Update on us - Willy, Alex and Misty

[PattyInAK]

Hi everyone, Willy Alex Misty here:  We are starting to settling into the new place.  We've been good during the day and have not broken out of our x-pen that mom set up for us in the entry hall.  Its a pretty nice area, actually, cause mom and dad bought two x-pens to hook together to give us as big a space as they could.  So we basically ended up with a space thats 4'x8'.  Big enough for our beds, water and poo pad (although we have not poo-ed in the new house YET, we are digging going outside like real dogs!). 

This is our routine -- sleep in the big bed ALL night.  Get up with mom, eat, go outside to poo and pee, then back to bed with dad.  We get up 30 minutes later with dad, yawn, stretch, go say hi to mom, then back to bed.  When mom is ready for work, we go downstairs and she blocks off the stairs so she can go back up and re-make the bed.  Then we go outside once again.  After that Mom gets our frozen cottage cheese and peanut butter marrow bones out of the freezer and says "time to get into your pen!"  Alex is the best one at this, he runs right in, grabs the best bed and settles down with his bone.  Willy is still not too sure, but eventually goes in on his own.  Misty is a royal pill and plays the game of "you have to catch me first!"  But this morning she did the best she's done so far at going into the pen of her own free will.

Going potty outside is a real trip seeing as our area is in full swing spring breakup.  What a mess!  A muddy mess!  But we tip-toe out and do our thing like good doggies.  Mom is depressed about all the mud, but what does she expect???  The land has not been disturbed for decades and then they come in last fall and clear-cut the area for our new home.  A summer in the Land of the Midnight Sun will dry it up and heal it over with new growth and give all that dirt something to cling to. 

Last night our Aunt Joanie arrived and had dinner at our house.  She thought the house was real pretty.  Mom made stuffed manicotti with garlic bread and salad for dinner.  Aunt Joanie was treated to a snow storm in the birches out the big front windows.  She loves the birch trees and wants to take some home to southeast Alaska where she lives in Juneau.  Juneau doesn't have birches, only evergreens.  Mom says Juneau is more like Washington than it is Alaska.

Well, this is the latest from three weener dogs at Rancho Domingo!

[Barb]

Sounds like you are being good little doglets while getting used to the new digs !!!!  Soon the land will dry up and it will be fun to explore !!!   The dinner your mom cooked Auntie Joanie sounds delish !!!!  Thanks for checking in.....see if your mom will take some pictures - ok?