Grandpa Elvin Is In The Building

Tanner's Two Cents
Wow, were we surprised when Keith and Karen came in Thursday evening. We could smell they'd been to the China Buffet before they came up the front steps, but as they came through the front door there was Grandpa Elvin too! Wahoo! Tucker, Hope, and I went into our "Glad you're home, thanks for the visit, what did you bring us" romping routine, running around picking up things in our mouth and doing everything we could to look cute and to make him feel special...Grandpa Elvin had a gift bag in his hand...and if he hadn't already given it to Keith & Karen that could only mean whatever was in that bag WAS FOR US!!

Grandpa Elvin is a coach driver for Executive Coach out of Lancaster, PA and he was in town as the driver for a Bob Neff tour of the area. We looked around for Grandma Mary but when she didn't come right in with the rest of them we knew we could focus on Elvin and the gift bag.

Grandpa Elvin sat down on the couch and started pulling out all kinds of wonderful taste treats for us. I started out with a canine ice cream cone.

And then I helped Tucker clean up the crumbs from her cone (Tucker's in the red collar, I'm in the blue).

Then it was canine cookies, spaniel snacks, and for a few minutes it seemed like the bottomless bag! Well, all too quickly the bag did have a bottom and that was that. But boy was it wonderful while it lasted. I let Elvin scratch me for a while to let him know I appreciated his stopping by and then I went over and sat by Keith just so Keith would know I can't be bought for too long.

Tucker? After the treats came to an end she just hopped up right beside Grandpa Elvin and spent the rest of the evening there until he left. She's shameless. It's all about food for her. It's embarrassing.

Hope came over, ate what she wanted, and then went and laid down. When you're retired like she is, you call your own shots. She was glad to see Elvin. She's known him all her life.

Thanks for the goodies, Grandpa Elvin. We know Grandma Mary had a hand in this too!

Well, that's all for the dog blog right now. Keith's looking like he wants to play catch so I gotta go play the game. It's all part of the job.