Sophie. She was our Yellow Lab from 1990 to 2004. (Purebred, though I never learned whatever her fancy registered purebred name was; to us, she was just Sophie.) She had belonged to a co-worker of my Dad's; the colleague was getting a divorce and moving into a condo and had room for one of his two labs, not both. Luckily, we could provide Sophie a new good home, and in fact for years Dad had wanted to get a Yellow Lab, so...

...in January 1990, she joined us. I took this picture of Sophie in the backyard of our Oakton, VA house.


Sophie lived most of her life in Dundee, OR. Here's her at Dundee, later:


There. Cute dogs are worth blogging about.