Raindrops on Roses...

 You know that song, don't you?  Mom says it was my Grandpa's favorite song.  It fits today, 'cuz there really are raindrops out there.  They aren't on our roses 'cuz we don't have any roses, but they are all over our Bougainvillea.  We're not going to have a white Christmas, but that's OK.  We don't ever have a white Christmas.  Oh, there I go again.  Digressing!

Raindrops on Roses is a song about Favorite Things.  And at the end of the year I like to think back on my Favorite Things.  Especially when the year has been as wild as ours was this year.  So let me think a minute and come up with some of those things:

First:  Belly Rubs.  I love, love, love. love, Belly Rubs.  And it doesn't just make my belly feel good, I get to scratch my back in the grass when I get a Belly Rub.  Yes, Belly Rubs have to be up there as one of my Favorite Things.

Second:  Pete the Chef.  He's the best!  He comes to make food for Mom & Dad so they get to pick their meals for the day from a whole menu of choices - just like eating out every single night.  But even better is the part where he makes the dishes and lets me test the food.  He makes really really really really good turkey.  And he lets me watch him the whole time.  Yeah, Pete the Chef is another of my absolute favorite things for 2023.

Third:  My very own TV.  I can sit for hours watching my TV.  People go by and dogs go by.  But the best part is when the delivery guys come by.  Then I bark and let Mom know they are coming, but they get really really really really scared.  Sometimes they just throw the package at the door.  I guess they think that I would know how to bit them, but I don't!  Anyway it's fun to watch them.

Fourth:  Eating out with my Mom & Dad.  They take me to breakfast and to lunch and to dinner with them almost every time they go out to eat.  We go to one place, called Vito's where all of the wait staff come rushing out to see me and to say hello.  I'm always the highlight of Mom and Dad's meal out.  Everybody loves to have me there.  (Except that one place they go up the street -- the Country Club won't let me come so they don't go there as often.)

Fifth:  California beaches.  I love love love love love the beaches in California.  I can run and splash and plop in the water.  And I meet all kinds of fun dogs and it's just the very best fun!  I love the California beaches.  I wish we could put one in our back yard.  Mom tried to give me a swimming pool, but it looks more like a bathtub, so I don't play in it.  We need a real beach!

Sixth: The last of the ice cream box.  UMMMM, it's really good.  I keep hoping when Mom takes out the ice cream that it will be almost empty.  It doesn't happen enough, but when it does, I'M RIGHT THERE!!

Seventh:  Sitting in the grass.  Sometimes I make Mom stop and sit on our walks so I can just sit in the shady grass and just veg.  It's good for her too.  She needs to stop and smell the grass just like I do sometimes.  So we just stop and veg.  It's very peaceful.

So that's my favorite things for this year.  And I need to say goodbye with a proper wish to you all.  Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Joyous Kwanzaa, Happy Holidays and have the Absolute Best New Year!

All my love,  G