Mom loves me the best...

As you know, my Mom has lots of dogs and she loves all of us, but... she loves me the best!! Here in her own words is why:
Lola, you are truly a wonderful little Frenchie, even though you are so independent! I love to watch you exploring in the field, and I love to watch you telling Louie to mind his p's a q's. You are truly your daddy Lukie's daughter, and it's fun to watch you at work! You make me laugh!!

New St Patrick's day photo...

I was feeling a bit green and I begged Mom to change my photo. Finally, she did! I do like the new one better, it appears to be a bit more creative.
Tonight after work we, as in me and Louie, got to go play in the lab pen. We were pretty excited cuz it was nice and warm and sunny today. Well, the anticipation was more exciting than the actual in this case!!! Since it was nice and warm and sunny today all that snow in the field has melted into what Mom used to call corn snow. It is all icy and granular and it breaks away the minute we step on it. Where the paths were, it will still hold us, BUT it's almost impossible to see what are the paths and what are not.
We did make the best of it! I discovered that it was pretty well melted down up against the fence so I followed the fence and went exploring. My new photo doesn't look like much, but IF you were there, you would know that the swimming pool was completely under the snow until I walked near it. I, of course, fell thru all along the edges and now you can see the pool!!!
Meanwhile, Louie was doing what Louie does best... sucking up to Mom and trying to get her to hold him and baby him. He was all disappointed cuz she grabbed the long telephoto lens and couldn't get his picture cuz he was too close to her. He could have backed up a bit, but, that would have meant he would have to get further away from Mom, so he settled for no photos!
Hey, I had a BAD infection in my ear. For the last month or so Mom tried all her home remedies and none of them worked so finally she got some "real" medicine from the vet on Wednesday... it's been less than a week and it's totally cured now!! She is treating it for the whole seven days prescribed so she doesn't create a super infection in my ear!!! The reason I mention it is that my ears look a little greasy in the new photos cuz Mom puts the stuff in my ears after I eat my supper and we had our supper before we ran down in the lab pen tonight.
Well, I gotta go. Now me and Louie are exploring all the melted down places in our big outside pen. You never know what might show up under all that snow!!!

Pranks???

This afternoon Mom took me and Louie down into the lab field. First of all, the prank was on me cuz I saw something very wrong in the corner of the field and I had to bark and bark and bark at it. Mom and Louie were just laughing at me so I decided to stop barking and go see what that object was. Ah, gee, it was only Mom's red chair... someone had moved it, I think!!
After that little mistake, I decided to go do my own thing instead of hang around near Mom and the camera. Suddenly, I noticed Mom had tossed her glove over to Louie so I immediately booked it back over to help him catch the glove. Well, somehow, someway, I slipped as I took off and suddenly had a panic knowing I was gonna fall flat on my face. Mom of course was right there with her camera and recording all the expressions of fear and disbelief on my face. Grrrrr.
It was okay... I really got Louie! He took a real header as he was chasing the glove and landed flat on his back. He thought he was safe cuz he immediately rolled over and righted himself, but, not before Mom snapped his faux pas for posterity. I even convinced her to let me put it on MY page, hehehe. Wait until Louie finds out that a: She got his photo while he was down and b: It is on MY page!! I am getting to be SUCH a great prankster... dad Lukie would be so proud of me!!!

Diary Pick for ME!!!

Thanks, HQ, for making me a diary daily pick today. I am thrilled and happy and all that! Guess I will have to wait a day or two before I prank Mom!!
Thanks, everyone!

My mommy Tula is a winner!!

Mom told me that my mommy Tula is going to dog shows now. Her first ones were last weekend and she learned the ropes. In fact, she learned the ropes so well that today she won a FIVE POINT major!!! 5 points is the most you can win at any show and that means she is now 1/3 of the way to becoming a champion. I am sooo proud of her, and Mom says Grandpa Jones is really proud of her, too!!!
Mom said it must have been a good day for dog shows because, at the same show, Chaz's daughter (and Mom's granddaughter, hehehe) won a FOUR point major and finished her championship! She is just 10 months old!!!
I wish I could have been at that show, too, but, if I was, I couldn't have won cuz my mommy Tula won... or, maybe I would have beaten her????? I can dream, right?
Mom says my body is almost ready to go to a dog show but my mind isn't. I don't think that is a nice thing for her to say!!! I may have to come up with another prank just for that!

A prank on my Mom...

Today we went down into the field for a long, long time! Me and Louie played and played and I explored the whole field while he was sucking up to Mom. She pranked him, though, cuz she didn't have her wide angle lens and she couldn't take any closeups of him, hehehe!
Anyway, when it was time to go back home I hid over in the bushes and Mom got all riled up. She thinks we could break out of that pen so she gets a little neurotic if she can't find us. Well, I did let her know where I was, but it gave me a GREAT IDEA for a prank.
When we got back to the house Mom left us outside so she could finish cleaning our room. Well, I decided I would hide and scare her, hehehe!
Sure enough, after she was finished cleaning she came to call us inside. I was hiding over behind that dog house of Crystals... no way could Mom see me from where I was, hehehe! I kept hiding and she kept calling. Finally, she sounded a bit worried but she said, "Okay, guess Louie can eat your dinner tonight."
Man oh man, I ran out of my hiding place soo fast the snow was flying behind my heels!!!! Soo, who was the prank on, me or her???

Valentine's wishes...

Hey, everyone, I want to wish you all a Happy Valentine's day! All the rest of my family are probably bragging about how much fun we had playing in the field today and not even thinking about how Monday is Valentine's day.
Of course, I have never had a Valentine so I guess I really don't know what Valentine's day is??? Are you supposed to play tricks? I bet not cuz I am sure my daddy Lukie would have written me a note from the bridge and told me about that...he is trying to make sure I follow the family pranking!
Speaking of, I really had nothing to do with either of these pranks, Mother Nature did them both. (HEY, do you suppose that was Daddy Lukie doing it from above????) Anyway, let me tell you about the pranks... first of all, I was chewing on a branch I found over in the corner and along came Louie to chew with me. Well, Mom called us, of course I didn't listen and come but Louie ran as fast as he could over to Mom. He ran SO FAST that he crashed right through the crust and sunk in the deep snow, hehehe!!! Fortunately, Mom was right there to record it with the camera. She put it on MY page so everyone could see me laughing at Louie, hehehe!
The other one wasn't quite so funny. We were running down the path and Louie spied a nice big piece of fresh, green grass so he grabbed it to gobble it down. It was a huge piece of lichen blown down from the maple tree, hehehe! He thought he was going to get the first bite of fresh, Spring greens, but all he got was a mouthful of fungus!!!!

Playing in the house...

It was sooo snowy and the snow was sooo deep that Mom wouldn't take us out down to the pen today. She said we were too short and we would get lost in all that snow. I dunno about that, but instead, we got to play in the living room. I spent most of my time searching for Smokey... I could hear him but I couldn't find him. Turns out, he was shut in the bathroom, darn it all! It was okay, I guess, cuz I decided to play with his laser dot. It's strange but Louie can't see it at all!!! Must be he is color blind in addition to his cataracts, I guess. I could see it just fine and I chased it all over the house. Whenever I got close to it, it would disappear and Mom would laugh at me. I personally think that is mean, don't you?
Finally, I decided to see what Louie was doing. He had about 10 bones all collected up in the dog bed and he was trying to decide which one to chew. I solved the problem for him, I went over and stole nine of them, hehehe!

Life is sooo great...

Me and Louie had sooo much fun yesterday. We went down in the lab pen and we got to stay forever cuz Mom was testing some lenses and she had two left and only us left so she changed them halfway during our time down there. Because she needed lots of photos to compare the lenses, we got to stay TWICE as long as anyone else, hehehe!
And, if that wasn't enough, last night she gave us ALL some great meaty bones she found in the fridge while she was cleaning it out. Those were soooo good!! I took mine right into my crate and didn't let Louie anywhere near it...he had to take his into his own crate, hehehe!
Today we didn't go down to the lab pen because Mom thought we might be a little tired from yesterday. Soo, while everyone else was down there, she gave us some great marrow bones she found in the freezer, left over from Christmas. Mmmmmm, those were sooooo good.
Life is sooo good, I am glad I live here, and have such a fair Mom!!!

Me... A Diary Pick, I didn't know!!!

Hey, Mom never remembered to tell me that I was a diary daily pick today. Yup, she knew it all along cuz she read the email this morning, then she promptly forgot to tell me!!! I would have enjoyed my day MUCH more if I had known I was pupular!!! And, my picture was right there under my friend Zaidie's pick!!! We are BOTH pupular, I guess! Hey, thanks, Zaidie, for the meatz!!! I did share with Louie, though, I didn't think you would mind.
Man it was sure cold here today! And, it's even colder tonight. Right now it is only zero farenheit, not fit for man nor beast! Man, you should see Mom counting us all when we come back inside after the little incident with Georgie earlier in the week. Georgie is darn lucky it wasn't today!!!! Because we couldn't go play outside Mom let us hang out in the house most of the day. I played with the poodles for a while, but Louie is a brat so he couldn't. We both chased that Smokey cat, too, hehehe!
Well, I am going to go snuggle in my warm blankies. Thanks for all your visits and well wishes!!