that I lost my dog.
8:30am Half awake. Let the dogs out. Go back to bed.
10:30 Hear Carson let Kerbey back inside and am fully awoken by “Shit! Shade got out.”
10:31 Carson gets in his car and drives off.
10:32 I walk outside in PJs and yell […]

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This weekend we got in the boat and drove around Lake Travis in anticipation of the hot air balloon launch off the dam. At sunrise the first balloons started emerging through the trees.

We chased them around the lake and even got to talk to a few of the pilots as they touched down on the […]

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It’s not a stretch to say that the electricity situation in the ol’ duplex is a bit on the fritz. We started having this problem with the microwave: it would go crazy and flip out and beep all the time. I half expected it to swing open its door and fling out the revolving plate […]

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