ahhhh. it's 1:04 p.m. and she (me)is rested and loving life and ready to post......have i told you that i have fallen in love with the dogs.....Zulu sleeps wherever i am....she sleeps at the bottom of my bed and she puts her body half under my bed so i can get by her if i need to get up in the night....then Snowball, after ....ooops, the doorbell rang and the mailman came and i drove to the postofficew to mail some things and now i am back...... it is now 2:32 p.m. and i well get back to talking about these dogs...Snowball always gets in the trash can in the bathroom, so after i chastise her for doing that i always love on her...she likes to jump up on me and put her paws on each of my shoulders, then Zulz starts growling at her so snowblal will get down to fight Zulu so i taart to pet Zulu......they both love me, i can tell and i promise---i do not want a dog--but i do love them.....now i love Flash, too, Flash is Matthew's dog and he is a little Italian greyhound and although i know all of these dogs love their masters more than they love me, i know they all love me too....please know and always rmembr that i do not want a dog....i love to love these three dogs and that is enough for me.....well, the boys are going to spend labor day week end with their mother and she will be picking them up sometime this afternoon or evening so this will be a quiet week end....i am confident the boys will have great stories to tell when they return to newburgh on monday sometime.......they are such precious boys and i do love them...way more than i love the dogs, even though i am using the same word"love" to describe my feelings.....i believe the love i feel for them is called "Philio" in the Greek which means a blood-relative kind of love......i think it is a deep special love...and the love i feel for the dogs is maybe "agape"...someone who knows can straighten me out on these different emotions i am feeling and referencing.......the weather here is wonderuf...it is about 80 something degrees and there is an overcast to the day so it looks cooler than it is....it feels great to be outside, where i go everytime the dogs go outside to do their business or to just --as snowball does everymorning--walk the perimeter of the yard.....life is good and i hope you can tell that i am enjoying life in newburgh.....i do miss my family and friends in houston....but i will return before too long....love to all.,..jk