Remember last summer, how I was clearing out some dead birch trees, and the dogs were both helpful and unhelpful? So after all that, there's about 4.5 square feet of open dirt. When I had just removed the stumps, I had tried to clear out the debris in order to ready the ground for another tree.
Well, six months later and there's still no tree planted, but that does not mean, however, that I have given up. With all the rain from last month, the clay-like dirt was easy to work with. So I got out the pick axe and started once again to remove some residual roots.
And every time, the dogs are right there, wanting in on the action. Ritter cares about gnawing on the roots, whereas Lilah is more interested in freeing the root from the ground. However this time, since the dirt was so soft from the rains, Ritter couldn't resist.
I wasn't able to catch video of them digging, but I do have evidence from a previous event where we dumped fresh dirt into a hole.
If there's soft dirt nearby, give Ritter a good five foot radius because that dog likes to dig in all directions.
I have a picture of him lying in the ditch he dug out, but I'll have to upload that later.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Guess Who Turned 2!
Happy Birthday Lilah!
That's right, Lilah turned two today. Using the old method of converting a dog's age to a human equivalent, Lilah would be 14. However, there has been a greater effort in the past ten years to more accurately study the human-dog-age conversion. So according to the more updated versions, Lilah is the equivalent of anywhere between 21 and 24 years old (just google "calculating a dog's age").
More important than the updated dog-years conversion method is the fact that Lilah and I are the same age and pretty much at the same point in life. We're both unemployed, living at home with our guardians and still, luckily, rent-free. *sigh* such a depressing life.
Maybe I really should get Lilah into agility training. That way she'll have the title of being a professional athlete, something I always thought would be pretty cool. And she'll also be able to start covering some of her own costs, Miss I-can-eat-whatever-I-want-and-not-have-to-worry-about-paying-expensive-vet-bills!
That's right, Lilah turned two today. Using the old method of converting a dog's age to a human equivalent, Lilah would be 14. However, there has been a greater effort in the past ten years to more accurately study the human-dog-age conversion. So according to the more updated versions, Lilah is the equivalent of anywhere between 21 and 24 years old (just google "calculating a dog's age").
More important than the updated dog-years conversion method is the fact that Lilah and I are the same age and pretty much at the same point in life. We're both unemployed, living at home with our guardians and still, luckily, rent-free. *sigh* such a depressing life.
Maybe I really should get Lilah into agility training. That way she'll have the title of being a professional athlete, something I always thought would be pretty cool. And she'll also be able to start covering some of her own costs, Miss I-can-eat-whatever-I-want-and-not-have-to-worry-about-paying-expensive-vet-bills!
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