[Joe 6-pack]

No...I haven't obtained another New Skete dog...indeed, as you noted, there's a multi-year waiting list. Timber was still alive in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina rolled through, and that's when I rescued/adopted Ranger who's a Belgian Tervuren. I had the two of them for a couple years before Timber passed on, but now I just have Ranger. My work routine at present kind of precludes me from being fair to a new pup at this time, but perhaps someday :-)

In the meantime, Ranger keeps my hands full...

[afraidfortherepublic]

Those Belgians are nice too.

My daughter lives in the Albany/Saratoga area of NY, so maybe one day I’ll get to visit, if just to browse the gift shop. Cambridge is a little out of the way.

That chapel is certainly beautiful architecture. It looks Russian. Even the walls remind me of the chapel at Ft. Ross in CA (now burned to the ground by vandals) that dated from when the Russians had outposts almost as far south as San Francisco. Ft. Ross and the chapel were built of weathered redwood. Do you know what the Monks of New Skete used to build theirs?