IT'S MY TIME!!!

 Mom tried to post this last week with a link to my Youtube video.  It never got published.  So this time we're giving you the Youtube site, and you can copy it to find my video.  Hope it works!

It didn't work so we have to try a new Feed since Google finally eliminated a feature that they said they were going to eliminate 3 years ago, and now they finally did.  I'm not sure how all this works, so we'll just have to see what happens.  Love G

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When it gets so hot it's like walking on coals (see my last post), then soon it's time to get out of Arizona.  And that means it's time for MY vacation.

And that's what we did a few weeks ago.  We went for two weeks to a place called Newport Beach in California.  It's not real far from some of the other places we stayed, so we even visited some of our old haunts.  

This time, we stayed in a REAL hotel.  Mom said the AirBnB's were too expensive or wouldn't let me stay.  (How could anyone not let me stay?)  Anyway, she said I had to pretend I was only 50 pounds.  That's actually easy, 'cuz I'm so quiet and well behaved, no one notices me anyway.  So that wasn't a problem.

As usual, when we go to California, it's Wimbledon Time!  So I watched some tennis.

And we had this cool balcony.  

On Friday nights, they had a jazz concert and I could just sit out on my balcony and listen to the music.  It was wonderful. 

And since it was MY vacation, we got to eat out most every night and I got to go with!  And breakfasts too.  Of course, my favorite part was sharing the food with Mom.  She especially liked feeding me pasta noodles.  At one of the restaurants they were like 3 feet long!  Ooooh, they were so good.  She tried to get a picture, but it wasn't very good.

See, that's not really fire coming out of my mouth.  That's actually a pasta noodle, but Mom was trying to take the picture herself while feeding me at the same time.  Didn't work so well.  But it would have been worse if we asked Dad to take the picture.  So there you have it.

But my all time favorite part of the whole vacation, was Huntington Dog Beach.  I just love, love, love, love the beach.  

I get to make friends, and I get to play in the ocean.  I mean what could be better than this:

                                                       

Here is the Youtube website:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKGHPO3RxUI

Hope you have a vacation just for you!

Love, G

It's MY VACATION Time

 

When it gets so hot it's like walking on coals (see my last post), then soon it's time to get out of Arizona.  And that means it's time for MY vacation.

And that's what we did a few weeks ago.  We went for two weeks to a place called Newport Beach in California.  It's not real far from some of the other places we stayed, so we even visited some of our old haunts.  

This time, we stayed in a REAL hotel.  Mom said the AirBnB's were too expensive or wouldn't let me stay.  (How could anyone not let me stay?)  Anyway, she said I had to pretend I was only 50 pounds.  That's actually easy, 'cuz I'm so quiet and well behaved, no one notices me anyway.  So that wasn't a problem.

As usual, when we go to California, it's Wimbledon Time!  So I watched some tennis.

And we had this cool balcony.  

On Friday nights, they had a jazz concert and I could just sit out on my balcony and listen to the music.  It was wonderful. 

And since it was MY vacation, we got to eat out most every night and I got to go with!  And breakfasts too.  Of course, my favorite part was sharing the food with Mom.  She especially liked feeding me pasta noodles.  At one of the restaurants they were like 3 feet long!  Ooooh, they were so good.  She tried to get a picture, but it wasn't very good.

See, that's not really fire coming out of my mouth.  That's actually a pasta noodle, but Mom was trying to take the picture herself while feeding me at the same time.  Didn't work so well.  But it would have been worse if we asked Dad to take the picture.  So there you have it.

But my all time favorite part of the whole vacation, was Huntington Dog Beach.  I just love, love, love, love the beach.  

I get to make friends, and I get to play in the ocean.  I mean what could be better than this:

                                                       

Here is the Youtube website:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKGHPO3RxUI

Hope you have a vacation just for you!

Love, G

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It's MY time!

Mom tried to post this last week with a link to my Youtube video.  It never got published.  So this time we're giving you the Youtube site, and you can copy it to find my video.  Hope it works!

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When it gets so hot it's like walking on coals (see my last post), then soon it's time to get out of Arizona.  And that means it's time for MY vacation.

And that's what we did a few weeks ago.  We went for two weeks to a place called Newport Beach in California.  It's not real far from some of the other places we stayed, so we even visited some of our old haunts.  

This time, we stayed in a REAL hotel.  Mom said the AirBnB's were too expensive or wouldn't let me stay.  (How could anyone not let me stay?)  Anyway, she said I had to pretend I was only 50 pounds.  That's actually easy, 'cuz I'm so quiet and well behaved, no one notices me anyway.  So that wasn't a problem.

As usual, when we go to California, it's Wimbledon Time!  So I watched some tennis.

And we had this cool balcony.  

On Friday nights, they had a jazz concert and I could just sit out on my balcony and listen to the music.  It was wonderful. 

And since it was MY vacation, we got to eat out most every night and I got to go with!  And breakfasts too.  Of course, my favorite part was sharing the food with Mom.  She especially liked feeding me pasta noodles.  At one of the restaurants they were like 3 feet long!  Ooooh, they were so good.  She tried to get a picture, but it wasn't very good.

See, that's not really fire coming out of my mouth.  That's actually a pasta noodle, but Mom was trying to take the picture herself while feeding me at the same time.  Didn't work so well.  But it would have been worse if we asked Dad to take the picture.  So there you have it.

But my all time favorite part of the whole vacation, was Huntington Dog Beach.  I just love, love, love, love the beach.  

I get to make friends, and I get to play in the ocean.  I mean what could be better than this:

                                                       

Here is the Youtube website:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKGHPO3RxUI

Hope you have a vacation just for you!

Love, G

A Walk on Hot Coals

 Well, maybe not that bad.  But it has been rather warm these days.  Mom and Dad have been getting up and out by 6:00 a.m. to take our 2 mile walk.  (Sometimes, Mom and I take a little short-cut and wait in the shade till Dad comes and picks us up).  I don't much like leaving Dad to go on by himself, but I don't mind the rest in the shade!

Even though it's been over a hundred, we're still seeing spring flowers.  Look at this one we ran across yesterday!

Really nifty, huh?   And this is even better!  My friend Bob Cat was around before today's walk.  Here he is leaving after he and I said hello.

He's one of my favorite friends.  I met a young coyote that could be a friend if Mom would let me try.  We had walked under an underpass and I saw him and stopped.  Mom always stops when I do 'cuz she figures that I see things she doesn't.  And she'd be right.  There was a little head with big ears just staring at us from a ways off.  She thought it was a jack rabbit, until he moved a little toward us.  Then she saw it was a young coyote.  I already knew that.  I wanted to go and see if he would play with me.  But she said, no, his Mom might be around and she might not like that.  So we kept going.  I do hope I see him again.  But maybe I won't recognize him if he grows up some?

When we walk, I do have to keep track of my humans. 

 Mom tells me I don't have to worry, that as long as my leash is attached, Dad will be on the other end.  But I don't believe it, so I turn around and check on them.  Mom says she saw a sculpture of a dog doing exactly that at one of the spring Celebrations of Art.  It was called, "Keeping Everyone in Line."  That's me.  I keep everyone in line.

There is something I don't like about walking at this time of year.  Besides the heat, of course.  We get these monsoons and sometimes it gets really windy and all the stuff from the trees lands on the sidewalk.  There are some spots that are so messy, I won't walk on the sidewalk.

So I just go around.  Mom laughs at me, but she should try walking on that stuff barefoot!  (I better be careful, though, she could pull out those awful Booties!)

I always end my walk with bringing in the morning paper.  (If the paper's even there.  Sometimes we are so early, we get home before the paper arrives!  But then I go and check on it periodically, and eventually, I bring it in.)

But I have to admit.  My favorite part of these hot morning walks, is the Air Conditioned tiles at the end of the walk.

Yeah, whoever invented AC was brilliant!

Hope you have good walks even if it's really really really really hot, like here!

Love, G

A Most Helpful Pup

 Mom and Dad invited some people over for dinner.  I know Mom works hard when people come for dinner.  I try to be helpful.

First I am on high alert.  If I hear a noise that sounds like someone might be coming to our house, I give a big bark and run around the house till someone checks.  (I would check myself, but I haven't figured out how to open the door.  I heard Mom talk about one of my predecessors who got out the front door because they hadn't closed it quite far enough and the wind opened it up.  My brother's name was Caesar.  Caesar got out of the house and went across a very busy street where he met a very nice woman.  She put a leash on him and tried to take him up her street to Friendship Village, where she thought he must have come from.  Apparently my brother was pretty smart and he pulled her away and back across the street so she could take him back to his own house.  She saw the open door and guessed that's where he must have come from.  Then she put him inside with a note that said, "Hope this is your dog!" and she left her phone number.  Uh-oh.  There I go off on another track again.  Sorry.  But I thought it was a fun story.  If I got out, I know where I would go.  I would go right down to the corner and turn right and right again.  That's where Mrs. Gerri and Mr. Grant live.  They would come out and give me treats!  But where was I?  Oh right.  I was making sure Mom and Dad would know when our guests would come.)  

I guess I might overdo it, 'cuz Dad gets kinda frustrated when I bark every 5 minutes or so.  So I try try try to sit quietly, but I'm so excited to see guests come to our house.  It doesn't happen a lot.  

Then when they finally get here, I try to be helpful again.  This time I put on my waiter's apron so I could help with the food distribution.

Mom doesn't actually let me help with food distribution.  I sometimes get a bit distracted and eat the food instead.  But I'm very good at sitting quietly while everyone else is eating and hoping Mom might slip me a piece of meat or even a potato.  Sometimes I get a kong toy filled with carrots and I work on that for awhile when they are all eating.  

It's nice just to have a lot of people around for dinner.  Everyone who has come so far has been so nice to me and gives me lots of pets.  I hope lots more people come over.  I'll be ready and waiting with my waiter apron!

Hope you have nice guests for dinners!

Love, G

Catching Up

So I bet you're wondering what I've been doing for the past few weeks.  It's been busy!  

Mom and Dad left me for a week to go watch basketball in Washington, DC.  I got to stay here.  It wasn't so bad.  I had nice weather.  They got snow and 20 degrees!  HAH!!

Then last month, I met the new kid on the block.  Her name is Opal and she is a powder puff.

We had fun horsing around.  (Which is a funny word for two pups having fun)  Opal is only like 6 months old.  Why do the young ones like to chew on my ears so much?

Last week was the Masters.  Dad and I like to watch the Masters.  So we watch it together.

For some reason, Dad thinks this a just a little too close together.  But I LIKE being close to him.  Especially when we watch television.

I've also been practicing my yoga.  And I want to challenge all of you to do this yoga pose I like to do.  If you can do it, then please post a picture on my blog.  I would love to see how well you all do.  I call it the FROG pose and it's very relaxing.  At least for me.

That about brings us up to date.  My Aunties from all over the US came to visit and they took a lot of pictures, but they didn't take any of me, so I'm not going to talk much about my Aunties' visit!

Hope you've been doing some fun things these days.

Love, G