Snnnnffff... Is that a landfill? No, that's the dogs...

So it is official. I think we are now considered the dirty family on the block... Well at least I think we are. Did you know that if you maintain two dogs in your house, it makes EVERYTHING smell. And if I can smell it, it is bad. In fact, if my odor challenged nostrils can smell it, its been smelling bad for a while and now... I just saw hot wings on the tv ... mmmmm wiiinnngs.

uuuuggghh. Woah. What happen? Oh yeah talking about the dog stink being imparted onto our house. Our pour house. We're going to have to have to move after this... So the dogs are taking advantage of us. Homer has a unique sense of when someone is not looking. When Ellen's back is turned to do her hair and makeup in the morning, Homer will creep ever so slowly downstairs, down the hallway, around the kitchen into the kitchen eating area, into the livingroom and hops up on to the couch. A biiiigggg no no. In the end both dogs get scolded for one thing our another. Usually its for too much rough housing, barking, and dropping a dueces. No wonder our house smells.



Since the weather has been good, the dogs have been outside a little more in the backyard. There is a lot of sprinting, a lot of sniffing. I have noticed when homer wants to come back in, he does not scrape at the window like Merv does. He lets out a couple moans, and then he does a jumping dance that literally shakes the entire deck. He just hops up and down on his front paws. I will have to get a video of it some day.

Speaking of good weather, Saturday was nice enough to take both dogs out. Not at the same time though. No insanidalking this week. I took Homer out first. He was incredibly not excited to meet so many new people. Every time someone would walk by, he would try to run for the lake. Mervin is the exact opposite. Mervin wants to jump on everyone, and every thing. I think Mervin secretly wants to be a human. What do they call that? Trans-spieces? Mervin is specie-confused... That wore both of them out pretty good. I think when the weather gets really nice, I'll walk Mervin in the morning and Homer at night.

Most of you missed the pilot of the Homer and Merv show on Skype last week. The two dogs flaunted their maturing wrastling skills over the interweb while Ellen, Kari and Linda Skyped. Believe me, Homer and Merv are definitely not shy of the video camera, unlike some people on the set of Terminator 4. Though Merv looked like he was ready to cuss me out separating him and Homer and "ruining his lighting". (Christian Bail reference)

(poopwarning) On a side note, we had our drapes in the Master bedroom open for the first time in months this weekend. I happened to glance down at our backyard and I almost cried. Our backyard looks like an Al Quida wet dream. There is a doggie land mine in nearly every sq ft of that back yard. Not Cool. It is going to take me hours to clean all that up. BOOOOO!(/poopwarning)

So, this past Sunday was a landmark in Ben/Homer relationship history. Homer was a clean dog for all of 173 seconds, before romping around with Mervin. Since we had spent most of the day cleaning the house, we thought it wise to clean the dogs as well. This is a multi-step process. Step 1, Cut nails. Merv was very easy. He sits and wimpers just a little and then he is fine. Though I did cut one nail a little too short and made him bleed. Luckily, I have done that before and knew that a little flour on the short nail stops the bleeding. Last time he almost bled out... yeah, nice. Homer was up next... WOW. There is no exaggeration when Joel says Homer does not like to have his nails cut. I gave up after realizing I might not have a hand after this experience. Keep my hand or get one of homer's nails cut? It didn't take long to make that decision. Step 1:50% complete. Step 2, Baths. Merv as per usual took a bath very nicely. He just stands there and looks like a poor poor puppy. That was the easy part, or so I thought.

Yes, I prejudged Homer. I thought Homer was going to be horrible to wash. So I got my swimsuit on and I cleared out all the floor mats from the guest bathroom and thought I was going to have to do serious battle. Not the case. It took a little coaxing to get Homies in the tub and then he just stood there. It was a very pleasant experience. Though, I did pretty much run out of doggy shampoo. It didn't cross my mind that Homer has 4x the sq footage of hair that Mervin does... Toweling Homer off, required 2 towels. He did really good with that too. I turned him loose and shortly after that, the two dogs were slobbering over each other again... Oh well. Step 2: COMPLETE!!

That ends this week's doggieblog. From Dunn Bros Coffee in far off South Dakota... B-dubs out!!