Luka running

This picture made me laugh so much. I just had to share.

Posted by Mark Wallace Posted in: Luka No Comments » September 2008

Luka Sphynx

Luka let me put milkbones on his feet. Very funny.

Posted by Mark Wallace Posted in: Luka No Comments » July 2008

FURminator

Luka has been shedding constantly.  So we bought a FURminator.  The results are spectacular.

FURminator from Wallace Family on Vimeo.

Posted by Mark Wallace Posted in: Luka No Comments » May 2008

Crazy Dog!

Diane caught Luka and I running around the house tonight.  Sometimes Luka gets inspired to run like a crazy dog around the house and it’s one of the funniest things ever.  Luka was shaved for an ultrasound recently.  He’s a healthy dog but looks funny.

Posted by Mark Wallace Posted in: Humor, Luka No Comments » April 2008

Bump In The Road

There is a bump on Ray Road.  It has no hidden agenda.  It harbors no ill feelings toward anyone.  It doesn’t think about those passing over it day after day. It’s not doing anything differently today than it has for the past few years.  It’s just a bump, an aberration on the asphalt. This bump has changed lives.

May 14, 2007 and the 2002 Honda CBR hit the bump. The same bump that this same Honda had traveled over many times.  But May 14 was different. What was different?  I don’t know.  Same rider, same bike, same bump; different day. Front tire wobbling handlebars slamming back and forth. Bike tumbling.  Rider thrown.  The asphalt catching the rider. Slashed fingers, broken ribs, broken shoulder blade, fractured knee, skin torn.  Mom and child in stroller safe on sidewalk. Indian music playing on iPod. Panic, calm, confusion, wonder.  Rider off bike but now carried in a helicopter.

I wish I could have a chat with that bump in the road. I’d like to have a Q&A session with it.  I’d ask it what it had against my friend Bill. Why Bill, why not kick a bicyclist off his ride resulting in less damage, not the months of rehab Bill had after his crash.  Would the bump blame the front tire? Would the bump even care?  I doubt it.

I’d like to have a chat with the snow outside of Winter Park, Colorado. In 1988 my friend Davy and I were driving along a mountain pass and our car lost traction and we began sliding toward a steep decent.  Certainly we would have been injured if not killed.  But the tires and the snow had a conversation.  The snow let the tires grip and our car stopped.  We’d been given a reprieve.

I’d also like to have an interview with the cancer cells that killed my dog Sammy last year. I’d like to hurt those cells; beat them with a heavy phone book and make them suffer. Waterboard them. I’d get answers out of them.  But those cells are tough, I doubt they would give up any answers or tell me anything that the bump couldn’t.  Which is absolutely nothing. 

Maybe Sammy’s cancer cells would tell me to chat with the malaria that suddenly killed my friend Jan in 1992. Perhaps the Malaria would have me check in with the malaria pills Jan had stopped taking weeks after her return from Africa. The pills would cry that they could have saved her.  They would have done it if they could. If only…

These bumps in the road are frustrating.  They are out there everywhere.  You can’t see them coming until you’ve hit them.  Sure you’d do things differently if you could.  You’d drive a different route, you’d take the pills, you’d get a better vet, you’d slow down.  But you didn’t. And you can’t go back.  Damage done.

Last night we had another bump in life’s road. A trip to the emergency vet to see what was happening to Luka.  He was feverish, drooling constantly, eyes watering, discolored tongue, acting funny.  Renal failure? Valley fever?  What was the problem?  We did not know.  The vet told us to come right in and we did.

Luka had his checkup.  The vet checked his mouth, took his temperature, took blood.  We waited an hour for the verdict.  We were called into examining room no. 1 for the results.  This was the exact same room where Sammy had died just a year earlier.  Luka was sitting in the exact place where Sammy died when the vet entered the room to tell us the results.

We were fortunate. Luka is fine.  No internal problems.  He had a problem with his mouth that caused the tongue discoloration and drooling. The problem was minor.  On the way home I started thinking about the bump on Ray Road and decided that the bump does have something to say.  If it could talk it would tell us something.

Cherish life. Cherish those you love. Do those things you intend to do.  Don’t waste your time. Don’t get distracted. Pet your dog.

Thanks for the insight Bump.  Perhaps next time you could just give us a gentle reminder instead of tossing my friend over the handlebars or killing my dog.  Jerk.

Posted by Mark Wallace Posted in: Dogumentary, Events, Luka, Motorcycles, Random Stuff No Comments » December 2007

Coffee thief No. 2

Once again Luka wants some coffee.

Posted by Mark Wallace Posted in: Luka No Comments » November 2007

Crappy Dog Park

We took Luka to the dog park earlier today.  Luka had a blast.  Unfortunately we probably won’t be going back anytime soon.  The dog park was littered with dog poo.  Not only is this nasty but it’s very unhealthy was well.  The dog park has signs everywhere telling people to clean up after their dogs.  They even have stations placed all over with doggie bags and trash cans.  They couldn’t really make it any easier to clean up after your dog.  But clearly, people aren’t cleaning up after their dogs.

What’s up with dog owners just letting their dogs poop and then not cleaning up after them?  That’s part of being a dog owner.  If you own a dog you’d better pick up after them.  After all – it’s your duty (pun intended).

Posted by Mark Wallace Posted in: Luka No Comments » November 2007

Coffee Thief

Last year I left a cup of Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino on an end table.  Luka discovered it and gulped it right down before I got back into the room.  Since that time he begs for coffee whenever I make it; which is every day.  I’m sure coffee is not good for dogs, so we’ve never let him have it again.  But he tries really hard to get his next fix.  Today I caught him trying to get a lick of my most recent frap.

ps. these are absolutely iLomo pictures.  woot for the iPhone!

Posted by admin Posted in: Luka 1 Comment » November 2007

My dog is famous

For a limited time you can post your ownphoto on the Jumbo Tron in TimesSquare.  I uploaded a picture of me and Luka and our photo was shown today.

Click here to see theoriginal photo.

Posted by admin Posted in: Luka No Comments » December 2006