Who? Me?

Oh, did you need this box of Kleenex?

A Life of Firsts

I met my first human cousin this past week. Her name is Olivia and I love her. We bonded instantly the moment she walked into my house. We spent every waking moment together and I even slept in her room at night. On car rides, I laid my head in her lap and she stroked me gently while I slept and dreamt of nothing but her. She's gone now and I have only a few pictures to remind me of how wonderful puppy love can be. Here I am lounging with Olivia on the Wenatchee River with Nemo watching over us.

We went river rafting, which required that I don my PFD. Olivia took this picture and then we floated down the river watching for osprey and mergansers. I even got to swim alongside the boat with Olivia holding me by the handle on my PFD. I made her smile.

And then we went on a hike. It was my first. Five miles round-trip we trudged up a gentle slope in 90 degree heat and my little puppy body was thrilled to see a lake a the end of the trail. I jumped in. I laid down. And then, as I'm often wont to do, I rolled in the dirt turning my beautiful apricot coat into a brown mess of sap and pine needles. Glorious, absolutely glorious.

It's been a summer of firsts. I can't wait to see what fall and winter bring. I've heard mention of snow. I wonder what that's like?

Big Boy Adventures

In the first picture, I was 9 weeks old. Just below, I'm 5 1/2 months old. My bed, as you can see, is getting too small...so my moms bought me another. I gave my old bed to my friend Lucy, a Boston Terrier.

Meanwhile, they say that the summer is easy -- fish are jumpin and all that, but around here, summer is busy, busy, busy and there's been no time to write. So instead, photos of my recent adventure to Wenatchee where I went kayaking...

Stood on the shore of a windy lake in my new haircut...

Went river rafting, though no one took the time to take a picture of me sleeping in the bottom of the raft or swimming along side it in my Personal Floatation Device (PFD)...

This is me in my PFD waiting patiently for SOMEONE to throw a ball into the water so I can GET IT!

And finally...


...lounging on the dock in the sun chewing on a bully stick...ahhh...the living is easy!