DocAndersen
Wandering the pool again, it was an important part of our lives for many years. I mentioned yesterday that our HOA maintains a pool for the neighborhood. I think I’ve been to the pool once. The kids may 40 times in 5 years. We literally would be in the pool 40 times before the 4th of July when there was a pool in our backyard. Funny how time, distance and location change everything! There is a great picture today of Francine. We called her Fran although her full name was Francine Marshmutt Andersen. Francine was my daughter’s dog. They were a pair the two of them. Everywhere my daughter went Fran was there. There are so many stories of the Marshmutt way to share; I’ll share a couple of today.
First off Fran as a puppy was a chewer. Wood was her chew of choice. In particular staircases and also window sills. There was a fairly significant cost to that chewing. Fran joined us as a puppy. The funny story there is that my daughter, upon seeing the picture the breeder sent us, picked one of the puppies by sight. The breeder said that my daughter picked the puppy named after the breeder’s father (Frank). We drop up to Fort Wayne Indiana (about a 2-hour drive) to pick Fran up when the time came for her to join our family. As we walked to where the puppies were playing in the yard of the breeder’s house, one of the puppies broke away from the pack and ran to my daughter and nipped her. That was Francine.
My other favorite story of Fran, was the food incident. Fran was a female lab, she loved food. One day I was installing a new computer in the loft area for the kids. Back then the kids shared one common computer. Fran saw me working in the loft that connected her girls room and the twins room. She ran out to see me. My daughter wasn’t home at the time. I patted her on the head and she ran towards her girls room. Then ran back to me, than ran to the girls room. The universal dog signal to “follow me.” So I followed Francine to her girls room. She ran into the room, stood in front of a dresser than ran back to me. I went in, opened the dresser and found the banned food. We had a mouse problem when we first moved into the house and had banned food in bedrooms. Needless to say my daughter had a stash of food in her room. Fran had turned state’s evidence against her. That was the first time, I yelled at my daughter about mice food and bedrooms she said ok. About a month later Fran did the same thing, in fact she did it every time my daughter had food in her room. It took us about a year of that behavior for me to just check on my own. But my daughter learned that if she gave Fran some, Fran stopped turning her in. Labs love food!
Thanks! In this case, there were very cool people, and the pictures were much better than usual!
Always nice to get a compliment, thank you very much!
I did see, thanks for the compliments. I don’t check those as often as I should.