More snow!!!!

Wow, Sunday was pretty snowy, but today we got even MORE, and now, at 18 degrees F., it is RAINING!!! Needless to say, it is frozen by the time it hits the ground! Mom took me and Louie to daycare this morning because she said we have been stuck in our little place at home for too long due to the super below zero temperatures. Then, Louie got invited to the vets next door cuz most of their clients for surgery canceled and he needed to get neutered. Sooo, Mom went home and got the three toy poodle puppies for me to play with. She started with just me and Riley cuz she wasn't sure I wouldn't fight with them...MOM, that is LOUIE that does that bad stuff... I am a LOVER, not a FIGHTER!!! Well, she soon realized I wasn't a fighter, so she made a HUGE pen for us out of three big expens. We played and played and played. Then, she let us outside and we played some more! I had fun running and chasing the toys thru the snow, but... remember the other day, Sunday, when I said the snow didn't stick to MY short hair... well, today I was absolutely covered with a thick layer of snow!!! Check out my new photos and you can see my nice "ice" jacket. The poodles had even more than I did! Soo, we all went inside and melted and then took a long nap before we played and played and played some more. Mom decided since we were having soo much fun we could stay overnight at daycare and play more tomorrow. I think it was because she couldn't push the puppy stroller thru all that snow actually!!!
Won't Laurie be surprised when she gets to work tomorrow and sees all of us there, hehehe! Poor Hilda won't even have a pen to stay in, unless we make them two smaller ones and I go in with her. That might be a good idea!!!

A nice sunny Sunday...

Today Mom took us out to play in the warm sun! Too bad that cold snow is still out there.
Actually, I don't mind the snow that much. At least it doesn't stick to MY hair like it does those poodles. That must be nasty to be cold and wet for hours after you play outside. They brought in enough snow stuck on their coats today that Mom's humidifier actually shut off!!! Amazing, huh!
Mom has this silly new primary photo for me. I was checking out the faucet cuz there was a spider web stuck to it and it was moving in the breeze. For some reason Mom LOVED all the shadows and colors and hues, so she stuck it up for my photo. I don't mind... she will forget about it soon enough and it will work it's way down to the bottom of the pile!!!
Well, gotta go now. I am pretty tired and it is VERY cold so me and Louie are sleeping in our crate tonight instead of our in/out pen.

I forgive Mom....

Well, I must say, Mom got some cool photos of me (and Louie) playing in the snow today. She even took us first so the snow was fresh and trackless. We ran and ran and played and played and then we ran some more. We even had a race and Louie had to admit, when he saw the photo finish, that I had won!!! He did make some "Louie" faces, but I was a clear winner.
We ran soo much and got so tired that both Louie and I zoomed right into our pen when we got back up to the house. We had to take a LONG nap!!
Well, speaking of naps makes me very tired. Now I gotta go to bed!

The camera must be broke???

Well, we went down to the lab pen today to enjoy the freshly falling snow. As near as I can tell, Mom must have broken her camera cuz she only put ONE new photo on my page! I notice Louie has FIVE new ones...hrrumph, he must have some of mine, maybe?
Mom said the problem was that while we were down there the sun was trying to come out and it was a little bright so we looked pretty much like black holes in the white snow. Sure, sounds like an excuse to me. Let's see...Louie got lots of new ones because he is not black???? He looks black to me!!!
Tomorrow Mom better take ONLY ME down there and get some really, really good photos or else!!

I was gonna be a show girl already????

Mom pulled a prank on herself, hehehe! She was going to enter me in my FIRST dog show which is in a few weeks. I told her I wasn't ready yet, but she was insistant. She still can't put Louie in cuz even though his eyes point forward now there is still a bit too much white showing on the insides. His head is growing fast again so they will be fine soon, but until then, he can't go out into the public eye. Oh, the prank. Well, entries usually close exactly two weeks before the show BUT, with the holiday and all, they closed LAST WEEK instead. Hehehe... I won and I don't have to go to a show yet!!!!
Today we went off down into the lab yard with Mom and the movie camera. Since it was a movie she was making I decided to impress everyone and come instantly when Mom called me. Of course, Mom doesn't know how to work the video yet, so she can't show me off!!! It's a good thing you can't see the video cuz when I was watching the playback I noticed that a couple of times, well, lots of times actually, while I was running back toward Mom I slipped on the hard packed wet snow and it looked pretty awful. I look like I might have rung the New Year in a little too much!!!

Peace on Earth.

Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with us!!! Mom says that us dogs are actually more peaceful than many humans!

We want to wish everyone a most Happy, Healthy Holiday Season. May all your wishes come true, but most of all, may you enter the new year with a renewed feeling of love and compassion for all our fellow living creatures, be they human, or canine, or feline, or any. May we all do our part to conserve and protect our world so that it will be as we know it for future generations to come. May we all leave the petty and bickering behind and welcome the coming year as a new chance to put forth our best!!!

Happy Howladays from our family to yours!!!

Exploring in the SNOW...

Today I discovered the greatest stuff in the world!! Mom says it's called snow and it comes almost every Winter. Mom said me and Louie could go down into the lab pen but, frankly, I was so busy exploring the snow we never even got down there. First, I took a sniff and it blew up all over my face and into my eyes... NEATO!! Then since all the bushes and plants were flattened down, I spied a big, brown dog on the other side of the fence. I ran up to look at him and I guess I must have scared him OR he was frozen stiff cuz he never even moved. Soo, I woofed at him and continued exploring. I saw my favorite big stick over in the corner. I ran to get it and it was way, way heavy, I guess, cuz I couldn't pick it off the ground. Mom came along and kicked it and then it was fine again so I played with that. It was kind of cold so it felt good on my teething gums, so I carried it around a bit. By now Louie was whining and crying so Mom said we could go back into the house. I didn't want to, so I snuck into the Cresteds summer pen. Hey, the gate was open, so. I was exploring in there and Mom kept calling and calling so I ducked into a big igloo dog house I found in there. Pretty neat, but MIGHTY COLD in there. Felt like an igloo, hehehe.
Now Mom was jumping up and down and holding one foot up in the air, then the other, and her teeth were chattering so I decided I probably better do what she wanted. I went back into the house and took a LONG nap!! I hope we can go play in the snow again tomorrow. Maybe I will go out with my grandpa Jones... he likes snow, too!!!

Dad would be proud...

Today I pranked my nephew Louie! It felt sooo good. Here's the deal... we went down to the lab pen with Mom this afternoon. It was okay down there, but kind of chilly. Anyway, we were running around and playing and I got thirsty. I went on over to the little plastic pool cuz usually in the Summer we can drink out of it. Soo, I ran over there and discovered the water was frozen solid. Soo, I pretended I was drinking some, making a HUGE NOISE lapping and lapping. Louie came along to see what I was doing. I told him the water was nice and warm and he ought to take a jump right into the middle. Would you believe he did???? Silly dog!!! Well, of course all four feet slid in four different directions and he looked like a schmuck. Naturally, Mom was right there with her new LONG lens and got him up close and scared looking, hehehe, with me watching from outside the pool!!! Check his page to see the actual photo recorded for posterity!!! Then, I calmly walked away, laughing all the way!!! Somehow Mom got it a little wrong on the captions on our photos... sooo, remember, you read it right right here in my diary!!!!

Diary of the day???? WAY COOL

Hey, Mom said I am the Dogster Diary of the Day today. That is soooo neat!! I will have to think of an appropriate prank to pull on Louie, in my BESTEST dadddy Luke manner!
Thanks for the gifts and visits... you may put me ahead of Louie IF you don't visit his page, too!!!
Off to enjoy MY day!!!

Her name was Lola, she was, hey, she is gonna be a show- girl....

Mom is pretty happy today. She took me and Louie over to daycare for a visit this morning. We had a GREAT time over there, but that's not what made Mom happy. You see, she has been watching me VERY carefully since I didn't have any brindle patches on my coat. In order to be a show girl I need some brindle. When Mom got me I had some on my tail, but it vanished with my new adult coat that is coming in now. Well, Saturday when we went to the show Mom discovered ONE white hair growing in along my back leg. She was encouraged but still didn't know ANY brindle Frenchies who were five months old and didn't have their brindle yet. Besides, that one white hair could be a stray white hair from an injured follicle, she thought. And, I am five months old THIS WEEKEND!!!
Well, Mom took me into the grooming room and put me under the bright light and found the white hair. Well, she started looking around and found a whole bunch of patches of brindle hair coming in. I had some on my shoulder, my sides, my back and even on my neck! There was no mistake... they are brindle and made up of different colors along the same hair.
WHEW... her name IS Lola, she IS a show girl!!!!!