This is my porch ... my sleeping porch.  In it you can find three beds waiting for you to crawl in and read a book, take a nap, or watch for squirrels. {that is if you can get past the guard} Shot with my iPhone 

  For quite awhile now the girls have begged me to get a new dog.  Each time they asked, the wall the death of our old dogs built up crumbled a bit. When I finally logged on to the rescue sites, I was overwhelmed by how many animals out there needed help.  I would look at a few and fall in love with each one.  Confused and sad I would log off, not ready to make a decision yet.  I finally decided to slyly poll the family and see what each person wanted if we did ever get another dog.  Armed with my crazy long list of personality traits, I logged on once again to see what I could find.  The list was so quirky that as I started checking off each request, ...