The Rain of King Karl

August 19, 2007. The last couple of days have been very much quiet and routine. Renee has been brushing me a lot and I am almost starting to look like a “city dog” again, rather than the “Wild Bush Dog of Barriere”. I have really gotten to like being brushed and combed by Renee and I will lie for hours while she does it. There is tons of fur coming out of my mats.

Yesterday we went to town to get groceries and after we came back we went

and visited with Teri for awhile. Suddenly Perry arrived, so we went home. When we got there I could not believe my eyes, or my nose, there was Karl. Yippee, he is here, and we are all so happy.

My bum almost fell off because I was wiggling so hard. I am just so happy to see him again. I jumped on the couch and gave him lots of cuddles and loves.

Once we had our dinner, we went out for our evening walk and before we got halfway into it, there was a great crash of thunder and the wind whipped up really hard. There was trees crashing in the bush and then the heavens opened up and the rain came down. As we were walking past Perry’s, we heard the big birch on his property crack and thought for sure it was coming down, but it didn’t.

Later on we sat down to watch movies. Tom and Karl watched the Russell Peters DVD and were laughing a lot. After that we all watched the movie “Wild Hogs”. It must have really caught Tom’s funny bone, because he was laughing hysterically, especially during the “sprinkler dance” scene. We had a lot of fun.

At 3:00 in the morning I heard something outside and started barking frantically, waking everyone up. I don’t know what it was, but it scared me. Tom looked around with the flashlight, but could not see anything. I wonder if it was a bear? I crawled up into bed next to Tom and I felt much better.

At 5:30 in the morning, I again w

oke everyone up with my barking. This time it was for a different reason. I had a very upset tummy and just had to get outside. Tom remembered the last time this happened and this time he let me out. I ran out into the bush and after awhile I felt better and came back inside. This happened twice more.

Once we got up for the day, it was raining hard. It rained almost all day, but there was a short break in the afternoon and we went for our “morning walk” then. We only got a 2K walk in though because it started to rain on us yet again.

People next door were doing more construction renovations on the cabin and the hammering sound bothers me. Renee did more combing and brushing on me, and I was pretty good, even though I was cooped up most of the da

y.

We had a campfire tonight when the weather broke for awhile. Perry and Teri came over and so did the couple who are next door working on the cabin. It was a great time and the fire was really warm. In fact it was so warm that a few times my fur was smoking because of sparks that landed on me. They didn’t bother me at all, but they sure made everyone at the campfire jump.