Recappin’

I did follow through with my last post and spoiled my dogs Thursday, a walk, a trip to PetSmart and on Friday we actually made it to the dog park. They ran around like crazy for a half hour and then they said they were cold and wanted to go home If I could actually make / find a coat that fit them we probably wouldn’t have a problem. But as you can see:

They out grew the coats I made them last year .. they’ve only gained like 1lb .. but I guess it was enough. Daisy still fits in hers, it was always too big .. but big pup can’t get his head through his cape. So this winter Old Navy had a clearance on their dog coats/sweaters when I stopped in one day so I picked up a sweater and a jacket for each of them. Got them home .. ripped off the tags on the sweaters and they were too small. Really they’re skin tight, and probably too short for a long wiener dog. So I returned the jackets for a larger size, but they didn’t have the same style .. so I picked up a different style and they’re just ginormous. Thursday was in the 40′s and I actually wanted to walk with the dogs .. so I pinned the big jackets up a bit .. and well .. it didn’t work. I need to sit down and actually alter the jacket (which i think is actually supposed to be a vest). Of course when I finally do it, it will be summer time

Daisy says “I don’t need no stinkin’ coat” 

Other things that happened this week? I subbed a couple days, took Friday off. I decided if a decent high school class popped up I’d take it .. but only one showed up and it was for english, not one of my strong points .. so I let somebody else have it. I spent Friday developing a business that I’ve been talking about for awhile .. in fact I bought the domain last year. It’s going to be a cool / urban dog boutique .. not froofy.. I have a biz plan in my head that involves starting it online in phases, and maybe eventually it would be a brick and mortar biz. But in this economy that step is years away. The first step is just getting the site up, it requires no inventory .. so the upfront costs are really minimal. The trick is getting customers to the site .. and if I can make that happen, well then it would just grow bigger. So we’ll see  

Saturday I went to Annabelle’s birthday and took lots of pictures, but I gave them to Keri so I have no idea if there are any good ones. I was experimenting with my new gadget that will hopefully help with white balance, which I just hate dealing with (those of you with SLRs know my pain). I picked up [this lens cap] from photo jojo and in the camera it really seemed to make a difference. I downloaded a couple experiments from inside my house and they didn’t seem as neutral as they were inside the camera. So I’m wondering if my monitor color is really off (its been a good month since I calibrated). I’ll let you know if the lens cap is worth it when I play with it a little more.

I made a few South Beach recipes this week, and fully intended to photograph and share my reviews .. but I just haven’t been motivated to do it. I would much rather post pictures of my dogs Also, Saturday I got my official letter of eligibility to teach computer science in Florida. So .. if a job pops up I could take it without any problems. Of course nobody has open teacher positions right now …

And I think thats all I have to report today .. I need to jump into the shower and pack a bag. I’m heading south for the night to photograph little Tori tomorrow morning!