Deeohgee

Stray pets seem to always find us. A week ago Friday a little Yorkie showed up in our yard and we ended up keeping him overnight after calling the local animal control to see if anybody was missing it and nobody had called yet. Saturday morning we called the vet clinic and nobody had reported one missing. Finally we decided to call the police about 11:00 and somebody had just called. They came over to pick up their dog and the kids were a little heart broken.

Fast forward to the following Friday. I get a call about 11:15 on my cell phone from Laura. I'm thinking that she's going to meet a few of us going out for lunch. Instead I get a "The kids and I are going to go down to the Humane Society in Sioux City". As I rolled my eyes into the air as if Laura could see, I said "Have fun" knowing good and well a trip to the humane society meant a 97.897% chance of a dog coming home.

Without further ado, I give you a wonder mutt named Deeohgee -- pronounced D.O.G. In case you are wondering, or if you've just lost count which is easy to do, the Brady household is now: People 5 - Pets 5 (unless you count the three fish, then pets win).

Cat Chatter

I haven't posted in a week. There are reasons that some know and some don't. If you don't, you probably didn't need to know in the first place.

Now on to something much funnier. We knew that our one new kitten, Tic Tac (white one), would do this weird little cackle/chatter thing when she would see a squirrel or something outside. This morning I was messing with my Garmin and the reflection got them BOTH going. Can't say I have ever seen anything like it in my life. Without further ado, my first YouTube posting.

Wii Wii Wii All the Way Home

Yes, we broke down and got a Wii. At first I thought we were crazy, but I have to admit that I'm very impressed with it. After a bad case of "Wii Shoulder" (It's a medical condition...look it up!) from playing Wii Sports and the Wii Play, I picked up a Wii Fit and Laura and I now have more problems than Wii Shoulder.

Understand that I'm in "decent" shape. As a cyclist. My core? Well, I thought it was okay, but what little Yoga that I do, it's not nearly as strong as it should be. I'll be working extra hard to get the core in shape in the I'm-not-on-the-road-with-my-bicycle-as-much-as-I'd-like-to-be portion of the year.

I also picked up Mario Party 8 for the Wii with some gift cards the kids got for Christmas, but I haven't given them that yet. It might have to wait until the weekend so they can concentrate on school until then.

In other noise, we added to our family this weekend. Although I "supposedly" had final say in the matter, I don't really think I did. They both seem pretty cool (so far) and are getting along well with the dog. Mittens (our 'first born' cat) is still not happy about the new family members. He may never get over it. He's weird that way.

At any rate, here are Tiger and Tic Tac.