Eating apples...

...almost always causes an armpit-surprise.

My buddy

sharing a cool patio evening.  Have to savor the weather when it is in this sweet spot, since it never lasts long enough.

Oops!

So yesterday we decided to take Doz and Tali to the park for a hike. I put Dozer’s harness on him, and gave him his leash to hold about half an hour before we were going out the door so we could avoid the crazy barking and jumping when the leashes come out. Apparently, with my brain it is a bad idea to change up our routine like that. As I discovered when we got to the park and realized that Dozer’s leash was not with us. 😕

Fortunately, Tali’s leash is a 2-parter- one bungee section that hooks to her collar and a waist belt so we can go hands-free.  So Tal got the belt hooked to her collar, Doz got the actual leash, and off we went.

Two things that came out of this – I am reminded of only a few short years ago when Tali used to pull like a little freight train and there is no way we would’ve been able to make that situation work. And two, I remembered to put the spare leash back in the car again.

TEEFERS!

Legos

So, a little story. When Dozer came home, we ended up closing off the upstairs and several rooms on the main floor with baby gates so the baby could be kept in eye and ear-shot at all times so he didn’t make (quite as many) bad choices.  The big toy box with all the dog toys was on the other side of one of the gates so I could trade their toys in and out (they get bored if they see things for too long, and putting it away for a week is as good as buying them something new). 

We finally took down that baby gate this past week. And the dogs have been taking full advantage of that toybox access. 😂Bones strewn everywhere- worse than Legos!

Veggie-hound

We had one single tomato plant on the patio in a cage that was not in the fenced in garden area. There was one tomato on this plant that was almost ripe. I checked on it after work... aaaand found a gigantic Bernese-sized bite out of the side. I would usually be tempted to blame Dozer, but I think this time I can pin the culprit by the yellow stains on her nose. :/

Cool day park

Nice cooler day with highs in the low 70s, so we took the puppies for a couple hours in the park.