Yes, I am still typing on my half keyed keyboard – see previous post.  I hope your summer has been full of beautiful sun rises (humid as hell), comfortable yet sunny afternoons (hotter that hell) and cool, breezy evenings (again, hotter than hell).  Now that I got my frustration out, I feel so much better sitting inside where it is a comfortable 74 degrees.

We have been dog sitting my parent’s puppy, Ziggy, while they are on vacation.  Oh the joy of having a puppy again.  Our two dogs are 8 and 10 years of age – respectively in their prime in human years!  Needless to say, we are out of practice when it comes to having a puppy.  The big stinker LOVES diapers – clean and dirty.  The diaper thieving has got to stop.  She has hidden a dirty diaper somewhere in our daughter’s room.  It is HORRIBLE!!!  We have searched high and low and it is no where to be found.  We may have to evacuate.  Along with diapers, she also loves less stinky things like socks, anything that resembles a shoe, toy trains (which are ALL OVER the house – our son’s favorite word is choo-choo), bars of soap, rugs, and anything else human related. 

Our alpha dog is a 4 pounder and she sure holds her ground with this monstrous puppy.  It has been pretty entertaining watching her alpha-batize Ziggy.  Ziggy on the other hand is in love with our 10 year old male lab.  “Love at first snarl” is what I call it.  Our lab tolerates her like a junior high girl’s crush on the high school quarter back.  You just want to tell the poor thing to let it pass, play with friends her own age and be patient – her time will come.  Just call me the dog sage or completely insane for taking on a puppy larger than our 2 year old son.