Xupe (above)

Finley (above)

Chev (above)

I was in the backyard after dinner, walking what we refer to as our “dog park”, while Chev, Finley and Xupe raced around in the grass and hunted in the woods (with Reine, who is with us for another week.)  I was filled with appreciation for our own three “big dogs” who weathered the summer of twelve puppies with all the accompanying distractions.  We love each of those puppies, and I hope for another puppy in our future, but it is our grown dogs that are our family right now, and we are content to be at home with just them.  Biff’s looking forward to some serious hunting this fall and may even take one of the dogs up to Brule for steelhead fishing and grouse hunting before the snow arrives. Life with big dogs is good!