brief change of plans

Contrary to popular opinion, dog pee will not make your flowers grow better. Despite this, the heirloom daffodils survived 3 months of Emily stomping through her primo potty ground.

[Brave New Flowers]

[Shaggy Puppy Eats Flowers]

We'll have to brave the scissors and trim her face again. People in our neighborhood stop and call her "that cute white puppy," and she totally doesn't deserve beauty titles with such a lazy Mommy.
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Looks like H&M won't be ordering a 회 platter on Saturday -- the new Korean restaurant says they're only doing dinners now.

Though, I wonder why there are TWO Korean restaurants in an out of the way dorpje like Nieuwe Vennep and not in an international student town like Leiden.

Sea Legs

H. being done with more of her inburgeringsverplicht (deel van het NT2-II), we took the afternoon off, and went to the beach.[Windy!]

[Dirt! Dirt!]
[Treasure Everywhere!]

Not that she stood in one place for long.

[Sea Puppy!]
[Grace Mommy with a Grin]
[I'm Actually Hunting Black Birds]

Yes. H&M had fun too.
videos coming soon.

From Beyond the Deep

Something H. has wanted to say for a long time:

[CTHULU!]

ps. Emily after a walk gets grungy snout and belly fur. Half baths in the sink are a must.

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Emily notes:
[From a professional dog behaviorist, T. Mosconi from the Peninsula Humane Society]: "Nonetheless, most dogs exhibit at least some of these common adolescent traits: selective hearing; refusal to do previously learned commands; reversion to puppy behaviors such as mouthiness, destructive chewing, jumping and barking; lapses in housebreaking and just about anything else to drive their guardian insane. The good news is that this period in a dog's life doesn't last long; the bad news is that it isn't short enough ... Lenny's adolescence has brought other behavioral changes as well. She now gets very excited when visitors stop by our office. She has started jumping on people and barking when someone arrives."
- Emily had about 9 days of significant leash pulling and ignoring commands. It felt like she had simply forgotten 2 months of training. She has quickly improved and is back to nice walks and obeying commands.

Night Time Activities

Emily & M. chilling in the evening. Sometimes she gives Mommy "the PAW." grrr![Ousting Mommy]

[Dandling on a lap is hard work!]

Happy Raining

[It smells like Spring]

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Antique Bakery (film) is frothy and wonderful fun.

장자연, "Sunny" from Boys over Flowers, shocking and sad, was found dead. Suicide they say. This is really disturbing.

News of RaceFail 09 Outing and BearGate are spreading word little by little. Still, (like H.'s old fandom & meatspace cohorts) a lot of talk of support on the "right" side remains massively clueless. How depressing.

Emily says," pffft, snuggle me."

A Curtain Drops

Some people (might) think H. lives to shame Emily on the Intarwebs, as I post mostly incriminating pics and videos.

Not (always) true.

For instance, H. tested out Emzee's new sheering scissors -- necessary for trimming hair so her poo doesn't get stuck all over her bum and legs.

(also, for Maltese puppies, and other long haired dogs, trimming the fur around her anus will help prevent puppy-constipation.)

So all of Sunday, while the poo-baby slept and farted, H. gave her what looks like buzz cut lamb-butt.

Do I take pictures and post them all over the Internet? OH NO.

tee hee

Next step: clippers.

Pictures, people!

I love labels, of the best kind:

Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek's Exactitudes