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Summertime

2009-05-27T09:40:00.003-05:00

I am feeling better, thank you. Warm weather has been a real treat. Things are blooming madly around here. It's hard to complain about a Minnesota summer, except for hail. Hope you like the Basenji pix. They jolly up the place like nothing else.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:38:00.002-05:00

Milla never stopped hunting.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:35:00.001-05:00

Ornamental cement bunny.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:32:00.001-05:00

You look that way. I'll look this way.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:31:00.002-05:00

Garden detail.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:30:00.002-05:00

Buds.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:29:00.002-05:00

Bosco in the shadows.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:24:00.002-05:00

Milla who moves among the bushes.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:23:00.002-05:00

Kiko-kissy-boy.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:22:00.002-05:00

Hey, waddaya got there?

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:20:00.001-05:00

Obligatory tomatoes.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:19:00.002-05:00

Milla en point.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:17:00.002-05:00

Bosco and Kiko.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:16:00.002-05:00

The hand that waters and weeds.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:14:00.002-05:00

Three dog summer.

Summertime

2009-05-27T09:12:00.002-05:00

One hundred degree meteorological mood swing.

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:54:00.003-05:00

Time passes. Health, once weakened is restored. My apologies to those who find the same pleasure in this blog that I find in producing it. I trust your good will for hanging in there while I recuperated from the unnamed upper respiratory distress.

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:52:00.002-05:00

Bosco in a sunny window.

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:50:00.002-05:00

Dawn dead-heading peonies.

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:47:00.002-05:00

Bosco rounding the turn.

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:45:00.001-05:00

Bosco, Man-Dog.

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:43:00.003-05:00

Dawn's hounds.

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:41:00.002-05:00

Faster than a speeding basenji.

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:40:00.002-05:00

Galloping Dog Butts.

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:37:00.003-05:00

It's Bosco. No. It's Milla.

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:36:00.002-05:00

Last of the snow

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:32:00.001-05:00

Milla on a rug

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:29:00.002-05:00

The Kiko Squat

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:28:00.002-05:00

Feeling Better

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:26:00.002-05:00

Dawn (she's so darn cute!)

Memorial Day

2009-05-20T08:24:00.002-05:00

Bosco through the grass

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:50:00.003-05:00

Winter brought a virus that interupted things for a couple months, including this blog. Well, Minnesota has a winter, and there's no getting around it. I am feeling better now, and hoping to get this exercize in Basenji admiration back on the track. It is still winter, and still snowing. It's not as funny as it sounds.

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:42:00.002-05:00

Soaking up winter sunshine.

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:40:00.001-05:00

Kiko, young, strong, tireless.

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:38:00.002-05:00

Bosco and the cast iron hog.

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:37:00.002-05:00

Bosco cutting corners.

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:34:00.002-05:00

Push and Shove.

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:33:00.002-05:00

Quizzzical.

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:31:00.002-05:00

Milla close up over Kiko.

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:29:00.003-05:00

Miss Soul.

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:25:00.002-05:00

Bosco foraging at about 20 degrees.

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:23:00.002-05:00

Three headed Basenji

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:21:00.002-05:00

Still Snowing, Still Winter.

Back Again

2009-04-02T10:18:00.002-05:00

Snotty little brother

In The House

2009-02-23T12:54:00.003-06:00

Comments on the snow had exhausted their novelty. Still, it fell. Some liked to argue that winter built character, yet prisons were full of characters. Winter was an ordeal through which we suffered. It didn't make a person any better than a root canal. Nor was it likely to do much more damage than boot camp. Winter lay somewhere between a root canal and boot camp. Have a lovely week.

In The House

2009-02-23T12:51:00.002-06:00

Milla was the sunshine monitor.

In The House

2009-02-23T12:47:00.003-06:00

Mr. Lovey Boy Kiko.

In The House

2009-02-23T12:44:00.003-06:00

Getting your basenji hot.

In The House

2009-02-23T12:41:00.003-06:00

Two speeds: High and Super Low.

In The House

2009-02-23T12:37:00.002-06:00

More snow.

In The House

2009-02-23T12:35:00.002-06:00

The back of bosco's sleeping head.

In The House

2009-02-23T12:32:00.002-06:00

"They must pump sleeping gas into this place."

In The House

2009-02-23T12:30:00.003-06:00

Bosco in a sunny window, asking himself, "Now what?"

In The House

2009-02-23T12:28:00.002-06:00

Sometimes Kiko had to kiss.

In The House

2009-02-23T12:24:00.004-06:00

Snow hatted army of last year's flowers, on the march.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T16:03:00.004-06:00

The sidewalk was every bit as cold as it had been against their naked sphincters outside the kitchen door. A collie could wrap its tail around its parts, but basenjis, being from the Congo, never bothered to insulate that which seemed superfluous. Then, the space age, jet travel, Americans with disposable income, and, voila! basenjis were sitting outside a kitchen door in Minnesota trying to hold their nether parts a little higher off the ground because people had decided they were better off cold than dead.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T16:01:00.002-06:00

Tandem peeing, an olympic event.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:59:00.001-06:00

Milla's feet slid on the ice.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:58:00.002-06:00

Milla, mom dog, hunter.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:57:00.002-06:00

A nose with a basenji attached.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:54:00.003-06:00

All at once the pack looked to their left.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:53:00.002-06:00

No snow, and just a little ice.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:51:00.002-06:00

Birdbath.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:50:00.002-06:00

Milla on ice.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:49:00.002-06:00

Kiko-eye view of the world

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:47:00.002-06:00

Eyes right!

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:45:00.001-06:00

Bosco lifted his manly dog leg.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:44:00.002-06:00

Bosco lifted his leg.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:41:00.001-06:00

Everyone's attention for 1/400 of a second.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:40:00.002-06:00

Milla and a cement bunny.

Froze Solid

2009-02-16T15:38:00.002-06:00

White guy's foot in the snow.

Some Thaw

2009-02-09T13:04:00.004-06:00

The snow pack was softening. Everybody felt better about things, not because there was any great difference, but just because the signs had become encouraging. It was almost over, like a cease-fire had been negotiated. The basenjis were willing to go outside again, and they had begun leaving muddy footprints on the floor when they came back in. It was swell.

Some Thaw

2009-02-09T13:00:00.003-06:00

Warmer weather made Kiko and Bosco more willing to hit the ground running.

Some Thaw

2009-02-09T12:59:00.002-06:00

Milla liked to lurk and watch.

Some Thaw

2009-02-09T12:58:00.002-06:00

Goofy-Gus dog stuff.

Some Thaw

2009-02-09T12:56:00.002-06:00

Even dead grass made Kiko barf.

Some Thaw

2009-02-09T12:53:00.002-06:00

Milla gazed at the sky.

Some Thaw

2009-02-09T12:52:00.002-06:00

Snow on our roof.

Some Thaw

2009-02-09T12:50:00.001-06:00

Kiko and the lantern.

Some Thaw

2009-02-09T12:49:00.002-06:00

Finn, the whippet, walked his person.

Some Thaw

2009-02-09T12:48:00.002-06:00

Kiko's patented quick turn.

Some Thaw

2009-02-09T12:46:00.002-06:00

Milla crawled over Bosco.

Some Thaw

2009-02-09T12:43:00.001-06:00

The Pack.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:53:00.003-06:00

Kiko was the youngest, the fastest, and the strongest. Trouble was, he had yet to grow much of a brain. He had been with us about a year after being rejected by another family because he made their son itch. He was bred in a puppy mill, and sold in a pet store in Colorado. He still suffered night frights, and woke up screaming from time to time. He always apologized with profuse kisses. He had no tact, and lacked finesse altogether, but he was learning. He was overwhelmingly worth the trouble he accidentally brought with him.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:52:00.002-06:00

Northern Sea Oats gone to seed.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:50:00.002-06:00

Milla contemplated the snow.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:48:00.002-06:00

Kiko poked around.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:46:00.003-06:00

Bosco on alert.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:44:00.002-06:00

Kiko in the leafless branches.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:42:00.001-06:00

Milla had the best wrinkles.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:40:00.002-06:00

I'll bite you, then you bite me, then I'll bite you.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:36:00.001-06:00

Milla basked in the sunshine through the window, like a John Denver song.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:34:00.003-06:00

Basenjis kept their tongues on a roller at the back of their mouth, unrolling it only when needed.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:33:00.002-06:00

An invisible Bosco.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:31:00.002-06:00

Three basenjis were goofier than two basenjis.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:29:00.002-06:00

Kiko took the lead.

Faux Thaw

2009-02-02T13:27:00.002-06:00

How much is that Kiko in the window?

Cold White

2009-01-26T13:19:00.003-06:00

Bosco was certain he was being followed. It didn't help that he was paranoid in the first place. The other two loved olive oil on their kibbles but Bosco thought the risk of being poisoned was too great. Other than this little piece of weirdness, he was about as level headed fellow as a person could ask. He worried about his picture appearing in the blog for fear some mysterious somebody would execute their will against him. It was like Joe E. Brown said to Jack Lemmon at the end of "Some Like It Hot:" "Nobody's perfect."

Cold White

2009-01-26T13:16:00.003-06:00

Kiko was a nuisance that Milla tolerated sometimes.

Cold White

2009-01-26T13:14:00.002-06:00

Let's go hang out by the kitchen door.