Ward Words

Kelly and I have a new addition to the family. He is part chihuahua and part blue heeler. He is also 95% bat. And his name is Wembley. (Three cheers if you guess correctly what his name comes from.) For the record, we chose the name Wembley over the competing names Craig and Soup. Here is a picture of the dog/bat. Click on the picture for a whole album of the guy.

Things he likes to do: Pee in the house. Pee every couple of hours. Eat bark. Eat grass. Sniff poop. Chew on Sully from Monsters, Inc. (blue thing in the pictures). Hump Sully from Monsters, Inc. Not learn his name. Bite stuff.

Plainly he has been fun. Since his ears now stick straight up, he really does look just like a bat with four legs. We may fashion some sort of bat suit for Halloween, but that sounds ambitious. And I am very conscious of trying not to become one of "those animal people." You know what I mean.

The other addition to the family is Kelly's new car! Her transmission decided to die two weeks ago. (In my experience, this seems to happen to Hyundai's around 100,000 miles.) We replaced the Elantra with a Toyota Prius. Now she can drive a nice new car and feel better than every one else killing the earth at a faster pace. Ohhh pretension!

Speaking of the Prius, we took it on its first road trip to San Antonio. My company had a gathering nearby on the Guadalupe River where Kelly and I kayaked Saturday afternoon. Then we stayed near the Riverwalk in the city. We took in Howl at the Moon piano bar, and spent Sunday morning at the Market Square. We also did a drive by photoing of the Alamo. Pictures:

San Antonio October 07

Prius