I know she felt this sentiment more than a few times with my brother and
I acting like wild animals stuck in a cage together - "kill or be
killed" was often our motto! Yet, we somehow survived, thanks to mom swooping in to save the day.
Here we are in all our glory back in the good ol' days. I've posted this picture before but it's still a good one - from the robot-like, yet stunned facial expressions to my brother's stiff stance - it's a classic! Oh and the dresses, aren't they just fantastic?
Happy Mother's Day mom! Hope you have a wonderful day!
The river had me on my toes today! I was cutting wood and noticed that the river was starting to overflow... in a BIG way!
It was flowing pretty fast and started out a nice trickle on the top...
Which turned into this in mere minutes!
Maggie and Howler are checking it out. He loved it and walked all over it but Maggie is a wee bit more reserved (er, smart??).
Excuse the dirty video lens!
Maggie and I decided we needed to outrun it!
She's game for any of my stupid games, I love her big smile at the end of the video!
And the oldsters - they are kicking around too!
Kuna leads the herd!
Doing some wood cutting. This was as the river was speeding my way. I literally had to cut like a maniac to beat the river overflow!!
Little(or not so little!) Louis is no longer dwarfed by Kuna!
Ooh, new trees to sniff!!!
This picture KILLS me!!! It's Gracie getting REALLY excited about the possibility of GOING HOME from our walk!!! Hey, they are 13 now, and not so spry as they once were. When we go for walks, sometimes she'll come, sometimes she comes half way then goes back home. Today she came allll the way to the river (a whopping .75km) and then not 5 seconds later got all excited about George running back to her because she figured we were all going home. That dog is so funny. Plus she gets really excited about going home because that's where the post-walk treats are!
So that's it! Welcome spring. See ya ol' man winter.
One sunny, beautiful early spring afternoon, my neighbour (we'll call her Mindy, to protect the innocent) came over for an afternoon of bananagrams and wine!
This was not long after Howler poked his eye out. He was still in the cone, recovering.
We were having some cheese and crackers to go with that wine and the funniest thing happened that can *ONLY be explained with shitty cartoons (and maybe a lot of wine):
We were so wrapped up in conversation (and both oblivious to our dogs sometimes) that we didn't really notice Louis and conehead-Howler hovering on either side of her, eyeing up her coveted CHEESE!
Looking back we realized they must have been obsessed with that one piece for awhile... as she flailed her arms around and laughed and talked, they had only one thing on their minds...
So we kept talking and laughing... Louis never took his eye off that cheese and Howler knew something worthwhile was close, even if he couldn't see it. Those extra senses must be kicking in.
they kept watching...
when all of a sudden, Louis POUNCED! (and looks like a goat here, sorry)
totally taking Mindy by surprise!!!
It all happened so fast, she didn't know what to do! The piece of cheese went flying and over her into Howler's CONE!!!
Howler WON, proving that even a gimpy, still-drugged-up, one-eyed conehead can prevail!
*No cheese or dogs or neighbours were hurt in the making of this cartoon (ok, maybe their feelings were hurt on account of these shitty drawings)
