The Three Amigos

Notice -

The goldens see a camera and immediately put on their cheesiest smiles. The collie is a lot more cautious.

The Collie is Arthur, a nice young dog we adopted last year. He's about four years old. Jackson (Jacky) is the critter sitting next to him. He just turned a year old. Daniel (Danny) is too old to climb on furniture. He's going to be twelve in two months.

Jackson's getting old... not really.

On January 6 last year, a certain adorable young dog was born.

The following newborn pup pic is NOT my Jackson, but yep. He pretty much looked like one of those. Think the size of a guinea pig, with the shaky movements of a windup toy. <- I took pictures of the puppies, which promptly got erased by a freak accident with camera (I blames my hyperly deleting fingers...unfortunately). Even if I still had those pics, I couldn't tell you which was Jack. They all looked...pretty much the same. Pretty ugg.

Click on the image to get the full view. Believe me. Not pretty.



When they were five and six weeks along, they were a lot more presentable. They still did not look like golden puppies. Way too small and white. But they were moving around and pretty much obsessed with their mom. Their mom was the selling point for me, because she was so gentle and soft tempered. And she did not make ANY SOUNDS as she came out of the little nesting box to greet us. Jacks takes after her a lot.

The following pic is Jacks at the beginning of March, a week after I brought him home. Adorable little creature huh? In the picture, he was looking up at me, and trying to get me to pick him up. He was shivering because of the snow, his bare puppy belly, and his low tolerance for cold weather. Plus he was just one of those puppies who LIKED being carried around. In fact, he's still like that. Oversized lap dog that one is.






And this is him today -



Adorable little creature.

Little, as in comparision to my other golden who is an inch too tall and a bit on the brawny side (95lbs).

Ouch!

Summaries

No! Stop Asking Me!

Rose knows her mom's nuts, and it's up to her to pick up the pieces. She doesn't want to and she has her own life, but Rose is responsible if anything else. If only she can get the invisible keepers of the mountain castle to understand that and let her go. Will she bargain with them for her freedom? Even if it means saying yes to monsters?



Swapped Fate

Anne agrees to take on Emelee's existence and go to Marit City in her place. This means going from the Wilderness where magic isn't used at all, to a city where it's overused, where Wishmasters are nearly as important as governors and kings. This is a charmed existence, until it becomes threatened by revolutionaries, blackmailers, and the handsome top Wishmaster in disguise.



Marbles

Arianna had her heart set on marrying her boyfriend and living in a perfect white farmhouse somewhere with a white picket fence. But boyfriend ditched her, and now she's dealing with the crazy family history her dad never told her about - like ghosts who can drain her energy and turn into powerful naked guys who want to take over the universe. Dad never told her about the distant realms beyond a fold in the universe, where people regard earth as a 'prison world' where they dump their garbage. Now the garbage is rebelling, and they plan to use Arianna as a battery for all their power - like she is the Energizer Bunny of Evil. Right. She can't even handle her feelings for the discarded heir of those distant realms.



Beyond the Warring Crowd

Rissa is a warrior, no matter how everyone else sees her. They expect her to embrace the frilly and pink life traveling around the universe dancing for crowds. At a time when all order in the universe is falling on its head, that is the only avenue open to her. It's a good time not to be a warrior, but she wants to fight for her people and protect the system.



The Unwilling

Sweet, cheerful Kelly is possessed by a long dead evil spirit who plans to kill a bunch of kids unless Wesley with her newly discovered shamanic powers can get her act together and stop her.