Saturday, May 24, 2025

A good start to the weekend

We've sold and gotten rid of a lot of stuff. The house is beginning to look a little bit empty, at least in parts. A lot of my garden stuff moved out in the past week so it can beautify others' homes this year. We received our one year renewable visas from the French embassy and have booked airline tickets. I'm able to manipulate the zero turn mower now so I'm not completely useless. One of the last hard tasks we had was going through boxes of photo albums and we got a good start on that today. Bailey and Jan and I went on another 2.5 mile hike on Friday and scattered the cremains of four more dogs. I'm not fooling myself, we still have a long way to go and a relatively short time to get there, but we are making progress.

But perhaps the best news is that Woody had a successful meet and greet with prospective fosters/adopters on Friday. They loved him and I told them everything I could about him with zero sugar coating. What makes me think that this is the best chance he's had is the fact that these folks are fosters themselves, with another organization, so they have experience settling a new dog. They also understand that they aren't buying a dog that comes with some sort of warranty, they are rescuing a dog that comes "as is" and who will become the dog they make of him. That's a very different mindset. They have no other dogs at the moment, which is sort of both good and bad, but mostly good I think, and they have a fenced yard where they can put him when they need a break. We are looking to make the move sometime in the second week of June. In the meantime, Woody will go on another overnight visit to another foster home sometime next week just for the experience.

Oh, and Marvel is back with us for the weekend while her family is away. She is as lovely as ever. 


Sparky's watering hole is a deep spot in a stream that crosses a trail we hike. 
Sparky loved to jump in and cool off here even on days that weren't exactly hot.

Bailey napping after Friday's hike. 

Marvel and Maya getting re-acquainted.


This is all the remains of my "free to a good home" pots. 
If you want any, please contact me and come and get them.

Bailey and Woody going out to the pasture as I was mowing.


Marvel can be distinguished from Woody even at a distance by her bushy tail.














1 comment:

Risa said...

I really hope that this adoption works out for Woody. Fingers and paws crossed.