I think this picture is one of the great ones that embrace her personality. I was also remembering when she was very little we used to take her to parades and anytime a marching band went by she got really freaked out by the base drums and used to hide behind dad's chair.

The life of a dog...Juneau

My sweet, tender, and affectionate Siberian Husky named Juneau is going to be put down tomorrow. I thought I should give her a small tribute here as she has been such a large part of my life for so long. We got Juneau from some family friends when my family was living in Pennsylvania. I was around 5 or 6 at the time. She is a beautiful black and white husky with one brown and one blue eye, some of the trademarks of huskies. From the time she entered our family and we changed her name from 'buttons' to the popular 'Juneau' more affectionately Jubes, jubbies, or sweetie.
About two weeks after she joined the family we decided to truly adopt her and take her with us on a family vacation to Niagara Falls. The energy and exuberance she exhibited bounding about with her huge paws and wagging fuzzy tail.
Her entire life has been one filled with an overabundance of joy. When she still had all use of her legs she loved to run. She would escape from a door that was left open and run until we could catch up to her. I always remember being so worried that she wouldn't come back.
My dad would take her on really long runs and she loved to be outside and to be doing what huskies do best; running. The first winter we had her and we let her outside to romp in the snow she loved to pounce on piles of snow and disappear into the white abyss.
Juneau is still a puppy at heart and even once she lost much if not most of her ability to run she still tries despite the pain it causes. Juneau is a wonderful puppy whom I love and I am greatly saddened by the prospect of her imminent passing. I will always love her and miss her.
If anyone would like to share some thoughts please do!

A Sunday Afternoon

It is a Sunday afternoon as I'm sure you can tell from the title of this entry. It has been a weekend full of some really great times and then today - not such a great day. We'll talk about that first. I told one of my prof's on Friday that I was ill and that was the reason I wasn't in class, it was really because I needed some more sleep than I got and it was raining when I woke up. Anyway I had to email this prof to find out when the homework was due. I woke up Saturday sick, and today it just got worse. Talk about bad karma.

Anyway - the good stuff! Friday evening I got to spend with my sister going to a pumpkin patch, then to an art crawl, and then we took the pumpkins home to carve, and watch movies. Anyway it was amazing and really wonderful to spend a great evening with my sister.

Saturday morning I went with a few people to go check out River Fall's Student Center. It just opened (January 2007) and it is entirely green! It is amazing. They used over 90% of the old building in the construction of the new building. The majority of the materials used are from recycled resources. There are bamboo floors from sustainable forests, rain tubs on the roof that are used to flush toilets, light sensors to use as little electricity for lights as possible. They use as much natural lighting as possible and turn off lights if no one is around. It was super cool and we went because we're hoping to be able to convince Hamline's administration to make their new student center green as well. We're getting a new one within the next 5 - 10 years. So checking out one that is awesome was really exciting! After the trip to River Falls I went for a beautiful walk in the park and then got to watch Lost Season 1 episodes. It was great! So now, I have to get healthy and finish my homework!