New family member...

After finally getting past an overwelming amount of scrutiny by the animal rescue league, The Alva's were informed that we would be getting a home visit Saturday with "Molly", the little Doxie Mrs. Alva's been pining for the last several weeks. She checked the website Friday to see what was going on after a few weeks of no news, and when she pulled up Molly's picture it read, "Adoption Pending". She immediately picked up the phone to give the rescue folks a piece of her mind for adopting out "her" dog, when the voice on the other line informed her that it was us who were getting this dog. The visit went well and she is now ours to keep.

So far so good. The little thing got wimpery when my wife took Katie to school this morning, but otherwise it's as if she has always been with us. Sunday we spent working in the yard, and Molly helped by laying like a side of beef on the warm river rock gravel and sleeping.

Amazingly, our two cats could really care less about sharing the house with this wienner dog. They'll hiss at her occasionally, but I think they were more concerned about having to share their food ration with her and once they knew that it wasn't going to be the case they said, "no big deal".

So ladies and gentlemen, I give you Molly...