Happy Gary day!
Oct. 22nd, 2017 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistFacebook tells me it was two years ago Gary came to live with us for good. (He'd been with us a few days or weeks at a time on a couple of occasions earlier in the year, before it was clear he was going to need a new home full-time, but this is when we knew he wasn't going away again.)
It's also the first day I'd seen him since Friday! I do miss him when I'm away. I tend to dream about him when I'm somewhere else overnight, not so much when I'm at home. Tonight we collected him frommother_bones and as we walked home I noticed he was doing that weird thing again, sniffing not just at the ground or bins or where other dogs have peed but sniffing the air in what seems like a weird new way that doesn't have an obvious explanation.
I mentioned this to Andrew last week when I first noticed it, when I'd taken him on one of his evening walks. "Yeah," Andrew said, "he's been doing that lately."
"I hadn't noticed it in the mornings," I'd said (I usually walk him in the mornings, and Andrew in the evenings.) That it's time-of-day specific made it seem even more remarkable.
"He's so earnest about everything all the time," I said. (He is. It's one of his most endearing traits.) "So he looks like he's a little CSI or something."
I thought for a second and then, thinking of it as a parallel to "checking his wee-mail" (a phrase I think I picked up frommiss_s_b), I added "a WeeSI!"
And I've been thinking of it that way ever since.
It's also the first day I'd seen him since Friday! I do miss him when I'm away. I tend to dream about him when I'm somewhere else overnight, not so much when I'm at home. Tonight we collected him from
mother_bones and as we walked home I noticed he was doing that weird thing again, sniffing not just at the ground or bins or where other dogs have peed but sniffing the air in what seems like a weird new way that doesn't have an obvious explanation.I mentioned this to Andrew last week when I first noticed it, when I'd taken him on one of his evening walks. "Yeah," Andrew said, "he's been doing that lately."
"I hadn't noticed it in the mornings," I'd said (I usually walk him in the mornings, and Andrew in the evenings.) That it's time-of-day specific made it seem even more remarkable.
"He's so earnest about everything all the time," I said. (He is. It's one of his most endearing traits.) "So he looks like he's a little CSI or something."
I thought for a second and then, thinking of it as a parallel to "checking his wee-mail" (a phrase I think I picked up from
miss_s_b), I added "a WeeSI!"And I've been thinking of it that way ever since.
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Date: 2017-10-22 10:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-10-23 08:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-10-23 11:41 am (UTC)And yes, it probably was me you got weemail from; I got it from my dad.
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Date: 2017-10-23 02:02 pm (UTC)Yay 2 years of Gary Wonderdoggitude. He has made you and Andrew so happy and it is very clearly mutual!
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Date: 2017-10-24 09:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-10-24 06:51 pm (UTC)