More Rudi

Rudi's parents will come fetch him tonight after they fly back to California from the wedding. It is a sad night for Dave and me...we're going to miss having Rudi in our home. As is usual on weekends at our house, the humans and dogs alike spent both days outside (the former working and the latter playing). Because Rudi is so small and closer to the ground, he got pretty dirty. I'm going to give him a bath in a few minutes so he will be "all clean and sweet-smelling," as my daddy would say. He and I are going to deliver some dinner to Davie at his office after that. (Dave has to work until ELEVEN tonight (!!) and he can't waste time taking a dinner break (!!!) so we'll take him some food and let him snuggle with Rudi one last time before Rudi goes back to his own house. Dave's job will be the subject of a different...less fun...blog entry.)

Here are a few more pictures of the little guy for your viewing pleasure. =o)

We just got back from Dave's office, just down the street from the Capitol building. It took Rudi and I a while to get to his building from where we parked because the little guy had to pee on every bush along the way. Dave wasn't sure if I was allowed to be in his office while people are still working (at 9pm...) so we had to eat our spicy Cafe Bernardo stir fry noodles in the reception area. Rudi was a good boy; he didn't pee inside and he only barked when he needed to remind us that he wasn't getting enough attention.

Look at all these tired boys (Rudi, Davie, and Potatoes):

Ruby, my "director of homeland security" is quite bark-happy, in fact she is also "president of mass-communications" here. She's taught little Rudi to patrol the house through the big front window, which is her watch-tower. In this picture, Potatoes is looking at me like, "Mama! Now we have TWO barkers in the house?! I can't handle all the noise!" (Me either, Taters.)

Potatoes definitely likes hanging out with Rudi...here, they are snoozing in the sun together in Potatoes' favorite sunny spot in the dining room (wow...I REALLY need to wash that sliding glass door...it looks nasty.):