Testing Testing 124: January is rolling to an end!

morning wake-up

2011 has proved to be a very cold year! Last week, I was warming up my car and waiting on the ice to melt off my windshield. To speed up the process, I opened my door and threw a cup of water on the windshield...at the exact moment the windshield wipers came on and splashed water, ice and sludge all over my face, hair and work clothes. Perfect 7:30AM wake-up call! Ha!

vicious dachshund
Sundae (one of our dachshunds) is so spastic on her leash. She recently rubbed her neck soraw that it started bleeding....she loves to chase squirrels and leaves. So recently, we had to switch to walking her with a harness. Well, little Sundae learned that if she backed away from us she could actually slip out of the harness. Sundae is the complete opposite of Pickle, she will run right back to you and listen....most of the time. Last week, I was walking Sundae and she did her magical escape trick and sprinted toward Richard and Pickle...or so we thought....we didn't see the HUGE dog (luckily on a leash) about 20 yards behind Richard. Sundae doesn't give Richard or Pickle a second glance...she is in attack mode going toward this huge dog. Suddenlyit become a relay race. Richard and I pause, look at each other and then I run to Richard to get Pickle, Richard then takes off toward Sundae (who has now turned the corner and we can only hear horrible screaming/growling noises)....as Richard is running toward our vicious little dachshund his shoes fly off (like we are in a a slow motion movie).... When he gets there (shortly followed by me), we see that the other dog's owner is standing there, his dog has his head tilted and Sundae is acting like a complete nut. The other guy says, "wow, that was weird".... Needless to say, our vicious little Sundae now has a new harness, thanks to our sweet neighbor!