Queen Anne's Lace and Lilacs

Good Golly, Miss Molly!

I am happy to introduce to you our new baby, my birthday present, Miss Molly.  She turned eight weeks old yesterday.  She was born in Arkansas, and joined us last Friday.  These photos were taken those first few hours with her.

Molly (or, Mollie, if you're Bethany) is a Basset Hound.  She has been getting to know all of us, as well as all of our menagerie.  Even Little Girl (our black and white cat) has been playing with Molly, and Little Girl detests dogs.  Duchess, the Schnauzer, seems to be afraid of Molly, which is pretty funny - Duchess towers over Molly.  Mac, our Scottie, well, he's a typical guy.  He went over to check the situation out when we first introduced them, and pretty much has left the baby to all of the women folk since then. 

Bethany and Tim adore Molly.  Brett wonders why in the world we have another dog.  Evan has been curious to see the photos.  Oh!  Tim wonders why in the world we having another dog, too.  The point is...she is too stinkin' cute and adorable!!  And I am intentionally not thinking about all of the messes.  I just wish puppies wore diapers.  I never minded diapers.

I'll be taking many more photos, and posting them, as time goes by.  I would have posted these days ago, but I'm having trouble getting a lot of computer time - you know, I have to edit every blessed photo to some degree.  That always takes a bit of time.

I guess I should go grab Molly Moo from Bethany and take her outside for a little while.

Three in a Row

The only time the dogs are all calm at the same time is when they hear someone enter the house.  They line up at the back door, and wait to see who it is.  I've been trying to teach whoever is being greeted by the dogs to make them sit and be calm.  So far, Bethany's the only one I've been able to get to cooperate - at least for this photo session.  I keep telling everyone that, according to The Dog Whisperer, a hyper dog is not a happy dog.   I'm finding that training people is possibly more difficult than training dogs.  Click photo for a larger view.