On the hunt for a pound hound

We've been blessed with some really beautiful weather over these past few days! Joel had to work for a little while on Saturday and Sunday mornings, but he got home at 9 am and 8 am respectively, so we still had our whole weekend! Speaking of work...Joel got some great news on Friday! He has been supervising the maintenance of the "C" properties (the lowest on the totem pole), but he received the new schedule on Friday, and he now has all "A" properties!!! It is great to know that they're already rewarding his hard work, and we've only been here a month! He'll have an all new (and larger) crew now, and I can't wait to hear about the new properties.

Saturday, we got the puppy itch, so we visited the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak region. The shelter was very nice, but unfortunately, they didn't really have what we're looking for. We're on the hunt for a hound puppy, but there aren't many puppies in the shelters here. We also went to a few different "adoption fairs" that rescue organizations hold at the Petco and Petsmart stores around here. Since we didn't find a puppy, we decided to start an outdoor project Saturday afternoon. We found some Adirondack chairs on sale and spent the day staining them and putting them together.
Chair 1 finished.
Joel taking a break after chair 1 was finished.
The final product (minus cute outdoor pillows and a tablecloth).

The other day, I mentioned that we walked up to Palmer Park and hiked around a bit. This picture shows a view of part of Palmer Park from far away, just so you have a little idea of what it is like (it is the rocky/treey area in the distance):