Cooking & raising a dog

From iPhone Raising a little puppy is a real challenge. This isn’t the first one I have raised but it has been a long time. In between monitoring Otera, keeping up with poop and pee, I have been doing some baking. Saturday I cooked up one of the pumpkins that was donated to the temple. Then I baked up some pumpkin bread. I served it up to the Sangha members after service. Then tonight I…

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New Dog

From iPhone: Picked up doggy from Humane Society yesterday. Decided to name it Otera Inu which is Japanese for Temple Dog. I have now in the course of my life adopted 2 dogs from the Hawaii Humane Society and 2 from Charllotte. Having a mug of hot chocolate before bed.

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Spine doctor

From iPhone Finished work and now sitting in the waiting room of the spine doctor. Not sure what can be done but it would nice if the level of pain could be reduced, even just a little. However I do not want to take a lot of medicine and definately don’t want surgery. I guess I am not leaving them many options. The weather today is very nice with the temperature probably in the 70’s.

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First Tuesday Concerts

From iPhone – @ St. Peters Episcopal Church; Charlotte, NC Sitting here waiting for the start of the First Tuesday Concert. This is a series of well done concert events that are held on the first Tuesday of the month during the fall months, presented by Charlotte Chamber Music Society, and they are free. The wife of my boss will be a featured singer, Jacquelyn Culpepper.

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