Dobermann Pinschers – Family Members
Bouchard caught a frog out back just now. Eeek! I felt so bad for that frog. Its legs were splayed out and they were long. I was not sure if it were deceased or not. Bouchard put me in an unenviable position having to deal with this. And not to mention that poor frog. I poured some dirt on it and put it in a plastic bag. Several bags. Then I put it in my chest freezer in case it wasn’t deceased yet.
Yesterday, I made a 36-egg omelet in the crockpot. I included shredded carrots and a stick of butter. I put it in at lunch and came home hours later to the lid floating atop the very expanding concoction in that slow cooker. Eegads! Well, I cleaned up the mess, and what was inside was good, so thought Luigi, who barked until he was fed.
This morning we had oatmeal, butter, brown sugar and Baby got a little maple syrup and cream in hers being she’s the Queen Mother and initially snubbed hers. I put her Platinum Performance on top, and I think that smothered all the good smells beneath. She ate and was especially pleased when Luigi stood by her waiting to see if she’d leave any morsels. She didn’t.
After breakfast, Bouchard went into the backyard to hunt a peanut in one of our PVC posts yet to be cut for our jumps. I’d stuck peanuts in those posts when we played “find the peanut” earlier in the week. Well, I went inside to get the camera. I wanted to get a snap shot of him digging. He dug as if that would get the peanut out of the post (he’s such a snail hunter). When I came back, the FDSP was in action chasing a squirrel on the utility lines as it ran across.
Needless to say, Bouchard is a part of that posse, so I lost the chance to get the digging picture. But I did get a picture of his artwork.
As I tipped the post up, I called Bouch over so he could get his just reward. Meanwhile, Raven, who thinks she is first in line for everything, ran over to warn Bouchard to back off. I supersede Raven big time in rank, so that little trick of hers didn’t work. Bouchard got his peanut and Taylor inspected the remnants in the hole to be sure nothing was left for a little Aussie to scavenge. There wasn’t.
Baby was appalled when she checked on her peanut. OK, she’d been working that peanut for days, and I forgot. I am in big trouble now! And she’s really disgusted the way the whole scene played out. Eeek!
This is a picture I took of the peanut in the tube, but you can’t see a peanut. Instead, in the background, you can see my new air palm, which is a result of a very high branch that came down during tree cutting day earlier in the week. It’s a lovely air palm. It is.
Here are all the branches in my front yard. This includes the pine tree in one pile and in another are the branches of six traveller’s palms and one bird of paradise. I just couldn’t keep up with them, and they were looking very bad. I inherited them from the previous owner. Not my choice.
Raven got her tail caught in the door this morning. She is generally so worried that she won’t be able to get back out the door fast enough in case I decide to go out and leave her in. That is often my plan. I doubt her lesson was learned though. And we love tails here at Fort Doberdale, so this was a near catastrophe! However, tail and Raven are fine. She is in her usual state of being in trouble this Saturday.
Today is Luna’s one-year anniversary in Fort Doberdale. And what did she get as a surprise? A nice big needle on her backside! Eegads! How unpleasant. But she had to get her vaccination for rabies today. She is now good to go for three years. In 2011, she’ have to get another one, unless the law is changed by then.
The lady who came out of that door and gave Luna her vaccine was very upset. Luna was scared of her from the get go. After the vaccine, the woman said good-bye, but turned around and she squatted down and said, “Dogs aren’t afraid of me.” Well, Luna was, and she wanted no part of anyone in that joint. She just wanted to go home. So I told the lady a man had scared her before she came out, (by walking by and making a noise), and that is why Luna was scared. So we went home and when we got in the truck, Luna used the ol’ Raspberry to release some steam. At home Luna couldn’t wait to get outside to chase a few lizards!
Happy one-year anniversary, Luna.
(She’s getting treats, too.)
🙂
Well, I took the saw out of the box today. I knew I was off to a bad start with it when I couldn’t find the directions on how to open the box from the top. You can’t. It’s a side opening box. But I got the saw out, read the directions, attached my special saw blade, and 75 minutes later proceeded to saw my first piece of white vinyl house siding for my broad jumps.
After about 15 minutes of trying to saw the thing and getting no further than half a foot and making a nice dent in my really nice outdoor table, I put the beastly saw down (It is heavy!) and went in the laundry room to find my hand saw. This worked much better. I sawed more in 15 minutes with this hand saw then I would have gotten done all day with that beast I started with.
While I worked, the sky had some magnificent shows. Now and then, I stopped to look and I had to take some pictures. This was an awesome view.
The FDSP had to go in and out the whole day. They got hot, they wanted to go inside. They got curious what I was doing outside, they wanted to come out. I got a lot of exercise. They did too. Bunny Butt (aka Taylor) was the busiest, as Aussies often are. She found a planter Frisbee and carried it around most of the afternoon. She occasionally rested.
When I finished the first jump of four, Regis was the one to go for it and he came running to me and cleared that jump, well, mostly. He is a very enthusiastic older gentleman, who has a sense of humor and a lot of dignity. Plus he loves to bark at the other boys every dern night when I’m making dinners. He’s the dinner police
The jumps are 90% finished. Yippie! I still have to get some longer screws for the one and only exception bar, and screw that end of the white vinyl house siding in, then the set will be officially complete. Meanwhile, we can still use them. Too bad I was too tired and got finished too late to do that tonight. But there will be other days to use them. For sure!
I was almost done building all four of the skeletons of the broad jumps after work and found that the directions weren’t quite accurate in some parts. As in there are four extra pieces of PVC. Then I also found that the last jump skeleton had a glitch. One of the two 5-1/4″ pieces of PVC was smaller than it should have been, which made the jump bow. That would have been fine if it bowed before I pounded the PVC into the joints, but this was afterwards and I could not get all pieces apart. The directions say to glue these pieces together, but I can’t even get them apart to glue them! I’m not done trying yet, as I did get one elbow undone, but it got too close to 7 p.m., and my fur babies were hungry, so it was quitting time. But I was so close to finishing that whole skeleton project, and then, BOINK! There’s always a BOINK, isn’t there? Yep.
I think Raven’s got a urinary tract infection. That’s another BOINK!