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Introducting Gretel

I know that no one will believe us, but honestly we just went to look. No really, we were just going to look, seriously, that was all we were planing on doing when we visited the Dumb Friends League Buddy Center this past Monday. Then yesterday at 4pm, we went to pick up our new addition - Gretel:

The Buddy Center
At Buddy Center Greeting her new Mommy & Daddy (she cried all the way home, for a little thing, she has quite the set of vocal chords)
The first glimpse of the new home.
We knew the family

Free Comic Book Day - May 2nd

Free Comic Book Day is held the first Saturday in May, this year that hit on this Saturday, May 2nd. Free Comic Book Day is when participating comic books shops around the world give away comic books free to any one who walks into their shop, yep, absolutely free.

To find out more details on this fabulous day you can visit the Free Comic Book Day website or to find a participating shop near you go to their official FCBD Shop Locator.[image error]

More Spring Time in the Rockies

Looking out at our backyard on this beautiful spring day here on April 27th in Colorado.

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Hellboy 3: The Chained Coffin and Others by Mike Mignola

I have read Hellboy 1, then 4, then 2, and just finished 3, because why would you want to do that chronological thing? Any hoo, Hellboy 3: The Chained Coffin and Others is like Hellboy 4: The Right Hand of Doom (or should that be the other way around?), where at the beginning of each section there are notes from author/illustrator, Mike Mignola, on his inspirations for the stories. I enjoyed those notes as much as I did the stories because they go into the mythology and folklore he used as the