Sleeping dog

This dog really knows how to sleep!

Harley Angel Bell

Wood's friend, Brian, sent him a Harley Angel bell for his birthday. It has been prominently and safely hung from the middle front frame between the forks. :-)

My first ride with Big Dog

Wood got his license Friday. Yah!!!! So yesterday he took me on my very first Harley ride. I think I am hooked. We rode through Red Top and then went out to the Indian mounds and came back through town. I could see so many things that I am not usually able to see. I LOVED it. It was about 59 when we left and Wood convinced me I needed to wear my leather jacket (his former leather bomber jacket). For once I listened and boy am I glad I did. 60 degrees is definitely leather jacket weather on a bike. I have a helmet with a face shield and that was pretty cool too. Petey LOVES the bike and I think he wants to come. Last Friday when Wood went to get his license, Petey and I sat on the back porch drinking a beer and just enjoying the early evening. Petey knows the sound of the Harley and was alerting sitting on my lap looking for him to come back in our neighborhood gates. Problem is, it is Harley riding weather and there were a number of Harleys that passed by on the street going into Redtop State park. He was sure everyone of them was Wood and went to the edge of our yard, just at the brink of the downward slope (if you can call it a slope- more like a drop off) checking to see if it was him returning. When Wood finally did come back, Petey raced around the deck, through the garage and then down the driveway to welcome him back. A wee bit of a challenge for Wood, coming up the driveway with the little pipsqueek jumping all around him. But both survived :-). We're looking at getting a little dog/sack thing for Petey to ride in for short intown rides. We just know this truck lovin, car lovin riding dog wants to be part of the Harley family too :-)

Hurray, yippeeee yahoooooo

We had the best Easter dinner with Bryan and Kim and we're going to be grandparents !!!!

The Saturday of Petey's life

Ok just like Petey knew it was time to get Wood yesterday, he knows Saturdays. He knows that Saturdays usually mean at walk at Redtop Mtn state park. He knows that Saturdays usually mean at least one other ride in the truck. So today we captured how Petey likes to ride. He loves to just perch on the door and watch the world go by. But his all time favorite, is out full force, leaning forward as if he could be a hood ornament. I haven't a clue how he sees. He even loves to do this when it is 40 degrees and less outside (usually my hand and his face freezes about the same time)

Wood, his dog and his hog

Yesterday morning at 3:30 when I decided I really had too much to do and should get up, Petey knew immediately that this was a special day. He just KNEW we had somewhere to go and he KNEW it was going to the airport to pick up Wood. I took an early shower and went over to the office to work. Wait Petey says this is WRONG! First he just wouldn't come in the door to go upstairs but sat outside the garage door, waiting for me to open it so he could hop in the car. Then when I finally persuaded him to come in (ie went and picked him up and tossed him in the door) he runs to the top of the stairs and when I sit down to work, he starts biting and clawing at my arm to get me to stop. Then he jumps up on my lap, which makes it very difficult to work and starts licking my face and trying in his best doggie way to get me to goooooo. Ok well I got about 2.5 hours out of him before we had to leave. Pretty hard to get him to take the time to go to the bathroom when he knows he is going for a ride. We drive to the airport, all the time his is on my lap inbetween it and the steering wheel, looking out the window. We get to the airport and he recognizes the way we go to pick up Wood and he jumps up and puts his paws on the steering wheel and looks forward (like he is driving- its ok, we are only going about 20 mph right now), spots Wood and goes bananas. Well when Wood gets in the car, Petey jumps on his lap, puts his paws up on his chest and starts licking his face. After the initial excitement, he wants to get as close as he possibly can, so he climbs up about clavicle level, read just below Wood's chin and shoulders and lays down with his head just as close as it can possibly be too Wood's. Now is that love or what! Jill wrote on her blog (the DHX one), yesterday about dogs. I have to tell you this is why I love dogs. They so unconditionally shower you in love. Now, I know sometimes that comes with responsibilities that are a bit of a bother. Like when I need to keep working for awhile and Petey is biting my arm and trying to get me to stop working on the computer because we have already been at it 9 + hours and he wants to either play or go for a walk. Or when he literally keeps after me until I either take him for a car ride or a walk (he is the most persistent communicator). So there really are times when I would like to wriggle my nose and get the dog out of my space for a while so I can do what I need to do and not what he wants me to do. But it is that true unconditional love that just does it for me, when it comes to dogs :-) Ok so Petey and Wood love each other. But Wood also loves and I mean loves, his 'hog'. He couldn't wait to get home yesterday and take it for a spin.