Spook in the weeds, looking ultra cute.

We’ve just brought home a 10 week old female German Shepherd puppy! Hubby has named her “Spook” (just realised how close that is to “Spock”).

Spook was kind of unexpected. One day about a year ago at work, Hubby went out of his way to find the owner of a stray German Shepherd Dog – beautiful pure black boy with a lovely nature. Poor fella had been totally spooked by a storm and broke free of his yard. Hubby loved him, if the owner hadn’t come forward he probably would have brought the boy home. The owner did come forward, and Danae was so grateful to get Ben back she said when her bitch (Shadow) had their first litter of pups she would be in touch to offer hubby one.

Hubby probably never expected to hear from her again but last night got a phone call from Danae. He was very excited about the thought of a puppy despite the impracticalities – we already have two dogs, and Ebony is  dominant and very nasty at times. We decided to go and check out the puppies anyway.

Inevitable then, that one of the puppies came home with us. She is with us on trial, to see how she and Ebony get on. Already there have been a couple of minor scuffles with Ebby, although Boss has been fine with her. She’s a good little puppy so we’re hoping we can work things out with careful management (particularly whenever there is food around!). I’ve just bought a HoundHouse dog kennel for Ebby so she can sleep separately on the other deck.

Sometimes life follows an overly familiar route and you get into a rut and your days all seem grey and you suddenly wonder what happened, where did the passion go?

It’s a question that came up recently on my favourite online women’s forum, a lot of the girls there are married, raising young families. The common answer to the question was “family”, perhaps because it is the all consuming priority in these young women’s lives at present.

Interesting to note that the couple of us who haven’t yet made babies were able to answer more comprehensively.

My passions:  learning and improving my knowledge; reading good novels (watching good movies); doing my job well and being an integral part of a team. Nature, art and music (love my djembe) invoke a certain passion in me too. The geek in me is also passionate about technology – particularly the internet, and observing the effects on our society and culture.

Drumming on Saturday morning, a little bit tired (late night watching Supernatural episodes). Still doing fankani, learning solo bits. Not so many people at the class, but still a large group. My new drum stand is a little too high, I have to cut it down.

Yesterday afternoon, drove down to Paddington with H to pick up the office furniture I’d bought from Louise, lady I met on AYW. She had a psychology practice at Paddo, but has decided to give it away to run her photography business full-time from home.

Today, went to the centenary mass at Rosewood. Was packed to the rafters, with people from Ipswich and Brisbane. Saw the mayor, a few other local politicians and dignitaries. Bishop John Bathersby said the mass, gave a nice sermon relating some of the Rosewood church’s history. St Brigids church is named for St Brigid of Kildare, Ireland.

Another day at home, doing committee work for the dog rescue group. Couple of emails from Kathryn. Seems that some of the ideas I’m bouncing off her aren’t hitting the target, she’s asking me questions I’ve already answered.

My drum stand turned up today, arrived just as H was returning home from a short trip into town. A little bigger than I thought it would be, will have to trim the legs I think. Drumming tomorrow.

At home all day today; thought I’d start de-cluttering my office in preparation for the new furniture I’m getting this weekend. Wasn’t a planned purchase, just an opportunity to buy some second hand stuff from someone I know, I liked it so I made an offer.

Also working on getting committee stuff organised for the dog rescue group. Ludelle is in favour, but enough on her plate so the running around is up to me and another volunteer, Kathryn. Good to have someone else to bounce things off.

Was expecting a delivery today, a drum stand for my djembe. Bit of a mix up occurred, the courier wont deliver to a PO Box so gave them my home address – said they’d be out today but it’s a no show. Hope this doesn’t mean I have to stick around home all day tomorrow.