Toga! Toga! Toga!

Britten is out of town for a couple of days at her coaching thing, so it's just us three bachelors hanging out here at the house. I figured there's no better way to take advantage of her absence than having a party worthy of being in Animal House. Toga!!!

Back here in reality, things are much more mellow when Britten is gone. The dogs and I all feel a bit empty when she's not around, so there's not much romping going on.

Since there isn't much action, I thought it might be time to tell about when we built our deck. The actual deck-building part was difficult and fun and involved lots of help from our families and friends, but that's not the story. The real story is the night that we let the dogs out onto the half finished deck for the first time. They had been inside watching the construction all day and were more than ready to rumble. This is one of those moments that I think really shows them at their finest. Well, either this or every night when Chili regurgitates his bone and Cozby gnaws his in pure joy. Maybe it's a close second.