Returning Home

Let me introduce you to the bored individual that doesn't like being left alone at home for very long periods of time.

We left at 7:30 a.m. to go to work and V.A. Hospital --

returned at 3:00 p.m. to find this ...

and this ...

and this ...

We couldn't leave him outside ...

but we'll keep working on some solution.

"Shredder" Signs

Look carefully just below the green book and on the corner of the postal envelope ... notice those chewed areas? Those are signs of "shredder" the puppy.

This was a perfectly good storage box ...

full of boxes of Mac & Cheese.

Notice the corners and all the little needle pricks along the edges ... "shredder" left his signature. The Mac & Cheese boxes had to be relocated.

A storage box under the table

shows evidence of "shredder's" attention.

We have gates to keep him out of the bedrooms

but the common room where he resides

(can't put him outside on a chain in blistering heat)

is where he leaves his little teeth marks.

To the Beach & Back

The wife just had to get out of the house and go to the beach today.

Where we parked, this is one of those back-water, lily pond kind of things.

No picture of the beach would be complete without sea oats.

Being the weekend after the 4th of July ...

I was shocked at how relatively few people were at the beach.

Same goes for looking in the other direction.

There were intermittent beautiful clouds,

A nice breeze,

and the water temperature was surprisingly warm.

Now we are home, exhausted from the trip ...

to find a mess that "shredder" (the puppy) has made ...

chewed magazines, chewed newspapers, chewed boxes,

and the foam ball kind of thing that the cell phone sits in ...

was chewed into chunks all over the floor.

The puppy is outside playing "lunge-attack"

with the neighbor's dog.