My First Christmas

It took about three takes to get this shot. I wouldn't behave, but eventually Grandma snapped the shot we were all happy with. I just wanted to play with my cousin, Ringo.

This is one of my quieter moments with Ringo. In dog body language, this pose means we love and accept each other. The mirrored pose and the lack of eye contact signal that Ringo, the alpha dog, actually loves me.

I love him.

The humans ate a lot. I mean a whole a lot a lot. I was confined to a leash and made to rest by my mom's side. I didn't like it, but I gave in. Ringo can't be seen in this photo, but he's under my mom's chair NOT on a leash pestering me to play with him.

And here I am in front of the tree with all the presents. Apparently this was a sparse year. The presents, they tell me, were triple in the past. It's hard to believe. But there were presents under that very fat tree for me and that made me happy.

I shared my presents with Ringo.

I miss him.

My First Snow!!!!!

The Walk to the Park...

I'm chasing Monty, Cocoa's chasing me!
Cocoa is a big, big dog!

Those are snowballs on my feet! Mom says she's going to enter me into a dog show as a Poodle with pom poms!


They kept trying to get me to look at the camera, but everyone else was romping in the snow. I couldn't focus on anything but my friends playing. And yes, my legs are all snow from the knee down!

I was asleep after a long walk with my friend Salal. Momma G got up from her computer work and I followed her into the kitchen and barked! What was that stuff falling from the sky? I'd never seen anything like it. She let me outside and gingerly I made my way onto the deck, then the back yard. It was cold on my feet, but it smelled like fun and so I frolicked on the back deck and tried to catch the stuff in my snapping mouth. No luck.

Then Momma G called Monty and we headed to the park, tromping through what I now knew to be snow. I love this stuff! First we went to the small park and played. We met Cocoa, the Newfoundland and then Cody, the black lab. Next we walked to the big field where kids were rolling snow into huge, huge balls. We played with Sydney there and then Buffy and Misty (Monty's good friends) came to join us.

It snowed and it snowed and it snowed and soon there was 2 inches of the stuff on the ground. And I got iceballs on my legs, but still I ran and ran and ran with all the dogs chasing me.

Then we walked home and Momma G put me in the bath tub and melted the snowballs off my legs and feet.

Now I'm drifting off to sleep again.

What a great dog day!