A Great Pyrenees Day...that is! This morning Nathan and Dottie (Kathy's mom) decided that they would walk the dogs. Well...we don't think that these dogs had been on leashes before...anyway at the start of the walk it was sort of "who was walking whom," but by the second time around the block (pic.#1) they had started to get the hang of it and this afternoon when they were taken on a walk they did even better. Picture #2 shows Nathan with the dogs after he and Dottie finally convinced them to go back into the back yard after the walk. They did NOT want to go back in. Nathan decided that he wouldn't chain them up since they were getting used to the back yard and thought that was probably why they didn't want to go back in...well, reason for chaining them up was two-fold...1)they are known escape artists and 2)they tend to chew up anything plastic that happens to be around. Nathan and Dottie went back in to have breakfast and left the dogs so they could run around the backyard. Well, it had been next to no time and Woody came in from his weeding/mulching saying that the dogs were out of the fence. He had told Nathan and Nathan was in pursuit on foot and Woody came in to get the car key to go pursue Nathan and pick him up so they could more easily catch up with the dogs. Well, they did find them...no more than 10 min. after their great escape...but at that point a lady in a neighboring subdivision was about to take them inside and hold on to them till she heard if someone was looking for them. Nathan spotted white fur just in time or who knows if we would have located them yet. Woody drove back home and Nathan walked the dogs home. By the time that Nathan got home, it was time to go get Graham at VBS (Vacation Bible School) at church as he had an orthodontist appointment to get his retainer. Since Nathan hadn't gotten the dogs back inside their fence yet, I offered to take Graham...so off I went to the church and then to the ortho. This was a very short appointment and after he got his retainer, I dropped him back off at the church and then I headed home. The third picture shows this afternoon when they decided that the dogs would like a bath...for 2 reasons: 1)they really needed one and 2)it was a really hot afternoon. So this evening the dogs are much cleaner...still in the fence...and hopefully will stay put till Dottie and John (Kathy's parents) head off tomorrow to take them to their new home in south Georgia...a seven hour drive in a pick-up...oh, my! Dottie said that the next feat would be getting them into the pick-up! I did sew for a little while this afternoon...started working on a project for Nathan. This morning I made a new marinade sauce and marinated pork chops in it all day. I cooked them for our supper...they were pretty good. After supper Woody went on his four-mile walk of the day. I guess today started the "dog days" of summer...at least for the neighbor Dorrell's...it seemed hot enough...but tomorrow is supposed to be even hotter...heading for the 90's!
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