Across the Hudson

There was an interesting weekend going on across the Hudson and on this side too... this was the first clue.

 

Someone threw this away

About a year ago I found this in the trash.  It was still green, but of course no flower.  I hate to see orchids in the trash so I took it in and gave it to my west facing window.  I figured it would be the standard white on white, well, this sure was a pleasant surprise...

 

So this is July

I try to do a bit of what I see, and then some days I try to do whatever seems to fit in the little rectangle for that day.


When fall starts up across the Hudson I will do more what I am seeing, but the first week of July convinced me that I could play a little.  It is SUMMER after all!

This was June in New York

I have previously shown you what  January , February, March, April and May looked like out my window.  They were somewhat interesting to me, since we seemed to be going somewhere.  June, however, convinced me that it might be time to change the format, at least until fall starts... Summer is green and wet and same same same....

A New York Hot Summer

This is the water play station in my neighborhood.  It is amazingly cooling, I run the dogs through it every time they open it since it is on my way to the dog park.  Heeding all the advice about exercise, the dogs and I go to the park every day for 30 - 45 minutes.  Since the walk there and back adds another 30 minutes they are getting a lot of movement.
A lot of the people who bring their dogs to the park sit and read their phones or their kindles and "let the dogs play".  If I did that my two girls would be staring at me from 30 inches away trying to figure out when I had been transformed into someone else because I am supposed to throw balls and let them bring them back to me.  I am also supposed to push the button on the dog level fountain ever 30 minutes or so and try to keep little stones from attaching themselves to the balls .. dog spit is apparently a very good adhesive.

New York in the summer when it sizzles.... and it has been sizzling a LOT lately.

Who, ME??????? NO!!!!!

Is there a sprayer that I could use to cover all my rugs with hot sauce? Tinta seems determined to eat her way through every oriental rug I own. She has eaten about 6 inches of the edge of one and is working on a big hole in the main rug. Now mind you, she is creative. She takes her chew toy of the moment. Lays down with it in her mouth 2 inches from her intended hole, puts her mouth on the rug right next to the chew toy, so it looks as though it is in her mouth and then proceeds to eat the rug, every once in a while running her teeth over the chew toy if she has the idea you might be looking at her.

Of course, that is in between sessions of trying to eat the entire New York Times by lunch, or her leash, or a cat, any cat, or invisible things, or a book, or the only remaining corner of a pillow on the couch. It is not that I don’t watch her, I am LEASHED to her most of the time, she is just the picture of doing what is right while actually doing what is not right.

"Eating the rug? Who? ME???? NO!!! I was sucking my paw. I was eating my chew toy! I was dreaming and just smacking my lips!!! ME???? Never!!! Look I even put the carpet back down after I ate the padding out from under it. See?? You can’t even see it!!"

I have told you before.....

I have previously talked about how smart I think Sienna is.  Well, I have to tell this story my way, the pictures come at the end.  Dog toys are pains in the butt.  No matter how many of the same toy you get, the dog in question always prefers the one in the other dog's mouth.  Regardless, I bought 2 of each of these toys.  One is red and can be filled with peanut butter (be still my heart if I am a dog) and the other is bright purple and has a squeaker!!!! and the squeaker seems to be permanent.  (As a human I don't quite believe that, but it has held up so far for 3 weeks.  That is 3 weeks longer than any other squeaker toy yet distributed.)

SO, there were 4 toys, 2 of each.  Then, despite me crawling under furniture and moving cushions and looking everywhere, there were 2 of one, and 1 on another, then only 2 total, then only one lone red one, much to my dismay.  I looked everywhere I could think of, no luck.  I began to believe that Tinta had, in an unobserved moment actually managed to eat them, though I knew that was impossible, especially because her unobserved moments are fleeting at best.

Last night when I went to bed, something red then something purple caught my eye.....
 

This was definitely Sienna at her most clever.  She can get up on the bed.  Tinta has yet to accomplish that, and she is tethered to me when she is out of her crate, so I know she was not involved in this.

Sienna has hidden all the toys of "high value" in the windowsill behind my bed.  Since she sleeps in the bed, she can look at them when she wakes up and I guess lick them when I am asleep. 

I haven't decided what to do about this yet.  At the moment they are where she put them, though I will probably dig them out and see what happens next.

the secret life of dogs