Down and Dirty in Holmes County

Emme loves to go to the lake house in Holmes County. She explores in the high grass, eats bugs, plays on the garage floor, finds spider webs, walks on the deck, tumbles in the dry leaves in the perennial garden, sniffs tree trunks, and gets absolutely filthy. The picture above doesn't do her justice. She looked just awful. Rudy probably gets as dirty but with his brown coat, we can't see the dirt.

We decided long ago that it was pointless to try to keep a little fluffy white dog clean at the lake so we just let her go. She gets her mouth dirty, her paws filthy, and collects hundreds of little pieces of "stuff" in her fur. We ride home with her on my lap and I feel like a momma monkey picking little pieces of grass, seeds, twigs, and who knows what out of her fur as we drive back home. The first thing we do when we return to the Wooster house is unpack the refrigerated food and put it away. Then next thing is wash the dirty, grey puppy. When I first bought Emme, I also bought twelve small white towels and six washcloths. We have put them to good use.