Here Dexter, snip snip!

Well, Dustmop Dexter had a veterinarian visit today and got neutered as well as having a dew claw removed that didn't get removed when he was a baby. You can see how thrilled he was about the whole thing, at least he was a big hit with everyone at the Vet's office, they thought he was great. Our weekend will be spent taking care of him, he's not allowed to get his bandages wet which means we will need to take him outside for potty breaks and so on.

Dustmop learns to Beg and We get a Wii!!

Well, I'm off this Friday so I thought I'd put up a little post for the week. Dustmop Dexter has learned his newest trick, and no, it's not impersonating another one of Jim Hensen's creations.

We've finally got the little bugger to beg for treats and his supper. It's great because he's such a dominant little ewok.

Dana had gotten me a gift card for Xmas at CompUSA. I've been there a couple of times since then but haven't seen anything I really wanted. I was there yesterday and just happened to ask if they had the Nintendo Wii in stock. They had five of them in and one was not already purchased, so I walked out with the shiny little fun making happy box.

I have to say, it's a blast playing this thing, pretty cool to actually swing the controller around when playing the sports games, etc. We figure it will be a lotof fun at parties as long as noone gets clubbed in the head. Now, I know that Senor Brown is a big fan of the PS3 (and illegal immigrants who eat Chipotle apparently) but lets face it Big D, you can get BOTH the X360 AND the Wii for what that PS3 costs, and there are no games for it (plus Blu-Ray is the suck). Why would you go shell out all that cash for the PS3 when you could play with your Wii?

I fully expect demeaning comebacks and other hilarity to ensue shortly.

Digging Out

Well, we've started digging out, three weeks after the first blizzard that pounded us. It's a lot of work and I'm literally going to need an ice axe to clear through the final 20-30 feet on our corner.

Our neighbors are going to hate us as I used the new snow blower to cut through the 40+ inch drift in front of our house and threw it all back out on the street. I'd rather have it in the street than flooding my property though or getting me sued because someone slips or falls.

Dana was helping out a lot, she used the regular shovel to clear off the sidewalks, we're still going to have to go get an ice axe and about 30 pounds of snow melt though.

More snow in the forecast for this evening.

Dana says hi!

Snowblower is here

Yes, my snowblower arrived... and yes, I'm only posting this to make my friends feel bad who live in Denver and still haven't got one. :)

It's pretty sweet, it has an 8hp Tecumseh engine, two stage discharge, electric starting, six forward and two reverse speeds and the auger is really powerful.



My motorcycle is still cooler though.

2006 Recap

Well, a little bit of a recap for everyone out there. After the wedding on September 1st we spent ten days honeymooning on the beautiful island of Maui and we would love to get to have another vacation there, it was fabulous.

October and November seemed to scream right by with us spending almost every waking minute looking after Dustmop Dexter. He did really well right from the start with sleeping in his kennel at night and although he did have a few kennel accidents he is about 90% house broken now. He is still confined to only part of the house because we worry if he had his run of the place he'd find any emptry room to turn into a bathroom.

We also were busy those months getting more things straightened out with the house, we got Dana her dining room furniture and she's really happy with it.

Into December with the normal pre holiday craziness. We opted not to put up any Xmas lights but a lot of our neighbors did and we did put up our Xmas tree.

Then.... the snow came. You've read about how Denver got walloped with two blizzards back to back in a week's time. Well, it was even worse than that where we live (Highlands Ranch, SW of the city). We've probably received over 60 inches of snow in the past three weeks and are starting to feel like we've got a case of cabin fever. The snow is so bad that I (who swore he'd never own one) ordered a snowblower from Minnesotta. You know, one of those big knuckle busters to deal with 12 inches or more of blowing snow. It should be here today, can't wait.

Dana and I have a little mini vacation coming up in February. Hopefully we'll be able to go someplace close by and take Dexter with us.

More news soon!

We're here!

Welcome to Dana and Jason's blog. We will be using this site to communicate our goings on with friends and family and hope to get some info on things that have happened since our wedding as quickly as we can.