Adventures with Hank

We were looking at houses in East Texas the past few days. As usual, Hank the Cowdog was along for the ride. Being a city dog, he has had great fun running thru woods and pastures. He has learned lots of new smells - fox holes, hogs, and who knows what other creatures - but he really likes to stretch his legs out and run thru the clearings.

We are packed up and looking at houses on the way back to Houston. The last house we are looking at apparently had some old bag of food/cheese laying near the house. (We dont think it was an animal) What does Hank do - what dogs do best - roll in it. Not just once but twice. He is covered with slime and it is awful smelling. We find a water hose and get the slime off of him but of course there is no soap anywhere. We have to get in the car with him - and we are all gagging and holding our nose. We go back the the carwash in Alto - its a very old style carwash. He hook Hank's leash up and put our quarters in the machine. First we use the soapy scrub brush. Then he gets a good rinse and then just for safe measure we repeat. He cleaned up quite well and we only smelled him a few times on the way home. Where he also got another bath just in case we missed any stink at the carwash.

Now the whole problem with it all was that I had no camera of any kind with us. It was classic - how many times do you get to have that much fun when you are traveling ?

Now if I could only find the people who stopped and took a pic of us with their cell phone.

Dog Days of Summer

What do you do on these super hot days of summer? Our family gets 'creative' in ways to stay cool. Who knew how much fun you could have with a sprinkler, ice chest, a garden cart and straws.