Hey folks. Another long absence.. Recently I've been doing some welding work for a natural gas company and that has occupied my time. I actually made it down to Mill Valley this May 16th but I was about an hour late, and people there said some tripawds had just left an hour prior. I was so bummed! It wasn't a waste of gas though as I met a guy my family knows in Richmond, and he got me a job that unfortunately requires me to live in a trailer on the jobsite and keeps me in the stone age, but it's money. My nephew, nieces and sister have done a great job taking care of Iris while I'm gone, I get to see her every couple of weeks for a few days, that's just the way the cookie is crumbling. I should have some local work here soon.

I actually had a funny experience the other day with her. I took her to a dog park here in Sacramento, and she was playing kinda rough with the other dogs and someone said "I can't believe she gets around so well on 3 legs" so my reply was of course; "Dogs come with 3 legs and a spare " and the lady replied "But is she happy?" Not one second later Iris comes booking past the two of us with a rope in her mouth she took from another dog, trotting along like a thoroughbred in her success.