Little Green Bags

Since we’ve adopted Jake, I spend a lot of time carrying little green bags of dog poop around with me when we are out on walks. The old song “Little Green Bag” by the Dutch band George Baker Selection came to mind one day, so I wrote parody lyrics about those little green bags of dog poop. I recorded the parody, and Jake and I made the above music video.

Silver: “It’s your own fault for adopting a dog. Pathetic poopy paparazzo!”

Gwendolyn: “Whoa! You really pick up that crap? At least with us kitties, you use a slotted scoop to clean the kitty litter.”

Spunk: “Well, pathetic poopy paparazzo. Your doggedness has done you in!”

While I’m off work for the holidays, Jake misses his ride to and from the office every day. He goes outside and sits by my car, waiting to go to work. When we don’t go to the office, he acts disappointed, so I’ve started taking Jake for a ride in the car every day while I’m on vacation. Today we came across a cluck of cranes.

Cats & Contrails

Spunk playing with his ears

Marble playing with Gwendolyn’s tail

The frumpy man in his running cap, Laurie thinks he looks like a freak. Jake after our morning run. He had a hard time keeping up at a 10-minute-per-mile pace.

Silver, Spunk, Gwendolyn, Glenda, Bunny and Sheep.

Loki Dragon

Spunk’s latest Tail and Ears art

Sunset

Tangle Heart Tree and Venus

Jupiter and Kiss Flying-V over Resa’s Tree

Jake’s Big Adventure

While my car was in the shop for maintenance, Jake and I took a 3.8-mile (6.1 Km) walk down, up, and all around the Albuquerque flood diversion channel. I was surprised how much Jake liked running down and up the steep sides of the flood control channels. Whenever we came up to the top of a channel, Jake would hop onto the road and give whatever was in front of us a look of intense interest. It was like a game for Jake.

The route

Jake peed on a high-voltage transmission line pole. He thought it was electrifying.

Serious security: An electric fence behind the cyclone fence and barbed wire.

Needless to say, Jake was worn out after his big adventure.

Cheez n Dreams

Sunrise

Ahem! Poor pathetic, putrid, pee-brained paparazzo! Can’t you see the cheez is covered? Are you blind along with being a bonehead?

Loki: “Dibs! Hahahahaha! I got the cheez first.

“Eat your cheezy little heart out, Silver!”

Jake dreaming that the wind is blowing in his face.

Sunset

MishMash

Moon high. Venus low in black lace trees.

Jake forever hopeful of getting a handout.

Fancier doggie jail

Silver

Spunk & Gwendolyn

Glenda doing hammock yoga

Halfmoon in swirling clouds

Cranes @ Sunset

Moon in pink

Dusk

Tangle Heart Tree @ Dusk

Halfmoon over Shey’s Tree

Purple into yellow dusk

Another Office Dog

Venus in the Tangle Heart Tree

Meet Athena, the newest member of the office dog family. If this keeps up, we will have more dogs than staff in the office. Athena is a sweet dog. Even Jake likes her, and he generally doesn’t like dogs very much as he believes he’s human (he doesn’t stick his head out the car window like most dogs). Athena has duochromatic eyes. She can give people the stink eye in technicolor.

The cats were extra cheesy this morning.

Marble in a magic wind tunnel.

Interactive Spunk Art

Camo Dog

Dawn

Can you spot the Camo Dog?

Sandias after sunset

See no Burdie!

Hear no Burdie

Say “No!” to Burdie and eat cheez!

No cranes tonight

Shey’s tree @ dusk

Gwendolyn and Glenda

Tangle Heart Tree @ Dusk

Afterglow @ dusk