Catching up- Doggy Halloween

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So much to catch up on as I have not blogged in over 6 weeks. Our trip to SoCal, Halloween, setting up tech training for the teachers and the recent drama with Dakota- no worries, he's fine now. I'll try and tackle all of these this week. First on the platter- Doggy Halloween.

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It was a dark and scary Halloween at our house this year. Sunset had come early, the skies were cloud-covered and an eerie breeze had started around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. It was strange that we had almost no trick-or-treaters this year. As the witching hour drew nearer (what is a witching hour anyway), a pumpkin suddenly appeared in my kitchen.




I had no idea where it might have come from, but it looked strangely like Dakota, the newest member of our household. He wandered around looking for children to join with him in his quest for candy, but alas, none were to be found. One in Hawaii and the other in SoCal left him alone and dejected. Poor Dakota.








As the evening progressed a few unsuspecting children arrived at our door for a helping of Almond Joy or Kit Kat (no healthy treats here, that's for sure), but they were certainly few and far between. Then a noise from the back yard startled us; lo and behold (I always wanted to write lo and behold) Marty, Dakota's mother, had arrived from next door, in full princess attire.










The evening turned out just fine and although we had very few children, our dressed up dogs entertained us well into the night,begging for candy and looking cute as ever.

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Postscript : After using other tools the last 6 weeks such as Google Sites (a wiki) and Teacherweb blog, I am finding working with Blogger to be very limiting. Placing pictures, inserting tables for formatting, adding background colors and generally doing any formatting other than simple text seems very difficult. Even to insert the horizontal lines, I had to use HTML code. There must be a better way.

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Postscript 2. For anyone interested; in order to have the pictures of Dakota and Marty facing each other, I had to "flip" one of them horizontally. iPhoto does not allow you to do this, however if you open the picture in Preview, there is a flip command and you can use that instead. Sweet :)