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10Aug/10Off

Puerto Rico

So we decided to take our first big family trip, and wanted to go to the ocean.  After looking at a variety of places, we ended up choosing Puerto Rico.  No passports, reasonable airfare, and lodging is cheap in the summer because it’s the off season.  Once the location was decided, I had to go to work looking for a place to stay.  We were headed down with another couple and their two boys.  I headed to Home Away to find the right place.  Knowing almost nothing about Puerto Rico, it also started my education about the island.

The eastern side is much more developed for tourists.  It’s closer to San Juan, and there a number of very large resorts that we could try.  But none of them really spoke to us.  Next up was the west coast, near Rincon.  This area is known for the bigger waves and is loved by surfers around the world.  These places were looking better.  Houses on the beach with pools, but I was having trouble finding any with open dates for our vacation.  Finally, there was this listing for a cool looking little place on Shack’s Beach.  It had 3 bedrooms with a pool, and said it was 30 meters from the beach.  Problem was, the map didn’t really show that.

I contacted the owner and found that the area where this house is doesn’t really exist to Google Maps.  Located in the farthest northwest corner of the island, the house is in a little collection of about 20 houses, nestled at the bottom of the cliff to the north of the small town of San Antonio, and about halfway between the larger towns of Isabela and Aguadilla.  The owner sent us some information about the place, and I was able to pinpoint it by finding the location of the nearby Villa Montana resort.
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The biggest draw for this little spot of paradise is a beach called Playa Shacks.  A pretty well kept secret, it is home to a beautiful coral reef about 100 meters offshore, with a big opening in the middle of it called the Blue Hole.  After a finding bits and pieces of additional information, we committed to renting the little pink house with the pool, and hoped.

What follows is the story of having our vacation wishes fulfilled, and then some.

Shack's Beach

Shack's Beach and the Blue Hole

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11Jun/10Off

RIP Bookerdog

It is with very heavy heart that I have to tell you that our dear boy Booker died today.  He was diagnosed as having cancer that was putting so much pressure on his body that he couldn't breathe.  We did the only thing that seemed to be right by him and let him go peacefully.  We got Booker the day before Beth and I really started our journey together and he has been a central part of our lives ever since.

We love you boy.

The Bookerdog Nose

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11May/10Off

Guinea pigs

This is a post from auggie Did you know we got 2 guinea pigs ? There names are ginn & frisk. Ginn is the one that runs around a lot. Frisk is the one that is amost allwas hiding. So there you have it,auggie out!

Sent from auggie's iPhone

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10May/10Off

NKA

Sometime in the last month, I made stir fry for supper. This is not uncommon in our house. We usually have some kind of stir fry once every week or so. On this particular night, E was not impressed by my efforts. He took a few bites and said, oh-so-seriously, 'Mom, I think I'm allergic to stir fry.'

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7May/10Off

Bookerdog on the DL

 

This photo is of the poor Bookerdog stuck in his crate after what appears to be a partial tear of a knee ligament on his left hind. Just spending a morning chasing his kong in the yard, and he ends up with 3 weeks of crate rest.

Get better soon BD!

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6May/10Off

And there it is!

Well, that was pretty quick. We're now live on bookerdog.com with WordPress, PHP, and mySQL. Kinda crazy how easy this was. I didn't break the pictures in the blog posts, yet.

I'll be getting the rest of our old pictures reloaded in these cool galleries. In the mean time, you can see the stuff we have on Facebook.

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6May/10Off

Totally New Direction

So I've been working with moving everything to WordPress, and that's what you're seeing here.  I'm kinda freaked out by how easy it was to create this thing and import all the old Blogger content.  As I get ready to move it, I need make sure that I don't break the links to the old photos.  But once I do that, I think we'll be on our way.

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15Apr/08Off

Just a quick post


So I've been dealing with trying to get all of the archives working. And everything except the main archive page has republished. Blogger claims that one possibility to fix this is to upload a new post. So here you go.

Just to make it worthwhile, here's a picture of Beth after she finished her half marathon.

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14Apr/08Off

For real this time


Booker digs our shag, man
Originally uploaded by Bookerdog

Spiffy!

How cool is this new layout? Tim surprised me tonight with the new digs here at bookerdog.com... Thanks, baby!

OK, so, some highlights. You'll notice Tim's and my Twitter Updates at right. If you don't know about Twitter, you have to check it out, friends! I want to know what's going on with you -- 180 characters or less at a time! Just think: you might actually use a couple of those 100s of text messages you're allowed a month!

You'll also find some updated links on the right. I highly recommend the unbelievable insights of my friend JT at his fantastic site, The Sauerbrun Report.

So no more clicking on this site with that look of yearning like Bookerdog up there, OK? We're back!

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14Sep/07Off

Hold on to your hats


Waiting boys
Originally uploaded by Bookerdog

I know! It's been too long! Sorry about that.

No real excuse except that it was summer and we were busy. And busy-ness does not make for many interesting stories. But! As you can see above, we have a kindergartener now!

I'm really kinda jazzed about starting to post again, though. Tim has a fun new masthead designed and I've got all kinds of crazy ideas for the site. Let's see how long it takes to get them going -- start your stopwatches! They keep going for, oh, about 2 years, right?

There's no doubt that this place is getting pretty dusty. I mean, Coco's eyes (RIP, my sista) are stiill over there, Elliott's eyes have never made it, and I swear that you can tell Tim's and my eyes are fat eyes. I still use the links on the right way too much -- I should probably branch out to other sites. But then, hey! Miss Doxie is posting again! Hooray!

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  • Mimi Smartypants I feel honored to have drank in the same bar as her
  • Miss Doxie A site by a tremendously funny writer who disappeared for a while, but who’s archives will still leave you with a stomach sore from laughing.
  • Pop Narcotic Sure, he won’t return phone calls and disappears for months at a time, but he’s still a great friend!
  • the jane gang Elliott’s godmama branching out to touch the internet with her warmth and humor.
  • The Saurebrun Report JT in Queens provides daily insight into an interesting mix of politics, events in the news, and sports.

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