Foster Pet: Radcliffe

So Brad and I have been doggie crazed for the past few weeks. We know we can't adopt one right now because of time, finances, etc, but for some reason we have been checking out local shelters just to torture ourselves!! Just kidding- we want to do some glancing around to get an idea of what kind of dog we want in the future.

We were at a shelter in Park City and learned about the foster program they have. They signed us up and now we can take home a dog for the evening-- pick one up at 5pm after work and bring him back by noon the next day. They provide everything: kennel, toys, food, etc. We found the PERFECT dog and we HAD to foster him for the night.

We had so much fun with Radcliffe, in the house playing and then at the park the next morning. He was wonderful. We wish we could have him, but we loved fostering him while it lasted! He is so great. Just perfect. The downside is in one evening we got WAY too attached.. we miss him a lot.. and hope we find a way to control our emotions as we continue to foster maybe once or twice a month.

  

Featured Artist: ArtWalk Exhibit

I am so grateful that I was chosen as the first featured artist in the newly revamped ArtWalk at the FRONT climbing club. Manager, Annie, has been so sweet and helpful as we installed the work. She repainted the whole space, and we really made it ours. I have six landscape pieces up for about a month and a half.

She featured my work and the new space on the climbing gym's facebook page and I hope people will take some time to check out the images. I love how they turned out, mounted on 1/4" Sintra! Wish we had more family nearby to come check it out, but we will absolutely take our families when they are here in late March. If the art space wasn't enough, Annie also let us boulder for a few hours and play a few rounds of pool. We really love the gym down there.

Climbing, and Hiking, and Biking OH MY.

Two weekends ago I got sick. Then, last weekend Brad was sick. We have been fitting in our usual activities in little spurts. Last weekend, we went climbing before Brad got too sick, which was a nice reminder of that sport we love. Climbing is harder for us to do often, because of the high price tag it comes with. We also took a short hike up City Creek when I was sick, that I conked out on pretty quickly.

After the sicknesses had left our home, we could finally get out of the house again yesterday. The weather.. was heavenly  It was 50 degrees in SALT LAKE!! It is raining again today, so we are glad we took advantage of it, but I can't believe it was SO WARM! We only wore ONE coat to leave the house and we pumped up our tires and took the bikes out!

We went on about a 6 mile ride on the Jordan River Trail. It is a nice trail because it's long and flat, spanning probably 30 miles total. It's not the most scenic ride, but we had a great time!

What a wonderful day for a bike ride!

Part of the trail goes right through a golf course. The golfers don't really like that, and the bikers we talked to don't really like the golfers. Considering the trail was there before the course was built... Some people are very bitter :)

After our lunch, I could have put money on the fact that part of the sandwich I lovingly made my husband would end up being fed to the ducks. He loves it. Always. And especially loved that this brave duck literally ate right out of his hand!

Come on SLC! Stay springtime!! No more snow please!!

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PS 

Yesterday we ran into some peacocks walking down the road. No big...