JAX

Well, it's been a year without Jax. We still miss her a lot and no doubt we always will. She was truly unique. We almost adopted a sweet little guy named Cowboy who looks a lot like her. Marco first met him at a motorcycle party over at Wayne's (one of those drunken, loud, rowdy overnighters I've learned not to go to), the people fostering him brought him. Marco fell in love. Then he came to meet Diese and they had a good romp in the back yard. Two weeks later I was in the front yard and a woman walked by with two dogs. One of them was Cowboy. The first foster family had returned him, AND found a new home for their own puppy, after deciding that they weren't dog people. GOD DAMN IT I wish people would THINK before taking on a pet. Anyway, we really wrestled with wanting to give Cowboy a home (he was rescued from Santa Fe, New Mexico where they still allow dog fighting - some guy bought the whole litter and sent them up here to The Pit Bull Project, and here he was in our own neighborhood after we met him through entirely different avenues), but with the remodel coming up we thought it would be too stressful etc...Anyway, we read our books and wrote emails and finally got a confirmation of my main fear - that an adult male Bull Mastiff will not tolerate another male of any breed in his home. So we had to say no to Cowboy.
I still have not planted Jax' garden. We need to build a retaining wall in that corner first and we are now deeply entrenched in moving out of the upstairs and then taking down the walls up there. Maybe in July we can work on the wall.