Coda's birthday!

We had just the most wonderful day on Saturday, yesterday, for Coda's birthday. As the photos show, it was a delightful time :) We went to Monkton, a small town between north Baltimore and the border with Pennsylvania, to visit Abigail, a 6 month 1 week Havanese puppy who was in Coda's puppy class at Petsmart. Vella and Glenn had invited us out to play in their very large fenced in backyard...

From the moment we arrived at 1pm Abigail and Coda went at it, a rough and tumble racer X extravaganza both inside and out! Balls were chased, Coda experienced his first frisbee and chew toys were fought over! Abigail was very gracious and let Coda chew all of the tasty pigs ears, rawhides, dried catfish, dried yam and bully sticks! The previous day at PetDepot I had bought two iced doggie cookies, but Coda managed to eat them both!

While the pups were having fun in the yard, Vella got out a very big camera and took lots of action shots of the speed demons (& Abigail could outrun Coda) and then proceeded to print out some amazing 11x17 photos that I will be framing. Vella and Glenn are both serious amateur photographers and have produced stunning hardback books of photos taken on their many travels including Africa, Peru, India, Ireland, Scotland, Wales & Cornwall. They had photos of bridges in Cornwall that I knew growing up!

When we left at 4pm the dogs were still going strong, but Coda fell asleep quickly in the car and then preceded to sleep throughout the evening! He'd had a very good day!