PICTURES!!!!

so, here are the pictures of my yummy mango salsa:



it was soooo good!

i used the last of it to make a fritatta for jon and i for dinner one night . . . mmmmmm black beans.

anyway, here are some other pictures of our life:

this is hudson napping on the floor under a blanket he stole from our roommate (blues clues).


right now he is curled up in his kennel sleeping with a stuffed squeaky raccoon that i bought for him on thanksgiving. he loves toys that squeak for some reason.

here are sara and i in boston.


she visited last week after flying to ireland to see deborah. before she flew to ireland though she had a layover in boston. i drove up and spent the day with her and our cousin emily and her husband brian. we ate at the pub that the tv show cheers was modeled after. we walked through boston commons and got ourselves some red cups from starbucks (because we couldn't find a local coffee shop to go to instead).

after taking hudson to the vet and getting him vaccinated for lime's disease, we took him hiking in the woods. he LOVED it! he is such a good hiking dog! he stays mostly on the trail and always stays in eyesight. but he also loves sniffing for rodents and trying to get hawks out of their trees and eating rabbit poop. he eats so much crap. i'm amazed that he didn't have any intestinal parasites (the vet did a test for them and it came out negative).
this is hudson trying to find a way to get to the top of the rock with jon:


new england in the fall


he did get a lot of ticks this week though, even though we put his flea and tick medicine on him . . . it SAYS that it kills ALL ticks . . . well, not the 9 or so that we've had to pull out of him.

he does so good letting us pull them out though - probably because he knows he'll get a treat when it is all done. it is sooooo gross.

anyway, yesterday we went to REI for the christmas sale. jon bought me my christmas present (i am going to be SO surprised when i open it) and we got some other gifts for people (maybe you?) as well as a backpack for hudson.

when we got home we tried it on him and he was so good! he stood still and let me put it on hiim and didn't seem to mind it. we put some weights in the pockets and he just carried them around. he didn't try to take it off or anything. jon did some research and it says that malamutes are working dogs and can carry up to 50 pounds on their own. the vet said it would be good for him to just let him wear his pack around the house so he gets some exercise carrying stuff and feels like he is "helping" out or doing some work.

anyway, so now when we hike or camp, he can pack his own things in and out. it even has little drain holes in it in case he decides to go swimming while he is wearing it! :)

so, he and i both received our christmas gifts early . . .

what do you want for christmas?

see you in 2 1/2 weeks!!

love,
tabitha and jon