Tess & The Black Pipe!

For some time, I've called Tess a MORON! She's a sweet puppy when she's not being head-strong and independent! For such an independent dog...she sure is a wuss! We've seen it many times before whether it's a leaf blowing, that hole covered with a grate and many other things but today...the black pipe topped the cake! :-)

The propane company is at the house installing the pipes to supply gas to the stove top, hot water heaters, fireplaces and dryer. They had drilled a hole in the great room fireplace frame and had a pipe sticking through it. It happened to catch Tess' attention as it was turning (they were connecting it down below the house). You would have thought she saw a ghost! She began barking and stretched out her entire body trying to figure out what in the heck it was! She wouldn't let her attention off the pipe! It had her baffled for sure! At one point Don or I tapped the floor and Tess jumped about a mile - straight up! Oh my gosh! Don and I were both laughing so hard, yet telling Tess it was o.k. Didn't matter to her! She was not going to let it out of her site! The guys working below told us that they heard her barking! Even 10 or 15 minutes later...she was still wary of that darn pipe! It may have been one of those things that "you just had to be there" but I wish you could have seen her!

BTW I still think she's a moron! She eats everything she finds around the construction of our new house! The workers aren't too great about picking up trash...especially after lunch! She eats wrappers off "things", instructions that come with "things", cardboard, plastic off of everything and now even picks up the wire that's cut off where the electrician is wiring!!! When we try to get her and tell her to "drop it"...she runs from us! She's not dumb (well, maybe you would classify eating wire as NOT SMART) but she's smart enough to go around so we can't catch her!