Treadmill anyone????

Oh my goodness, leave it to mommy to find something fun and different for me to do and she will! Today she took me on a walk in the historic district and we came across this dog wash facility. Mommy knowing it has been a while since I was groomed properly walked in with me to inquire about their services. She quickly discovered they throw in a treadmill run or walk or both with the grooming session which includes a bath, a brush, a nail clip and hair clip around my paws and toes and a removal of excess fur.

Well, mommy was pleased and left me there and came back to watch me walking and running on the treadmill. She was so pleased with me and I was pleased too. The first time ever on a treadmill and I was so brave and took to it like a fish to water. Wow, so now mommy has a new place to take me for a fun session of grooming and exercise. This also confirmed for mommy it would be a good idea to buy a treadmill this way we can both get our exercise when the weather is bad outside and hell just for fun. I love the idea!!!

Mommy told one of her friends that she could see the determination and concentration on my face while I was on the treadmill and no joke, seriously I mean, never having done that before I seriously was trying to comprehend what was going on. But I did enjoy it and it was a blast!!!!

And then of course mommy finished my walk with me and then we came home where she gave me a treat and fed me my dinner and then we sat on the couch together and she rubbed my belly and ears and could not get enough of how soft I am and how wonderful I smell. That was an unexpected surprise for me and it all started with a walk down town. Leave it to mommy to find the most outlandish things for me to do and try!!! God bless her!

Whose a spoiled dog???

Why I am of course!!! As you can see I adore comfort, I like sleeping with a blanket and I enjoy wearing hats, sometimes they stay on my head and other times they just fall off, but today, I wore it for a long time on my walk with mommy and I kept it on until I was about to fall asleep and mommy took it off once I did. As you can see in my photo I was feeling sleepy and about to conk out and once I did, mommy took my picture. I had a grand day with her, we walked the historical village near our home and window shopped. Mommy stopped to speak to some friends and shop owners and then we sat at an outside cafe and mommy shared a small bite of her sandwich with me.

She brought her camera and began taking pictures again, she loves that camera. She is so happy here and does not miss our old home. Some people she misses and then some she has learned to not miss because they were not nice people. When you tell someone you miss them and they laugh, it reveals what kind of ass they are and always have been and as mommy said laughing, some asses are just never going to clean themselves up, LOL.....they were then, are now and will always be a mean asshole. So, she closed a chapter yesterday on her old life, my old life too. She reached out so many times and well, she no longer cares, it is just simple as that.

So, on with our new life and new blessings and new fortunes and the ever sweet revelation of how much sweeter life is now and how much happier she is and how she once again has found herself and is alive again, enjoying life and moving ahead and when she looks at me I see that look of contented bliss. I am hers, the best absolute thing to come out of the marriage, and I am hers, and she is mine and we are all so happy........as you can tell my life with mommy is pretty great. She lets me swim a lot!!!! Play a lot!!!!! Sleep a lot!!!!! And she gives me mass amounts of belly and ear and back rubs!!! What else could a dog ask for, and when they say it is a dogs life, I so have the dog's life!!!

Yaaawwwnnn!!!!

Ohhhh my goodness, I am so sleepy now, I just posted five, no make that six posts and I am wiped out. I just wanted to get it caught up as I have been so busy and today I had this awesome long play session at a friends house out in the country. We played on 8 acres of land, running in the snow, chasing each other and me of course trying to hump them.

It was all in fun. Mommy and her friend had tea and sat and talked for hours while the dogs all played. Her new friend Dave is a great guy, very funny and artistic to say the least. Very interesting guy. An actual artist and is currently working on a book. He threw some book ideas at her today and she is very eager for him to finish the one he is working on because it is unconventional and a work of art in and of itself. Will be interesting.

I behaved and did not jump into the river behind his property but I wanted to. But I played with Bailey and Molly and we ran around like crazy!!! It was great!!! I have made so many new friends since moving here and mommy was worried I would not be able to make them but all the dogs here are friendly and fun and we get along so well. Plus mommy is making tons of friends here as well too and that just means I make new friends too!! Yeaahhh mommy!!!!! Well as you can see I am so very tired and it really is passed my bed time, I must go. Oh by the way if you are just reading my blog, you wont know about my favorite habit of hogging the bed. But tonight I think I wont hog the bed, but share it with mommy because she gave me such a beautiful day today and I am so happy to be with her!!!!!

My feather friends out back

Mommy and I sat inside one day and watched the snow fall and watched the birds sitting on the berry tree and eating. We were so captivated by this and we decided to take pictures. Mommy is amazed at how when I am out back playing the birds don't fly away. It is as if I am part of their little community.

They do not feel threatened at all, I play and dance around in the snow and they eat and flutter about. I even run under the tree they are all sitting in and they just remain unaffected. Mommy was so amazed at this, she says we are all one big happy family. Now of course if my sister came out, she would be trying to eat all of them and I am pretty sure they would all fly away....They are cute though. Mommy has taken up bird watching and has taught me how to be very still when we are out studying them and about to take their pictures. I am a good boy and wonderful assistant photographer as you can see, I listen well, the birds did not fly away..

Frozen

Did you ever wonder what a frozen dog would look like after playing for many hours in the snow...here is a hint. Not saying this is what happened to me, I do like to however tell my friends that mommy left me outside during a game of Frisbee and when she came back this is how she found me. Frozen waiting on her to return.....I had so much fun this day, I would not keep still as you can see by the pictures capturing my ears in the air. I was running and jumping and playing and that night, sleeping so good like a little snug baby all warm and secure with a full belly. I was a happy dog that night. Plus too sleeping with mommy makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. She is a good cuddlier.

Playing in the snow

Now here I am doing what I love best, playing in the snow!!!! You can see how happy I am and how much I am having just playing in the back yard. We got tons of snow over a period of days and mommy let me out back and I just romped around and rolled in the snow and I will post pics in my next post of me making snow angles!!

As soon as mommy let me out, I immediately began making snow angles and mommy laughed watching me. I ran in circles and I even played Frisbee, word to mommy, playing Frisbee in the snow and cold is hard on my old sensitive teeth, but it was fun...

I even tried to bury my head in the snow a few times as I wondered what was under all that white stuff but found nothing really. Just more snow. But boy did I have fun. Mommy actually brought sis out for a bit to get fresh air, she is strictly indoor but she enjoyed the snow for a short bit then decided it was too cold so she went back in. Poor baby. She does not know what she is missing with the romping about in the snow. Last year where we lived we maybe got one day of a snow and it did not even make it to an inch, but this year, hog heaven!!!!! I love the snow and it loves me and I so adore playing in it!!

Leave it, take it....

Well here I am showing off a new trick that I learned at Acme Canine Training. It is called "leave it" Mommy offers me a treat and then says leave it, and I look away and then she says take it and I of course am allowed to have it. As you can see in my facial expression on the bottom, I am not too happy about having to leave it because I really want it. And by the way, that is not a human cookie, that is one of my doggie treats, peanut butter flavored and oh my God they are so gooooooooood!!! It was killing me to leave it, LOL. but when she said, Take IT, I was more than ready to devour it. As you can see my tongue was coming out for the lick.

That oh so precious lick of the coveted cookie. It only takes me a half a second to eat one, anyone watching me eat would think I was part vacuum cleaner. Even as a puppy I scarfed my food down so quick it would make your head spin. I really did love those cookie treats. They of course were my Christmas present, or one of many, I so enjoyed that present.

Christmas morning

Well, it was a fun Christmas morning, I am a little slow on getting up to date on my blog. Have been super busy with mommy. Christmas morning was great, I opened my presents and the excitement of it all left me exhausted to the point I fell asleep while playing with my presents. Plush and cute cuddle toys, my favorite. Mommy also bought me this handsome new leash that is only to be used for special occasions as mommy says, LOL, but it is for showing me off. I know that and she knows that. This was the first Christmas that mommy allowed me to just go crazy opening up my gifts unattended and it was fun, so much so as one of the presents were nothing more than treats.

Mommy must have forgotten which box had them because when I opened them and began devouring them she quickly jumped up and grabbed them from me before I could swallow the whole box, they were good and tasty though. She laughed as usual at me and said, "yeah that was a close call buddy huh" I was thinking to myself, mommy you have no idea had you been a little bit slower in getting up I would have had the best Christmas gift ever. An entire box of treats in one sitting!!!

We visited friends later that day, after my nap of course. Mommy makes sure I am well rested and spoiled as I am a senior citizen but she just loves spoiling me anyway and my sister. Who got this cute toy by the way. A cool mouse on wheels that when you pull back and then let it go it races across the hardwood floors for quite a distance. Mandy spent about an hour chasing it and having fun, she then had a nap as well. After visiting family and friends later that night, mommy and I took a long walk and looked at all the pretty Christmas lights. I have to say that people here really decorate the hell out of their homes compared to back home, I like it here. Did not think I would be I really do. And so does mommy, she did well in picking our new home.