I'm BALANCED!!!

Yesterday Louie and Nina left a comment on my diary, complete with a photo. They were amazed to notice that I have a PERFECT yin and yang symbol on my face!!!
Well, Mom was looking at some of my other photos, and surprise, my primary photo shows the symbol pretty well, too. So, she put the one they made for me right up there below my primary photo so everyone could see it.
What can I say?? I did always know I was balanced, now the whole world knows it, too, hehehe!
Thanks, Louie and Nina for pointing this out!!!

Letters from our "shadows".

Mom got some letters the other day from the girls that came and job shadowed us. They all read them over and over and over.
Would you believe I, me and myself got the MOST write ups in their letters???
Mom said she always picks me for stuff like that cuz everyone always loves me the most. Of course, the fact that I just sit in their arms, staring lovingly at their eyes doesn't hurt one bit. Mom says if they could come into our house, or even better, into our big lab pen with me they might not think I was so sweet and loving.
My response... BOTH Julia and Skye still love me the most and they have BOTH stayed with me here all day long and some nights AND I have stayed overnight at both their houses, too.
It has been very dusty and dry here for weeks and weeks and weeks. Mom threatened me with a bath, but I happen to know they are way, way too busy at work to give ME a bath. Sooo, this morning it was pouring rain and I decided to help Mom. I stood out in that rain and got all soaking wet. Then, I ran as fast as I could in the brisk wind and called it the force dryer, hehehe! Mom is amazed at how white I am now!!

I had a Shadow!!!

Yesterday was the annual Job Shadow day at work. Four students from the local Middle school came down and shadowed Mom and the girls. Because they are here for quite a long time AND Mom and the girls have to keep working to get all the regular clients done, Mom usually brings some of us over to work to have the girls work on.
First, Julie and Sarah gave them a complete tour of the place and explained what goes on here. After that, Julie and Sarah each took two girls and had them shadow them for a while. Meanwhile, one of the dogs Mom was grooming belonged to the girls teacher, so they wanted to come help with him, too.
After that, Mom had Julie come and get us. First, they took us for a nice walk up the big hill behind the kennel. I KNOW that was Mom's plan to wear us out a bit, BOL, but I didn't let on to the girls about that! When we got back Julie got some brushes and combs and took us out into the store and showed the girls how to brush and comb us out. They all worked on us for a while, then I was selected to get bathed by all the girls!!!
They did a nice job and I ended up sparkling clean and they ended up soaking wet, hehehe! They were even gentle when they used that HUGE blow dryer on me!
After that, we shared their lunches!! It was pretty fun, and I think the girls liked their day as much as us dogs did!

Finally, a diary entry for me!

I believe Momsie doesn't love me anymore. Every single night I get up on the computer desk to write another diary and Mom makes me get down. Now, how in the world am I supposed to write an entry if I can't get on the desk???
Oh well, Mom is out in the kitchen doing some dishes so here I am. Now that it is finally my chance to write, I can't think of a single thing to write about, go figure!
Anyway, it's been a GREAT Spring so far. Although I didn't get much time to play in the snow, I did get plenty of time to run in the lab pen all Winter long since Spring started in November, I swear!
Today the weather person was giving some statistics for the Winter. I might have them mixed up a bit, but it was the LEAST snowy Winter in 140 years and that is as long as they have kept the snow totals! It was also the WARMEST Winter in recorded history, as well.
Mom says it's still early enough to get some snow. She remembers once we got NINE inches on May 9th! She also remembers plenty of Easter sunrise services canceled due to snow.
We shall see, I guess. Maybe there is still time for my collection of snow photos for this Winter?

Finally, I am back home!

Well, this turned out to be a really LONG weekend at Julia's. First of all, I had to go there on Saturday morning cuz the race was early on Sunday morning.
Then, Julia wanted me to spend Sunday afternoon with her and Mom said okay so I stayed. Next, she wanted me to spend another night, so I stayed last night and was supposed to come to work with Julia's mom this morning.
Notice I said supposed to...Julia's mom was really sick with the "cruise ship disease", so I had to stay longer. But, it all worked out and Julia's Auntie brought me home this afternoon.
The race was fun, but, in this Winter of Summer, it was FREEZING COLD on Sunday morning. After days and days of above freezing, it was only 15 degrees!! My tiny, bare feet got REALLY cold so Scott was nice enough to carry me lots of the way. He did put me down toward the end so I would be able to walk over the finish line.
We started out LAST!!! The good news, we ended up with a few people behind us at the end. The POLICE even escorted us, imagine that.
Mom was there with Toto. Some young girl was holding Toto... I don't know how he gets all the young girls to always hold him no matter where he goes!!!! I looked over and said Hi to them but kept walking along with Julia. Mom was amazed that there were over 200 people and about 8 or 10 dogs!!! I was the ONLY dog who was dressed up in a Patriots shirt. Guess it didn't work, huh?
Now, I am resting my feet in the biggest dog bed, chewing on a bone. It's nice to go away, but it's nicer to come home!

Late, but HERE!!!

Well, it got to be late last night and my new shirt that Mom paid special shipping on wasn't here. They GUARANTEED it would be here in 24 hours.
Mom wasn't totally panicking because she knew we had a few days but the only choice was 2 day OR regular and she didn't dare take a chance on regular.
Mom sent them an email and they said, "Oops, we didn't send it 2 day, here's your shipping refund." Well, at least the shipping money was back but now Mom was really worried... regular shipping instead of 2 day?????? Hmmmmm.
Meanwhile, Mom and Tonya decided I was far too matted after only 3 days post grooming so yesterday they were bored and ended up cutting ALL my hair off and giving me a pony cut. I LIKE the pony cut, but, gee, Mom, what if it's FREEZING on Sunday when we have to do our walk?????
Around noon today the mail lady came and put something in our box. Mom went out and looked and AMAZINGLY, it WAS my new shirts!!! So, since I was already at work, they tried it on me and it's almost perfect. Well, it will be perfect when they add a few pins to tighten it up a bit. First they tried the dark one on, then the light one, then Mom put the light one OVER the dark one and pronounced that PERFECT. (It will also be warmer with my haircut, BOL,)
Too bad, she was going to mail the extra one over to Baby Grace, her grand niece, so she could wear it on Sunday. Oh well, it was so late that there wasn't time to mail it to her anyway.
So, tonight Mom did some fittings and dug around and finally found a pink barrette so I am all ready to go. And, Mom is happy she found that barrette cuz otherwise she would have had to go to the store and get something for my hair. The pony cut leaves all that crest hair on my head!!!
Mom snapped a photo with her phone for my page...BUT, I want you to know that it is really HOT pink but the phone muted it too much!!

More on the 5K....

Today Julia's Mom told my Mom that we are supposed to wear something Patriotic for the Patriots on Superbowl Sunday. First, Mom told her she would get out my NY Giants t-shirt and I could wear that, BOL, that didn't go over so well!!!
So, Mom was gonna go upstreet after work tonight and find me something to wear. While on her break she was surfing thru Amazon and discovered some really great stuff for the Patriots. She finally decided on a hot pink t-shirt with the logo on it. It is a "onesy" for a baby and luckily, I fit perfectly in the 18 month size cuz that's the only size they had!!
Mom just puts them on us backward and pins the flap up so it doesn't drag on the ground.
Anyway, this came in a set of two...one with short sleeves and one with long sleeves so if it's colder I can wear the long sleeves. I LOVE pink and so does Julia. She will be soo surprised when she sees me wearing it!!
Mom paid extra shipping so I will get it on Wednesday. That way if it doesn't fit right Mom will have time to fix it for me.
Did you know I have to go to Julia's on Saturday and spend the night cuz I have to be there early on Sunday morning.
Oh yeah, one of the other girls said she would work for Mom so she can go now and take our pictures. Cool!
Mom said her back is better but not perfect yet. She has a really quiet week of grooming so that will help it, I am sure. We are all behaving really well so she doesn't have to chase us around and/or lift us into our crates. Mine is on the second level and I jump right up into it!! I am sooo helpful!

It's official...

Julia's Mom told my Mom that it was official and I was really, really going to walk in the Pigskin 5K with Julia next weekend.
I am pretty excited about that... I will help encourage her and keep her company as we go along.
Mom is going to try to come take our photos BUT, she has to work so hopefully, someone else will work for her. Today Laurie had to come work cuz when Mom got up her back was BROKEN. We were worried but she managed to get us outside and back into our crates before it was really broken. Seems it's okay when she first wakes up but is awful after that for a couple of hours or so.
Well, needless to say, we didn't get to do much playing today! We did go down to the lab pen for a bit, but we were so busy exploring all the freshly exposed grass and hidden things from Fall that we didn't do any running around at all.
She did get a neat photo of me levitating my ball. I have worked on that trick for soooo long...glad to see it finally worked.
I really have to watch my balls now that Lola is visiting again. Today I brought that blue one right back into the house and gave it to Mom so Lola wouldn't swallow it!
Well, gotta go to bed now cuz I need all my rest to prepare for the big walk!!!

I am doing a 5K whatever that is!

Hey, everypup... today Mom told me I am probably going to do a 5k walk with my friend, Julia. She was gonna take her own lab (one that Mom bred, BOL), but lots of people don't watch their dogs and her mother doesn't want anything bad to happen to her or the dog. Her mother can't go with her cuz she is RUNNING in the same 5K.
Anyway, since I am the perfect size she can just pick me up IF some dogs come running up to start something, besides, I WON'T respond if they try to start something with me. Toto can't go cuz he got in another dog's face the other night, hehehe!
The walk is on Superbowl Sunday and is called the Pigskin 5K. I think 5K is like 3.1 miles, but I am not sure.
Julia's Mom had the nerve to tell my Mom that she didn't think I was fit enough to walk a 5K so she told Julia I probably couldn't go with her...Mom set her straight right away! Mom said I could no doubt RUN the 5K and beat all the people there,too, BOL!
Of course, I train all the time by chasing Riley and the others around the lab pen...I have measured it out and it only takes about 137 runs around the perimeter to equal 5K. I got that made in the shade!
Speaking of shade...I won't get too hot cuz it's in February!!!
Mom said she would go there and take some photos of us on our walk. I sure hope so, BOL!

FINALLY, some Snow!

Well, yesterday it finally snowed. I was hoping for more, but alas, only about 6 inches. And, it rained during the day so the snow is all crusty which I don't prefer cuz it doesn't fly out behind me when I race across the field.
Oh well, I made do with what we had. I chased Toto, Riley chased me and the toys chased us all. Well, Zena didn't...she still stuck pretty close to Mom AND she wasn't sure what all that ice was about, BOL.
Oh yeah, the wimps, Harvey and Barney walked about half way down the path, turned around and stood at the gate whining for Mom. It was still above 20 degrees when we were out there, wonder what they will think tomorrow when it's BELOW ZERO!!! I bet Mom will leave them inside.
Anyway, today I wore Ali's Coach quilted pink jacket. It was MUCH more comfortable than that other pink one I wore the other day. And, warmer, too, but I really never get too cold! Ali kept staring at me...I'm not sure she realized that was HER jacket, but I just ran faster when she did so she couldn't get a good look at me, BOL!
Well, gotta rest up now for tomorrow's run. Too bad Mom is open on Monday cuz it's supposed to be a holiday. She has too many dogs to groom, I guess. Otherwise, we could run on Monday afternoon, too.