Pool Side Relaxation!

Ginger is strangely human when it comes to how she handles the pool! She doesn't jump in, she'd rather enter and exit the pool by going up and down the steps. Ginger has also learned to push off the wall or steps to take off quickly and that combined with her expert low profile swimming skills often allows her to beat Baylie to the desired toy!

Baylie on the other hand, LOVES to jump in the pool from off the side and then whenever she gets tired she claims a perch on the "love seat" step in the pool. I think Baylie would literally sit in the pool all day long if I'd let her...as it is, her really white hair on her belly and hind quarters is tinted green from the chlorine!

If Baylie ever beats Ginger to the toy...she promptly steels it right out of Baylie's mouth!

Ginger has a thing for going under chairs and benches...not sure if it is a technique for trying to dry her back or simply a quirk. Ginger has never had an issue going under anything which is lucky for me because Baylie is a big chicken when it comes to duck under things so they balance each other out perfectly! Baylie loves to "put" toys or balls under beds, tables, and couches but then refuses to get them and incessantly barks until I fetch. Instead I lift and Ginger military crawls to the rescue!

Baylie likes to keep her face dry and whenever she does decide to get out of the pool immediately after a good shake off she proceeds to rub her face along the couch to dry off...she makes quite a scene of it!

This is a picture of Ginger's secret passageway she uses in games of "keep-away" because Baylie rarely braves the close quarters to follow her!

The plam tree photo was to highlight gigantic seedpod that popped...really pretty but really messy!