Ho Hum

Nothin's going on around here. Nothin that is fun for me anyways.
Since Daddy got back, I have only been on One walk! And it has been nice weather and everything.
And the other day Mommy brought in a box that had some interesting peeping sounds in it. She even put it on my crate for awhile and closed the pantry door. Then she took the box away and I don't know where it went or what it had in it.
If anything interesting ever happens I'll let you know.
Gotta go bark at some noise.

My Daddy's home!

My Daddy's home, my Daddy's home! Yeah!
He has been gone a long time, I don't know how long, but I haven't had a good tummy scritch for a long time. I do know that.
He brought T-shirts for the humans and some seashells from the ocean. He didn't bring me anything but that is ok, I just like having Daddy home!
Mommy and Brother brought him home yesterday and I got very happy and excited when I saw him! I just arroooed and talked to him. I love my Daddy!
This morning, even though it was cold and frosty we went on a walk! Yippee!
It was all foggy, it was hard to see where we were going. We even went to a different place and I got a drink. Daddy said that was the river but it looked like a pond. And the grass and stuff was all wet. Our legs and tummies got all wet and little mud balls stuck on us.
I hope we don't have to have baths.
But I am so happy that my Daddy is home!

Just plain wrong

I don't get it.
Why does Drover get to be a diary pick of the day when all he wrote about was how to trick me into going outside. Something about that whole thing just stinks.

A New, Old Toy

Brother and me were looking around in my toy basket the other day. I have my favorite toys that I keep on top for easy grabbing. But under my favorites are some that never get played with. Not because I don't like them, I just forgot about them. We found a red rubber ball with a jingle bell inside. I have had it since I was a little puppy. When I used to play with it, it made me growl. I don't know why! Anyhoo, we dug it out from the bottom of the toy basket. I like it! And I didn't growl! Brother would throw it in the hall. Don't tell, he is supposed to roll it in the hall. Then I would chase it and bring it back to Brother. Opps, sometimes the ball would bounce downstairs! And it was loud! I will follow it downstairs, but it's hard to carry back upstairs. Plus it's fun to make Mommy or Brother "fetch" the ball. Once I had an egg from my hedgehog egg baby and I could not fit an egg and a red rubber ball in my mouth! I dropped the egg and tried to get the ball. Mommy tried to throw the ball up to Brother. No deal. Brother came to get it and then I got the egg and carried it back upstairs.
I am so happy I found my new, old toy.
I think you should snoop around in your toy box. You might find something good!

Just helping

We had to go into our crates early yesterday morning. Mommy and brother were leaving. I don't think Mommy trusts Drover to be home alone. So we both get put in our crates. humph
Anyway, pretty soon, sister got home and let us out. She even played with us some. She doesn't do that very often. She says she is busy with school work. I'll bet. She spends a lot of time with her laptop on her lap. Anywho, at least she let us out of our crates and didn't beat us with a rubber hose.
Mommy and brother got home later. They brought some bags in and a Big bag of our dog food! Yummy!
Mommy puts our food into 2 plastic containers for safe keeping. Now this bag was a Big bag and I knew it wouldn't all fit into those containers. She cut open the Big bag and started to pour the food. I started to grab tremendous mouthfuls of food trying to help make room in the containers. Mommy was so busy lifting up that Big bag and pouring the food. The food was coming out of the bag fast! Gobble, gobble! She sure needed my help. She filled up both of the plastic containers and still had food left in the paper bag. I should have eaten faster. She had to fold over the top of the bag and save it until there is room in the plastic containers.
I hope she will need my help again with that job. Yummy.

Who me?

I have got to keep the kitties and Cindy and Drover in line around here. They are always getting into stuff and I have to get on them. We were all outside the other day just doing regular sniffing and other doggie stuff. Mommy came out the backdoor and called in her I mean business voice, "get off of there!" I looked over to see what Cindy and Drover were getting into this time. They looked ok to me. I looked at Mommy for more instruction.
She was pointing at lil me! "I'm talking to you, Zoe! Get off the strawberry bed!"
*gulp* yes, maam.

My Yard

My yard is nice and big. I just love it. There is plenty of room to run and chase the Jolly ball that brother throws and there is even room to run after the frisbee. I can pick it up in my teeth and run and even though I can't see a thing while it is in my teeth, I don't bump into anything because my yard is so big!
All the snow is long gone and our grass is even turning green and places are growing tall! My tummy gets tickled when I run through the tall grass.
We have some places that have board things with dirt inside. That is where the outside kitties go potty and we like to hunt for the Tootsie rolls they leave. Daddy and Mommy put little seeds in the dirt there too. We are supposed to stay off of there but sometimes we just can't help it.
Daddy put something in one of these "raised beds", that is what he calls them. He put things in and pretty much covered them with the dirt and then he put some wire on top. I think that is to keep the kitties off. Anyway, something is starting to grow in the dirt there. And who shows up but the naughty Notme. Notme has been up on the dirt and is even eating some of the growing things there. Can you imagine? How naughty!
It may be time to hide toys and sticks in the grass for Mommy to find while she is mowing! That is a fun hiding game. Just a warning, you don't want to see what a tennis ball looks like that has been mowed.

A New Hope

Yesterday in the forums, we read that the feral dog Hope has been safely captured and vetted!
This is awesome news!

Sneaky Hair Shrink Day

I sure didn't see it coming. Everything was normal until Drover and me got to go outside and Cindy had to stay in. Mommy hauls us out to the garage. "Load up". This is never good. So it's off to the groomer's we go.
Yuck. Riding makes me nervous. And then we have to stay at the groomer's forever. Mommy said it was only a couple of hours. Forever.
Yeah, now I'm not fuzzy or stinky anymore. There are even a couple of pictures for you to see how cute I look.
I took off my stinkin' bandama by myself. It was choking us, precious.
Then I took off Drover's bandama too. He looked goofy with it on.
At least we are good to go for a long time.

Busy, busy, busy

My typist claims she has lots of things to do and hasn't had time to update my diary. I have been so busy having fun!
Yesterday and this morning we got to go on nice long walks with Daddy and Mommy. And we even got to be off our leashes a lot! That is so cool. So many things to sniff and pee on. As long as we stay "close" then we are good to go.
We saw a porcupine up a tree yesterday and today he was still there. Daddy said someone had shot and killed him. I don't really know why someone would do that. That is naughty and it made us kinda sad.
I have been Daddy's little farm dog all weekend. He lets me come out of the yard and I follow him around while he has been doing spring clean up stuff.
Drover and me belong to a group here on Dogster called Schnauzers Rule. We have so much fun there. Friday afternoon we had the Grand Opening of our Schnauzer Playland. So much fun. I even won the raffle and won some zealies. I love to spend zealies!
And this morning I got a pmail letting me know I have been chosen to be Schnauzer of the Week! It is a special honor where lil me is spotlighted. Thanks pups for all the pretty rosettes and nice pmails you have already sent me.
Keep watching my page. I have posted my SOTW badge that Samson
made for me. I am gonna get my human brother or sister to make a special picture of me as SuperZoe to celebrate. I am bumping up my status a tad. I am gonna be
Schnauzer of the Universe!