Tick Tock

We finally got a wireless connection so I can sit in my Taj Mahal wing of the house and putter away on the computer to my heart's content. Although, I find myself rarely on the computer. I rewind to when I was living in New Zealand and remember spending nearly all my time on the computer - in a feeble attempt to be connected to life back home. Reading the news, talking to the fam on Skype, drifting across the infinite rabbit holes of the internet, reading friend's blogs, you know, that kind of thing. But now that I'm back (and not doing school work, or researching anything for school), I find I'm only on my computer for maybe fifteen minutes to check my email. How boring I've become!

Working at the bookstore is fabulous (because I love it) but terrible because I'm exposed to all these books that look so fascinating. Every which way I turn, someone's recommending a new book and I go hunt it down and read it. I've become a book hermit. I've taken to polishing off books like a bear coming out of hibernation. This is not boding well for my plans to save money, as I'm spending it all on books. I need to exercise that library card. However, every experience I've had in a public library has been disastrous and if you can remember back to my wailings about the change in operations for the State Library, then I think you'll understand why I've been avoiding them. The plague would make for a more pleasant experience than either of those.

So I finally got around to posting some pictures. It's been a trial in the asinine, and I don't need stress. Therefore, it's taken me a long time to get these pictures up. Like, at least a month of irritation.

That being said, here's the story behind the shots.The first picture of Rosie is her classic fang-grin with arched ears. She's saying "Won't you play with me today, Leigh Ann? I promise to get very rowdy, jump all over you and nibble/chew on your wrists, elbows, fingers and biceps (or what passes as biceps on me). Doesn't that sound like fun?" I mean, how can you say 'no' to a face like that? You should see her chase a tennis ball. It's like someone strapped rocket boosters to her tail as she shoots off across the yard. If I'm not careful, I'll throw it too far and she'll be going full speed, catch the ball then BAM! She's run into the truck, or Koi fountain, tree or porch. I'll admit, it's pretty funny, but in a bad way. The bad way where you laugh then make sure no one can see you laughing because you know you shouldn't be laughing at that. But you laugh anyway.

NEXT! Are the Kois in the fountain. Every now and then Dad gets out there and cleans the little pool out and refreshes the water. The same night, a magnificently huge owl comes and snatches away the biggest koi. Good thing these little guys reproduce like rabbits or we wouldn't have very many koi in the koi fountain. But at least we're doing our part to make sure the current food crisis doesn't extend to the wildlife of north Florida.

And finally is the swan fountain in the koi pool. I don't have much for it, either. Other than to say, hey! that's the fountain in the koi pool. (say koi pool five times fast.)

So this is my ultra-exciting life. I like to think that I'm just resting up and gearing up for the next big adventure when I have something relevant to blog about. Till then, it's picures of fish, dogs and fountains.