A Dog's Life

The Old Dog's Life is a day of ease. The most difficult time of her day is having to get up in the morning when her people want her to get outside. Some days she may choose her own time if someone is staying home all day. If all the people have to leave during the morning such as on Sun. she must be awakened with loud bangs and calls or perhaps shaking of her bed - she is nearly deaf or on purpose not paying attention.

When the day is well begun and now that the weather is so fine she really enjoys spending time outside - a little of it alone but much more if some of her people are also outdoors. Today she decided to lie in the hot sunshine on the concrete at the back door instead of in the nice shade under the tree - maybe the heat feels nice on the old tired joints - she never tells us. As soon as someoone opens the back door she is all prepared to go back indoors and find a nice resting place on the bare floor in front of a fan - probably to cool down after such a hot sun bath.

Yesterday we saw a frisky beagle looking much more energetic than our Abby also loooking younger (you can tell by the color). I said to Helmut that I really have a soft spot for beagles (I think it is in my heart, others probably think it is between my ears and really mushy)

Abby was extremely happy to see us at our return from Germany.