A glimpse into this evening’s conversation:
We are sitting at the table, finishing dinner. We are discussing the possibility of enticing our amazing friends from Minnesota to meet us at some halfway point for a “Great Dane escape” weekend and perusing potential locations on the Internet.
Clearly bored with this conversation, and sensing that she will be excluded from the festivities, Azure begins bumping my arm with a slobbery object. Checking the object for “appropriate play” status, I observe that it is the mostly intact remnants of a previous shoe sacrifice. I grab a hold of a spot which gives me adequate grip, give a little jerk, and the game commences. Azure and I are intently staring each other down, an integral part of the game.
K: She never plays that way with me.
A: Hmmm. . . I wonder why that is. . .
K: I don’t play that way with her.
A: Well, that probably explains it.
Azure is tugging as I continue to hold on. She tries a “jerk lose” move. I cling to my end of the shoe. I gently pull towards me, dragging her along the floor. She jerks and I let go as she careens backwards.
Before I can awake the computer from sleep mode, Azure is back at my arm, nudging me with the slobbery shoe. The game recommences.
K: What kind of floors do you think will withstand this?
A: Concrete.
K: No seriously.
A: I am serious. We can paint the concrete floors at the new house. We can do parquet or hardwood patterns, tile, creek bottoms, name it.
K: (pretending to pout) But I don’t want concrete floors in the new house!
A: Hmmmm. . .
Azure is trying to exert authority by subtly pulling backwards. I am holding my ground, but the effort is dislodging the tablecloth and pulling my beer and the computer precariously close to the table’s edge. Because she loves me, K. moves my beer to safer ground.
This time, I try to the “jerk lose” move. Azure holds on but thinking she may have the upper hand, vigorously tugs backwards at which point I let go and she careens backwards.
Azure gains her footing and returns to nudge my arm with the slobbery shoe again.
K: I guess she must want to play.
A: Hmmm. . . I guess so. . .
K: Why does she want to play the tug game with you and not me?
A: Must be saving herself for your snuggles later.
K: Yeah, I’m a lover, not a fighter.
A: Pretty much, yeah.
We are sitting at the table, finishing dinner. We are discussing the possibility of enticing our amazing friends from Minnesota to meet us at some halfway point for a “Great Dane escape” weekend and perusing potential locations on the Internet.
Clearly bored with this conversation, and sensing that she will be excluded from the festivities, Azure begins bumping my arm with a slobbery object. Checking the object for “appropriate play” status, I observe that it is the mostly intact remnants of a previous shoe sacrifice. I grab a hold of a spot which gives me adequate grip, give a little jerk, and the game commences. Azure and I are intently staring each other down, an integral part of the game.
K: She never plays that way with me.
A: Hmmm. . . I wonder why that is. . .
K: I don’t play that way with her.
A: Well, that probably explains it.
Azure is tugging as I continue to hold on. She tries a “jerk lose” move. I cling to my end of the shoe. I gently pull towards me, dragging her along the floor. She jerks and I let go as she careens backwards.
Before I can awake the computer from sleep mode, Azure is back at my arm, nudging me with the slobbery shoe. The game recommences.
K: What kind of floors do you think will withstand this?
A: Concrete.
K: No seriously.
A: I am serious. We can paint the concrete floors at the new house. We can do parquet or hardwood patterns, tile, creek bottoms, name it.
K: (pretending to pout) But I don’t want concrete floors in the new house!
A: Hmmmm. . .
Azure is trying to exert authority by subtly pulling backwards. I am holding my ground, but the effort is dislodging the tablecloth and pulling my beer and the computer precariously close to the table’s edge. Because she loves me, K. moves my beer to safer ground.
This time, I try to the “jerk lose” move. Azure holds on but thinking she may have the upper hand, vigorously tugs backwards at which point I let go and she careens backwards.
Azure gains her footing and returns to nudge my arm with the slobbery shoe again.
K: I guess she must want to play.
A: Hmmm. . . I guess so. . .
K: Why does she want to play the tug game with you and not me?
A: Must be saving herself for your snuggles later.
K: Yeah, I’m a lover, not a fighter.
A: Pretty much, yeah.
1 comment:
OH! I love this glimpse of you three at play! What a treat!
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