mud packs

Dear JJ,

Recently, I spent 12 days with some friends while my pack people took a holiday to Hawai'i. Something about quarantine laws meant that Ecco and I had to stay in Canada – darn! Anyway, while I was visiting I made some important discoveries.

Firstly, if you are visiting a new garden there will be great opportunities for you to re-landscape. This is a great game and goes like this: find a small shrub that is interesting, then dig it up and take it to the middle of the lawn. Leave it there and like magic, it will be replanted back in the garden the next time you go outside. This is really really fun and can be repeated several times before it becomes boring.

The second discovery I made was – wallpaper! We don’t have any wallpaper in my own house so it took a while before I discovered The Secret. Wallpaper, comes off the wall in very satisfying strips. Sniff around the corners of the walls and you’ll find a little bubble or corner of paper. Work at it for a bit and voila, you’ll be in stripper mode before you know it. This is a very fun game, but for some reason people do not find it very funny. I’ve been told that my pack people are going to have to spend a weekend re papering their friend’s home and that the next time they go away, I’m being sent elsewhere until I “grow up”, whatever that means.

Well, anyway, I’m back at my own home now and the tractors have come and dug up all the ground in what’s going to be the vineyard. This is just wonderful as when it rains the whole 4 acres becomes a sea of mud. I’m working on setting a record for the most amount of mud tracked into a house by a retriever in one day. It’ll take serious training, but I’m sure that I have a real chance of breaking the current record of 5 lbs of mud per paw. Got to go and work on my training.

Diva