Time Well Spent

So E had a few weeks off between jobs. He really liked his short commute but an opportunity came up that was a career move he couldn't pass up. I miss him coming home so early during the day. It means more time in my crate then I like. :(

But for two weeks I had my run of the house and yard as E and I worked on all kinds of little projects. First was the brick patio out back. I really tear up the yard when it rains as I jump in and out of the back door. So E thought we would expand the brick patio that the grill sits on. While E was working on that I did my best stick my nose in the freshly dug dirt trying see if there was anything interesting under all the grass. When I got bored with that I started wrestling with the bags of gravel E bought to put the bricks on. I amazed even myself when I found I was able to lift and move the 50 pound bags!

A few days later when E's back recovered from moving all those bricks he started hanging new closet doors. I didn't see why we needed new doors but humans are a different breed.

The worst project we did was the painting. E & A want to repaint the main floor of the house. That is going to require a lot of prep work. It started with the priming since E had already sanded the wall down after applying putty to hide a few scratches in the wall. I wasn't as invited to help with the paint. Apparently dog fur and paint don't work well together, or so I'm told.
I liked working with E because he is a pretty cool boss. I helped when I wanted to help and took a nap when I wanted to take a nap. I think he needs to learn to delegate more of the work because every time I got too involved he would tell me to relax and not work so hard. I love E & A so I just want to help wherever I can!

R

Another week gone by

Nothing too exciting happening here. E&A say that the spring rains are a bit cooler than usual, but I just find them to be wet! A took a little hop up to Long Island for work, but made it back in time for my class - that hourly shuttle comes in handy! E has put in his 2 week notice with the county and is going to be starting a new job soon. Still not sure exactly which position he'll take, but he's going to have to adjust to the commuting lifestyle again. They say that's going to affect our play times, but we'll still get time to play...it'll just be later in the day when he gets home.

R

Bigger and Better

After all my hard work and creative redesign and modification of my crate structure, E&A have given me an upgrade! It seems that they didn't like the modified style of disconnected welds and bent bars. I mean it was an Incredible Hulk type of statement, even if all that would fit through was my nose! But when I spread them enough that I stretched the latch housing and the latch fell out... Well, their confidence on my containment plummeted. I just miss them so much when they're gone!

Since I'm on the small side for a GSD, it was a bit of a debate if I should get a bigger size in addition to a stronger mesh grid. E really likes how my ears poke up through the top of the crate when I sit in there. But E and A debated about what the crate makers meant by ability to comfortably turn around. After some consideration, they went for the bigger size too! Yippee - it's like being in the penthouse suite!

So after some opportunites to test it out, those vertical barsa don't seem to bend. But my tongue still fits through! I don't want to divulge all my secrets, but I have a little something that I do during the day that leaves a bit of a slobber puddle beneath the latches. E came home early today - didn't tell me that he wasn't going to work. And when he went to let me out, he found that the latches were a bit slimy and didn't lilke that much. Shame!

But my new crate is shiny and bigger and stronger. What dog could ask for more? I hope we can find a happy home for my old crate...maybe my old friends at VGSR could use it? We'll see.