TJL's Birthday

At the resort some people call The Compound, where Sparky and I are vacationing while Mom's away, we celebrated TJL's birthday. Guinness hasn't been feeling very well, but Margot actually played with me! And Rex, too!

Here are some toys that I got from Guinness and Margot's toybox. Rex is the biggest toy of all!



And here's a photo of the birthday boy holding me.



He takes good care of me and gives Sparky shots while Mom's away.

Okay, there was a little incident. See, there was LOTS of food at the birthday party. Grilled burgers and sausages. Potato salad. Baked beans. More food than my aunt could eat, but she'd already put a sausage on her plate. So she told my uncle to just wrap it in a paper towel and put it on her desk for later.

Then some other friends, R&L, came to The Compound. There was lots of dog playing and picture taking and cake eating. And later, my aunt found a paper towel on the floor of the office, and no sausage and no hotdog bun.

Now THEY say I'm the only dog who ever disappeared for a few minutes. But I'm just a little girl. How would I ever be able to pull that off without help?

Like Margot says, they can't prove ANYTHING.

(burp)

I'm on vacation!

My brother Sparky and I get to stay with my buddy Rex for a few days! This means we also get to make visits to the house where Margot and Guinness live. Sparky isn't all that happy--he's kind of a workaholic who doesn't believe in vacations--but woohoo! It's all toys for me! Now I just need to make sure the photographers here capture some of my best moments with those toys. So far, they're really slacking. Don't they understand I have faithful blog readers?!?

Survivor Night

It is party night! Once a week TJL comes to see me, Sparky and Greta. He does a bunch of stuff around here for my mom. He gets upset with us if we walk on his floors when they are wet. But he takes us in the car to see Rex, Margot & Guinness. We play. They have lots of neat toys. I like taking all of them out of the box, carrying them all around my aunt's house and playing with them all. Margot is a little moody. Sometimes she will play with me but not much. On the other paw, Rex and I run, bark, chew, romp, play, fight, bite & all that other fun stuff. We watch Survivor. My favorite is Boo. Just because I think that is a cool name. But I think he will get voted off soon unless someone takes the control away from Earl.

Girls just wanna have fun!!!

Our neighbor, Eve, has two older dogs that are boxers like her and two humans, Mom and Dad. Eve is a young, bouncy, peppy girl that likes to get out for a good romp, like me!!! She and I have done most of our talking through the fence. We have tried digging to see each other, but our humans get so testy about a few holes in the yard. My mom and Eve's mom finally let us get together for a romp. We played and played then Sue and Sieg came to visit and we played more. They had to go home but Eve ended up spending the night with me and we stayed up for a long time playing. My mom is such a slacker. She did not get a picture of my friend and our party. She promised to get one of Eve soon.

Edit: Look! Now with a photo!


Grrrrr, kickin' boxer butt!

Powder-puff Camping

Some people think camping is fun. I know the trip my mom took me on was fun. She called it powder-puff camping. We had a fire and roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. We stayed in a house and it got COLD. Guard duty was left to me so I patrolled the house all night. My mom said I kept her awake. Silly woman, I was protecting her. She was perfectly safe. I saw something called cows. They make this stuff KMc called granola. It must be an acquired taste, I tried it but it didn't taste very good. However rolling in it gave me an earthy smell.

This other creature was out there. His name is Jack and I was afraid of him. He is a registered paint donkey. He kills dogs & coyotes that get after KMc's cows. I stayed away from Jack, but gave him a piece of my mind from the far side of this pond. You would think he would know I am a princess and I'm not to be bothered.

I like presents !!!!

This was me at Christmas!!! I got to hear about Jesus's birth. Lots of people came to my mom's house just to meet me and brought these pretty packages called presents. They were being opened by everyone. I claimed this one as MINE but someone left me only the pretty paper.

So I ate it.

Fashion Statement

My nephew, Seig. He thinks he's the biggest, baddest dog around. I think he looks like a dog in yellow sheep's clothing.

Giggle.