Ever since I was young pupster I have always loved chasing shadows. I know, it seems odd but it is something I like to do. Mom make funny shadows on the wall or the floor with her hands and it is always fun to chase them. Well, the other day mom found this thing called a laser light and she thought she would buy one and see if I liked it. Boy oh boy!!!!!!! I LOVE that thing. Mom stands half way down the hallway and I run from one to the other and back again chasing it. We played for near half an hour non stop and boy did I need to lay on my air conditioning vent after that!!!! I get as much exercise chasing that little red light as I do on my treadmill, only this is way more fun. We even played out in the 
garden with it last night and believe me, my fur was a flying as I raced around the garden chasing that thing. I chase the fire flies too.....but they tease too much, one moment they are there and the next they are gone! Here I am on my favorite vent by the front door, it's the best spot because the tiles are very cool and I can look out the window and see when my dad is coming from work. Oh, I nearly forgot ! I have to say a big thank you to Latte we tried your Cheesy Carrot Crunch Redux Cookies....mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm!!! I really really love those and it's a good thing I was doing so much running around because I had four of them!!!! Mom is going to try another recipe on the weekend - I can hardly wait. She will have to find a better hiding place though, because I found she where she put the carrot munchies!!!
Mom and I went for a walk this morning, the wind was blowing and is wasn't quite as hot as it has been. We went a different way today and the grass was very long, in fact so long I could hide in it!! Of coarse, I just had to jump in it...what I didn't know was that all those grass seeds would stick to my fur - how bothersome was that! When we got home mom had to give me an extra long brushing to make sure there wasn't any of those seeds hiding. That is the one draw back to all this fur, it is like being a swiffer duster on legs......and mom is always telling me "to leave the garden outside". What she means is, I like to lay on the pine bark to soak up a little sun in the morning, but when I get up and come inside there is often pine bark stuck to my fur and mom is always picking it up off the carpet. Here I am after I had my brushing. I also found the neatest blog today while doing a little paw surfing. It is Latte's blog and there was some of the best recipes there for we four legged's. Yum yum, mom wrote down some of the recipes and she is going to make some for me to try this afternoon - that also means an extra mile on the treadmill to work those calories off..... but it's worth it!!!!!! I will let you know what I think of them tomorrow. Woof woof to all!
Mom and Dad went to look at RV's today, they are not going to buy one, they just wanted to look at one and dream a little. Personally I think they should get one, that would be like the biggest on going car ride in history!!!! Wow wow wow.....would I ever love that. I dream of visiting lots of places. Of coarse I wouldn't have a yard to run in but just think of all of the cool parks we could go to, all the wonderful smells and the other doggies I could meet. We could go to that place called 'the beach' that mom is always talking about. She grew up near the beach and misses the salt air. I don't know what that is, but mom says it smells so good. My goodness I can't stop my tail wagging with excitement just at the thought of it. Mom really liked this one RV called the Melbourne, not only because it was a really cool RV and has lots of room, but is was named Melbourne which in the capital city of Victoria, a state back in Australia. Mom actually lived there for about 7 years. Mom says there was a perfect spot for my bed under the table and a big comfortable seat for me too complete with a latch for my harness to snap on to. The only drawback is there are no air condition vents on the floor, mom says they are all in the roof. I could live with that though. I guess sometimes we doggies and humans can share the same dreams.
Mom went the Doctors this afternoon and afterwards her and dad went to a big store called Target. Well.... mom came across this hat and although mom doesn't like clothes on us furrbies, she gave in for this, she said it would keep the sun out of my eyes, but I think it was because it had kangaroo on it and it had the words 'let me outback' written on it. She says it makes me a honorary Aussie.....what ever that is. And of coarse, she had to take photo's!! She also said I was lucky she didn't get me the matching doggie t-shirt!!!! I would of been sooooo hot in a T-shirt but mom knows that so I guess the hat is okay. She also got me the biggest rawhide bone to chew on and a new tug toy that me and dad can play with. My mom just loves me so much.....and don't tell her because we don't want her getting all soppy, but I love her heaps too!
Mom came across this cool website that lets you enter words, then it jumbles them up to make these neat little signs. Of coarse she had to do one about me and she is going to use it one one of those scrapbook page things she spends a lot of time doing. Mom hasn't been well today, that thing called arthritis has been really hurting her. That is when she needs me the most. I will snuggle up next to her and let her stroke my head and that seems to make her feel better. We went for a little walk in the field this morning, she let me run and just waited as it was hard for her to walk, but I had a good time sniffing and I even chased a ground squirrel back down into it's hole. They are very cute but they do like to dig. We have some that have dug under the concrete by our back step and the cheeky little things even drink out of MY outside water dish!!! I chase them back into their holes when ever I see them.
This afternoon I did four miles on my treadmill, I love trotting along on that. Mom thought this was a funny photo because my feet looked like they were going really fast. They weren't though because mom only sets it to a nice walking pace. Well, I need to get back to mom......she needs to pat me some more......hope you all had a great day.
I wanted to share a picture of my new blog buddies Deacon and Essex. My mom says they are Collie Dogs......they look like big shelties to me!!!!! Mom loves collies too, and her brother use to breed them back in Australia. Mom was very happy today, she sold some of her painted items which meant I got to help with packing. I am an expert at scrunching paper and towsing with it so when she got it ready to pack the items, I pounced!!! I did a very good job of shredding it for her....but for some reason she didn't seem to appreciate it and had to get that vacuum monster out to suck up all my little bits I had carefully spread all over the carpet. Then I had to crawl inside that big box.....but you know when you hear that one word said in that certain tone "REEEIIILLLLY" that you had better sit back and give the mom the beautiful sad eyes look. It works every time - well almost!!! Anyway, she got it all boxed up then we went to the post office over at the air force base. I like going there and today the guard patted me and said what a cutie I was......oh shucks!!! as if I didn't already know! I guarded the car while mom went in and sent the box away. Then we drove back home again. It is very humid again today so I think I will go around the house checking that all the air conditioning vents are working. An hour snoozing on each should be enough time to tell unless of coarse mom wants me to play fetch with her....I could probably rouse myself enough for that.
