September 25, 2014---Big Pine, California

We woke up to very high winds and decided to stay in Big Pine one more day.  The motorhome is rocking just sitting here.  Bill didn’t think it would be too much fun to be “rockin’ and rollin’ down the highway.”

I had plenty of inside jobs to do.  I spent the morning on the computer.  I never seem to get caught up.  

Before you start to read this blog, I want to apologize to Michelle, Max, and all my readers.  I worked and worked to get the pictures with the right text.  I had a terrible time.  I'm sending the pictures with the text at the very end and I'm asking you to match pictures with text.

Max and Willie napping.

Riding shotgun.

Puppy's naptime.

Sara hangs on.

Max making sure his dog food bag is empty.

Napping with Matthew.

Max and Willie playing so hard things were a blur.

This will be a good time to introduce Maximus, aka Max, to everyone, except Meredith and me.  We call him Tippy because of the way his ears tip over at the very tips.  “Tippy” seemed like a good name.

Max was adopted by Michelle and her tribe just about a year ago.  He was eight weeks old.  As puppies go, he was all puppy.  And he is still very active, especially when his “brothers” are around. 

Max loves to spend his days napping in Michelle’s home office.  He’s probably storing energy for “feistiness” when the rest of the family gets home.  Max loves to play tug-of-war and is usually the winner.  He doesn’t give up!  When Willie was visiting Max last summer, it was a match.  Neither one wanted to let go.  He even got Sara involved.  When she was tired, she hung on and so did Max!

When Max was a baby, he had a very skinny tail.  We called it his rat tail.  Now that he is older, his tail is very plummy.  We call it his ostrich feathers.  And it wags a lot.

Max looks like a small munsterlander with a border collie head.  When seeing a bird, he sometimes shows his hunting traits.  He goes into pointer stance with one front paw up.  I think the only prey he ever presented to Michelle was a mouse he caught outside.  He was helping Grandpa with the mouse catching  business.

Max brings so much joy to his new family.  He's a lucky pup and they are lucky to have him.