Geocaching trip...

The rain cleared off for a bit this morning, and we headed out for a bit of exercise...


We first went to Ben's school to show it off for Anti-Sarah, and Ben ran a lap while we watched and poked around a bit with Perfect Penny...


After that, we headed off into the woods along the nearby Jackrabbit Trail...Penny was perfect at sticking with us, although she did sometimes take the idea of "walking at heel" a touch too literally...


At the far end of the walk, she needed to take a break, so we all took turns walking with her for a bit...


This was her first geocache...but we anticipate lots of geocaching this spring and summer...


I included this picture for no better reason than that I liked the expression on Penny's face...

Penny Spam...napping puppy

Penny took a nap...


Too cute...


Sleeping hard...


Waking up a bit...we then went out for a nice walk, and now all of us are going geocaching...

Postprandial Penny Pictures

Here's another little batch of Penny pics, this time including Anti-Sarah, who in her rush to get up here this weekend was unable to pack any clothes...so she's wearing mine...

We took these pics after Penny's breakfast this morning...


She and Penny love each other...


Here's a pic of Penny and I in the recliner, reading a John Sandford novel, we both share a love of nasty crime fiction...


She's almost too cute...it sometimes makes it hard to read, or do anything but look at her...


After a hopeful, yet ultimately unfulfilling, poop-walk in the rain, we brought Penny inside and swaddled her in her towel, here is Ben giving her a rubdown...


Anti-Sarah and Penny...


With Pirate Ben added into the mix...


Anti-Sarah in full pucker mode...it paid off, in spades...Penny is all about the puppy-breath-laden kisses...

Posting Penny Pictures...

Here are some more pics of Penny, with a minimum of commentary...Anti-Sarah is visiting this weekend, so some of the pictures were taken by her...(our legal teams are working out the details, but we're using them under a limited good-faith agreement faxed back and forth yesterday and this morning)...


Cedar was kindly ignoring Penny's lunch-hunting behavior, in this picture, and keeping an eye out for the Squirrel Army, an every present threat in Lake Clear...


One of the toys that we picked up for Penny when we were outfitting for her was...wait for it...a bacon flavored fish chewy toy...I sometimes wish that all fish were bacon flavored (we won't even get into Anti-Sarah commentary at this point)...


More Squirrel Army sentry duty, with Penny throwing in some stealthy under-the-chair ninja stuff...


Penny chewing on a big rope...


Mom, home in the middle of the day, between meetings, to check on Princess Penny...


Cedar and Penny snuggling on the couch...take#1...



Cedar and Penny snuggling on the couch...take#2...


Gail and Penny working on really important PSC stuff...


Cuteness asleep...



Cedar and Penny snuggling on the couch...take#3...


Cedar and Penny snuggling on the couch...take#4...


That's all for now, but we might take some more sometime...

Penny's First Night...and snow...

Penny is the sweetest (and best) puppy ever (a borderline 11)...she loves snuggling and kissing and nestling into us...

If you're not into puppy reports, probably better to skip down to the pictures at the bottom of the blog...

Penny pooped and peed right before bed at 11pm, and then slept with Gail and I last night...yes, we're softies, but we figured that her first night away from all of her siblings and mom, it would be nice to have lots of contact, and that we would be able to tell when she needed to go out...

She started wiggling a bit at 2am, so I got out of bed, and trundled downstairs to take her out...I took a bit too long in my sleepiness to put on my coat, and she peed a bit on the floor in our entryway...once I got her outside, she finished up the pee and went back to the door...I followed her lead, and she went back to sleep until a bit after 5am...

At 5:10am, she announced her need to go out again, and this time I got my coat on without putting her down, and she peed and pooped without any problems, and then played in the...wait for it...half-inch of new snow that had fallen since 2am!!!



We went inside to warmup after romping in the snow for a bit, and she started to chew, very gently, and push with her paws, on all of Gail's pink parts...looking for momma's milk...having none, we made her a nice bowl of puppy chow soaked in hot water...she rampaged through it like huns through a nunnery, gave a terrific burp (she's gifted in both burping and farting, really advanced for her age), and then we went in for a snuggle and kiss-session with Ben...

She loves Ben, and curled up in the crook of his neck with lots of kisses and happy noises for about 10 minutes, at which point she announced, in a multi-sensory fashion, that her breakfast had taken the expressway through her tiny puppy-parts...



We took her out again, and she, again, peed and pooped like she had received training in the subject from private tutors...