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It’s a solid winter.

When I woke up this morning, the outside temperature was 1.4o F and we’ve got drifting snow.  It hasn’t been this cold, with this much snow, for so long, since Sparky moved in.  He won’t complain, but Sparky isn’t going to like going outside for his morning constitutional.

I am tempted to compel Sparky to plow through a snow drift. 

Sparky likes President Johnson

 

Sparky wanted to recreate this photo of President Johnson holding his beagle up by the ears.  With Sparky’s belly, I’m afraid his ears would come off.  I obviously can’t tell him that, so just said that I can’t find my suit.

Sparky wasn’t impressed by LBJ shaking hands with his dog.  He thinks Blanco looks like a dumb ass.  Sparky is envious and suspicious of dogs with luxurious fur.  He likes how his seal fur lets him slide through brush and brambles, and thinks that slick dogs should get more acclaim.

Yuki riding on the back of President Johnson’s Cadillac has the twin virtues of being fun and dangerous.  Sparky is going to talk about this photo for weeks. 

After seeing President Johnson howling with Yuki, Sparky says that being president seems like a pretty easy job. 

Sparky picks a Halloween costume.

Sparky is trying out some Halloween costume.

His baby seal costume isn’t very convincing, but is easy.

He really wants to be “Sparkle, the saucy princess”.

Sparky doesn’t want to go with the obvious.  He thinks that Snoopy is kind of a tool.

Whatever Sparky decides to go with, Halloween might get him a car ride.  That’s about it.

Sparky is a dirty mutt.

I can’t explain it.  Sparky looked normal when we went out the door.  It was a typical walk through the parking lot, into the woods, then through the orchard toward the house.  Sparky rolled around on the grass on the way back to the house. What the hell was he rolling in? 

I have been calling him piglet, so maybe he wallowed in mud.  It didn’t smell like anything.  He was pretty happy about it. 

To give Sparky a redemption arc, here is slo-mo video of him shaking off after his bath.  The door mat really needs vacuuming.  There is no dialogue because we both wanted to remain civil and just get through it.

Sparky is disappointed.

Sparky was being very patient as I worked on the bridge wall.  Well, that’s what I thought.

When we built the stacked-bag wall yesterday, we hosed it down, but not so much that the paper bags fell apart.  Every morning and evening, I will hose down the wall, with the hope that more of the concrete will get wet enough to cure.   At some point, it will rain, and we will see what happens.

I like to bring Sparky along for outdoor projects.  He keeps the rabbits and coyotes away so I don’t have to worry.  I do have to watch that he doesn’t wander too far, but this time, for the 45 minutes it took for me to water the rocks, he sat patiently.

I hopped on the quad and started up the hill, but Sparky didn’t follow along.  He’s pretty good about following the quad if he isn’t working on his own project. 

I went back to check on him.  See the problem?

It’s a mystery how he can get his leash stuck so easily. 

Sparky was perturbed after being stuck for so long.  There is disappointment in those eyes.  I think Sparky bears some responsibility for not giving some indication that he was stuck, and I told him so.  He remembered that he doesn’t speak English, so was unpersuaded.   

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