Kevin's musings

Well, after about a zillion delays and logistical problems, I picked up Nash the puppy this morning.
(I almost didn’t, as the park and ride where we were going to meet has become a mall, and neither of us had brought the others cell phone #, so we have to wander around aimlessly, but it worked out and we found each other

He rode back with no problems at all:

He met up (again) with Kurt and Merlin. Oddly Merlin pretty much ignored him and Kurt was super interested in playing. I didn’t want kurt to hurt him, but he was play bowing and jumping around and chasing him. Nash kept running under Kurt. Tails were wagging up a storm.

Blurry, but you get the idea. Nash is a master of the full body, contact roach on the grass. He puts his nose down, and flops his entire body down after it.

Got an itch:

Nash: “Hey Kurt! Play!!!!!”

Tally so far:

• Many roaches
• Chew toys are excellent!
• Baths suck and you should squirm around as much as possible
• The crate is great. Nice place for a nap
• Walks are fun, but tiring
• Cats: who cares?
• Kisses on the nose of the human are fun

So far he’s very well behaved, very mellow and doing great. This is totally diffrent than my last puppy experence.

PS: dog/greyhound folks, drop me an email if you want to come by and visit the little guy. I should be around pretty much all the time this coming week except thursday.

Alas, the other day I saw that the dreaded ETS syndrome had hit close to home. Merlin was suffering a bad case:

(ETS: Errant Tounge Syndrome)

I managed to put my phone cable upstairs under some things and it took me a while to locate it, so these pictures are a bit later than normal.

Last weekend of Faire was supposed to be the end of July, but due to the rain weekend, they extended it another weekend.
That was great, as it allowed me a final chance to get out there this year. All the usual greyhound booth friends were there. Hopefully I can stay in touch with them over the winter better this time than I did last year. Probibly the last weekend in Aug is looking likely for my annual post faire BBQ.

Merlin says: “Dad! weren’t we through with this thing?”

T shows that Dazzle is a lap dog too:

Working the crowds:

Sabrina doesn’t seem to mind Merlin putting his leg on her head:

Thats all till next year!