Deployment, a wifes journey: Dogs don't video chat!!

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Well this is all pretty exciting for me. I am new to the "blogosphere" but thought I would document my journey through another deployment.
This is the fifth deployment for my husband, and each one is different and difficult in its own way.
There are many men and women out there just like me; spouses, fathers, mothers, sisters brothers, and children. So many of us that put our lives in a bit of a holding period waiting for our loved ones to come home.
For most of us, we know the sacrifice our soldiers pay, as well as the sacrifice each of us pays while they are gone!
For better or for worse, we keep the home fires burning.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Dogs don't video chat!!

Every Friday night, our dog Ike watches Dogtown, he loves the show. He will sit on the couch and watch the entire hour. Occasionally if things get exciting on the show he will jump up off the couch and get closer to the TV trying to figure out how to get there with those dogs! It is our Friday night ritual. Yeah, sad life I know, but it makes Ike happy and what else am I doing... really??!!??
Ike likes watching TV, so I figure why not let him video chat with Doug... makes sense, right? So I decided to put the video chat in from of Ike and see what he would do when he "saw" and "heard" Doug coming through the silver box... Well first he was confused, he heard Doug voice and jumped off the couch to find him. Epic fail, he's not here Ike! We tried it again and Ike would just stare at the computer and wonder what I expected him to do. Normally a dog is expected to get off the couch, sit for a treat, kennel up... you get the idea. So Doug tried to talk to Ike again and he just stares and wonders what his "people" are up to now!!

So of course this is how we see Doug on a daily basis, through a silver box. I thought I would share this picture because I like the different writing on the Diet Coke.

Anyway, our dog loves to watch Dogtown, he just does not like to ichat. So for now I will chat with Doug and let Ike scratch his back on the floor, he is good at that! Plus it gives us a real good laugh! And today, I needed that!