My friends are in Vienna to see Wagner's Ring (insert childish joke here). The entire opera is very long (about 24 hours in total) so obviously they don't get it all in one night. Part of it was performed Yesterday. More tonight. Then a break until Thursday when the next part starts. It is apparently very expensive to stay in Vienna and three nights in a hotel costs many times the price of a return flight out there. So Monday morning they are coming back home, and Thursday morning flying back out for a few more days. I am house sitting for both periods.
This means you will get Puppy News today and tomorrow, they a break from it until the end of the week, when you will get a few more days of Puppy News.
Puppy News
When I arrived yesterday evening "Farty Raccoon" was on the table on the roof patio. I assumed the housekeeper had got fed up of the noise and put it there, where the puppy could not reach.
I was wrong on both counts.
As I got ready for bed he came running into the bedroom, proudly carrying Farty Raccoon in his mouth. He had obviously climbed up on the table and "rescued" poor Farty.
Although to my delight Farty Raccoon no longer farts. The puppy appears to have eaten the fart part, along with most of the stuffing. Farty Raccoon is now almost just an old, empty, raccoon skin with most of the stuffing shaken out of him.
Though there is a little bit of stuffing left. I discovered that this morning when I got up to see the puppy killing the raccoon for the umpteenth time. And as he shook it to death I saw a few small clumps of stuffing fall out on the floor, like the last drops of blood from a dying raccoon.