(i think with the economy in the state its in... all items below that cost money may have to be put on hold til things are more stable)
1. visit at least 5 "middle" states (1. indiana, 2. michigan)
2.
3. pay off all loans (loan one paid off - dec 2008)
4. start licensing exams (i may need to shoot for completing my idp forms first)
5. read the pillars of the earth (160 pages to go!)
6.
7. buy flowers for myself at least
8. save money
9. make an amigurumi
10. work out at least 3 times a week
11. treat myself to a massage at least once a year
12. take at least one international vacation (cambodia?)
13. take a pottery class
14. bike the burke-gilman trail
15. spend a day in west seattle
16.
17. knit a scarf
18.
19. visit the olympic peninsula
20.
21. go fishing
22. have dinner at canlis
23. visit the capilano suspension bridge
24. watch a live nfl game (steelers would be good, but id settle for the seahawks)
25.
26. go camping
27.
28. use my dutch oven at least once a month (at least when its cold) (oct - pot roast; nov - beef stew, lasgna meat sauce)
29.
You mentioned that you are doing “no biting” training with Darwin. That was a HUGE problem with our Dane Princeton, so I sought out and tried a lot of techniques for teaching pups not to bite. It’s all summarized in the following post: “Top Ten Ways to Stop Puppy Biting,” written when he was 3 months old. The comments offer even more valuable suggestions:
ReplyDeletehttp://my-great-dane.blogspot.com/2008/07/top-10-ways-to-stop-puppy-biting.html
I see that you bottle-fed Darwin since she was a puppy. I thought maybe the reason that Princeton was so mouthy was because he was bottle-fed some and weaned at only 5-1/2 weeks.
Now that Princeton is a year old, he’s much better about not biting or mouthing. He still likes to chew forbidden objects (like sofa cushions) when we’re not looking.