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Amelia's Days

Santa Barbara -- Week 1

Oooooooooooooohhhhh so much fun!! We've been to the beach every day this week. There are these wonderful ponds in the rocks. My favorite thing to do is to run over there as fast as I can, then sit in the water and scootch my butt around. Sometimes, I even lay down in the water.
There are these little skittery things on the rocks. I race over there to see them, but they disappear. Sometimes Drake finds one and eats it. I wanna do that!!! Mostly, though, I just want to run around like a silly monster.
Lots of other dogs come up and want to play with me, but I don't have time for them. I only have time to run around in the water. It's fun to be ME.
After we play, I am sore, but the lady with the blue-gray eyes gives me a tasty treat. Then I feel better. Every time I feel sore, recently, she gives me one of those treats. Maybe I'll pretend to be sore so I can get more treats. tee hee.
Yesterday, we went to the park at the end of the day. We sneaked out into the people trail, and Drake and I ran off down to the creek. The best part was the big patch of gloriously stinky black mud! I sat right down and squooshed around in it. THEN . . . I rolled over into it. GLORIOUS!!! The lady looked at me and started laughing. She did pour a while bunch of water over me before I got back into the car. Maybe she didn't appreciate the gloriosity of the mud?

It's Summer!

So, the Lady with the blue-grey eyes slept all day long today! That's usually what I do . . . not her. She says we are going to the beach tomorrow. I LOVE the beach. I get to run and run and run like I used to. I love to race into the water, sit down, and smush my butt around. Sometimes I even roll around in the water. So very marvellous!

Drake likes to eat the little crunchy things that run around on the sand. The lady calls them sandcrabs. Sometimes he chases me. When he does that, I run into the water. He won't hump me there, because he doesn't like the water so much.

Now that the lady won't be working for a couple of months, she said we'll be going to the beach a lot! We go to the one in Santa Barbara, too. That one has lots of wonderful pools to dig around in.

Later in our lives

The lady says it has been eight years. I wonder what that means? Drake and I are fast friends -- he still thinks he is the dominant one. Sometimes he displays his "dominance" and my hips and back hurt. I don't care, I just sit down. We've had a long fun time, and we're going on several things called vacations this summer. The Lady with the blue-grey eyes never leaves us behind. She says she works hard, so we can all go play together.

Six months ago, our dear, old friend, Sonya, went to sleep and never woke up. I was lonely for her, so was Drake, so was her owner, Franco. We tried to fill the hole in his heart, but we couldn't. We are, first and forever, the best friends of the Lady.

Two months age, she came home with a crazy new pal. They call her Mia. She is supposed to be Franco's best friend, but he sure did take a long time to like her! During that time, she horned in on our pack. I had to put her in her place twice. I'm getting too old for this! We tolerate each other, I almost like her. I just wish she would stop barking. She won't be coming with us on our vacations. That'll be nice.

We're getting some yummy new food, because her skin is so bad. COOL! I live to eat (and sleep).