So according to the wife, Simba’s been peeing all over the place inside rather than outside where he’s supposed to be doing his business. When I called her on the phone today, she told me about what was going on and it evoked memories of a Crank Yankers skit where some guy was talking on the phone while he was holding a dog that might as well have had a hose attached to it.
Funny, but the wife seemed stressed.
He was pretty active when I got home at lunch, but so far he’s been sleeping all afternoon. Well, at least he’s been peeing in the kitchen where it’s easy to clean up and not on the carpet.
Happy anniversary!
5 years ago today, the wife and I finally got around to getting hitched. We were going to get married when we were in Detroit, but that was interrupted by our move to Charleston, so once we moved down and got established the wedding planning got started in earnest. 2 years later (to save up some $ and about a year of planning) we got mawwied!
It was a very nice spring day that started off with me and the guys stuffed into our little 1 bedroom apartment getting up, a panicked phone call from the wife telling me to rush over to the dry cleaners to pick up one of the bridesmaid’s skirts, running out to the grocery store to pick up the sandwich platter and trying to figure out how the tuxedos went together.
The day followed with meeting the women over at the courtesy suite at Charleston Place and then off to Middleton Place for the photos. Weather was perfect with not a cloud in the sky (which made hanging around in black tuxedos a little bit toasty).
After the photos, it was back downtown to the church where we waited around for about an hour and cooled off while guests started arriving. Final primpings were done and then it was showtime!
It was a very nice ceremony with a lot of Catholic pomp (but no mass, since I’m not Catholic).
fterwards there were more photos inside the church and then outside for photos with everyone else. Then we went off on a carriage ride through downtown (the wedding party got their own carriage ride tour too) and got dropped off at Charleston Place for the reception.
People still talk to us about our reception and what a great time they had there. It seemed like everyone was having a really good time too. Definitely wasn’t one of those eat-and-run receptions I’ve been to before. People stayed until the very end when the DJ announced the busses were here to take everyone back to their hotels. They were even carrying off the centerpieces and table decorations we made (which we encouraged…what the heck were we going to do with 35 table centerpieces…)
One of these days I need to get a scanner and scan all the photos. I also need to redigitize the wedding video and put it onto DVD. The wedding was definitely an event to remember.
A day in the life of an 8 week old pup
0600: Get woken up by dad taking big sis out to go potty
0630: Get woken up again by dad to go out to potty
0645: Mmmm, breakfast!
0730: Go potty again
0800: Go for a car ride! Hey, where’s mom going??!!
0830: Back home again. Get to walk outside again!
0900: Zzzzz
1000: Wake up and play with dad and big sis
1030: Go out to walk around and potty. Hey, who’s that dog over there?
1130: Lunch!
1230: Another car ride. Whee! Hey, it’s mom! Wait, where’s dad going??!!
1300: Zzzzzz
1330: Get treats from mom for doing stuff. This is cool!
1400: Zzzzzz
1600: Another car ride? Hey, it’s dad!
1630: Go out and potty. Can we go for another walk?
1700: Is it time to eat yet?
1800: Ooo, dinner!
1845: Zzzzzz
1930: Play time!
2130: Go out to potty. Hey, it’s dark outside!
2145: Play time again!
2300: Dad says it’s time to go to sleep
0130: Dad, wake up! I gotta potty!
0600: Is it time to get up yet?
Blogging in the Lowcountry
Who knew there would be so many local blogs. Joan over at Walk This Way has a goodly sized collection of them and now there’s lowcountryblogs which aims to collect even more of them. Kind of neat to see what other bloggers in the area have to talk about.
Is he grown up yet?
Ok, we’ve only had Simba for 3 days now, but it feels like it’s been 3 weeks. Whew!
I don’t remember the first few days with Nala being quite so challenging, but then again Nala was two weeks older than Simba when we brought her home. She was just starting to get into the trainable phase. Simba’s still just a dopey blank slate that loves nothing more than to hop around like a jumping bean. I think he’s started to recognize us calling him though and reacting to his name.
So far Nala seems to be adjusting well to the new addition. Simba hasn’t quite got the idea that he’s been weaned yet and always tries to nurse on Nala when we put them together. At first Nala was wondering what the heck the little guy was doing until his needle teeth sunk in. Then she was outta there. She doesn’t let him do that anymore, but he still tries.
Getting Simba used to staying in his crate is a little tougher than it was with Nala. With Nala it was pretty easy. Throw pieces of kibble in and let her go after it. Not working quite so effectively with Simba yet. Either he’s not quite as food motivated as Nala was, or he’s just not as trainable yet. I have a feeling it’s going to take a little more work with Simba.
This kid is going to be a lot more work than Nala was.