Puppy Love

The last two days I have spent driving in some questionable weather with a friend so that I can fall in love with a puppy.

Jenn and I hit the road around 5:00 am Monday morning and headed to North Carolina. On the way we drove thru some nasty weather. Jenn claims it was because the puppy knew we were headed to get him. We finally made it to our destination around 4 pm. Brandy brings out the puppy and instantly I was smitten. Nimbus is great. So lively, inquisitive and lovable.

We took the puppies, (Jenn brought along Potion, here border collie puppy) into the back yard to meet. They took a few minutes to hit it off, but soon became great friends. They ran and chased each other all around the yard. Then found the tunnel, both I believe are going to be tunnel monsters. Potion found the pool and was very excited to go swimming. Brandy brought out her other dogs, three Samoyeds, and introduced them to Potion one at a time. It wasn't long before all 5 dogs were in the yard. Puppies were the most entertaining, well except for Clover who was in the pool trying to catch the gold fish. Yes, I said trying to catch the gold fish. Brandy has a small plastic kiddie pool in her backyard and has currently 1 gold fish in it. Clover and Venus were trying to get it, however, Clover would mostly just bite at anything and sometimes nothing that would move in the pool.

The night went on and time for bed came. It didn't take him long to settle down, however, it's been a long time since I have had to wake every two hours to attend to someone else's needs. Nimbus decided he had to go potty every two hours. We got up early, but Jenn and Brandy were nice and let me take a nap...yay for good friends.

We started our trip back to Indiana around 3:00 or so. After about an hour on the road, Brandy sends Jenn a text message about tornado warnings and watches...yay for bad weather, NOT. So as we are trying to figure where we are and if the warnings pertain to anywhere around us, we start seeing these ominous looking clouds, driving thru some nasty rain, and then more ominous clouds. At one point we see a cloud start some rotation and a tail forming, and all we can think is look people put your foot on the pedal and DRIVE!!! Needless to say, we didn't get caught up in a tornado, but the possibility of it was more than enough for us. I was given an ultimatum if it were to happen again. Puppy's name would have to be changed. Well as you can see his name is still Nimbus. After some freaky GPS directions and a few out of the way roads, we finally made it home.

Nimbus did great thru the night. He slept all night, thank goodness. The minis are not so sure how they feel about a puppy that is as big as they are. Currently Nimbus is spending some time in the xpen until we can get some house training completed. He is great with letting us know he needs to go out. He's not so sure about this nice hot and humid weather, but that's ok for now, we have some air conditioning in the house. He loves his raccoon toy, and all of my two legged men.

All I can say is I have fallen for this little boy, and am even more excited about my new adventure with him.