The only thing that can compete with my absentmindedness is Dargo's mild temperament. Case in point. He just now decided to remind me that I had forgotten to feed him this morning.

Oy.

This morning I dragged myself out of sleep with the thought of a walk in the woods with an appreciative puppy. What could be better on a sunny spring morning than sunshine, budding trees and the boundless joy of a canine companion. When I opened my eyes, I realized the bedroom door was still shut. Odd, Dargo usually noses his way into the bedroom ( Read more... )

You never know how taxing a sedate walk around the block can be until you have an excited puppy tethered to your wrist. Actually he was pretty easy, but he still pulls when he gets excited. I'd feel bad about the fact that he chokes himself a bit when he pulls but for 1) he does it to himself, and he's a pretty smart dog and 2) every other harness/ ( Read more... )

One side-benefit of owning a dog is that I get out for walks every day, else our sweet puppy goes stir crazy and starts listening to the Bad Decision Dinosaur. (Thanks bluegargantua.) So this morning I got to do a two mile walk through the local conservation land with my puppy skipping merrily at my heels. As the fog began to burn off the entire forest was ( Read more... )

This morning terrier_girl got a phone call at 5 AM. We jolted out of sleep straight into emergency mode. A phone call at 5 AM can only mean that someone needs some help. Apparently the person needing help was me, because my phone was doing the calling. She tells me this and I look at my phone on the dresser, and sure enough the display light winks out, just as ( Read more... )

Dargo and I just had a very excellent walk to the bank and the library. We haven't done that in a while and at first he was all over the place. But in no time at all he remembered: to sit and heel at crosswalks; to lie down when I tuck his leash under my foot; and to walk beside me, not pulling me like a sled dog in heat ( Read more... )

Dargo is sweet and as mild mannered a puppy as I've ever met. But even he has his limits. After a completely self indulgent morning in bed I opened the door to the landing to find an ashamed and completely contrite dog surrounded by the stuffing from the inside of my boots. We hadn't got him out to the park in three days, and he felt unloved. So he ( Read more... )

When I play my violin, Dargo comes running to sit by my feet.

He's my biggest fan.

So in our recent before bed walks Dargo and I have seen a variety critters. It started with watching the fat behinds of two different skunks waddling away at high speed. Honest Dargo only wanted to play. Thankfully he was on leash. Then two nights ago there was the two year old raccoon we started grubbing in the neighbors weed-lot, he watched us ( Read more... )

Where to begin when you haven't written in weeks?

Spawning
The Spawn continues to grow, pushing terriergirl toward the inevetable snake that swallowed a hippo stage. She is no longer vomiting like Linda Blair every morning and is now entering the "strip mine the refrigerator" phase of the spawning. More pleasant for both me and...

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