My brother has been staying here for three weeks on his christmas break from college. I like having him, it's great fun. We play games (even non-electronic ones, who knew I still remembered how to do that?), and we trade books, and we cook outrageously unhealthy things just about daily, and when we don't feel like cooking anything we buy outrageously unhealthy ready made things and eat those instead. However, I am about ready to trade in my current pigsty for a proper set of rooms again. Wade's going back to college on Sunday night and I intend to use this opportunity to clean EVERYTHING.

Somewhere in the midst of all this, I'll have to find a place to accomodate my newest resident. That's right, new resident. My mother is getting rid of her dogs left and right after a new puppy breeding law took effect here in Maine. [long aside: This law says every person who sells more than one puppy or kitten in a year must register as a vendor. Not bad except for the expiration date. You have to reregister every sixty days and there is a fee each time. Yikes. That's six fees to the government per year. At least one fee per litter. And that's if you don't register until the day you're ready to sell them. A puppy takes way longer than sixty days from point of conception until it can be sold. Not entirely unreasonable in concept, but still who can blame breeders if they want to get out? /long aside] So in response, my mother who overreacts to just about everything is giving away all her dogs but two. Due to this de-dachshunding of the parents house, my brother's favorite and best dog, Boomer, was on the chopping block. So he's temporarily relocated to my place while my mother gets over this newest of her overreactions. She always gets over them, but with pets and things it's usually too late to undo when she does get over it.

So here Boomy is and here he stays, until either my mom's ready to take him back, Wade gets a place of his own, or until such time as I can no longer keep him. He's a good dog. Oh and did I mention he's Daltrey's dad? He isDaltrey's dad.

Daltrey's in the back, Boomer in the front. Clever photography renders most of the chaos invisible... aka, I shoved stuff out of the way before taking it. :P

Current New PC fund balance: $300.00 and expecting boost in form of birthday gift cards later this weekend.