Of dogs and discernment
Tess It's been three months since I last posted. The blog rather slipped my mind, actually. Things have been busy, and today I felt the need to get some things "on paper" before getting back to my spring break tasks, which consist largely of getting caught up to where I should have been last week. Or last month, more like it. Anyway, the big news is that in January we welcomed a dog into our home. The shelter had given her the name Sweet Caroline. Her foster dad felt that that wasn't her name and tried Care Bear instead. We settled pretty quickly on Tess (we're a very Victorian-novel sort of household), and she recognized it as her name within a day or two. We were told she's an American Staffordshire Terrier and Australian Cattle Dog mix--we're awaiting DNA testing to confirm that--and about three years old. She's sweet, relaxed, nonreactive, and affectionate, and I am utterly smitten with her. In the meantime, I had work to do on two search committee