Happy Birthday Dad!

Today is dad's birthday. Mom woke up early and got the house ready for him to wake up. Coffee, we got fed and walked. She got him some gifts from all of us and is crazy with anticipation to give them to him.

We took a picture of him yesterday with mom's camera phone.... I love him.

Here is another new goofy picture of Bella. She thinks she is a flower (leaf) child....


She is getting huge. The other day we were running through the cemetery and she found a black lab to play with and they ran around together.... Hilarious. I think I figured out that her border collie mom bred with a black lab dad! Really, they looked SO much alike it was scary!

Bella and I wish dad the Happiest birthday! We will try very hard to be extra good today JUST for him!

Tummy Scritches

Need I say more!?

Mom hasn't been able to get down on the floor for my regular tummy scritches lately.... She says it was an important surgery on her back. HA!

I have been sorely missing those rubbins and really needed a good old fashioned scritchen! Today she took Bella and I for a 1/2 mile walk at the cemetery and then came home and sat on the floor scritchen my belly, back and booty! Heaven.

I am so happy to see her feeling better and gettin' back to what is important in life! ME!

Chuck!

I read a blogger at http://dooce.com she writes well and continue to find the funniest pictures of her dog Chuck to post. This has been going on so long, it is called The Daily Chuck. While I am an avid photographer of my dogs, it is kinda hard for me to keep a daily photo going that doesn't keep looking the same every day. I SWEAR, Lucy ALWAYS looks the same in every photo I get of her.





Get the picture yet???? She is stoic ALL the time. Maybe I am just not that creative?

Obviously I have performance issues too.

Anyway, I just wanted to share the great dog photos that make my day. She has them archive back to the beginning of her time!

Baby Possum!

Mom has been off work for a week and has been taking us for extra walks in Woodland Cemetery! We love her so much but she seems to struggle with these walks and I am always very good for mom... Bella is... bella! She gets into everything!

Today while we were running around, Bella disappeared and then I heard mom yelling at her to stop! I ran over to where the action was and found Bella throwing a baby possum around! She was dancing and throwing and dancing some more. All the while mom was trying to get her to stop and leave the dead possum alone. I think Bella wanted to dance some more with her prize but I jumped in and grabbed the dead possum and ran off a ways. Mom started yelling at me and then I realized that she was just trying to get Bella to put it down and leave it alone.... ooops. I forgot that I already knew that!

SO.... mom finally got me to drop the possum and guarded it until I distracted Bella away from the "situation". We felt bad for upsetting mom and tried to be VERY good for the rest of the walk. BUT, of course Bella is..... bella. hahahha

Bella was very proud of her first kill and pranced around the rest of the walk. Mom is so great and let Bella have her moment and Bella was very Happy!

I am happy that Bella is growing up and may become a great dog someday!

Published!

I have been published in the Quincy Herald Whig!!!! They put it under R-man's byline and name but his column is ALL me! Local bloggers have even noticed!

The Quincy Pundit

They like to make fun of my R-man but I am VERY proud of him. He Rocks! Mom loves him too. I can only get on the computer when mom lets me so it is very hard to update the blog.... I try. It is really nice to have my thoughts recognized by the local media. Have I already said how much R-man ROCKS!!

Here is a copy of the article. I hate to post links to the Whig since they always seem to disappear after a week...
Glad to see the local media supporting one of my favorite charities also.....

Dooce.com has another great picture of Chuck! I love those dogs!

Not sure but maybe Bella could do this?

Dog Riding Bicycle Video...

Found this video today and was VERY impressed!

Time to start training Bella?

Driving R-man insane!!!

While mom was in the hospital this week, R-man took on the full responsibilities of taking care of Bella and I. While myself, the saint, gave him no trouble at all..... Bella was another story entirely.

Bella is the cutest, goofy, silly, clown of a puppy I have ever met. She can be destroying a remote control one minute and looking at R-man with her innocent little eyes the next. It is as if she thinks he would never guess that she is the doggy that chewed new holes in his remote.... She runs to the next thing and starts with that.

It is a never ending cycle. When mom is here Bella is pretty good. She listens and only gets into things when mom is otherwise occupied. R-man is like TOTALLY opposite for Bella. She gets CRAZY ideas about what is okay and then acts on them. R-man never knows what will come at him next when she goes nuts.

I try to help by herding Bella around the yard when he is on his last exasperated nerve but I have only SO much time to devote to Bella. DOESN'T SHE KNOW THE SQUIRRELS ARE GETTING READY FOR WINTER AND NEED DIRECTION AND HARASSMENT!

The squirrels are a never ending job around here. Work, work, work. Bella has a lot of training left in order to ever be able to assist me with the squirrel work.

Mom came back home the other day and has really worked hard to wear out Bella and keep her in line. R-man has finally relaxed again and is enjoying the cute little things Bella does.

She really is adorable. Really.