Particle physics continues to dominate my life, but there was time for a lot of doggie-related excitement this week. In addition to getting to meet our blog-friend goodbear earlier this week, which was way awesome, something very exciting happened this weekend too — Oliver got a fence! Howard and I put it up ourselves yesterday, and I think we might be broken for good. It turns out fence building (even crappy fence building, which is the only kind we know how to do) is hard, hard, hard work! And our wussy little physicist/engineer selves are not used to manual labor. But we got it up, all in one rainy afternoon.
This is actually not the end of our fence-building plans. We would like to enclose our entire (giganto) yard, but since that will require large outlays of both money and manual labor, we decided to start with a test enclosure, that is maybe 2500 square feet.
So far, it seems to be a pretty big success. Oliver has been doing lots of running around, and although the fence is pretty ugly, I think I can live with it, at least until my life is a little more settled. We were concerned that Oliver might try to jump the fence (it’s 4′) or dig under it. Only time will tell, but so far, so good. He hasn’t tried messing with the fence at all, even when there was a very enticing squirrel on the other side.
15 Apr 2009 at 5:04 am
a fence! that is so great. i wonder if oliver will work a path like cody bear did…
15 Apr 2009 at 6:08 am
Oliver is so cute! My saint is named Moose and he’s going to be 7 in July – he weighs around 160 pounds. Start the glucosamine supplements now if you haven’t already
Oliver looks like such a good boy, getting along with the cats and all. Moose snuggles with cats and bunnies alike. If you want to see pics, they’re here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drunkenlagomorph/sets/72157601113549063/
I’ve subscribed to your blog – can’t wait to see more pics!
16 Apr 2009 at 9:36 pm
Drunkbunny — thanks for stopping by! Your family is totally adorable!
We aren’t exactly sure of Oliver’s lineage. A lot of people say he is part St. Bernard, but he’s about 40 lbs at age 2+1/2! Whether he has a great-great granddaddy St. Bernard out there somewhere, or it’s just a happy coincidence of genetics, he sure is adorable!