i’m sorry, i just don’t know

I’ve been admonished by the lovely lady Corrine that I am excruciatingly behind on my blog.  So, here’s the news…  We moved to a new house.  We love it. It’s out further in the country with a barn.  The dogs LOVE digging up sheep tails (did you know they put an elastic band around the tail to get it to fall off?), which makes me want to vomit a little, but they are having a grand time.  They’ll bounce through the hayfield next to the yard, disappearing briefly under the long hay before gloriously re-emerging with a spring I’ve never seen before.  They love it.  We need to fence the yard so I can start loving it as much as they do.  Jolee keeps running off to go visit the horses and dogs that live across the street.  As you may have read, we lost our sweet Jasper dog on July 4th (happy Independence Day Shelley).  After lots of thought (about 10 minutes, really), we decided to find a new puppy.  Izzy has now joined our family from a rescue in Roosevelt.

Izzy the wonderflop

Izzy lets Jolee dominate, even though Jolee is half her size.  She’s nearly 4 months and is very sweet.  She is also very floppy.  Her back legs were pretty weak when she first came to us.  I don’t think they had the opportunity to develop while she was in the shelter.  So she’ll try to jump up on something and just flop over like a rag doll.  It’s pretty funny.  But she’s getting stronger, her romps through the hay field will soon beef her up.  Right now Jolee runs circles around her.