Monday, April 19, 2010

Worked on the yard

We did some yard work this weekend, finally. Flowers, a raised bed
which will hold herbs and leafy greens, and I pulled about 400lbs of
concrete anchors out of the ground. It's awesome that when they
removed the fence, they left the concrete down there. Also awesome:
they did it twice. We have a lot more landscaping to do. It should be
fun.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Louie is in the house.



Tiffani's birthday is this month. She wants a puppy - badly. I've wanted another dog for awhile now. We attempted to pick up a new dog on my birthday. After thinking it over for a few hours we decided that we wanted to go pick him up. We were bummed to hear that he had been adopted in the meantime. The sadness we both felt at missing the opportunity to raise that cute puppy affirmed that we were indeed emotionally prepared for the adventure of puppy-hood. So Saturday, we adopted a dachshund/terrier mix. He's adorable. I took him to the vet this morning and all is well. The vet confirmed that he is indeed a dog, and that he is a healthy one at that. He runs and clumsily falls all the time, annoys Gus and shits the size of his head. I'm sort of beginning to think that half of his body is made up of his bowels. I was up every two hours last night to let him out to pee. It was a bit rainy, but every time we went out, he was quick about it. When we got back inside, he laid down in his crate and went right back to sleep. The dachshund in him has him creeping into the darkest corners of the house. Right now he's under the ottoman grumbling in his sleep.
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Gus is nervous. He doesn't know what's happening. He paces and bites harder than usual while playing. I'm really hoping that in the long run, this is good for him. I think he'll get used to it as the routine becomes more, well, rout
ine. In the meantime he's gaining a bit of weight from all the positive reinforcement we're throwing his way. So it goes.