StanleyandGus

Tahdah! Gus is hoping for a bird.

That’s so beautiful I googled them. Zone 7-10. My zone 3 garden will have to do without.

They’re beautiful! The hair from 2 of them must be spectacular.

Here you go! 😁 I vacuumed this morning. Sigh.

We’ve been taking Thor to the dog park pretty much every day. I don’t know any of the owners’ names, but Thor is happy to meet Missy, Chloe, Laika, Gunner, Leo, Rocket, Gaeta….

I said that I would take photos of the garden. The circular garden in the front yard we put in last year. The long garden, and rock/ garden-y thing is a month old. The neighbours are relieved, because it replaced a horrible black fence and a rotting retaining wall. As a bonus, there’s a photo of Thor being lazy. Staying off furniture lasted about 2 minutes. I don’t know how to organize photos nicely.

That is unbelievably hot. Is that typical for Dallas? Graham does have a lovely garden!

I keep wanting to comment on things, but so many pages have passed, that every one is on to another topic! After a tremendous rain storm, the heat is temporarily over, and today will be comfortably warm. I can’t complain, because we needed the rain, although yesterday morning, with the dog slowly doing his business (or not) and the rain bucketing down… Apparently German Shepherds are totally fine with rain. The dog park now has a lake, which Thor thought was a tremendous addition! I think I will take some pictures today of our newest project- we had a concrete retaining wall put in to replace a rotting wood one, and we put a fence on part of it.

I seem to be having trouble quoting, but about your son’s dog pulling… I’m not sure how you feel about this, but a training collar works. I’m in much the same position- I am looking after my son’s German Shepherd until Christmas. Thor does listen to and obey James, but I was having trouble going for walks with him. It doesn’t help that he weighs 100 lbs. James agreed to this. So- the training collar,also known as a shock collar- he wears it, and very occasionally (like once on a 30 minute walk) I press the button, he shakes his neck, and we resume having a nice walk. It has made a huge difference. It’s not terribly powerful, the dog is not seizing or anything like that. I don’t like pressing the button, however, he’s much safer if he can be well behaved. We actually went into Petsmart this week, and he was well behaved. 6 weeks ago, that seemed impossible. That reminds me, it’s time for walkkies!

Congratulations on being home! I hope you have lots of help for the move.

I realized that didn’t sound quite as tongue in cheek as I had intended. Confession: my temporary dog eats jackrabbit poop.

I think there needs to be another reaction, besides “thanks” “funny” and “like”. Perhaps 🤢?