A celebratory dinner was in order, regardless…additionally because Luz, having spent all of ten minutes crossing into Canada Saturday evening followed by a spectacular drive west,

had reached his home and family in Vancouver safely. Next morning we entered the puppies into the witness protection plan – new county, new names [“Dot” became “Sumi”; “Bowtie” would now be “Cosmos”] – so they could begin exploring their new world.

Which, being puppies, led to naps and that was pretty much [aside from a visit from our vet,

who rode over on her electric bicycle to administer nearly overdue shots Wednesday]

how the week went.  Everybody saw lots of new things, got plenty of exercise

and even made it up the creek where the new not-so-littles experienced Water in the Wild

[Not adequately shown; fast-moving black blobs are hard to photograph.

Unless at rest] for the first time.

Strangely enough and to our great relief Aggie was not at all aggravated by the change to her

life and in fact adjusted happily to having friends of her own species, something that in the past

had been problematic.   It’s been gratifying to watch,  though tinged with sadness

remembering how lacking her puppyhood was in happy puppiness, what with being thrown in with two cranky old bachelors at a very tender age.  Now, however…

So with endless shots of Black Blobs in the Woods we laid waste our days…

at least until Saturday.