Life with Sampson and Delilah has been keeping me very busy of late.
Sampson gets a walk in the morning and a walk at night, while poor Delilah has been limited to one walk in the evening. The other night I was totally insane, feeling adventurous, thought maybe I could walk them both at the same time and then I could up Delilah to two walks a day also.
Walking one injured dog and one healthy dog. Epic Fail.
Sampson is on a special harness designed to help him with not pulling, it is shorter than Delilah’s leash. That’s the first challenge. It works (mostly,) unless it’s a person that Sampson really wants to see or a bush he really wants to pee on and then nothing in the world will keep him from pulling me. Delilah who walks amazing when it is just she and I also becomes a pulling machine when she’s competing (in her mind) with Sampson. I found myself cursing profusely, came close to tears at least once and am pretty sure I yelled a couple of times. I decided it was not worth the aggravation to try and save myself 20 minutes of time, so I went back to walking them singly.
With Delilah’s jaunts around the neighborhood I’ve been noticing all the little signs that indicate spring has arrived. From the lush green of the grass that sparkles like diamonds after the rain, to the daffodils peeping their yellow faces upturned towards the warming sun, to the lovely forsythia bushes that take me back to my childhood having our Easter photos in my grandmother’s back yard.
So intent have I been on watching other people’s yards, I failed to notice the beauty in my own yard.
Saturday I was walking Delilah up the hill towards our house when I noticed my one of my rhododendron trees had flowered. The poor trees took a horrible beating from the heavy winter snows and Hubby and I had to trim them quite extensively, yet they resiliently returned this year.
Sunday after a frustrating morning where Delilah 1) sat on me pinning me to the bed 2) licked at the box of necks I was defrosting and 3) drank my Irish Whiskey laced coffee, I determined to try and get a photo of her in front of the rhododendron tree.
She watched as I took two cookies and put them in my pocket and then she quickly followed me out the door and up the stairs to the back yard, where I positioned her underneath the tree and told her to stay. I climbed down over the wall and she jumped down after me and looked expectantly for her cookie.
I brought her back up and told her again to stay. This time she did.
I was told there would be cookies.
I was trying to get as much of the tree as possible in the photo, but it required Delilah being too far away.
Still no cookie. WTW Mama? I want a cookie.
Even though she can be totally frustrating at times, there are other times when she shines like the diamond that she is. Diamonds really are a girl’s best friend.
ohhhh that is such a pretty bush/tree and with Delilah in front of it you have two beauties. What great pictures!
What a sweet girl! I really like the first picture, even though it shows a far away Delilah. I think it frames her beautifully.
Gus’ Mom
We agree it frames her beautifully. Lovely. We chuckled at the Irish coffee bit. Have a terrific Tuesday.
Best wishes Molly
Beautiful tree. I think this week things will start flowering here, but we will be gone. Hopefully we will come back to some nice beauty! Take it easy with the walking, don’t push it with the recovering one!
What a superb shot of Delilah and the rhododendron. Well done that girl!
Fab photo, drinking your Irish coffee for you…bless her?
Beautiful pictures. Irish whiskey coffee, huh? Might explain the attempt to walk two at once…lol!
That is a BEAUTIFUL Picture. The glory of Spring.
I love those photos!!! So beautiful!
My huskies are the same way when I walk them together. ALways a competition. Yet when they are alone, it is like they are different dogs!
Enjoy your day
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What a beautiful tree. Sometimes trying to save time is not the very best plan.
Delilah seems to know she is a beauty surrounded by beauty. Great photos.
She’s a beauty, that’s for sure!
Now you know why I walked Callie around the back yard after surgery last year — while Shadow did her own thing off leash — aside from it being just “doctor’s orders”. And why I thanked God constantly for doggie daycare for Ducky!
Great picture! Nice work, D. I hope you got your treats after the photo shoot.
Love and licks,
Cupcake
You get a cookie for at least trying to walk them together. 🙂
I have to admit when I saw the title of this post, I thought it would be about dog poop. Let me explain…my mom always called dog poop “doggy diamonds” as in “Oh no! You stepped in doggy diamonds and tracked it in the house!”.
That’s a lovely photo – glad you finally got your model to cooperate!
Wow Jodi, this post resonates with me! Challenging dogs are sooo much easier to walk singly, and yes I agree that usually the extra walk is worth the extra time. Multi-dog walks with more than one tricky dog are just way too much, unless I’m feeling masochistic or really pressed for time.
Beautiful tree and Delilah brings out its beauty even more.
Love those pictures!
What beautiful photos! I think Delilah made up for all her wrongdoing!
I walk the dogs one at a time too. At least I get lots of exercise, and they get most of theirs playing fetch anyway. We have yet to find a new routine with Luke now though….I’m working on that. I used to have such nice leisurely walks with Kobi and I really do miss that (the girls don’t know what leisurely means).