Lily

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Mark sits on the workshop steps, trying to enjoy his morning coffee, while Lily humps his back.

Lily is growing up fast, so I thought it would be good to record some of her more, Ahem... endearing habits, before she grows out of them.


• Lily has a strange way of eating. I put her dry dog food in a metal bowl on the floor in front of the kitchen stove. She likes to pick up the whole bowl of food and dump it out across the kitchen floor. Then she will go around searching for all the little pieces of food and eat them individually.
  
  
• She loves to run and chases any birds that come to the back yard.
  
  
• Her favorite game is Chase Me. She will grab something that she knows she is not supposed to have, just to get me to chase her around the house to get it back. Recently she has played the game with: my jar of honey, Mark's bottle of hot sauce, a loaf of bread, the sharpest kitchen knife, the cheese grater, rolls of paper towels, various tools, a spatula, the dishtowels, the bath towels, my socks, the TV remote, and generally anything that is preferably either fragile or dangerous.
  
  
• She has a fascination with charcoal briquettes. (Adam did too.) She got a hold of a nearly-full 20 pound bag of charcoal, tore it to shreads, and spread it over the tool shed, back porch and back yard. I don't know how much she might have eaten.
  
  
• She does not sleep with me. That experiment was a total disaster! When she gets on my bed she becomes over-excited, biting my hands, wrestling around in the bedcovers, and molesting my pillows. I hope she will grow out of that behavior.
  
  
• My bathtub is constantly covered with muddy dog footprints. She likes to jump into the tub, walk around, lick the drain, lick the soap, and chew on the shower curtain.
  
  
• She likes to sit next to me. She also likes to burrow under my legs when I am sitting in a chair. She twists around and tumbles over with movements more like an otter than a dog.
  
  
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  When she is in the back yard and wants to come inside, if she thinks that she is being ignored, she will jump up on top of a table on the back porch next to the door, put her front paws on top of the heavy grill that covers the middle part of the storm door, and look inside through the top of the kitchen door. This makes her head about 6 feet above the floor. Today she managed to destroy the door-grill. I will need to get a new one.
  
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  Many of the photos of Lily are a bit blurry. This is because she is constantly running, moving, overflowing with raw puppy energy.
  
  Today was hot and humid, hitting a muggy 90 degrees, so I decided to treat Lily and myself to a dip in the pool. Lily had never been in a pool before, and was very timid about stepping into the water at first. After I tossed her Nylabone into the pool she worked up the courage to stick her face into the water to retrieve it. Then, little by little she grew to enjoy it, jumping around and splashing. I enjoyed soaking my feet in the cold water too until Lily did what so many little kids are apt to do: she squatted and peed in the water. That ruined the experience for me, but she still had a grand time splashing around.
  
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  Everything is a toy to her!
  
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