New Member of the Mulholland Household

Welcome our newest family member "Spenser Mulholland" He is a Labrador Retriever and 8 weeks old. He already out weighs Matt and Kelly's Sid and is close to or possibly already does outweigh Fiona as he weighs in at 13 pounds. He has a very friendly personality and is great with kids. Mel just brought all three over for a short visit and they all got along great. Lydia is not entirely sure of him but he seemed to like her. He does not seem to be jumper so that is good as he could knock Liddy over as he is quite strong for such a little guy. We expect him to eventually weigh in at about 80 to 85 pounds.

The first picture below is last night when we picked him up. Jane came along to keep him company in the back seat. After a bit of exploring his limited confines he curled up on Jane and slept pretty much the entire way home, and that included a monsoon thunderstorm that was keeping everyone in the area awake. He also slept through the night and in fact as I am writing this he is on the floor next to me taking a nap. Of course he needs lots of naps because when he is awake he is extremely curious and has to see, paw and taste just about everything he can reach.

Some of you know Jane has been staying with us since my surgery and also we have been working on repainting her kitchen, so we also have Jane's cat Gemini. So far they seem to get along as long as Spenser does not get too close to Gemini, then she kind of hisses and warns him off, but as long as they are about 2 to 3 feet apart they can occupy the same room.

The second picture is from this morning, Spenser is coming around the corner from the kitchen. I am already a bit worried as he has been studying the cupboards to see if he can get into them, but it won't do him much good as we don't keep any food in the lower cabinets.

A Great Treat

Mary and Kate and Peggy were here. They arrived this past Saturday and left on Monday morning (KATE), Wednesday morning and evening (Mary, then Peg) We had an early birthday celebration for me. It was so great to have them here we had a good time and did somethings that Peg had never done or seen before. One of the highlights for Peg and scary parts for Mary was a trip along the Apache Trail which is only partially paved, rather narrow and goes along the Salt River and its three lakes ending up at Roosevelt Dam and lake where you can circle back home on normal paved highway. See some pictures below of the trip.


Here we see Peg picking prickly pear cactus pears, on US Forest land in the Tonto National Forest, however we were fine as no Rangers came along.




We were on the second floor of a building built between 1100 and 1250 AD. Mary, & Chris chose not to enter, but it was much cooler inside and very interesting if for no other reason than the age of the structure. This was at the Besh Ba Gowah Indian Ruins in Globe Arizona.



This is Mary & Kate as they toured the ancient grounds.



This is Peg as she was leaving the building. Up and Down was by ladder, no stairs and the ladders we held together by rope woven from local materials. Those Indians did a great job building.




This is Chris as she toured the site.