A handsome fellow

The previous post featured Lorelei, with a taste of Otto...I thought I would do this post with pictures of him from the same day.  Here he is...I don't recall why he had that look...maybe cause he had his harness on and was on the lead....

Now this is better...just the collar...just taking it easy in the front yard.  Isn't he handsome!

In case you are wondering, he is actually watching Sarah to see what she is doing...

He is happy just being with us.  He is not huge, but weighs about 70 pounds.  Their neighbors to one side have a couple girls that Lorelei likes to play with and also a couple dogs that he likes to play with.

Then a couple houses down the other way are two more kids.  And also a dog lives there, a Vizsla.  She gets out of her yard, comes and jumps the fence into Sarah's back yard and plays with him about 15 minutes.  By then he is worn out, and she jumps the fence to go make other visits.

The thing with him, he would dearly love to be a lap dog.  All I have to do is look at him a certain way and here he comes and tries to get in my lap.  Depending on where I am, I sometimes let him.  With Sarah, it is the same.  Especially if she gets this one quilt out...he considers it an open invitation to sit with her.

Edited to add:

I was looking back through old post of him...look at how young he was...this was before Lorelei...when Sarah and Jeremy lived just 15 minutes away.  Taken in April of 2008!

Had a sleepover

The last time Lorelei was here, she asked when were we ever going to come spend the night with her...so when her mom asked if we would like to come spend the night we couldn't resist.

We spent all afternoon outside....I have never seen a child that could have so much fun pouring water from one thing to another.  Maybe my girls did it, too, but I don't remember it.

I think I have given myself permission to just sit back and watch her...she is young only once.

Friday night she was in a snacking mood...so Sarah had fixed her two or three snacks...and she wanted more.  So Sarah told her there were pickles, string cheese, pepperoni, and I forget what else that was low down where she could reach it in the fridge.  She kept wanting her mom to come and Sarah wanted her to do it on her own.

Lorelei just kept on, and Sarah told her to go get it by her self...either take it or leave it.  Lorelei sort of stomped into the kitchen and said, 'I'll take it.'

I can't resist adding this one of her having Otto in a headlock.  I was sitting in the shade shooting into the sun so there are too many shadows where they shouldn't be.  Still you get the general idea of what a great dog Otti is.  His name is Otto, but we call him Otti...

And the above is one Sarah sent me this evening of Lo and her friend Emily...taking Otto for a ride in the wagon.  Sarah said he got in very willingly but didn't stay long.

Does this bring back memories

Remember when it seemed like winter was going to last forever?   I wonder how cold it is to ride in an open buggy like this in winter.  This one was taken December 8, 2013.
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We are having a beautiful day so far.  No humidity to speak of.  Specially when compared to the past few days.  We are headed to Walmart and maybe to a couple junk shops.  We want to get out while the getting out is good.
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They did call about the pathology reports....both spots she removed were basal cell.  It is usually not dangerous, so just going on with life.  I do know though that soon as these are healed I am going back to have a couple more removed.  One of them I just forgot to point out to her, the other I had never noticed cause it was so close to one of the ones I had removed.