Aston Martin is now officially "Siren"

Firedog "Siren", to be exact.

Go Baby Go!

This is our last week with Alpha Romeo, soon to be known as Woodwynd High Tea at Crossroads.  She's doing fanstastic and after a DISASTEROUS first night in a crate alone, is now sleeping through the night most nights.  She's learned to sit and to walk on a leash and plays (quite roughly) with her mother as well as with "Uncle" Cheddar and "Aunt" Amber.  Her new mom, Jeanine will arrive on Tuesday to take her back to St. Louis.  The house will seem empty after that - OK there will still be six adult dogs so that's probably not true!  But we'll miss her nonetheless!

Chicken.. It's What's for Dinner! (and lunch,, and breakfast)

Pup was urping on the big hunks of chicken he swallowed when I gave him whole backs, so we're grinding. I must have a good wife to let me deflower her KitchenAide like that! Yeah, that scrunched up 'eeeewwww' face you're making right now.. I made that face the entire time.

I think this will be the last week for ground chicken. Hopefully my butcher will have the chix necks this week; I've been waiting about a month for them. He can get backs, but necks are difficult for some reason. Is there some neckless breed of chickens that I don't know about? Seems to me that where there is a back, there should be a neck. *shrug*

Aston Martin is Living It Up on Long Island!

Aston Martin has adjusted well to his new home here on LI. We've been to the beach where he was not too sure about the water, but was happy to greet people and didn't seem to be bothered by the crashing waves created by Bill.

Still undecided on a call name. Dad was calling him "Marty" ("Martea?"), as his puppy name was Aston Martin.

After 30mins of screaching in the crate at 2am the first night we had him (how many of you share my pain???), I remarked to my wife, "we should call him Siren with all that racket." Since a week has gone by and we haven't had any other proposed names, we will probably go with Siren. But we're going to give it a few more days.

"No name? 'Your Highness' will do just fine!"