Bad Henry

Henry Hong has been eating our window sill:

This is bad news bears for sure. 

New dog! New dog! New dog!

We've been silent for awhile because we now have a new dog in our family.  Lilly showed up over a week ago needing a family.  We think she may actually be Henry's littermate considering how quickly they took to each other and how alike they are.  Welcome Lilly!

Just so you know, Henry has continued to work on his tunnel to China.  Here he is fresh after an afternoon's worth of work:

Here I am stealing Henry's bone:

Henry's first dip as a Hong

It's beginning to warm up here in Oklahoma, and I'm not having to work right now, so I'm spending time with the pooches and pussy cat.  Yesterday, I took Henry to Stanley Draper Lake (the OKC lake and park where people dump dead bodies; it happens to be very close to our house) for a swim.  Here's a picture of his first foray into the water as a Hong (who knows if he went swimming before coming to us).

Now, let me say that, while he is part labrador, he was not fond of the water.  In fact, he much preferred to run around like a wild dog and have me panic about where he went.  When I had sufficiently panicked, he came racing towards me with his ears pinned back against his head.  Oh, great fun, great fun.

Henry, a regularly contributing author, protesting economic disparity

As you know, my students wrote appellate briefs about a fictional Occupy situation.  They are now in the practice rounds of moot court (and doing really well, if I do say so myself).  Here is one of our regular contributors, Henry, practicing the opening to his oral argument and delving into a general protest about this country's economic disparity:

As you can tell, Ella the Dog (the primary author of this blog) tries to calm Henry down when he begins getting too dramatic -- let's use our case law not our emotions.  

It snowed!!!

I am so excited that it snowed Sunday night.  I stayed home Monday while my husband drove the Subaru to work.  Here's a picture of what the kids and I did before we started working:

That's Ella, Henry, and me geared up for a morning walk in the snow!  

Henry Hong, the North American black dog

Late September 2011, a black dog wandered after Ella and me on our walk.  Because I'm a sucker for animals in need, he is now a part of our family.  Meet Henry Hong.

 That is him wearing a blanket as a shawl.

This is what he does to help me work from home.