He's a (BUM BUM) 21st Century... Dog Lady

That is either the opening scene from Apocalypse Now or the view of our rainy street from yesterday. I am uncertain. The Beck and I decided a powerfully fun warm-up drill would involve walking the dogs 2 miles through the rain so they would be nice and calm during the afternoon of playoff football. And it was a great walk. And you might think that 2 miles would wear the dogs down, but now for your moving picture entertainment, I present to you a fairly routine enactment of the dogs returning home after a long walk ritual:

Ay Caramba! Sparkle naturally decided to do some panting poses for the camera, and invites you to play the "in which picture is Sparkle not panting?" game:


Hint: it's the bottom right one. That is her, "Come on people, let's be serious: it's dinner time" face. Speaking of the Sparklinator, she received an odd compliment yesterday. A little boy we ran into in the park, let's call him "Mr. No Sense of Self Preservation," tried to come up and pet the Sparkle sans permission. Beck politely told him no, that she gets scared around people she doesn't know (and will deskin your face). Mr. NSOSP that's okay, he just thought she looked cool. Beck says, "Most people think she looks funny," and NSOSP replies, "That's what I mean, she looks cool because she's funny looking." So Sparkle has attained a reasonable amount of street cred for her anti-conformist looks. Tres punk! Coincidentally, Sparkle stopped a traffic line and replied "bark" when someone asked her the time.

Eventually the walk had its intended effect and the dogs spent the bulk of Sunday sleeping. Bask in the impossible cuteness of my dogs!


This completes today's quota of pet-obsessed blogging. Otherwise it's been about the same here - watched some football this weekend, played some fantastic Ultimate yesterday (I was en fuego) and am now hobbling around the house this morning because my back has stiffened up like crazy. Argh. I actually need to run to tutoring now, and hopefully I'll be able to catch the second half of the NCAA "championship" tonight. Until then - hope you enjoyed the short film of the Sparkle / Wrigley 500.