Today started out with our first tracking session. Fortunately it had stopped raining, although the ground was sopping wet and the first tracking team accidentally went through a puddle. We got a handout about tracking procedure and behaviors last night, but it was another thing to see it in action. I didn’t get very many […]
Category Archives: Kender
Our First Night with A’Kos
Today it was rainy a good chunk of the day, so instead of going outside Kender had to stay in. He found his favorite riding toy and did laps with that for most of the day. He snuck off into the back room a couple of times, and he climbed into empty dog kennel several […]
Obedience School
All of the 4 Paws dogs are wonderfully trained. The training room is full with nearly 20 families, some of them with more than one child, and we all have our dogs out at the same time. Our dogs spend most of the time at our feet, and two or three teams will be practicing […]
Meeting A’Kos At Last
Today was amazing and exhausting all in one. I spent half the morning fighting back tears and half the afternoon fighting off Kender. I have more pictures, but because I am posting from my tablet most of them will have to wait until I can get to a real computer that isn’t painfully slow at […]
Arriving in Ohio
We had a really nice drive down to Ohio. Most of the way, we were accompanied by an absolutely gorgeous rainbow so bright even Brian could see it. When the rainbow went away, I got a view of the almost-full moon out my window in its place. I think those are wonderful omens for our […]
Meet A’Kos!
This is A’kos’ letter to Kender today: Hello! Bet you want to know who I am! That is why I am writing to you! My name is A’kos. My name is special because I am named after a type of Hawk. I am a member of the Hawke Litter. Hawke is a little boy who […]
Swing 2.0
Kender got a new swing today. If I had been doing HabitRPG last year, today I would have accomplished the reddest of my red reddy red to-do tasks. That rider has been sitting in our shed since we put this playset up…was it 7 years ago? 8? There’s been a baby swing in that spot […]
Tidbits
When the Kirby salesman comes and vacuums my living room with his Kirby vacuum and gets up all that extra dirt, I don’t hear, “Kirby vacuums are better than my vacuum.” I hear, “Gods, I’m a terrible housekeeper, and if I would just keep up with vacuuming my carpets every week, there wouldn’t be so […]
The Kender Report
Kender has had a busy week. On Monday, he went under anesthesia for an eye exam, which showed nothing new. Dr. Trese said we could start backing off one of the three eye drops Kender takes every day, which is happy news. The bigger event was Wednesday, when Kender went under anesthesia again, this time […]
Safe Space
This post from AutisticChick came up in my feed today, and it along with some of her other posts got me to thinking about Kender, about the differences between our life with Kender and what I see other people describing in support groups. I thought about the way I try to interact with Kender, about […]