Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Momma's lil helper

We had a busy, busy weekend preparing for Chinese New Year. A whole bunch of relatives will be descending on our house on Sunday and mom volunteered us for cleaning duty. She herself spent the bulk of the day getting the garden ready, repotting plants and stuff.

Danny began the day indoors, but as there is no clean house when Danny's about, we soon quarantined him with mom. Which turned out quite well.

Mom was puffing and panting, trying to loosen the soil in the ground so she could stuff it in pots. Danny observed her for a minute before he dived in and sent the dirt flying. Schnauzers, it seems, are bred to dig and chase after all sorts of underground creatures.

I guess he wanted to show her how it was done.

Mom just happily scooped up whatever he tossed out. After a while he got a bit bored and decided to help Rhoda.

That didn't turn out quite so well.

Rhoda, you see, was busy painting the garden wall. By the time I saw him at dinner, he had white highlights on his butt.

Do you see it? No? Let's go a bit closer... Taadah!


He even managed to get a couple of splotches on his head!
Although for a dog with a white paint-matted tush, he looked really pleased.

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