16 Weeks, Puppy School, College, & the BTV

LOA: 45"

Beam: 9"

Gross Tonnage: 35 lbs.

Draft: 19"

The monster is growing at rates that nobody can believe. Everybody comments on it, from the vet, to the mailman, to the neighbors.

Bali started puppy school on Monday. We don't have any pictures of that, but he also went to college. Here's Bali attending his first college class (my senior seminar). Notice how he simultaneously sits on one student's purse while chewing on the arm of another. He wasn't the brightest pupil, and he had to be carried by his mom up and down the stairs to the third-floor classroom. We finally found something that he's afraid of--TALL FLIGHTS OF STAIRS! How horrifying! The college class was no sweat . . .

We're planning Bali's first big road-trip. We'll be headed to Wisconsin (mom, you don't know this yet) in our 16-year-old Saturn (it's always been called the BTV--the "Boy Transport Vehicle"). Here's the catch--it has 220,000 miles on it. Here's the proof.

We'll be taking the title along and we'll be prepared to remove the license plate. But we won't be surprised if it makes it. Stay tuned . . .