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Hear ye! hear ye! We proudly introduce to this tiny corner of the blogging world, our newest addition to the family, Cassie!

Cassie is our second rescue adopted from That’ll Do Border Collie Rescue. You may recall we adopted Bandit from TDBCR in November 06. Both Bandit and Cassie come from the same foster home in West Vancouver. I don’t have permission to mention her name so we’ll just call her Sandy. Sandy is an awesome foster mom and it’s thanks to her that we have Cassie. Sandy was hesitant to contact us about Cassie because she knew that Dixie had crossed the Rainbow Bridge earlier this summer. Somehow Sandy knew that Cassie would be just right for us and Bandit and boy was she right.

Cassie is just 9 months old. She’s a border collie cross (probably Aussie Shepherd), although if you met some of her siblings you’d call her pure border collie as some of them are classic black & whites. Cassie’s coloring is definitely unusual for a BC but that’s where it ends: she’s smart as a whip and full of BC energy. She came to us more or less fully trained: house broken, excellent recall, sit, lie down, stay, shake-a-paw, etc.

Bandit is taking her time accepting Cassie as her new sister but when she feels like it, it’s Battle Dogs®! We’ve had decent weather each day since Cassie came home this past Saturday so we’ve been able to go for a walk along the river every day. Cassie is great on or off leash. It’s real nice to have two dogs again I must admit. There’s been a huge hole in my heart since Dixie passed but I think Cassie will help to fill the void.

Jackie’s right, ’tis been entirely too long without a post. Trouble is, I haven’t really had anything “blogworthy” happen in my life. There are plenty of blogworthy things going on in other’s lives, but it’s not my business to write about them. So. Let’s go…conjuring a post from thin air.

Saw a Flick.

On Friday night we went out with J & T. Had a little dinner at Max & Erma’s, then went next door to the new Atlas Theater by Great Lakes Mall to take in a movie. We saw Leatherheads which, while predictable, was funny. Have you ever noticed that many movies based in the ’20s seem to have that witty banter thing going on? This one had an overabundance of it, particularly between Renée Zellweger and George Clooney. Stephen Root, as usual, played an eccentric. This being a sports movie, I almost expected him to make a reference to Obscure Sports Quarterly.

Anyway, the theater is pretty nice. It seems all the theaters use digital projectors. The picture was amazingly crisp; too bad the only glasses I had with me were my sunglasses. So I alternated between seeing the picture kinda fuzzy or seeing it kinda dark. Worked out okay, though.

Bought a Mower.

Here’s something sure to get everyone’s heart thumping: we finally bought a new lawnmower. Since we moved to this house, Jul and I have been using the Honda that Dad bought back in 1988. Before that, we used a hand-me-down Toro that I got from my old boss. So this is the first mower I’ve ever purchased. I told Julie that the snowblower we bought a couple of years ago was the engagement ring; the new mower is the wedding ring. So now we’re finally committed for life.

Got What You Asked For.

A really boring post, conjured from thin air!