One Year Old!!

                                                                    

new red collar and bunny

My how time flies!  Mom said that but I don't understand.  I see birds, planes, fetching things, bees and bugs flying but never anything anyone called time.  I think it's a human thing.  This is my birthday week...yes, week...and there's a whole bunch of special stuff just for me. Saturday night we had Sarah's girls overnight and I aslways get into mischief when they are here.  They take all these toys out and leave them on the floor downstairs...what's a girl to do...some of them are good to chew on so, of course I did.  We are minus one large turtle.  They didn't play with it anyway.  Monday, Mom took me with her to the vet's so we could get some medicine for Monty and I got a new red collar.  It is really pretty cool and looks gorgeous against my black coat although it's hard to see some times.  After that stop we went to Petco and Mom let me try out new toys.  I picked one of those stuffing free rabbits because I can really give them a shake to be sure they are dead.  When I brought it home,  Monty wanted it too so we played tug with it and got in trouble for being so rowdy in the house.  Then Tuesday I went to the beach  with Mom.   We walked down to Casey's house and he got his mom to take off his electric collar



in Kathy's pond


so we could run around.  That silly boy picked up this huge stick...almost a log...about 6 feet long and was dragging it around.  Kathy said he was showing off for me.  I ran and ran but Casey didn't follow me so finally I came back and went through the little fence around Cathy's pond to get a drink and cool off.  The fence is to keep the raccoons out so they don't eat the last 2 fish, but if I can get through, I bet they can.  The sad news is that they sold their house so will be moving at the end of the year or whenever they find a new house in Bend.  Monty doesn't know yet but we will both miss Casey a whole bunch. When we got home Mom spent a lot of time getting little seeds out of my coat. 



BIRTHDAY!!!

Dad finally got here so we could do my birthday cake and pictures.  The cake was really good.  I didn't even have to eat my dinner before I got some but I did eat all my dinner.  Wonder what special things they have planned for the rest of my birthday week!  By the way, I'm up to 30.4 lbs. I'll never be fat though!


'TIL NEXT TIME

                    Juno







An Overnight with Cathy and a Water Trial

on the bed

Cathy wanted to have a vacation with Mom, Dad, Monty and ME!  Well, who wouldn't!  She is one of the granddaughters and has a big sister, Elizabeth.  Elizabeth is 13 and doesn't do overnights with us very often.  Cathy is 6 and she likes us...of course. We like her too.  When the granddaughters come I get to go to the park with them and that's cool because there are other kids and dogs there too.  It's a good thing we went on Saturday because Sunday was raining and Cathy would have gotten all wet. Wouldn't bother me...I'm a water dog!  She is a good dog person so I let her bring me home on the leash and sat when she told me to.  I even got up on the bed when she did...don't tell her I always do that.  Monty got up too and that bed is kind of soft so it makes him unsure.  I was proud of him because he did it for Cathy.  Remember, he likes to sleep with the granddaughters.  In the morning he got in bed with Mom and Cathy.  I couldn't because I was in my crate.

Cathy the dog trainer

Last weekend we went to a Portie water trial.  Mom and Dad helped a lot but I got to get out of my crate and visit some of my friends, both canine and human.  Those tests they do look pretty cool but I don't think I'll be doing them.  It's that old balance thing!  Maybe I could put my head under water and get that toy and even sit on the back of the boat.  Don't think I could swim out to the boat or do the 1 minute swim.  We'll see.  The other granddaughters showed up with their parents and we went in the water.  I did swim around a bit without my life jacket.

fashion by Cathy

Mom says "bath today"!  She finally got my coat back under control and bought some stuff to help it stay that way.  She also found some food I like.  It doesn't have a bunch of ingredients in it and  she still adds stuff like chicken and broth but I eat everything in my bowl.  She sings me an eating song to get me to the "table".  Cathy tried to sing me a dinner song but it wasn't the same as Mom's so I didn't come!  Gonna have to step on the scales this week.

thinking about growing up

                  Hey!  It's my birthday a week from
                                    Wednesday.
                            Wonder what I'll get?
                                        Later,   Juno

End of Summer?

My friend Ripley

Mom said this was the end of summer but I find that hard to believe.  I think my life is a continual summer!  I do know she is trying to get rid of my "summer of sea and sand hair".  It's a real struggle what with the weeds I got into and running around with the Golden boys.  Mom is having trouble getting the clippers through it and is using all her patience to work on the knots a little each day.  Dad says that patience thing is a challenge for Mom. Thank goodness she's working slowly because I don't like sitting still that long.

Ripley and Me

Last week we went to visit our friends Sandy and Jim.  There were a bunch of other people there too and one last puppy named Ripley. Her new mom was there to do some water work and get to know her.  Ripley is a really nice little girl,  she even played with me.  Ripley's doggy  Mom came later and she DID NOT like me so I just stayed outside.  No sense in being around a dog that doesn't like you.  We went down to the dock and my mom took me in the water which is really nice.  It's warm and clear.  Too bad Mom didn't put her water shoes on so we could go further.  I was swimming without my lifejacket. The lake is called Wye Lake and it's shaped like the letter Y, isn't that funny?  There's another one close by called Square Lake, I wonder if it's square!

Dad's gone to a sailboat regatta in Bellingham this weekend but next weekend there's a Portie water test we're going to.  No, I'm not in it!  Mom and Dad are going to help do some of the work and I get to play with Ripley.  Maybe I'll swim a little bit since it's supposed to be hot.  I'm sure glad we don't live where there are tropical storms and hurricanes...that looks awful.

I guess a lot of our friends will be going to Georgia for the national in a couple of weeks.  Our friend Annie is taking the pillows Mom made to see if people like them.  Some of them are really cute.  Mom finished the Portie quilt to donate to the club so now she needs another project...MEEEE!


                        'Til next time,
                                          Juno