Zoe and Christine got on just fine. Here they are in deep conversation. Please click to enlarge the photos.
The Conversation: Zoe bonding with Christine
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Zoe Takes a Shower / Zoe Works Out
Forgottenman says it is time for another Zoe video. Here she is getting her daily exercise.Click on the link below to see the video:
Zoe Helps Mom Swim
I think I showed this one before, but can’t resist. I think her tongue wasn’t out in the last one.
Zoe’s never been outside when I’ve been swimming before, so she kept me company. And did a little gardening at the same time. While we were conversing, I held her for awhile and dipped her in the pool, which seemed not to bother her at all. I then held my hands under her and she swam a couple of strokes to the edge of the pool and pulled herself out. I helped a bit. She was too young before but soon I want to try her for a bit longer distance to be sure she knows how to get out of the pool in an emergency. I don’t leave her out in that area when I’m gone––only when I’m here within eyeshot and she’s with the older dogs. She now sometimes sleeps with them in “their” room as well.
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Zoe Videos: Her Big Climb, Baby Bee and Shoe Chew
Here are a few (?) Zoe videos for those of you not tired of viewing her adventures. They are pretty short so thought you might have the patience and interest to watch all three.
Zoe’s Big Climb: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MyqxVMITjho
Zoe and Her Baby Bee: https://youtu.be/GGDTdo9_bzo
Zoe’s Newest Friend: https://youtu.be/pNKl3CgKyms
Zoe Report IV
Zoe has now appropriated my favorite sweater in addition to my favorite nightgown. Soon I’ll need to go on a shopping spree.
Zoe Report III, Feb 15, 2022
Zoe was up at 2:30 a.m. and back asleep much faster than Mom was. I’ve started going to bed at 10:30 to get 4 hours of sleep, then take her outside for a pee when she wakes up and cries to be taken outside, play for awhile, then head back to bed where she falls asleep cuddled as close to my ear as possible and, fully awake, I do my blogs and Wordle before going back to bed at 4:30. Then up at 8 to feed the other critters.
She now has the run of the house, comes running when I make a kissing sound, comes to whatever room I’m in. When I take her out front to pee, she makes a beeline for the unfinished cat food and goes into a shivering frenzy over it until I put it up in the cupboard. She’s also been out without a leash but carefully watched, to communicate with Diego and Morrie. Diego follows her everywhere, nuzzling her nose, and is very careful with her.
Morrie ignores her completely but just today came over and went nose-to-nose for a small while and was careful with her. She walked over to the pool to see if Catherine was there but when she wasn’t, backed away. I’ll never let her out near the pool alone until she’s big enough to swim and use the stairs out of the pool. She weighs almost 2 pounds and is a very smart girl and fast learner.
New Puppy: The Sunday Whirl 540
New Puppy
She’s distracted in a heartbeat by a petal or a stone.
No errant tuft of grass is ever left alone.
She does battle with the gate, makes fairy trails through sand,
makes a complicated plaything of a single human hand.
The spill of lacy shadows by the sun above the trees,
the ticking of a clock or the slightest little breeze
all demand attention. There’s no limit to the things
that become her playthings: bottles, fingers, strings.
Only sunset brings a finish to frenetic hours of play.
There is a certain surcease, finally, at the end of day.
But 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. and 6.a.m. again
mark hours when new playtimes are scheduled to begin.
Prompt words today are: sunset finish string spill heartbeat trails tick stone gate
Sunday Stills: Feathers and Fur
Dog Days of August: Stella’s Best Leaf Jumps of All Time
This video makes me regret having never lived in a place with enough leaves to do this. One of the best short videos I’ve ever seen. I watched it four times! Joyful.
Animal Voices
Animal Voices
My cat is very subtle, so I named her Innuendo.
Not so for the dogs, who always speak in a crescendo.
When they feel romantic, cats may wail an eerie tune,
but dogs need no testosterone to prompt their nightly croon.
Cats vocalize for grand events. Dogs blather on at small things:
a squirrel on the garden wall–literally all things.
Every passing siren causes canine howls to bloom.
They seem to herald catastrophe–to signal the world’s doom.
If cats should chance to dream a tune, they keep it in their bosom,
but I think dogs release their songs simply to amuse ’em.
Word prompts today are: innuendo, bloom, bosom, blather and tune.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 