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♥Sep. 15th, 2013 // 11:25 am♥
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Another good night, so I think we've cracked it. We also left Jodie alone in the house for the first time, while we went out for a short hack. She'd obviously been around all the exterior doors, trying to see where we'd got to, but no scrabbling and, when we got back, she was just sitting nicely with her nose pressed against the conservatory door watching until I let her out, so I think she'd just been lying on the living room carpet waiting for us. She is much better about letting us out of her sight now, which is very good.
(I even had a moment of worry while we were mucking out: she was nowhere to be seen, but then I realised she'd gone up to the field to sit in the shade.)
She has a new Best Thing Ever, which is coming outside with me at dusk and waiting to be let into the field, at which point she shoots off like a rocket (again, letting me out of sight!). I assume that she's chasing bunnies, but whatever it is she comes back terribly excited and does another of her Best Things Ever: drinking half the fish pond.
The Baby is amusing me, too: he's a bit constrained by only having GB to play with (to be fair to GB, he does sort of try to join in, but it's more of a half-heated trot when Jonny's bucking his way across the field!), and he seems to have decided that Jodie was a good prospect when he saw her running around. So he's started chasing her. She's not really very sure about this, and usually comes to hide behind me when he does it but she is getting less timid around the boys, so maybe they'll be able to play tag together.
Off for anniversary lunch, now, and a walk in the woods. |
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I'd Read About It In Books....
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♥Sep. 15th, 2013 // 08:08 pm♥
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Today, I got to do something I'd never done before. I'd read about it, lots of times, in books. I'd even confidently told bewildered Americans that it really did happen, All The Time.
Yes, I went to an English pub and ended up having conversations with complete random strangers purely on the basis that I had a dog with me.
Now, on the other hand, it is blowing a storm (I was outside a little while ago and heard a creaking, cracking noise. I turned around in time to see one of the budlias topple gently onto the lawn. It is relatively sheltered in the back garden, for which I fear that we may have to thank the house-high-even-though-it-was-topped-a-few-years-ago laylandii tree that we had been planning to yank out) and my beloved husband is celebrating our anniversary with a Worldcon Skype. Ah, wedded bliss. [g] |
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