WAYLON AND HER EARHOUND MR.DINKLEMAN; TWO WHO CAN SLUMBER!

It’s probably appropriate during Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee to discuss royal connections.

For example, we cite the slumbering Earhound who is the featured fellow in this weekend’s edition of Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap.
He has a royal role in this story. That is Mr. Dinkleman demonstrating how to teach the art of sleeping to his young companion — but she was a quick study and they were both out-like-a-light in record time. Our Eastern Seaboard Bureau Chief Andy Fisher (an exemplary journalist, he has a connection!) sent the May 29 photo and described it as being “from Little Miss Waylon and her ever-present canine companion, the renowned Earhound Dinkelman.”
“Little Miss Waylon” is Waylon Love Achille (pronounced “ah-sheel”), daughter of skateboarding notables Tim Achille and Celina Meehan of Philadelphia. Waylon skated in at 7 pounds, 7.5 ounces, on February 11 at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Philadelphia. Her first name is said to be from an old Irish expression for “land by the road” and the middle name is in honor of “Love Park” in Philadelphia.
And here comes the really regal part of the story: Dink’s pal Waylon is the granddaughter of our Eastern Seaboard Bureau Royalty, the reigning executives in the outpost, Bureau Executive Director and Pickleball Player Annie Fisher and Editor-in-Chief Andy Fisher. (Waylon knows them as “Mamo” [(mam-OH — Irish for “Grandma”] and Daideo (That's "grandfather" but not pronounced “Daddy-o” unless you just want to groove in the ‘50s with grandpa). That's Mamo and Waylon in "meet-and-greet" photo a few months ago..
Dink also knows Andy as “the cheese guy.” In fact, Andy writes, “Dink likes to visit the Fishers, because he gets a little piece of cheese. He so identifies us with the cheese that I created this sign (on the refrigerator).”

Dinkleman is a Chihua-wiener and he and Waylon are “inseparable, waking or sleeping,” Daideo, er, Andy, reports. 

Oh, and Tim’s brother, Uncle Ian, lives with Mamo and Daideo at the Fisher Estate on the banks of Indian Lake in Denville, N.J. — just a couple of highway hours from Waylon’s home in Philly. Ian, by the way, is a pharmacy grad student and animal fan — he used his first communion money years ago to rescue a Husky/Retriever named Barley who became First Dog in the Fisher lakeside household years ago.

Dinkleman has something in common with Barley. The 7-year-old was a rescue, too. Andy reports that Celina’s cousin Alex got him as a rescue, but when Alex’s travels “took her too far from home too often,” Dinkelman “came to live with Celina and Tim.” It’s clearly been a great fit!

FYI, Andy describes Tim and Celina as “competition-grade skateboarders. In fact, Celina won a prize in a skateboarding contest when she was five months pregnant. They wasted no time giving Waylon the feel of the board (of course, under the close supervision of Dinkelman).”  In that photo on the left, Waylon has her feet on Dad's skateboard!
And there you have it: Wonderful Waylon and her Slumberpal Dinkelman. When Waylon went home from the hospital after her birth, she was greeted by “endearing creatures: Dinkelman the Chihua-wiener and three cats.”
Wonderful to know that a baby has an experienced dog leading the royal staff.
[DEAR READERS: Please send photos of your slumbering critters and their stories, too, to dallrp@aol.com. We take great pride in featuring them in our long-running weekend feature, “Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap.” You’ll be helping people decide to enhance their homes by opening them to dogs and/or cats. And you may just be helping insomniacs believe they, too, can get some sleep if they can just learn to nod off while balanced on a skateboard.]
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