guthrie

this is guthrie. he's strange. last week i was sick and my sweetie was out of town. i curled up on the couch with a chicken pot pie and had a pot holder under the hot plate while i was eating. when i went to put the dishes away, the pot holder must have fallen. guthrie never misses a chance to suck extra warmth off anything and somehow he managed to squirm his way around to get this toasty pot holder over himself. he also catches snow balls. sometimes he eats his own poop.

now that we have a whole house and yard, he's gone mad. he loves to run around outside and inside. he loves the stairs. sometimes he just sits at the top and looks down at us. he's made friends with the upstairs air register and when we miss him we usually find him staring into it. by far his most exciting discovery has been the upstairs porch. it is a tiny porch off our bedroom with pine trees cut into the railing. he can look out onto the front yard and the street and, beyond that, the entire world. this includes several very nice mountains. he is vigilant.

at some point, he discovered that the bottom triangle in the little trees is exactly the same size and shape as his wedge of a head so he shoved it through. i had visions of my small dog squirming through space and splatting on the ground below, but the cut out trees are perfect, allowing him to shove his head through comfortably while his broad shoulders keep him from flying dangerously off the porch.
so he looks like this.

















he reminds me of those crazy gun turrets in tanks or in those underground bunkers for some reason. he's generally pretty low to the ground and we think this may be a little like the stairs. he's power mad. still, he's what i got instead of a diamond ring and a diamond ring is never going to be this funny. not even close. and a diamond ring is never going to catch a snowball in midair in its mouth. or sleep on my neck. of course, a diamond is never going to be so engrossed in something that it doesn't realize it's peeing as it walks across the floor. i guess it's a good thing i don't like diamonds in the first place.