The dog days of Summer

Well, we are all trapped inside our air conditioned house with a few weeks worth of temperatures over 100 degrees. Which makes for a little bit of crazy. I'm also hip deep in sewing projects for The Adventurer and Auntie Ten's wedding. So, other than getting to know our new doggie, nothing too fabulous is going on around here. I cannot wait for it to cool down a little bit so we can get back outdoors.

We are taking her for a walk each evening (and some mornings!) tho. Kiki considers her walk fashion to be of utmost importance. The hat and scarf are carefully chosen each evening.
Watching a movie...

The girls always come out of their room in the morning and sit on the floor in front of our Eastern facing sliding glass door to get their morning sun. Callie now joins them for this tradition.

She gets lots of love during these sunning sessions.

We're all in love with her jowls. (Not a sentence one should ever say about a human! Ha!)

I'm having fun spotting her bloodlines when she looks at me. All day long I think, "Cane Corso! English Mastiff! Rottweiler! Rottweiler! English Mastiff! Cane Corso! Cane Corso! Mastiff! Rottweiller!" What can I say? It entertains me. It could be that I do this because she follows me all over the house. I never realized how much wasted movement I did about my house until I had a dog follow me into every room, and just get settled down, only to have to get up again when I can't remember what I'm in that room for, and go to another.

We've come up with an absurd amount of nicknames in just a few days. The best are Kiki and Debris who sing, "Callie Ababwa" (as in Price Ali, Ali Ababwa, from Aladdin) and mine, "Caliente!!!!" which I like to say in my best imitation of a Mariachi style yell. Which, is not a very good imitation, I'm afraid.

We're very thankful that she is calm. She also seems to instinctively know that she can hurt the girls. She plays very sweetly with them, whereas with Garrett and me she definitely gets a little rougher.

"Cane Corso!" (see, can't help it!)

The dog has been spending an extraordinary amount of time standing over the AC vents in the house. We all have, actually.

And, this picture is on here for two reasons. Because Debris took it, much to my consternation. But, I thought she did a pretty good job. Also, to tell you that this dog really likes to sit on my lap. Which is a very strange feeling. But, her whole life, anytime Kiki sits on my lap, Debris comes along and snakes her way between Kiki and me. So, now, anytime Debris sits on my lap, the dog comes along and snakes her way between Debris and me. The ironic justice in that is quite amusing, methinks.

Ok, this crazy dog lady signing out! Stay cool!