The Coffee House

[smoke665]

The only reason we have grass is for the pooch. Otherwise it would all be flowerbeds and groundcover.

Yup they're funny about that. LOL Be nice if we could train them to astro turf and just hose it off when needed.

 

[jcdeboever]

Out in Ann Arbor for the annual Hash Bash today. I got my fish, 35 f/2 AFD, and some of this....

 

[limr50 3]

It says Pennsylvania, but it pretty much works for the rest of the northeast as well.

 

[Gary A.]

The only reason we have grass is for the pooch. Otherwise it would all be flowerbeds and groundcover.

Yup they're funny about that. LOL Be nice if we could train them to astro turf and just hose it off when needed.

Not for poopin', but for playing and running. Cook had her own special pooping grounds where she always went (no training needed). Maggie is more random, but graviating to a certain geographic area of the yard.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Hosers. We did get a little snow but the sun melted it - but it's cold! I feel like I'm back in winter hibernation mode even though the sun is shining. I'm ready for a nap. But I got stuff to get done.

No sooner did I type that than it just clouded over. Okay... fine, see if I say it's sunny again! Jinxed myself.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Mow???

After while crocodiles.

 

[smoke665]

Cook had her own special pooping grounds where she always went (no training needed). Maggie is more random, but graviating to a certain geographic area of the yard.

Sadie is like Cook was, there's one specific spot for pee and one for poop, never shall they coincide. Creates a lot of walking when we're on the road for her to finally give up in desperation and find a new spot. Millie on the other hand was of the "walk an drop" method who felt it was necessary to not miss a single spot in a 40 acre field while doing a half squat, duck walk. Muffin was a "grass connoisseur", it had to be the right height, the right color, the right smell, and the right density or she was not going period. Lastly Lola, bless her heart, you could tell her to poop or pee, and she'd immediately squat and do her business, no matter where, even in a parking lot.

 

[jcdeboever]

Perfect start to a beautiful evening...

 

[Dean_Gretsch]

My niece decided to ride out the hurricane in Fla. She finally thought of her dog and went out and dug up grass sod to put in a box for him so he didn't have to go out during the storm lol. The dog looked at her like she was crazy, went to the door and whined until she let him out.

 

[snowbear140 71]

I saw exactly 17 snow flakes today - eight in DC and nine in Waldorf.


DSC_1397.jpg by Charlie Wrenn, on Flickr

 

[davidharmier60]

Winter is giving a last hurrah in East Texas. Gonna be low 40s by morning.
I need not awken at 4am tomorrow, but did today.
So y'all have a nice Saturday night and a nice Sunday!

 

[Gary A.]

Cook had her own special pooping grounds where she always went (no training needed). Maggie is more random, but graviating to a certain geographic area of the yard.

Sadie is like Cook was, there's one specific spot for pee and one for poop, never shall they coincide. Creates a lot of walking when we're on the road for her to finally give up in desperation and find a new spot. Millie on the other hand was of the "walk an drop" method who felt it was necessary to not miss a single spot in a 40 acre field while doing a half squat, duck walk. Muffin was a "grass connoisseur", it had to be the right height, the right color, the right smell, and the right density or she was not going period. Lastly Lola, bless her heart, you could tell her to poop or pee, and she'd immediately squat and do her business, no matter where, even in a parking lot.

On walks, Cook would poop and pee at will. But she was determined to completely clean out her intestine on a walk ... so her ending poops where much wetter than the starting poops. Cook also used to play with her poop. She would find odd spots to poop then it go. i.e. she would carefully backup to the edge of our retaining wall until her butt was ‘clear’, then bombs away, she’d poop for the drop. Maggie is trained to poop/pee with the command of “Potty outside”, she gets the idea. Gary likes this conversation.

 

[Gary A.]

Another wonderful day. In the morning it was muggy, 60% humditity. We found it quite annoying on our all. In the afternoon it warmed up a bit to 70F, dried out a bit, a nice sea breeze kept the backyard chimes gently ringing. Gary took a break and read a book by the pond. After a nice spell, he mowed the lawns and mulched up a ton of green waste. Presently, Mary Lou and he are relaxing on our recliners, sipping some wine and speaking about how best to attack our dinner. Miss Maggie is up with us, but she not having any wine and she had her dinner. So far 15,469 steps for 7.51 miles, 826 calories (above baseline) and still counting.

 

[Gary A.]

Gary ran into this little guy while working in the front. (A Monarch Chrysalis.)

 

[jcdeboever]

May have to do a time lapse on that... I wouldn't know where to start but may be worth it.