I had a very exciting weekend. I unpacked boxes and cleaned. And hung out with my dog, who is feeling very much better. I did leave the house several times as well - once to have pizza with my cousin the veterinarian who calmed me down and kept me sane during the time I was convinced that Desoto was going to die, and once to have brunch on Sunday with Scott and Andrea. So, all in all, very entertaining. And my house is starting to look like a house now, instead of a pile of boxes.
Desoto is back to normal, meaning that he wants to go outside for walks all the time and acts very offended if I don't come outside and play with him right now. Since we moved into the new house, he has decided that he doesn't like other people walking down his street. He will tolerate people driving down the street, unless you are driving a loud truck, these he does not like, but he does not appreciate people walking by the house at all. And he really doesn't like all the kids who walk by at lunch time. He takes his guard dog duties very seriously. He sits by the big front window all the time. If he sees someone coming, he will stand up and give them his best scary dog look, then when they get close to the house, he barks a couple of times to scare them away. Then when they have gone, he sits back down to get ready for the next one.
I came home for lunch on Friday and when I came into the house, I closed the screen door but not the inside door. Desoto and I were at the top of the stairs and he noticed a group of kids standing at the end of the driveway talking. As he doesn't like anyone on his property, he flew down the stairs, barking that great, loud, big dog bark that he has, and as he hit the screen door, it flew open and he landed out on the doorstep, barking those big, deep, WOOF's. You have never seen a group of kids scatter like that! It was really very funny, they ran like they were scared Desoto was going to eat them, which I am sure they were. I am pretty sure that I would have run for my life too. Desoto stood on the doorstep glaring until all the kids were gone, and then he turned around and came back into the house, as if to say, "OK, I did my job, they are all gone." It's a ggod thing he didn't try and chase anyone, because I was laughing too hard to have been of any use in saving the kids. When the kids walked back after their lunch, they all walked on the other side of the street.
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