Davey's First Earthquake!

Oh yeah baby! If you didn't think I was dorky before then this post will be the final nail in the coffin! :) Here's David shortly after the earthquake yesterday. In no way, shape, or form is he freaked out in the slightest. As a matter of fact, he was patiently waiting for me to stop snapping photos so we could get back to playing.

As many of you probably already know, Oklahoma had a strange outbreak of earthquake activity yesterday. Honestly, I had no idea until the big one rocked the area around 11:53 PM. Officially, this would be my fourth earthquake but for Davey, it's his FIRST! Okay, so this is a little ridiculous-of this I'm fully aware- but when your puppy is almost 3 years old, there aren't many "1st" left to experience.

Strangely enough, I was sitting right here at the computer when the tremor began. It had been pretty windy all day long and its not all that unusual to get an occasional freaky gust of wind that makes you wonder. At first, I thought that's exactly what was happening, but our house has never moved before. So naturally I thought that maybe this was a sign that a tornado was approaching. That is until the blinds started knocking against the window and I began to feel like a long-distant passenger on Amtrak.

Here's the unnatural part- I didn't run for protection this time. Nope. I just sat there and road it out. Weird, I know. But at the same time I trying to be logical. You see, we have a full basement. This means that hiding to protect oneself from a collapsing roof will do you no good if you're just going to end up in the basement because the house shifted right off the foundation and has you plummeting to the depths below.  Yep, those are exactly the nice and healthy kind of thoughts I experience during natural phenomenon's. After the rocking stopped, my maternal (albeit delayed) instincts kicked in and I went to find Davey posthaste. Thinking that he needed to be comforted and soothed, I quickly found him in the dining room frozen by the back door staring at me as if he was caught doing something bad. As soon as I started talking to him, he quickly pounced on the closest toy to take full advantage of my undivided attention.  So much for comforting the scared baby. Of course, like any good Momma Puppy, I made him sit for a series of photos that would forever mark the occasion.

Yeah, I got to say... I think I captured the mood perfectly.