Puppy-Sitting, and Pumpkin Dip

A lot has happened since my last blogpost.
The Red Sox won the world series!!!
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 Here's a picture I took of Clyde and Gus, during the final inning.  They knew I was getting excited.
Clyde was getting excited, too.  He's such a party animal.  Gus was just very concerned.
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Here's a picture I took after the final out was made.
Mr. Terrific raised his arm in triumph, quite a display of emotion for him.  Clyde is off partying somewhere.
Gus is still very, very concerned.  It was way past his bedtime and he just wanted to call it a night.
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Meet Georgia.  She's an 11-week-old Silky Terrier.  
She belongs to my friend, Maureen.  Maureen needed a puppy-sitter for a short period of time last week, and I volunteered.
Clyde volunteered, too.  Gus happened to be at the groomers that day, so it was up to me and Clyde to entertain Georgia.
I wasn't sure how to go about letting Clyde and Georgia play, so I decided to separate them at first.  I leaned a gate against a doorway, with an opening at one end that was only big enough for Georgia to fit through.  I figured it would be her call whether she wanted to play with the big old behemoth staring at her from the other side of the gate.

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Ladies and Gentleman!  On the far side of the gate, at a robust weight of 68 pounds–CLYYYYDE!!!
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 And on this side, tipping the scales at THREE WHOLE POUNDS, Georgia!!
And that is how they stayed for a few minutes, Clyde on his side of the gate, watching Georgia as she ran back and forth on her side of the gate, barking up a storm.
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Due to laziness, or perhaps because of a desire to make himself smaller and thus less of an imposing figure, Clyde decided to drop his bones to the floor.
I vote that he was just being lazy.

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At that point, Georgia quite boldly walked through the gate.

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And proceeded to explore the fluffy giant, Clyde.

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This is my favorite picture.  Not long after I took this picture, Georgia got a little too friendly and Clyde got spooked and ran away.  I was laughing so hard at my 'fraidy-dog I forgot to take pictures.

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But he quickly came back and settled himself down so that their game could continue, with Georgia pouncing and exploring and Clyde barely moving a muscle.  Except for his furiously wagging tail, that is.
Georgia finished off the play date by attacking her squeaky hedgehog toy.

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Enough, already!  Here she is, begging me to stop taking pictures.

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