2011
12.28
On December 17th we adopted a dog from a rescue shelter in Maine. The dog is a lab mix and came originally from a southern kill shelter and was a day away from being put down. Unfortunately due to substandard breeding laws in the south and no requirement to get dogs spayed or neutered it leads to a high population of unwanted dogs ending up in “High Kill Shelters” where they are lucky to last a week before being put down if someone does not come forward and rescue them. Unfortunately a lot of these shelters will “clean house” right before Christmas so they do not have to look after them during the holiday period.
We drove up to the dogs temporary foster home in Camden, Maine to see it before adopting and were not disappointed!
She has been with us now for 10 days and has settled in nicely. She currently sleeps in a crate in our room and gets plenty of walks and exercise during the day. She travels well in the car and aside from a couple of accidents she is well potty trained.
We called her “Toffee”. Here are some pictures and video of the new addition to our household!
2011
11.28
It was a busy morning before work today. I left the house early to catch a 747 (N820SA) take off from Pease for Dover AFB in Delaware. Then, on my way back into the office I spotted a couple of deer and some turkeys!
When I arrived at the air base/wildlife refuge the light was was still pretty poor. I HDR’ed the first two pictures of the 747 to make them a little more interesting.
The deer crossed the road in front of me and posed for a few seconds before hurriedly hopping off into the woods…. it is hunting season after all.
These turkeys were in a much larger group but again, they had moved away too quickly to get a shot of them all.
2011
11.28
We put up our Christmas decorations over the Thanksgiving weekend. We are pretty pleased with how they came out.
This year I decided to decorate outside the house as well. I thought I would start of simple before trying anything too ambitious…. plenty more years for that!
2011
11.10
The foliage at Pease is looking pretty good still. These trees were all yellow a few days ago but are now orange turning to brown. The overcast skies naturally saturated the colors and made for some nice photos. It was peaceful taking pictures in the light rain, except for the occasional C-5 overhead doing touch and go’s!
