Greetings from spring!

OK, it’s spring in New England, so there’s still a bit of ice and snow. Which gets a bit tedious if you’re a human, but continues to be fun for Charlie the pupper:

We should note that Charlie has been an exceptionally good dog of late, patiently putting up with the kids trying to take his temperature with an infrared thermometer:

He was also a really good sport about the dog house the kids built for him out of some extra-large cardboard moving boxes we picked up at Home Depot (hours of entertainment for $8):

His willingness to go along with this was largely thanks to the “treat dispenser” in said dog house, which was the Pip in a second box butted up against the main dog house, pushing small treats through a hole between them. Charlie was a well-fed pupper today.

SteelyKid has really been on an engineering kick of late, which also included building a hydraulic claw from this month’s Tinker Crate kit:

And those are your photos of the last couple of weeks.