Life is Crazy!

My life has been a bit crazy lately. We've moved (again) and are now just getting settled. I have most the pictures up and the furniture is pretty much set, my office is a bit of a mess, but it's getting there. I like the home we created. It's comfortable and the Corgis have a yard with grass. Woot! Woot! I can't say I've come down from the move yet so it's always nice to have my nephew Patrick on Tuesdays. He's a bright spot to an otherwise normal day. Look what fun we have (I HEART my iMac)!

"Bulge"

"Dent"

Joe - Patrick's sidekick (when we're not making crazy faces)

Young and the Watchful Corgi

We had another great weekend camping at Lahontan. Although this wasn't the first time that my nephew Patrick has gone camping at Lahontan, it was the first time he really dug in and really seemed to enjoy it. When I finally uploaded the pictures from our trip and saw the picture below I knew that it would qualify for CrazyJoy=Young. Sitting in the sand, completely unaffected by the sand up your leg and your trusty Corgi watching your back=Young!

Jack watching over Patrick

Orange and Other Things

I follow a blog called "Under the Sycamore" - it's an awesome blog. Her sister also has a blog called "Recipe for Crazy." She has CrazyJoy challenge words. I participated this weekend. The CrazyJoy word was Orange. When I decided to take the challenge I thought I'd never find anything orange, then I kind of forgot about it. Saturday evening I went to my Cousin's son's wedding and there on the table were ORANGE M&Ms in cute little heart boxes! My heart skipped a beat and when I had the chance I took the challenge...CrazyJoy=Orange.

CrazyJoy=Orange

The look of CrazyJoy

I Like to Camp

I like camping. I always have. I particularly like camping at Lake Lahontan. I like to listen to the cottonwoods rustling in the breeze and the waves lapping at the beach. It's an interesting lake.

I found this description on Wikipedia, "Lake Lahontan was a large endorheic Pleistocene lake of modern northwestern Nevada that extended into northeastern California and southern Oregon. The area of the former lake is a large portion of the Great Basin that borders the Sacramento River watershed to the west."

Now it's a reservoir. It's brown. There's a Facebook dedicated to it "Keep Lahontan Brown." I think that is hilarious...keep lahontan brown...funny.

Some of my best childhood memories are from when my family camped there. When I pass, I want my ashes spread there.

I think the Corgis think it's special too.

Ready for Bed

'67 Aristocrat Lo-Liner

Desert Storm

Makeshift Bug Keeper Outer

Joe the SUPing Corgi

Time Flies...

When you have a child everyone tells you how fast time flies. It always made me mad when someone would tell me that. I was a young Mom (21) and either I felt like they were taking away time I hadn't even had yet or I was rebelling against "older" people telling me yet another thing I didn't want to hear. That said...time flies.

A tree goes from Fall, to Winter, to Spring to Summer in one year and that one year flies.

A puppy that was once my baby Corgi is now my adult Corgi and that five years flies.

A girl that was once my baby daughter is now my adult daughter and that 18 years flies.

Fall Brilliance

Winter Bare

Spring Life

Summer Glory

Baby Jack

Jack

Baby Pheenix

Pheenix

I'm stuck...

I haven't blogged in a L-O-N-G time. There are many reasons for this, some of which I don't want to re-live EVER again. Some of which is just summer. Some of which is not feeling inspired.

Although this blog is about the Corgis and their cuteness and crazy antics and how they fill up my life, I think maybe this subject may not be enough. I want to blog, and I want to share my Corgis but I want to share other snapshots of my life too. Why? I'm certainly not the most exciting person in the blogosphere but I like to write and I like to share, its...therapeutic.

My daughter turned me on to an app called "Instagram." She got her iPhone two or three months after I bought mine and she (of course) already knows more about it and all the fabulous apps out there than I. I have to say iHeart "Instagram!" I'm not sure if it's (a) the app's ability to change your pictures to different exposures, or (b) if I just feel more inspired to take photos I think might look cool, whatever it is I just think my pics are a lot more fun with this app! See what you think...

Camp Lantern

Lake Lahontan at Dawn

Lake Front Property

Sunrise

Golden Jack

Summer Fire

Lap Pool

Corgis, Rocks and Flowers

The weather has recently turned quite beautiful. I so love walking the dogs on these warm mornings, AND it doesn't take me 10 minutes to get dressed, no long pants, no thermals, no gloves, earmuffs or hats...nope...shorts, top, shoes, ahhhh summer is finally here!

Handsome Jack

Joe Loves This Rock Pile - Imagine the Critters in There

Joe Goes Where No Corgi Should and Brings Back Weed

Orange Spring Flowers

A Pretty Weed

Corgi Heat & Diamonds

We had an epic Memorial Weekend, epic cruddy weather that is. We have what we call the Memorial Weekend Curse. It is never ever really very nice on Memorial Weekend, many times Monday eeks out a warmer day, but not this year. It was cold (freezing) and it snowed (a lot). We have spent our last few Memorial Weekends in Virginia City at the Battle Born Showdown in our vintage trailer (without heat). This is the first year that I regretted it. I nearly froze to death and the Corgi's body heat was my only chance at survival, much to Joe's dismay. He growled and groaned. I didn't care, he could protest all he wanted I needed just a little warmth! But alas, our weekend manage to end on a high note...our beautiful daughter, Pheenix, was asked her hand in marriage. We are very happy for her happiness...

Joe Cuddled in the Covers

Trailer in the Snow

Great Great Grandmother's Diamonds in Grandmother's Wedding Set

Trip Without Corgis

I miss my Corgis when I travel and have to leave them at home. I do like having the bed all to myself, but there is something to waking up with their bodies pressed against each side of mine. That said, I believe they would not have been quite as impressed with the Hoover Dam as I was.

The architecture is simply brilliant

The newly completed and opened Pat Tillman Bridge

Water Line

Dam Beautiful

Rock Work with Water Background

Going Back In Time

It's not often that I want to go back in time, in fact, I never do, but this "spring" weather is making me ache for the last warm a beautiful day in April I spent SUPing with my Corgis. It has been frigid here for many more days in a row than normal. Any season in Northern Nevada can produce a few blustery, cold, snowy days, but honestly, is it really May? I inadvertently ended up on a two and half hour walk with the Corgis this morning sans gloves and ended up with frozen hands that wouldn't work and chilled to my core, ever more reason to relive that beautiful day on the marina.

Joe & Jack sharing board time with Mom

Trying new things

Not everyone likes to try new things. Change is hard. I’m proud to say that the Corgis took to this new thing quite well. A few training sessions…consisting of sitting down with them calmly and with Goldfish for treats, of course. In and out, in and out. In, sit, out. In, sit, stay, out. In, sit, stay for a little while longer, out. Goldfish, Goldfish, Goldfish. And now I’m the proud owners of two Corgis who travel with us in a crate!

Being Cheeky

Being Cool

Strange Things I Have Not Seen

I don't know about you, but I have NEVER seen geese in a tree. But, that's what we saw on our morning Corgi Walk. Geese in a tree.

Happy Walked Corgis

Spring Awakening

As I've said before spring in Northern Nevada leaves a bit to be desired, but even the howling winds and snow cannot deter the spring blossoms. I have to admit that this time of year I'm tired of the wind and the snow and I don't walk the Corgis as often but when I woke up this morning and looked outside the sun was peaking through the clouds, the sidewalks were wet with rain, the wind had died down, it was pretty as a picture AND actually seemed like a good morning to walk. I was proven right and thought I'd share some snapshots with you.

Grass will Grown Anywhere

Dark Clouds and Snow Still on Mt. Rose...Perhaps Until July

Stump of Art

Corgi Butt!

Beauty with Death

Dead Limbs Against Dark Sky

Mama & Joe Shadows

Lone Daisy at Irrigation Cap

Rain Soaked Corgi Feet

Tiny Drop on Corgi Nose