Mid March entry.

The weather is beginning to break from winter.  Cold days are getting less frequent.  The sand hill cranes have been flying overhead returning to their summer homes.  Daffodils are beginning to unfold their spring bloom.  Our spring work schedule has kicked into full blast.   We have booked our schedule for the year.

 

Our pup Noodles has been invited to a handful of jobs this season and has begun to be Langston’s understudy.  She has attended two different jobs.  She has had the opportunity to work on a job in which we walked around the entire property pruning and maintaining the landscape.   The second job was a pond cleaning.  This was actually more difficult for her than the large job.  The first job mentioned was a property with acreage and only fencing in the back yard of the property.  Noodles kept eye on Joshua and I and remained close by.  The second job was a small fenced in backyard with a few landscape beds.  The problem being, the landscape beds surrounded the pond.  Noodles wanted to be next to Joshua and I and had difficulty staying close without walking through a landscape bed.   Noodles still needs to learn landscape bed boundaries.  She doesn’t understand that we are in the beds and she cannot follow.

 Noodles has been more active in playing in the yard.  She has continued to play with the ball that we bought her a week or so ago.  She is also playing more actively with Cadet.  This has all been a lot more fun and entertaining because we have been able to drop her 20 foot lead and give Noodles a bit more freedom.  This has been so much fun to walk and play with Noodles.  Her having more freedom and being able to play with the dogs and chase a ball at her own free will has been entertaining. 

Langston is still very active and having a good time.  He still runs out back with a ball in his mouth just waiting for someone to either grab the ball and play a game of tug or throw the ball for him to fetch.  Cadet and Halle are enjoying the warmer weather.  We are having to step up on making sure they stop sniffing in the wood shed and in our limestone pile.  We are worried that if they continue to poke their heads about these areas, they may get injure themselves.