Holy smokes, we’ve been busy. This new “kid” is taking up all our time, or at least all of mine. It’s alllll about the puppy.
Well, if I could summarize the entire last week, it would be the continual effort to kennel the puppy. He defeated me every attempt at reinforcing the kennel, up until Thursday when I clipped some heavy d-rings on the door. That little guy can weasel through some small spaces, I’ll tell you that. I put up a webcam so I can keep an eye on him, at GABE CAM. Looks like it got knocked askew today, I’ll fix it when I get home. Hopefully it wasn’t knocked over by a rampaging dog…
Well let’s see… Friday night I don’t think we did anything. Rested up for Saturday I guess. I started off Saturday morning by taking Gabe up to the Vet. He keeps having “accidents” in his kennel so I wanted to make sure he didn’t have an infection. Naturally they felt it best to give him an x-ray and prescribe some antibiotics. Heaven forbid the Kenagy’s EVER go to the Vet and they say “everything looks OK, that’ll be 7 bucks for the office visit.” Nah, they always get us somewhere well into the 3 figures. Sheesh. After that, we had a trainer come over to the house. It just so happens that the couple who fostered him for the last several months also do dog training. Bonus!! I think she has detected the fast-rising panic in my tone over the duration of the week and was nice enough to come give me some pointers. I don’t know if the dog learned anything, but I learned all kinds of stuff. He already knows quite a few things anyway, I just need to figure out how to make him do them. After two hours of schooling, we took both Gabe and Kane up to the pet store, where they had a photographer doing “family portraits.” That was as big of a debacle as it sounds like it would be… I won’t even go into details. After the horror that was family picture time, we headed up to the Northlands, where one of my co-workers was getting married. The reception was in Parkville, and we quite the fine time. Even stayed out pretty late, probably due to the stress of the rest of the day.
Sunday, for some reason, I got kind of a late start. After goofing around all morning I went out to Mom’s and did a few “chores.” Work on the PC a bit, spread a little mulch around, that kinda stuff. Gabe came with me too, and seemed to like the big yard. I think he’s used to a little more space then we have at our house. After that, I went back home to start getting ready for dinner; Doni or Susan or somebody had invited people over to dinner, loosely in celebration of Todd’s 40th birthday. We had fajitas and fixin’s… good times. The dog behaved admirably; didn’t eat anybody or their food.
More smoker status!! It’s DONE!! Ready for the first fire I believe. I haven’t seen it in person, but K.B. sent me some pictures last night:
