The past weeks

Hi everybody:

 

Have I told you that the route to work is very challenging? We can walk the Hapoo route for the most part when I need to do my business, and then we walk to the streetcar tracks. Up, down, up, down we climb to reach the traffic pole, which is located in the middle of a snow pile. I have to step up with my front paws to show it to Chris. Crossing the street is easy, but then the next challenge comes up. The route is not cleared of snow at all, so I have to walk ahead of Chris, the harness handle lying on my back. Usually, when the handle is resting on my back, I have to stand and wait, or sit and wait, or I can lie down and wait, but waiting it is. In this case, however, the path is so narrow, if there's any path at all, that I have to leash guide Chris. I do, though reluctantly looking back at her sometimes. She says I am a marvelous trooper. The next traffic pole is again center of a snow pile. And then we have to step up on a snow bank, wait till we can cross, and then jump, step or slide down to cross the street.  The next footpath is cleared. Chris usually uses that relaxing part of the route to tie her shoes again. They always open when her feet slide - no idea why that is. When the pedestrian walk ends, we cross to the other side in good weather. But since we have no good weather, we have to walk at the left edge of the street close to a snow wall as high as me. I don't like to walk there, I prefer walking in the middle of the street, which Chris forbids under all circumstances. On her right cars pass constantly, and I think if we walked in the middle of the street, they would go away somewhere else. Chris insists they would not, but instead they would run us over.

 

Talking about running over, on one of the very slippery days a car really almost ran us over, because he was going backwards and didn't look. Chris says I was calm, even though I couldn't navigate her into the snow mess. She ran towards the driver's cabin, and he took off like a mad guy when he saw us. She was trembling afterwards.

 

We have to continue in the street until we have reached our entrance gate. Finally the car parking area has been cleared nicely, so we reach the door without problems. In the breaks Chris lets me play in the snow. I toss and toss and snarle and toss some more, run and play, and I have such fun and such a clean fur. Chris brushed me last night and said that my fur is really clean. O yes. I always want snow banks at the side of the street, rain or sun or snow, so I can clean myself without horror baths.

 

One of the past days we met a dog, and she and I snarled a little, even though I was in harness. her owner didn't take her away from us, that was stupid. But she and I weren't injured or so, Chris was only furious at the other owner and a bit annoyed about me. Mom has been with us one weekend to have brunch, and then she once came for a little shopping. And yesterday I saw the boss, but he hadn't brought his dog. He took us home, which Chris was happy about. I think today we will go out somewhere, because she has packed the money into her bag, and I heard that we are expecting visitors at the weekend, if the weather is acceptable and it doesn't snow like there's no tomorrow.

Have a great day everybody and everywoof, Hapoo.