Well the new puppy was actually more new a few months ago, but yeah, Dad and Autumn now have a half-year-old Irish wolfhound named Archer. The pictures I've seen of him are near-unbearably cute but honestly I'm glad I don't have to be there for purposes of housebreaking and other puppy stuff.

And yeah, I mean my backyard at home. Rest assured I'm not in England indefinitely and will be getting my sorry butt back stateside probably next summer unless my one awesome professor manages to talk me into doing a master's in English at Oxford after all.