Sunbather

So I have learned the Cash is a sunbather. He loves to lay in the area where the sun is shining. He even moves with the sun.

Hot Springs

In early November I went to Hot Springs Arkansas for business. Xerox corporation bought out ACS and we are combining some of Xerox’s F&A clients into the ACS F&A division. Hot Springs is where their Mailroom is located. The project manager thought it would be good for me to visit the mailroom to get a better idea of what was going on. It was an interesting trip. I went by myself so it was kind of boring. I hate going out to eat by myself so I ate at the hotel mostly. Plus I was only there for 4 days. Not much time to do stuff. However, one night I thought I would walk around. It turns out that Hot Springs was the first declared resort. It was once a neutral place between the Native Americans who would come to the healing waters during war. Then in the early 1900s people would build houses over the springs can have bath houses, the first spas. It was interesting.

This is a picture of downtown, about 10 minute walk from my hotel.

This is the beginning of bath house row. There were probably 10 to 15 buildings like this in a row. I didn’t finish the entire walk.

In keeping with the tone of health, they had a promenade walk behind the bath houses.

Puppy Graduation

When Jake I got Cash we knew that I would have to train him. I started watching videos and reading books, but was getting frustrated because I had a lot of questions that the a video couldn’t answer. Also almost every video said that puppy classes were good because it also got the dog used to other dogs and people. With that in mind Jake and I decided to have me do puppy class with Cash. I actually loved the classes. There were three other puppies there, the same ones came every week. I enjoyed talking with them and training my dog. I was not good at doing what I was supposed to during the week so he wasn’t as strong as he could have been, but Cash became a good puppy. After the 8 weeks of training they did a puppy graduation. We played a gamed called my puppy can do that where you would pick a card and then see if you dog can do it. The cards I got were hard, things we hadn’t taught our dogs yet like have your dog run around a stool 6 feet away and come back. It was still fun. Then the dogs got some dog ice cream which Cash loved. He was the first one to finish his. It actually worried me because he ate so fast that he was shaking from the cold, but he wouldn’t stop. He even ate faster than the blood hound who was 4 times the size of Cash. Then we took pictures which I had a hard time keeping cash to remain still.

This is the entire class although I only remember the puppy names. We never really said owner names. From left to right: Rosco, a blood hound, Bentley, a mix, but I forget what, Teddy, a Shih Tzu, and Cash.

These are pictures of Teddy and Cash playing. Teddy was Cash’s best friend in the class.

Cash

So it turns out that Cash is just like me. He likes his Dr. Pepper.

One night I had left a bottle of Dr. Pepper out and Cash just loved to play with it. Since it was circle he kept having troubles holding on to it and the bottle would go flying across the room causing him to chance and pounce on the bottle. It was funny.

Flowers

When Jake was up in Alaska one time he decided to send me some flowers. I don’t remember why, but they were beautiful and I loved them!

Mom & Dad’s Anniversary

To be honest I am not sure which anniversary it was for my parents. It wasn’t one of the milestones like 30, I think it was 33. They had originally wanted to go out together to a nice restaurant, but Andrea didn’t want to be left alone. Then they figured since Andrea was coming that they would invite me. They wanted to go to this restaurant in Alta so we drove all the way up the canyon to realize that with it being between the resort seasons that everything was closed. So we ended up at Snowbird’s Steak Pit. It was beautiful! We ended up sitting outside and watching the sun set. It got a little chilly by the time the sun set, but I still enjoyed the view as well as the gorgeous flowers.

Rainbows

I love rainbows so beautiful and full of hope. during September it was raining a lot and I got pictures of a couple of rainbows. One was while Jake and I were diving home. If you look closely you can see a double rainbow in the picture.

This rainbow was so vivid and at one point a full rainbow. Although it was hard to get the full rainbow in the picture.