Eleanor, meet porcupine. Porcupine, meet Eleanor.

So, I realize I've yet to catch up on my blogging schedule of 5 posts per week. I'll get there... someday. Seeing as how my posts have so far been about food and Eleanor, it's clear what the priorities in my life have been recently...

Last weekend, we went up to Maine to visit Nico's parents. They have a very adorable poodle named Gus who is just about 1 year old. The two dogs did a lot of this:

And, this...

And, this...


Eleanor is a big fan of rolling, especially in smelly things:


But, perhaps the most exciting thing this past weekend was meeting this:


Yup, that's right, a porcupine. Eleanor and Gus found this little friend in the woods. After pulling the quills out of both of their snouts, we managed to get the porcupine into a box in order to transport him to a more remote area in the woods where he/she will hopefully not run into any more dogs or people.