I am driving to work thinking about the fact that today is the day I pick up my new puppy.   

She is the Pink one in www.hemidance.com 

Well as I putter down the dirt road you may remember I keep telling you that I see things.  

Last night Kathy & I were getting the puppy pen out side ready.  We were making it so she could not just totter off the end of the patio and run into cactus or such.  I am sitting on the ground using ty-wraps to strap a plastic baby gate to one of the dog grooming tables.  At the bottom of the table I am wrapping these plastic things around and I am working about oh 12 ~ 18 inches from my crotch, got the visual.  Sit Indian style and working about where your ankles are.  I am totally focused on getting these plastic things wrapped around the leg of the dog table and attached to the plastic baby gate when who should come walking around the plastic baby gate.  JOE!  Not Healey's hubby.  A freaking 6 inch tarantula.  I screamed.  Kathy wondered why.  And about 3 milliseconds I realized that Big-Joe was just going out hunting and I wasn't really on his menu.  So we chased him out of where the dogs would find him and finished our work.   He must have been up inside the grooming table all day and decided it was time to come out to play.  

This morning I am driving down that dirt road, you know the one that I began this story with.   I see there are the neighbors walking their dogs, and.  Sheeee-It is that what I think it is?  Yep one of the local girls is out sunning her self.  

Now you can't really see her well in this photo, it is after all just a camera phone.  There really were three others hanging about.  They have no fear of the cars but if I get out, humans scare them off.