Goodbye to my Arizona Friends.

Mom says we're leaving Arizona on Monday.  I don't exactly know why.  I like it here.  I've met lots of friends.

My friends Ozzie and Buster came over yesterday to play in our favorite little park.  We had lots of fun together.

 

And we met new friends, too.  Well I already knew Molly and Cola and I introduced them to Ozzie and Buster.  But then Bella came and played with us too.

 

 

 

Bella is the dog in the front that looks like a yellow lab with a Golden Retriever tail.  She just got her "summer cut" and I have to say, she was having a bad hair day.  Molly is the black lab with the ball and Cola is the chocolate poodle in the back.  Don't I have a lot of great friends? 

 

I've even met some really cute little friends in the last couple of days.  This is Cooper.  He's just a baby.  I had to be really gentle with him so he wouldn't be scared.  I like little dogs.

 



 

And I also have a secret friend.  Dad doesn't think he should be my friend, but I like him anyway.  He sits outside our front door when I go out for a walk.  His name is Bobby Bunny.

 

I tried to make another friend yesterday on the way home.  Mom didn't like that friend at all.  She yelled at me to come away quick and I ran because she sounded scared.  She wouldn't even take a picture of him for me to put in the blog.  But I went online and found a picture that looks just like him.



Mom says she spent good money to keep me away from those things and she's glad we're leaving 'cuz she won't have to worry about me finding more friends like that.  She says we're going back to St. Louis for awhile.  At least until my "friends" decide to hibernate for the winter.  When will that be?  I hope not too long.  I really like Arizona and I'm going to miss my friends.

 

Hope you have good friends to keep you company!  And to all my Arizona friends, I'll be back!

 

Love, G





 

 

 

 

 

 



Relaxation

We talked about Games I like to play and about my Yoga moves, and about my school.  But we haven't talked yet about how I relax in Arizona. 

It's actually pretty easy.  When it's cool out, I like to sit in the sun and sunbathe.  (I always wear my sunscreen!)

 

 

And just to make sure I get an even tan, I make sure to turn every few hours so as to get evenly toasted.

 

 

Then if it gets really, really hot, I move my act to the porch.  It's really cool on the cement.

 



 

And of course there are lots of places to relax inside, too.  Watching TV is one of my favorites.   





 

As is lounging on the bed where I can watch the Big Screen TV behind me. 

 

But when I really want to make sure nobody bothers me, I hide!  Bet you can't find me either!

 





 

Hope I've given you some tips for a relaxing week. 

 

Love, G.

Looking for Gold

This weekend we went to look for a gold mine that some Dutch guy lost.  How can you lose a gold mine?  But it wasn't really his anyway.  It was a Mexican family that first found the mine and took gold back to Mexico.  But it wasn't even the Mexican's because the Indians lived on the Superstition Mountains where the gold mine was.  There are a lot of scary stories going around, which is why the Mountains are called the Superstition Mountains.  A lot of people got lost or killed looking for this gold mine that the Dutchman said he lost. And the Dutchman wasn't really a Dutch man.  He was German.  It's so confusing.  Which is probably why no one has ever found it.  They still call it, Lost Dutchman's Goldmine.  Though it really should be called,  "The Indian's Goldmine that the Mexican's stole and the Dutchman who was really a German thought he found and now nobody knows where it is but don't go looking for it 'cuz you might not come out alive".

So Mom and Dad and me went to look.  Actually, Mom said she wanted to go to see the wildflowers.  I guess they were pretty too.

  But not as much fun as Lost Gold Mines.

 

 

The Superstition Mountains are tall and not much green stuff.

 

  And it was a hot day!

 

I kept trying to find some shade for us, but the only shade was under these little benches along to way.   You do with what you got, I always say.

 

 

We walked for a couple of miles and the path started getting steeper and steeper.  And it WAS hot.  But something else was bothering me.  I wasn't sure, but I thought I smelled something bad.  Like rattlesnake.  I didn't want to go any further and I told Mom we had to turn around.  So she said yes and I dragged them back down the mountain.  I wasn't so interested in finding that gold mine anymore.  About halfway down we ran into a man with a chihuahua.  I wanted to say hi, but he picked her up so I couldn't.  What did he think? That I might eat her?  I think she was a wimp anyway!

 

But he asked us if we had seen a rattlesnake, that some woman before us had seen one.  Mom and Dad looked surprised, but I wasn't.  I was pretty sure I had smelled it.  And Mom looked at me, like:  You knew, didn't you?   YES I DID!, I told her.

 

So we headed back, and I was still hot, so they stopped and got me some ice for my frizbee on the trip back. 

 

 

That was nice.  Ice.  (Cool huh?  I'm a punny poet!)

 



 



 Hope you have great adventures like I do.

 

Your adventurous friend,  G.