Missing Husband

I have been deliquent on posting, so I have lots to catch up on, but first and foremost, my missing husband.

He is somewhere in Boston saving more babies. He was blessed with the opportunity to travel across the country to work in one of the best cardiac ICUs at Boston Children's Hospital.

So while he has been gone, I've been keeping myself busy, but not too busy that I don't have time to travel to Boston this week to visit.

I spent the last week of July and the first two weeks of August house and dog sitting in Lake Oswego, and all I can say is holy crap, literally. Who knew that two dogs could poop so much in one day. David and I have always laughed at people that walk around picking up their dog's poop and I guess I was getting what I deserved. This dog sitting has reconfirmed my decision to never have a dog. Sorry to all you dog lovers out there, it's just not for me. I am a little too clean freak anal. I would say the perks of being in Lake Oswego were getting to take a canoe out on the lake and taking a ski boat out to tour all the cool homes surrounding the lake on our way to dinner across the lake. As we were driving across the lake, I turned to David and told him I was born to have a boat. Maybe someday, but unfortunately not anytime in the near future.

Once I got back to my home in NE Portland, I enjoyed the Fremont Festival in Beaumont Village, the Twilight Criterium in downtown Portland, where I saw too many men that thought it was okay to walk around in biker shorts just because they were at a bike race. And mind you, some of their shorts were baggy in all the wrong places :) . It's kind of sad when you are that skinny that a pair of biker shorts doesn't fit right.

I also worked on some craft projects. I finished my first ever knitting project and began a second one. And, I made my first rag quilt. An adorable, easy project, just the kind I like.

And most importantly, I began taking care of our newest house guest, Trunks. Our teeny, tiny red-eared slider turtle. A couple of our friends just moved back in town and gave him to us as a gift.