Some Old Stuff

I was going through some old stuff this evening and found a couple of pictures that brought back memories.

Here my Newfoundland, Barharber's Captain Black and I are at a water rescue class. Captain always loved these classes and when his turn would come he would dive right in and do his job. It was his owner that didn't seem to get it most of the time. Or maybe I just wasn't good at playing drowning. We took the water rescue classes in the late 1980's. Captain was a young adult at that time weighing in at a hefty 175 pounds. In this picture he was actually swimming. His feet didn't quite reach the bottom of the lake.

This picture is my all time favorite.

Captain's first real outting was when he was about 5 months old. He was in the back of the pickup with the two kids, Jim and Jen and they played the entire trip to a local park where we all wanted to take Captain for a walk. It was a fun day, but as soon as the truck had stopped, Captain wanted out to explore this whole new world. It took Jim and Jen all they had to keep him in the truck while this picture was shot.

Once out of the truck, Captain was his usual gentleman self. He never lost this quality throughout his entire life.