medieval torture weapons? wait, is that a mariachi band?

before i went outside today, i had to fix my cabell windbreaker...my drawstring got pulled halfway through and it was stuck in the middle. ugh, i hate that because it is so hard to inch it out (actually it is less than an inch at a time)...i had to create tools. but they look like medieval torture weapons...

i know, scary, right?

finally pulled the scraggly little beast through the long dark hem shaft.

today i decided to try to get bruno to walk with us using some warmed up roast beef. well, i got him to the edge of the stairs again and then he balked. so i carried him down the stairs and tried for about ten minutes and we didn't get very far. so i took him back up. instead, chaco and i took a long walk around the trail and back to the main office. well, he automatically heads up the walk every time. this time, the door was locked and the clock was up because they were at lunch, but shannon was sitting at her desk and she gave me the WAIT sign and came to unlock the door. chaco was wagging his little tail so fast as soon as he saw her!

she invited us in to hang out in the inner office so that no one else would see that there was anyone there and we all got on the floor and he played shy and quiet because we'd gone on such a long walk. shannon always has fun stories. and we definitely got to hear a doozie today. i'm not going to repeat it, but i kinda' wish i'd been there with a camera!

tonight was fun because i got to go out for dinner with a couple of dear friends for some catch up time! loved the restaurant because it was out of the ordinary. el ranchito-delicious! live mariachi bands-two of them going back and forth all night- kinda like dueling banjos...only with mariachi bands. it was kind of like a little game trying to get conversation in before the trumpet interrupted.

it was too dark to get a good picture of the actual trumpet player that purposely tried to thwart our conversation!

then when they'd move into the other room, we were able to get some chatting done. we laughed a lot and then made our way down to the corner to take a picture of something that we had seen on the way there and laughed some more! love hanging out with friends!


good night!
julie