Palmary Contributions

I can't find my USB cord for my camera, so pictures will have to wait. :)

I have been traveling a lot on the weekends and am in town now for three weekends and getting itchy. Started thinking tonight of calling a couple friends to go backpacking this weekend. I have a trip planned in another week, but feels like I can't wait. :)



After my backpacking trip in Colorado the beginning of September, I went back to Colorado two weeks later for a friend's wedding. I was one of the bridesmaids and it was a wonderful wedding. The wedding was in Colorado Springs at a bed and breakfast where I also stayed. The ceremony was outdoors and small and quite relaxing and fun.



The next weekend I went back to the San Juan mountains for a search and rescue retreat. Spent the weekend working with Vuyo on his searching. Vuyo thinks it is tons of fun. He is doing well in short problems (less than 20 seconds of looking). Now I am going to start adding his recall/refind and alert parts. Basically Vuyo coming back to me (recall), telling me he found someone (alert) and then taking me to the person (refind).



This past weekend my sister-in-law was in town from North Carolina for a baby shower. I am going to become an aunt in January! I also hosted my monthly dinner. I am attempting to organize a dinner party once a month and the theme for this month was pumpkins. So every dish that was served included pumpkins, but no pumpkin pie (that is too easy). Lamb Dhansak, pumpkin soup, mashed potatoes and pumpkins and pumpkin ice cream.



Thursday and Friday this week I have been volunteered by my dog trainer to be a steward for the Bouvier Des Flanders Nationals; I will help with setting up obedience stuff.