6th Annual Pumpkin Carve

We got together with friends yesterday to carve up our pumpkins. This has been a tradition for the last few years and it is always so much fun to see what people come up with. We usually have a vote for the best carved up pumpkin. KC won this year with his interpretation of a vaudeville villain curly mustache and all.

A few years back our friend Bill won with his “Mr. Meowkins” pumpkin. Glorious “Mr. Meowkins” is still talked about to this day it was the silhouette of a cat in a moon which wasn’t really apparent until the candle was put in place.

We dressed the Wee One up in her costume and it was a hit. She looks so cute I’m very pleased with it. She seemed to be happy with it as well. I was surprised how well she tolorated the hat. In fact she brought it over to me this morning and is eating her breakfast in it. Pretty funny.

October Break

Last weekend Ellie and I went up to my parents to enjoy Grandma McKenney’s days off with her. We shopped for a winter coat, got a Halloween costume, picked out pumpkins, played with Summer, and made some yummy treats. The treats included Caramel Apples, Candy Apples, and Stuffed Pumpkin with Cranberry-Rasin Bread Pudding. We had a great time with Grandma and Grandpa McKenney, they always spoil us.

Reunited!!!!

She’s back…. Our crazy white dog decided it was time to come home today. We spent the weekend at my parents, and when we turned into our driveway I saw something on our porch. I took a closer look and said “She’s Here!!” Gary gasped and couldn’t believe it. It was a sweet reunion for everyone. She is filthy dirty and a little bit skinnier but still the mysterious white dog that is Adah. What I wouldn’t give to be able to talk to her and find out just what in the world she was up to for almost 10 days. I wonder how far she traveled? If she heard us calling after her? What compelled her to take off in the first place? Was she really lost or just on walkabout? Did she get it out of her system? Was it as difficult a week for her as it was for us?  Who knows she is just a dog after all. We are glad to have her back though there was a definite void in the Marcoccia household last week. Thank you for mixing all of those good thoughts and well wishes into the cosmic soup on behalf of Adah and our broken hearts.

Early Morning Spar

This morning while eating breakfast we spotted two Moose laying in the grass out our window. A mom and a baby. They were lounging waiting for the sun to come up. We watched their progress as the sunlight started appearing on the mountains across the valley. They slowly got up and stretched their legs. Then we noticed they seemed to be alert to something and wouldn’t you know it two more Moose came out of the trees across the little meadow to check them out as well. One male and one female. The little moose was curious but the mom kept guard. As you can see from the video clip it got a little touchy at one point.

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There are a few more pictures of the Moose Extravaganza over here if your interested.

The Unkown

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Yep, that’s our Adah. We found her because she was lost and now, well looks like old habits are hard to break. Ellie and I were out on our daily morning walk with the dogs and our neighbor. I got distracted for a bit and she was gone. She has done this before but has never left us over night. The kicker is I had the intuition to put her on the leash and the walk started out that way but when we met up with the other dogs she was so excited and started to whine and look at me with those pleading eyes to let her loose so she could run and play with them.

Gary has spent two days wandering all over TL and Heber. He is exhausted both emotionally and physically.  We’ve been calling animal control in both Summit and Wasatch County. We have put up fliers like you see above all over TL and have sent out emails to our neighbors. We have done everything we could possibly do. It’s up to fate now. We will keep looking and doing our part. I’m not saying we give up yet. In fact I haven’t allowed myself to shed a tear yet because she still has time to appear out of nowhere like she is notorious for.

So the point of this post is to ask everyone who keeps tabs on us to put good thoughts out there into the cosmic soup for our Adah that she will come back to us unscathed.