Category: Sparky (Page 2 of 53)

Rabbit spotted near the central briar patch.  Sparky is getting much better at looking where I am pointing, rather than just looking at my hand.  The rabbit was pinned down in the brush.  Sparky tried a pincher movement to surround the rabbit, but since he is the only dog, the rabbit just ran away.

Sparky is pretty proud of himself because his strategy almost worked.

I ate a free apple off of the honey crisp tree that I planted 12 years ago.  Don’t get excited, bugs also like honey crisp apples, so very few are presentable.

I almost walked into a spider web.  That was exciting and I still have the creeps.

Sparky just told me that today is National Dog Day.  He says that he has been hinting around all day, but I wasn’t picking up on it. 

In my defense, Sparky is naturally charming and attentive, so it wasn’t obvious that he was being an extra good dog.

I will give him another piece of orange chicken to celebrate his day.

Sparky adds cuteness to these IKEA end tables I’m getting rid of.

Sparky had a couple of brown blobs around his left eye.  The blobs were like tiny balls of Tootsie Roll on his eyelash.  It was some kind of residue.  I asked to get them addressed last year when Sparky was knocked out for his belly-scrape operation last year, but the vet forgot.

She is inspecting them in this photo.

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I had my corned beef hash on a piece a toast, topped with a fried egg.  When Sparky realized he wasn’t getting any, he went back to bed in his crate in the bedroom.

After a good breakfast and some Youtube videos, I was ready for a nap.  A minute after lying down on the couch, I heard Sparky’s nails on the hardwood.  How does Sparky know?  I pretended to be asleep as Sparky came out of the bedroom, checked the living room, came into the solarium, found me, and hopped up on the couch to help me take a nap.

Sparky woke me with his awkward shuffling at the base of my bed.  It was “Oh-dark-stupid”¹, but I got up to check on him.  He didn’t need to go out.  Sparky would not go out.  

I went back to bed, and Sparky laid down like that.

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Sparky’s morning was a shit show, and he is trying to get back on track.

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