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The newest member of the San Diego Zoo has been determined to be a girl! We saw them last week with Adam and Abigayle but on closed circuit TV because she’s so little.

We also saw a Timberwolf who was given a pet since he was lonely at the zoo. They got him a golden retriever. I love this picture but Roe is now lobbying for a pet. If a wolf gets a retreiever maybe he needs a hamster.

In not recently observed form, Roe once again channeled Houdini this Friday night. After an evening of heavy shopping in preparation for Saturday’s party, we pulled into our neighbor hood well past dark. Cruising down the street, strategizing the tasks still at hand, I saw a beautiful white dog sitting along side of the road. Framed in light from a conveniently located streetlamp and basking in the glow of a woman gently patting his head was a dog that I though looked suspiciously like Roe. Which I then noted out loud. Paul, how had been more deeply discussing our evenings plans, urged calm. Having secured the doors and padlocked fences and seen him lying on the sofa during our departure, it couldn’t be – could it?

We arrived home a few hundred feet beyond and quickly checked. Every door, every window, every padlocked gate was secure – and no Roe was found.

We walked down the street and as we grew near – the tail started to wag. He’d been there for an hour sitting on her porch. The neighbor came out and gave him some water before setting down to pet the beautiful, friendly dog. As we thanked her wand walked off, Roe healed at my feet like he’d been to obedience school and paid attention. I was relieved but wondered, how he had done it. The only way, was to sneak past Paul before he shut the kitchen door and hide behind the sofa in the garage where I was sitting in the car and run out when the garage door went up and hide before we backed out to see him. That’s it – a perfect sequence; a daring escape. Is he lucky? Or is he a canine descendant of Houdini?

As we walked home, relieved to be a family again the neighbor hollered, “Did you know he’s shedding?”

So what did I do in sunny San Diego this weekend? I went to 3 IKEA’s. I’m not sure if I should reply honestly when asked tomorrow at work about what I did this weekend. Some might think I ‘ve gone over the edge of reason but all I can say, is Paul went to.

We’ve been working on upgrading our household storage. The walk-in closets of our previous abode are sorely missed. Although we’ve made things fit, we needed just a little more room so things would fit comfortably. We designed a 140″ long and 93″ tall storage wall for our bedroom to solve the problem. In scheming and planning our new storage, we found that the red lacquer doors we wanted were soon to be discontinued. But we could get drawer fronts in Burbank and some doors in Irvine and the rest of the cabinets here in San Diego. So, after a trip to our local IKEA, we ventured out in a rented SUV to two more IKEA’s. The first one 150 miles north of San Diego in Burbank and the other south of LA in Irvine. It was a long day. The cabinets are up, they have doors and drawers and tomorrow, 90 vertical inches of 20″ wide shoe storage. I am so very excited.