We went to the park today after we went to "the point" for breakfast (a not-so-cheap over-rated local breakfast joint), we went the the forest beside the river to walk around. we FINALLY discovered a much hidden and awesome bouldering spot.
This is the closest thing Landon has found to climbing since we arrived in Illinois!
Even Duvick wanted to join in on the fun...
Our little puppy is such a delight! Tonight within 10 minutes, he had me cracking up 3 different times! I was reading a magazine at the kitchen table, when surprise took me from my reading - That sounds like bubbles, I thought. I look over, and Duvick is blowing bubbles in his water bowl. He wasn't lapping at all, just sticking his head deep into the bowl and blowing bubbles! but a few times, he quickly rose and shook his head and pawed at his nose while water gushed out - it hurts to get water up your nose! but that didn't stop him from amusing himself (and me) by sticking his face into his water bowl once more and blowing more bubbles - what a cute and clever puppy we have!
One really cute thing about Duvick is that he loves to see his reflection. Ever since he was a little puppy, Landon would carry him to the mirror and Duvick barks at himself and at Landon. We also have full length mirrors in the house and he perplexes himself when he can see us in the mirror and then turn around and we are behind him! He loves it! Well, anyways, right after he was done blowing bubbles, i caught him barking at our pot-rack. He caught his reflection in the hanging pan and was frantically barking! (see his reflection in the picture above)
He became easily unamused at himself in the pots when he noticed a little Halloween toy on the fridge that we've let him play with a few times. It's this little creature that has 2 eyes and lights up inside when it is violently smacked against something - we gave it to duvick in the dark a few nights ago to see how he would react... he was terrified, but now, he begs for it because he thinks it is so fun. It's made from a very elastically plastic, so when he holds it in his mouth, it extends and retracts, extends and retracts, kind of like a slinky. So he's standing there with it in his mouth, bouncing up and down, and he is just so adorable! I even called Landon to tell him of the cuteness that our doggy has been capable of tonight.
Duvi after his duck hunt with his birds - what a good boy!
McBrayer men with their trophies.
Pheasant hunting through the corn fields - what is it called?...pushing out the birds?
landon arrived home tuesday with a cooler full of dead birds (free-range meat!). Duvick's winter coat was coming in quickly while he was in south dakota and he just looks so handsome now! It was wonderful to hear all about the McBrayer men and their time together with their roots. it was a trip complete with shootin' ditch cougars (stray cats), eating rocky mountain oysters (bull testicles), SD cheese wheels, and other things i probably am better off not to know. How precious it is for those men to get together and spend the special time with each other doing manly stuff enjoying their time together.
Illinois welcomed us home with it's usual glamour. It is so sweet to us, to say "we missed you" with gloomy weather and traffic....
here's the top of the Sear's tower in the clouds - that's pretty cool.
Um...i'm not sure if this is a mid-western thing, or just a gurnee thing, but it seems really cool here to adorn your yard with all sorts of figurines. click on the picture to see it bigger. I mean, my grandmother has a goose on her front porch that she exchanges outfits according to the current season or holiday - that's cool! what goes on here is just weird. most of the time the statues aren't life size or realistic looking at all...i'm not sure why this seems so great, but really, a lot of the yards around here look like this. this one is just down the street from our house.
