Hangin’ at Shelby Dog Park August 5, 2009
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Violet and Chip are getting a good work out in for the day.
Little dogies July 20, 2009
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Violet and Chip hanging out being little sweethearts.
chip July 16, 2009
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Violet January 8, 2009
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Edwin Warner Park August 17, 2008
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Yesterday Missie and I took Violet for a walk out to Edwin Warner Park. We hiked the Harpeth Woods Trail and found a geocache entitled bats (GCN4VR).
Got this photo from Farsang July 25, 2008
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Thanks to Farsang for sending us this photo. It was a year ago yesterday that we stayed in this shelter with him. Good times.
The story of Violet March 5, 2008
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VioLet….
Once upon a time, there was a spectacular black lab named Bear. Bear was a wonderful dog…full-bred and professionally trained for shows. However, his original owner could not keep him because he grew to be skittish around people and preferred a more isolated life. At the same time, Reuben was looking for a mature, well trained animal to own and so found Bear and adopted him.
A few years later, Bear was diagnosed with a brain tumor. There was nothing that could be done. And so, sadly, Bear was put to sleep and buried with tears in the backyard.
The next Spring, in the place where Bear had been buried a whole mess of Violets sprouted up. And the next year, and the next year. Finally, when Reuben was ready,
he turned to me while gardening in the yard, and said that he’d like to adopt another dog…a female black lab… and name her Violet. And so we did, 2 hours later….(it turned out he knew someone giving away puppies…)
Anyway, that is the unsolicited story of Violet’s namesake….
Violet November 15, 2007
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Here are some of the photos of Violet. This is the first time I have tried to put a slide show directly in the blog, let me know how it is working.
Well, It looks to me like the slideshow is working fine. It even seems to adjust for the changes I am making in the album on picasa. If you want to see the albums for a bit easier viewing, then click on the slide show here and it will take you to our public album on Picasa.
I know we are finished with the AT, but I think we will be reflecting on it a bit now that we have technology handy, so keep checking up on us. Besides, you never know what our next adventure may be.
PEACE,
Reuben aka Lunar
Reflection on Trip November 13, 2007
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Here is the beautiful view from the summit of Springer.
Solar, Lunar, and Eclipse are now Appalachian Trail thru-hikers.
-Violet solemnly embraces the plaque.
Fellow SOBO Brit started the same day and finished the same as well. He has some more hiking planned in New Zealand
It has been nice to be back at the Honey Hole and seeing some old friends. The community around here based around service, self-reliance, sustainable living, creative energy, gardening and self-improvement is remarkable.
We have completed one adventure and we have a bit of traveling to do to keep the adventure alive.
