Hello from Kate and the Pups

Hello everyone,

Since I last wrote Benny, Shona and I have had one major change - we moved into a new home. I now live on East 10th street in Hutchinson in a little duplex. It has two bedrooms, a nice sized living room, small kitchen and bathroom, washer, dryer and a screened in porch.

All three of us enjoy our home and minus a few issues with the upstairs neighbor smoking (which my landlord helped take care of) I have loved spending time there.

I had to take some time this holiday seasons to get my meds straightened out but it looks like I now have a much better medicine combination. My depression and anxiety has lessened and I feel much more equipped to cope with life now. I am lucky to have an excellent psychiatrist.

This coming month I will be starting the last phase of my certification program to have my dog training certificate. This involves training shelter dogs. I will meet once every other week with my "mentor trainer" and then put in 3 hours of work with the dogs in the in-between time. I'm nervous about starting because it's something new but also looking forward to having something to do.

Nothing else of note is going on in my life. Both Benny and Shona continue to work and learn new things and I'm thankful they are there for me.

I hope you are all staying warm!

Love,
Kate and the pups