Memories

Hard to believe she was ever that skinny!

Oh Sunday!

 Doug couldn't find Sunday the other day.  

He finally found her perched up here in the back of the RV.  

                                                        Every object with stuffing MUST BE KILLED!!!!

Watching her domain.

NH pups

The pups are having a great time being New Hampshire dogs.  I don't think they'll ever want to come home to boring old Missouri....

 Sunday goes crazy when she feels a tick on her.  She bites at it and gets obsessed .... and then starts foaming at the mouth, leaving her with an adorable little foam mustache!

 Sunday wearing Richie's bell from Switzerland.  

 Neither of them have any interest in learning how to play catch with Sandy's old frisbees, but they sure do make good pull toys!!

Somebody honed the fine art of begging while visiting Grandma last week!

  This time it was Doug's turn to taunt me with the photo of the Dunkins.  (Jerk!)

My garden is totally gone, except for this plant fighting its way out of the ground.  I'm no expert, but it sure does look like something that is only allowed to grow in Colorado or Washington.

Cabin

Doug continues to make progress at the cabin....

Kitchen after cleaning out six garbage bags worth of stuff!

Living room, after cleaning

Sunday scoping out all those dog beds piled on the chair.

 And a few minutes later, Sunday making herself at home on top of all those dog beds piled high on the chair!

Dog beds on the chair were great, but this King Sized bed with a window view is the best!

More NH pictures

 Sunday watching her domain from Sandy's deck

 She keeps going around to the back of the house and wondering why she can't get back in.  Richie must be making her do it.

More toys!!  Gotta kill it!

Finn listening to the ghost of Sandy teaching him the proper procedure for ripping the stuffed dog's head off.

Watching his domain in "Sandy Pose"

Life at the cabin is good.

 

 

All that domain-watching and squirrel chasing tires a puppy out!

Doug took the RV and the pups to NH to do some work on the cabin.  The pups are having a great time exploring in the woods and discovering all the old toys left behind by our original pack. 

Finn exploring the banks of the Ammonoosuc River in Littleton NH

Sunday the swimmer dog!

Sunday in her favorite "Sandy pose"

Woohooooo! (We have countless pictures of Richie and Magie woohooing down the driveway just like this!)

Doug is living in the RV there so he doesn't have to turn on the water in the cabin.  The RV might actually be bigger than the cabin??

The old wood pile

Jackpot!!!  A whole box of gently used toys!!

 

First snowfall!

This might not be Snowmaggedon by NH or Upstate NY standards, but this is the first snow we've seen in 2 years! The pups had fun running around in it with their snazzy orange hunting vests.  They've adapted well, considering that all they knew before was warm desert, sunshine, and lizards.

Finn is very busy.

How Finn spends his day.... back and forth, back and forth, along the fenceline, herding squirrels and deer and God knows what else out in the trees. He just doesn't stop. The damned dog is going to give himself an aneurysm.

Home is Where the Pack Is

Got our new house at Ft Leonard Wood today. It's in a nice neighborhood on post, surrounded by woods and grass. It reminds us of our house at Ft Lewis (without the moss growing on everything).  This one must have been built in the early 50s and has never been updated. It's so old, that all of the electrical outlets are still non-polarized, non-grounded 2-prongers!! Doug had to go through and install adapters all over the house before we could even plug in a light. But, it's on a quiet street with a huge fenced backyard which backs up to woods, in a super-safe neighborhood (MPs have driven by several times today) and it's only 5 minutes to Jens office.

The pups aren't sure what to make of all of this - they've got their own yard again and that yard has SQUIRRELS!!  They've been going nuts all afternoon, checking every tree several times for squirrels and herding the deer from inside the fence.  We're pretty sure we made them happy with this move.  Supposedly we'll get our furniture and stuff that's been in storage since March in about 3 weeks. Until then, we have all the stuff from the RV in the house, making it feel like home. :)