Now that we have settled back into more of a regular routine, we’ve been able to get the dogs out for more adventures! Marcy has just recently figured out her legs, and WOW, is it incredible to watch her run!
This past week, we went to the beach twice, rented HAWS’ dog park, and visited a local nature preserve—all of which I will share little clips of below.
Some exciting but also slightly stressful news—we are starting to get our house ready for sale! AAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! Dom bought our little starter home back in 2018 when it was just him and Abby, and it has served our growing noodle family well. It has just become very clear to us that having two horses and a mini horse in a starter home is starting to feel a smidge tight. It has always been our dream to have a bigger yard for the dogs or at least be closer to more parks and trails for them and it is FINALLY HAPPENING.
My ABSOLUTE DREAM SCENARIO (one that I will be extremely emotional about if it happens) is finding a house with a sunroom for Abby. She has so much life and spunk in her, but I want to make sure our next home is also a great transition home for when she does start to slow down. A few things we’re considering are having the primary bedroom on the first floor so Abby doesn’t have to climb the stairs every night (she sleeps next to us…well, next to noodle dad…Abby wouldn’t be caught dead sleeping next to me), a sunroom so she can sunbathe and enjoy all the smells in a comfy and safe place, and maybe even a mudroom with a dog wash that’s easier for her to get into.
It’s so hard because we want to give the dogs everything and make sure they’re comfortable, but houses right now are SO expensive. If we want to move somewhere else, we’d probably have to pay double or even triple what we paid for our current house just to get a similar size, which is very disheartening. But there’s never going to be a perfect time to move—especially if a cross-country drive is involved. We don’t want to put the dogs through too much stress, so it’s probably better to just get it over with now instead of waiting (I hope). I’ll admit, I enter the HGTV home giveaways every year in hopes that we’ll win and somehow miraculously find ourselves in a bigger home (lol, a girl can dream). But ANYWHO, this week we’re getting new windows put in, which is exciting but also bittersweet since we won’t really get to enjoy them for very long.
In other news, we are working on new merch that I think is SO CUTE AND SO COOL. Maggie, our designer (who goes by noodlehorsedoodles on social media), has really outdone herself—she is so talented. I’ll give you a little hint: I’m calling the designs “The Fated Snoots.” We’re also going to start making some phrase-only merch, which has been highly requested from certain videos. For example, in the “How to Con Your Borzoi Into Getting Another Little Sister” video, there’s a line—“Mornings are for melancholy”—that people seemed to really enjoy and resonate with.
And finally, we just had a consult at the vet for Abby to get a dental cleaning. I AM STRESSED about putting her under again after she had her eye surgery this past September. I wish we had the foresight to do both procedures at the same time, but I know we barely wanted to put her through that surgery at the time. The vet says she’s a great candidate for the cleaning, so we think it’s definitely worth pursuing. I’ll be honest, we definitely didn’t keep up with Abby’s teeth very well when she was younger. Since she was Dom’s first dog, I don’t think he even considered that it was something he needed to do. It wasn’t until we got Cleo that we started taking dog ownership more seriously. The first child is always the guinea pig, it seems 🥲
Talk next week :)
I hate to be contrarian, but I'm afraid what you've got hold of there is a human dressed as a dark-furred Afghan. I cannot otherwise explain why the supposed quadruped in question *actually comes when asked to.* Yes, I realize that the biomechanics of such a human-encasing system must be very complex, but I suspect they involve some form of cloaking or spoofing mechanism which deceives the eye. In fact, I think I spotted what may be an earlier prototype of that system in the video in the course of which the "Afghan" chased -- at a rate clearly in excess of what physical law allows -- a slight distortion in the visual field racing ahead of it. This latter clearly was a glitchy cloaking device, which produced space/time ripples and appeared as a landscape-coloured refraction which occasionally *almost* resembled another quadruped. My guess is that these phenomena represent either a DARPA project or possibly a rogue private venture launched by an eccentric (but hopefully non-oligarchic) billionaire.
Love the idea of phrase-only merch. Also, you WILL find the right house for Abby, with everything on your wish list (her wish list would include leaving Cleo and Marcy in your current house). All paws crossed here. Her dental should not be scary for you if your vet uses sighthound appropriate anesthesia...ProproFol. It takes the dog down only as far as needed, and is reversed, so recovery is rapid with out side effects.