For a little while my dad owned a landscape company which specialized in Koi and spectacular ponds with waterfalls. My dad has an incredible series of ponds in his "back yard". Smap and I got married down in front of the largest pond. Anyway, in the very top pond Dad and Joyce have a bunch of Koi. These koi LOVE people because we feed them. For some reason Ippon is just infatuated by these fish. If for some reason we lose him on the farm, I always know where to look for him. He is standing over the Koi with his nose in the water. Here is Peaches and Ippon talking. By the way, Dad and Joyce have all the koi named. I named one last summer. Hopefully he is still around. Sometimes the stupid herons sneak in and eat our beautiful fish.
Here is my baby talking to another sweetie. Smap is holding onto Eeps' collar. His tail was going crazy. Usually he really isn't interested in other dogs, but he really liked this gal.
Dad has a huge pond at the bottom of "back yard". There is a beautiful weeping willow down there. Here is the "Laughalot Monster" doing what he loves doing the most....swimming.
Here he is last summer chasing a tennis ball into the same pond. You can see the Willow a little better. That is it for today on the pics of the Smelly. I am limited here at school on photos. It is funny because we have so many more shots of our dog than we do of ourselves.
The weather here in K-town is gorgeous today! Sunny and 50ish I think (I haven't been outside at all today because I have been trapped in my classroom). I am planning on doing a ride today in order to work off some of the Valentine's candy my kids have brought me. Also, I didn't get to workout yesterday because I was feeling ill, but I overcame it thanks to Smap. He got this stuff from Eddie over at the Health Shop. It is called Blockade...all natural chewies that are suppose to kill the virus....worked for me! Anyway, I need to burn off the calories from yesterday and today now.... I can't wait till it is a lot warmer and I have more day light! More day light = more fun time. Also, I can't wait till Haw Ridge has dried up. I am having HUGE cravings for those technical trails. I am tired of riding Norris (just up and down, not much technical stuff). I don't want to drive a few hours to ride somewhere that may be just as sketchy as it could be here, so we haven't been doing any road trips down to other trails. Fine by me because I am so cheap when it comes to buying gas. The Element goes for almost 2 weeks on a tank for me....that is how much I dislike driving. I either drive just a little bit or I don't drive at all....I ride to school, or walk to school if I can.
Okay I am starting to ramble, so it is time for me to stop.
Cheers,
Rach-L
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