[RKDinOKC]

Drove by the old homestead today. The appricot tree I use the gauge the last freeze by is gone. If it was flowering there was alway one last sleet storm to freeze out the fruit. Tonight we are getting some sleet.

Puppy Note: Pepper enjoys being out in the sleet. Pretty cute, she stayed close to the house under the eave until she just had to go pee. The she ran out into it, peed, and came running back in all jazzed up. Them she went back out to play in it.

Loved being toweled off too. Shouldn't take too much to train her to stop and present each foot to be cleaned when coming in from being wet outside like my other dogs did.

Her first english was "Hello." Rewarding two barks for hel lo. But she is getting pretty good at imitating the sound of hello. Get her to imitating the sounds I make and we are good to go for her learning to speak back english. Also sometimes when she starts to chew something she is not allow to but really wants to and I say no, she says no back to me. The stink pot.

She has also learned to dig her toys out of her toy basket. Now if I could just teach her to put them back. Haven't been able to teach that to any of my dogs yet.

Puppy is giving me something to do besides work since I can't really leave Mom alone for much more than an hour, and then only if she is sleeping.

Oh, and while I am typing this, Pepper is sleeping at my feet under my desk. When I watch TV she want to sit on the leg rest part of the recliner next to my legs. She has learned to jump up with her front feet on the front edge of the recliner and bark so I will raise the foot rest of the recliner and she can ride it up. When she is done and wants down, she hangs her head over the edge and barks so I will lower the foot rest down and she just kind of slides off. So freaking cute. My last dog liked to sit beside me in the recliner too.