Our JennEric Life

Jan

2010

The only time it pays to be a tall woman in Korea

[decided to start in the middle of the story - just to shake things up]

Part of the Family Day festivities at the gunnery – aka the Rodriguez Live Fire Center outside of Pocheon - included our very own “live fire” demo.

Gunnery: Just like it sounds. A place to go with guns. The guys carry their guns – everywhere; the helicopters are loaded with rounds & rockets.

And I found myself, with my rinky-dink point & shoot camera, towering over & amongst the little Korean men from some pretty major news sources.

There was AP News & Reuters – to name a few.

All with 3 foot lenses & cool one-legged tripods.

And they were all jockeying for the best spots to take pictures.

I wasn’t the only wife there…but I was the only one willing to brave the wind, the cold & piles of deep snow to get a once-in-a-lifetime shot.

The rest were standing warm & snug in the VIP Viewing building – just to our right.

But they didn’t get to snag this shot!

There’s lots more to share – but it’s getting late here & I’m still defrosting from yesterday.

Hope you’re having a great weekend!

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Jan

2010

A New Coat

For a cold pup

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This is my little stuffed sausage, Maggie Moo.

Since it’s been so cold here for so long…so much snow on the ground that won’t seem to go away…she’s been hesitant to go for walks.

When we do go, she comes home with a runny nose & chills.

Short-haired dogs just don’t do so well in the cold.

Well, at least not this one.

So I found a custom-sized coat for her on Etsy which came in the mail yesterday.

I thought I had measured it out so that there’d be a little wiggle room, but the girl has obviously filled out a little more in a month’s time.

Probably all those peanut-butter potty treats.

But she got her first chance to try it out today…and man, does she love it!

She ran & ran & ran & ran & ran & ran & ran & ran.

And when it was finally time to head back home she still wanted to play.

But it was time to go – so back on the leash she went as we made our way back.

I stopped to take a picture of the huge icicles hanging off the training building…moved forward to take it at another angle…and the next thing I knew Maggie was swinging me around – still wanting to play – as I fell square on my knee & hit the ground.

All for that picture.

One that looks just like the other one.

Now I’ve got a very swollen, very bruised knee & I’m hopping a bus tomorrow for family day in the field.

It’s a 3 hour trip one-way. I’ll get to watch a live fire demo (and take lots of pictures), eat what I hope to be a better lunch than our Christmas Dinner & then spend 2 hours with Eric before hopping the bus back home.

All I know is that I’m heading north into the mountains & it’s going to be much colder than it is here.

But I ought to have some great pictures for a change.

Hope you all are having a wonderful Friday!