We went to the dog park in Rio Rancho yesterday and took a bunch of photos.

They’ve just added some nice agility equipment. Winter barely remembers her brief stint of agility lessons.

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We were alone for a while (which happens a lot at the RR dog park) but around seven pm the population started to increase.

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This is a three month-old chihuahua dachsund mix that I had to pick up and cuddle. These people who bring their tiny puppies to dog parks are SO MEAN.

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Especially hound dog puppies.

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I’m such a sucker for hound faces with big hound ears.

Also, since Cody and I aren’t always on the same sleeping schedule we have a hard time keeping up with when Winter was last fed. Being a ridgeback she’s always going to act like she’s starving, and the vet’s been giving us a hard time about getting her to lose ten pounds. So Cody came up with this solution.

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He found a dry-erase board at Jo-Ann when we were there the other day buying more brownish fun-fur to make more hedgehog toys (I’ve had lots of requests to sell them and I’m pretty sure that’s ok since I strayed pretty damn far from the original pattern). It’s a neat board with a sparkly magnetic surface. It came with a cool pen with a dry eraser on the cap, a magnetic pen holder, and two little magnets.

Cody also found some cute dog theme stickers and made a little clock so we can write in when we last fed her. And there’s room to leave notes and stuff for each other. Our next plan is to add a place to note “am” or “pm” and if the dishes in the dishwasher are clean.

Isn’t it cute?