Spring?

I know the groundhog saw his shadow and it means 6 more weeks of winter. I heard that if he didn't see his shadow, it'll be 6 weeks until Spring. But, today there were little purple flowers jumping out of the grass- crocus- the first flower of spring. Why are we having Spring? We didn't even have winter yet. I swear we had one day with a tiny bit of snow. Not even enough to build a snowdog. Now there are croci all over the yard. I think that groundhog is just plain wrong.

The Best Puppy Bowl Ever!

Yesterday was the Puppy Bowl. I was looking forward to watching it, but my mean mom went out for a while. Without Me.

But, she came back with Big and Little! Big and Little came over to watch the Puppy Bowl with me. Big was not feeling good, he had a headache. Mom gave him some Motrin and he lay on the couch. I lay beside him. He didn't need Motrin, he needed a doggie doctoring.

While me and Big were resting, mom and Little played backgammon. Mom had to get the game down from a very high shelf. She lost her balance and fell backward, did some kind of flip and bumped her head. Little laughed and laughed. It was the funniest thing he ever saw. Mom did not get seriously injured.

After Little won at Backgammon, he and mom made corn muffins. Mom told him what to do and he made them all by himself. The only thing mom did was the oven stuff. They even had a secret ingredient in them. (Shhh! it's yogurt).

The muffins were so good that Big even ate some. And Big does not eat anything. Big's headache was feeling better but he still didn't want to do much. Mom had taken the boys to the library before they got to our house, so Big read his book to mom.

Big is very into geography and weather. If you name any state he will tell you the capital of it and the number one type of weather disaster the state has.

so we ate corn muffins and learned about weather in all of the states and watched the puppy bowl. When the game was over we all went for a walk. There seemed to be a lot of cars in the neighborhood. It seemed like lots of people were having Puppy Bowl Parties.

Then it was time for Big and Little to go home. I figured that mom would be so mean as to not let me go on the car ride, so I just jumped into the car when Big and Little were getting into the car. So I did get to go on a car ride.

So I had a great Puppy Bowl Day. Hope everyone else did to. And today I am a diary pick! Things are looking up.

DDP

I am a diary pick today! Thank you everyone for the well-wishes. Also thank you everyone for sending mom luck for this job. She hasn't heard from them today,but they said it might be Monday before they get through checking references,etc. So, for my sanity, keep your fingers crossed.

My mean mom made me go on a walk today. Actually, she makes me go on a walk everyday. It is a pretty good walk, except that lately, mom has been making me go down the side road. I only like to go up the side road. I don't know why mom goes down the side road. That is all backward and also a doggie named Dragon lives on that road.

Dragon is pretty old. He was a puppy when Dorothy was around so he has to be at least 15 years old. And he does not like me walking up or down his road. I have tried and tried to tell mom not to go that way, I figure that the less time I spend on Dragon's road, the better.

So mom keeps making me go on the side road, then we turn around and go on the outside road. Mom is exercising. Why doesn't she just play tennis on the wii like everyone else? I'll tell you why. Cause mom is just Pure D mean!

New Place to Go

First, mom would like to thank everyone who wished her luck on her job interview. She said it went really well, but won't find out if she has the job until next week. This is why she thinks it went really well:

1. She talked to the interviewers for over an hour about the job.

2. When the ladies were going over the interviewing process, they told her that today they would ask basic questions and check references and then if everything checks out they would call to arrange a tour and more questions. At the end of the interview they told mom to expect a call tomorrow or Monday.

3. When they looked at one of mom's reference the one lady knew her and went on and on and on about how much she like mom's reference and really respected her.

So mom has some hope but she doesn't want to jinx it. So still keep thinking up Good Luck for mom. (she will return the favor).

As for me, I really want mom to get a job so she gets out of my way.


Now for the important part. After all of mom's interview, etc. Mom said we needed to go on a car ride. We have not gone on a car ride in a really long time. I have been stopping cars on the street to see if they will take me for a ride.

But today me and mom went for a ride...to someplace totally knew. We were going to pick up dad, but we did not go over the bridge for me to smell the river. We went into the city instead.

Mom does not like to drive on the interstate at all and if she can find a way that does not involve the interstate she goes that way. But, today she had to drive on the interstate all around the city. The CAPITAL CITY. Mom rolled the window down so I could smell the big city. There were lots of rushing trucks and cars all around me. But, we drove right through the city. Mom did not go to dad's office in the city.

(Yes dad is so important he has THREE offices. One close to the house that I always go to. One in the city that no one likes to go to and one out in the country where the big bosses hang out at. OH I forgot he probably has an office at "corporate" which is 300 miles away.)

We were going to the office in the country. We had to go all the way out to the far away country. Mom found the office building but mom didn't know exactly where to find dad. She went to one door but the lady who answered couldn't help. Then she went to another door that was locked. She finally found a door that led to an elevator and away she went. I got a little worried when mom disappeared, but finally she came back with dad and home we went.

So it was an exciting day all around.

Job Interview

Mom has a job interview tomorrow. Everyone cross your fingers and say a prayer that mom gets this job because, frankly, she is cutting into my nap times and getting on all my nerves.

Lunch Date

So it was getting close to lunch time. I was waiting and waiting for mom to make lunch. That's one of the good things about having mean mom at home now, regular lunches. Or so I thought. But, mom was not going to the kitchen. She wasn't getting out any ham or peanut butter or jelly or easy macs or nothing. She was "putting on her face."

And then Jake came to the door. Jake is the orginal Big. Now he really is Big. He is a college sophomore. He goes to school close by our house. He only had one class today so he decided to take mom to lunch. Just Mom not Me. And not any of his dogs, Copper or Reece. Just him and mom out on the town.

jake is the boy who had the back surgery this summer. He is recovered but he can not bend at the waist. If if drops something he either has to stoop down or boss his little brother around.

Jake is studying Crimminal Justice with an eye toward Law School. He is also a waiter at the local Bob Evans. But, he did not take mom to Bob Evans for lunch. They went to the local Mexican Resteraunt.

He and mom had a nice chat. They talked about school and jobs and girls and little brothers. They did not talk about getting a doggie bag for me. Because mom came home empty handed. That is how mean my mom is. Go out to lunch and not bring me anything.

Watch Dog

Last night I heard something outside. It was late, like 4:00 am but I needed to go investigate. I finally got mom up and she let me out and just laid down on the couch until I came back in.

Well, there was someone outside up to no good. A prowler. The Pug Army saw him, too and set up an alarm with their yap, yap, yapping. And my friend Huck barked like crazy. Huck's owner, George came out of the house to get this prowler. The Prowler ran and I ran back to my own house to protect my family. George followed me.

When we got home, George asked mom to call 911 and report a prowler. He said this guy was looking into houses and trying to break into cars. George wasn't going to stand for that nonsense. He was going to go after him with a baseball bat.

Mom said to George: " Calm down and I'll call the police. Don't go after him, cause if you hurt him, you'll go to jail. That's how it always is. The prowler will sue you for damages." Mom called 911. She let George talk to the dispatcher because mom didn't see anything. George could identify this guy. (George does not have a phone).

George said he didn't think the police were coming and he was going to get the guy and he went home. Fortunately, the police did come within 5 minutes. They talked to George and they did a slow search of the nieghborhood, but it was too late the prowler had been scared away.

George and Huck and the Pug Army and me, we scared him off. I know he is telling his burglar friends:"Don't come to this neighborhood, there are too many dogs!"

Hooray for Dogster HQ

I have been having trouble with my DogsterPlus subscription. It was due to expire on January 4th. Mom sent in the money to get it renewed, but mom was sick at Christmas so she didnt' get it sent as quickly as possible. Still, me and mom figured that plus would get renewed a little late, maybe a few days. Well, January 4th came and went and no plus. We waited a week and no plus. We waited another week. No plus. Mom checked the bank statement. No check for plus. So after waiting a little bit longer, mom contacted HQ.

HQ was soo helpful. They said they hadn't recieved the check but renewed my plus temporarially until they could sort it out.

Confidentially, mom was thinking that it had something to do with SAY media and new formats, etc. But, mom also thought it might be the post office. Many of the thank you cards that mom wrote for Christmas gifts were coming back Return to Sender, No Such Address, even though mom knew it was the right address.(She knows grandma's house number.)

Then yesterday mom got an email from HQ saying they found my check and all is well that ends well. Mom is happy that HQ is so polite and helpful and I am glad I have my Plus back so I can buy rosettes for all my friends.

I am the Mighty Hunter!

Ok, we get mice. Usually in October mice come in our house and try to live there. Mom and dad are pretty good at sealing up the mouse holes and when we go away on the GRAND TOUR mom lays down poison and the mice are gone by the time we get back.

I don't know if it's this strange weather or maybe the plumbers stirred something up but last night while mom and dad were asleep, I saw a mouse run across my living room.

Zoom! I was up and after it! I chased that mouse all over the house. I made enough noise that mean mom sort of woke up- twice! The first time she told me to settle down. The second time, she actually got out of bed to let me out. But I wasn't going out. I was going to catch the mouse.

I chased the mouse all over the house until he plopped over dead. I gave the mouse a heart attack! That still counts as being a mighty hunter!I am soo scary I scared the mouse to death.

When mom got up for real this morning the first thing she saw was the dead mouse in the hall. She said: "No wonder you were going crazy last night." And she got dad to throw the dead body out the door. (Although dad got up first and walked right passed the dead mouse twice and didn't see it until mom got up-or did he?)

So me and mom spent the day looking to see if there are any more mice in the house. We didn't see anything so that is good. But if there are more mice I know I can scare them to death. BOO!

Red Letter Day!

Well this has certainly been a red letter day. I think that means a good day.

It started out by me being a diary pick today! Hooray! Thanks everyone for the gifts and congratulations. It's most excellent and appriciated. And I sort of, kind of, finally, almost got my DogsterPlus back. According to HQ they never recieved mom's check, but they are giving us temporary plus until we can get it all sorted out. They thought maybe we sent it to the old address, but mom is sure she sent it to SAY media. So Dogster was nice enough to renew my plus.

But then mom turned mean. She and dad went out. Without me. They were going someplace that dogs weren't allowed. Why does mom insist on going places that don't allow dogs? She did say she would bring me a present when they got home. Sure mom I've heard that before.

Well, a few hours later I was awoken from my nap(I was guarding the house from all those dream monsters.) Someone was coming in the house. It was Little! Yes! Little! One of my top favorite people of all time! and following Little was Big! Hooray! Mom and dad took the boys out for brunch and they insisted on coming over and playing with me before they went back home.

We played some songs with the Fireband. And we played some wii. Then me and the boys went outside. And we ran. And ran. And ran. I got the zoomies and ran all over the yard. Little got the zoomies, too. And Big decided to run as well. We ran all over the front yard around the neighbors house back to our porch where we would jump off the porch and run around again. It was huge fun.

But then mom got mean and said it was time to go home. Big and Little asked if they could come over again tomorrow, but mom said they probably had to go to school and they probably had stuff after school. But mom promised that they could come over any time they weren't busy and maybe they could come over next weekend. I hope so.

But, all those zoomies made me sleepy. I am worn out.