Well, no pictures. The cell phone just doesn't take very good pics, and I don't have a digital camera. (MIKE: TAKE NOTE. CHRISTMAS IDEA. CHECK USED CAMERAS ON EBAY.)
Last Friday, any picture of mud would have sufficed for the dog blog. It was raining when I got home from work, and getting dark already. Nevertheless, I decided to put a jacket on and go outside and throw the ball for the pup for a while to settle him down a bit. (I canNOT tire him out. He is bouncing off the walls when I come home. The most I can do is make him run for the ball until he has settled down from mad dash to trot.) BIG mistake. It was too dark for me to see that in the rain, he was churning up the grass in the backyard, along the route he always takes around the herb garden and back up to the top of the yard, where I stand and throw the ball. His path turned to mud, and by the time we went back inside he was covered with it. Puddles of muddy water were running off him.
Tonight's picture would be very nice, though. Since falling on my knee I can't kneel by the tub to bathe him myself, so I took him to Petco for grooming, which in his case amounts to a bath, nail trimming, ear cleaning, and brushing. When I picked him up he had a new bandanna around his neck. I expected this to bother him and I intended to take it off, but I changed my mind because honest to God, he seems to like wearing it.
I still have M's digital camera, so I suppose to could get on the Friday Dog Blog bandwagon if I pushed myself. Then again, Poca hates to be photographed, and I think all the pics of Saint (my Saint) would feature the tennis ball pressed up against the lens. lol
LOL!! The tennis ball pressed up against the lens. :) Our Saints have a lot in common. Although our favorite ball here is a larger ball that glows in the dark after it's been in the light.
Well, the tennis ball is only half the trick -- the hedgehog would definitely be part of the picture too, if he could juuuust manage to work out how to carry both in his mouth at the same time! (He's getting close and doing it more often, so I think he's actually working on perfecting that trick.)