


I thought I'd stick in a pic of what Fonzi gets up to when we turn our back these days. Is he mad at me, People magazine, or does he just not like Jon & Kate?



Now, the most exciting thing that happened this week in the Rennick house is that we got a new member of the family! I know, I know you are all wondering why one dog isn't' enough. The thing is that we leave poor Kaiser alone 40 hours a week while we're at work, and even though we walk him diligently and take him to the dog park min. 4 or 5 times a week for socialization, he's seemingly depressed. My dad is shaking his head right now because I just declared my dog to be depressed, but I really think he was. He was lonely. He was constantly trying to escape into the neighbor's yard to play with their dog, and then when we'd go to retrieve him, he's cry. So we bought him a little playmate! And really, in for a penny, in for a pound -- we're walking one dog and picking up one dog's mess anyway! And now it's twice the love. Awwww.
He's another pure bred schnauzer. He's nine weeks old, whereas Kaiser was already 16 weeks when we got him, so having such a tiny puppy is new to us; he only weighs 2.6lbs! On our way to the breeders to get him we were tossing around all the cool German names we could give him: Otto, Strausse, Zeppelin, Blitz, but we did not anticipate how CHILL he would be. He's so unbelievably laid back it's like he's been tranqued! So after about an hour of having no idea what to name him, we settled on Fonzarelli, because he's like, ice-cold cool. It works.
Introducing: Fonzarelli Rennick
<----- At first, with Kaiser, it was "look at my new brother!!!". So happy. By day two, it was "hmmmmm, so it should be about time for him to be going back to his house, right?". By day three it was head-bunting, ear-biting, full throttle screaming whenever Jamie or I even looked at poor Fonzi! Now I'm starting to see a slight resignation in him that Fonzi may in fact be here to stay! However, though I'm seeing an improvement in K's attitude toward poor little Fonzi (who doesn't seem to care at all that a homicidal schnauzer is plotting to murder him in his sleep), next weekend Auntie Meggie is coming and having to share her with Fonzi will probably put Kaiser back about a month! I hope Meggie is willing to help her big sis out with some weeding.....







Today one of my big tasks was to ORGANIZE all the millions of pics that we have accumulated on our desktop computer since about 2007. I have put some of my very faves on here to share. Obviously they are in really scattered, random order. Some are duplicated, and I dont' feel like fixing it right now!