Goodbye Lobo!

Yesterday Lobo left our house with his new owners. There were lots of tears here after he left. This morning it felt a little strange without him and yet all three kids said they felt good about the home he went to. He is joining a family with four kids and another Schnauzer about a year older than he is. The new owners said that the kids could come and visit him if they wanted to. They live a little over an hour from us. Since our initial conversation this morning about him being gone life has continued on and there hasn't been a single comment about Lobo. Both Gerald and I feel like we gave the kids time to adjust to the idea before it even happened and that helped the transition.

Our neighbor Jake died on Saturday. He had been in the hospital for awhile. He had a stroke a month ago. Even though Jake moved into an apartment almost a year ago he still lived close by and when we would see him the kids would run and give him a hug. He still stopped by for a visit every now and then and we had visited him in his apartment. Jake was a great neighbor to us and we will miss him.

We had a fun weekend with Gerald's family in Pinawa. I think Andrew's count of deer he saw was somewhere in the sixties. We went rafting/tubing down a river. The kids also went tubing behind Uncle Milt's boat. All three of them counted those two events as the highlight of the weekend.

Today it is laundry - quite a few loads as we catch up from being gone. The kids are playing outside and we are enjoying the sun!!

Sandy