First kiss! And a Sign of the Apocalypse?

The other evening, Sadie came by the slider. I let Chester and Marley out, of course, and Chester actually chased Sadie around for a while. I suspect Sadie was feeling really happy since her mom was home from a vacation. It was really cute to watch Chester and hear his grunty noises as he ran after "his" blonde. As we were getting ready to go back inside (the moms were freezing), Sadie went up to Chester and LICKED HIS FACE! Several times! A kiss! He was stunned for a bit, then he licked back a little. It was cute. Then he'd had enough and we went in. Since then, when she goes outside, she first checks my slider to see if Chester can come out. (This is a picture of them, see how coy she looks?)

Marley doesn't seem to care. She may be relieved.

My friend Ami takes wonderful photographs, and here are her recent pictures of Chester: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sourcherries/sets/72157601822783462/

She kindly had a print made of one of them, and it's on my fridge. The other morning I walked in (before coffee, mind you) and looked at it and thought, "That pug in the postcard really looks like Chester." Doh!

Sign of the Apocalypse

Marley is not a clingy pug. If you let her out, she wanders off, sniffing, oblivious to everything else. That's what she was doing when I first met her; she didn't give a whit about me or the other pugs around, she was off sniffing. Not exactly social. Boomer was the social one and it was always cute to watch the old people wandering around doing their "dog stuff" together.

It follows that Marley isn't exactly what you'd call cuddly, either. Our sleeping arrangements consist of her at the far corner of the bed on her down comforter, with Chester sleeping mashed up against me, under the covers until he farts so much he can't breathe. The other night, when Marley left her microfiber-covered down blanket and came up to the head of the bed where Chester normally is, I thought the world was going to end the next morning. Especially when Chester looked at Marley and went to where she normally sleeps. And that's how it was all night, she slept next to me.

The world didn't end, and the next night things were back to normal.