A Hard Lesson Learned !

It has been at least 7 or 8 months since I backed up my laptop. This past weekend it crashed on me. After conversing with HP, we have determind my motherboard went bad and it had to go back for repair or replacement. Normally I would of lost all of the pictures I took in that amount of time. I was heartsick until they told me to take it to Best Buy to have them retrieve the stuff I wanted off of my hard-drive before sending it back to them. So last night I tracked over to the closest Best Buy (still 40 miles away) and left my laptop with them with a $100 deposit for the hard-drive copying service. I am not complaining about spending the money for my precious mementos to be retrieved, I could of avoided it though if I had been backing up all along.........so I call it a hard lessoned learned. I'll get to pick it up tomorrow probably and then ship my laptop off to HP. Maybe have it or a new one back in 2 weeks.

In the meanwhile I borrowed an old pc last night with Windows ME that runs as slow as molasses. But hey, at least it gives me some sort of access.

I have taken loads on new pictures of my pugs, but do not have them at the moment to show. All is going well with Bandit, Paisley, & Smokey. I do hope all is going well with each of you and your pugs too.

I saw the coolest thing on the way home from town this morning when I stopped at a local convenient store to get gas in my van. A 65 years young lady riding a Honda 3 wheel GoldWing with a pug strapped inside a backpack on the front with her. She stopped in to the convenient store too. I was in heaven meeting a new pug and making a new pug pal with such spirit in her life. We exchanged names and numbers and she will be over soon. Didn't have my camera with me or I would of gotten a picture. Never thought to pull out my cam-phone to snap one. But will have one in the future. Its one of those Kodak moment photos just waiting for me to snap it!

I'll be around visiting later on this evening. May take me a while to get to each of you. Like I said, this borrwed pc is slow and trying to remember ME when I am used to Vista is like going retro. I'll get it figured out!

Pug Hugs to all,

Paula

Pose Training

I have been trying to train Smokey to pose as easily for me as Bandit & Paisley do. I am not having much success with it so far. This is what I got from my older two.



He wouldn't join in with them no way, no how! As a matter of fact, this is what I got from Smokey.



Is that deliberate defiance or what?......haha.

Bandit The Pug - Therapy Dog

Bandit passed his therapy dog certification this past Saturday 4/26/08, with Therapy Dog International. He did so well with the commands I gave him, staying off the food in his walkway, and around the handicapped equipment. We both have worked so long and hard for this. I am so very proud of him!

As a pug does, he loves all of the attention he gets on all visits, but tends to favor the attention from the children especially in the dog safety and prevent a bite programs we participate in.

Sharing the below pic of proud Mama and Bandit.