two years of tala

Another Redsock guest post - L

It's Tala Day! Tala has been the most entertaining member of our family for two years.

Here are some pictures, chronological for the most part.

The first photo is the one that started it all. About a year after we lost Buster, we decided we were ready to adopt another dog. At work, we would each look at dogs for adoption on Petfinder and email pictures to each other. But because we knew we were moving, we decided to hold off for a few months. ... But Laura kept looking.

One day she emailed me a link; subject line: "Where is Churchville, New York?" I took one look and replied: "I don't know, but that's where we're going!" Here are the pictures that stole our hearts.

tala from petfinder 01


tala from petfinder 03


tala from petfinder 02


Churchville turned out to be near Rochester, in Western New York - and we were going to be passing by on our US Thanksgiving road trip. We brought her a Maple Leaf bandana as a present. [L Update: these pics were taken at Husky Savers, the amazing Husky Rescue home in Churchville.]

meeting tala 04


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We moved after New Year's, went to the Ice Hotel for our 20th anniversary, then brought Tala home at the end of the month.

Winter 2007

tala cody backyard snow 056


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Summer 2007

tala cody backyard 03 105


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tala cody backyard 03 136


dogs in the sun 10


dogs in the sun 01


dogs in the sun 04


Autumn 2007 (Cottage)

cottage sept 07 016


cottage sept 07 019


cottage sept 07 036


Winter 2008

backyard snow feb 07 08 009


backyard snow feb 07 08 010


tala & cody august 08


Summer 2008

halton hills 009


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Praying The Hose Will Suddenly Start Spraying Her

hose 002


Autumn 2008

cody dirt 004


bones 001


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tala cody autumn 2008 049


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tala cody autumn 2008 038


tala cody autum 2009 046


tala cody autumn 2008 023


Thanks to L's new phone, we now have video capability. We haven't gotten anything really great yet, but we'll post a bunch of videos sooner or later.

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