Mommy is coming home

Tomorrow my Mommy is coming home! I am getting very excited about seeing my Mommy. She gets home too late to pick me up tomorrow so she better come and get me real early on Sunday. No sleeping in on Sunday, Mommy! Come real early and we can have an afternoon nap together. :)

More Fun

I am still at the kennel. I get to exercise on the tread mill, play outside in my private outdoor run and generally bark at things. There is always lots of excitement around here with all the pups.

Mommy said she was flying up in the sky today. I really can't see Mommy flying like a bird but she did say she was flying. She is now in a place called Windsor working and says she can see Detroit too. Hmmm......I think I am having more fun then Mommy.

Kennel

I am at the kennel today. I didn't even see this one coming until the last minute. Mommy took me there this morning because she had to work tonight and she has to be on the plane real early tomorrow morning. This means that Mommy is all alone in the house by herself tonight. How is she ever going to survive without me??? I keep her company, I am her bugglar alarm, I keep her warm at night and the list goes on............. Poor Mommy! I hope she survives. Mommy won't pick me up until Sunday. She says her plane gets in too late on Saturday to come and get me.

Happy Victoria Day!

Happy Victoria Day every pup! In Canada this is a long weekend to celebrate the birthday of Queen Victoria. She has been dead for days,weeks and years and was the Queen a long time ago. I won't get into the history stuff since my pal Zaidie did a good job of it in his dairy today. The holiday has different statuses in different provinces and all I know is that when we lived in Manitoba Mommy got the day off work and now in Ontario she gets the day off work too. Victoria Day is kind of the "kick-off" to summer. Lots of people open up their cottages for the season on the Victoria Day long weekend. The rule of thumb in both Winnipeg and Thunder Bay is that you shouldn't do any planting until after the Victoria Day long weekend.

Victoria Day traditionally is marked with fireworks which most of us pups don't like. When I lived in Winnipeg it wasn't bad because it is against the law there for individuals to set off fireworks. The only fireworks allowed were organizations/community groups that had to get a permit. That limited the amount of fireworks so it never bothered me there. We moved to Thunder Bay last June and every long weekend there has been fireworks. We can't explain it but there has been no peepoles setting off fireworks this weekend. What is with that???? Mommy and I can't figure it out. The only thing we can think of is a few families have moved away and they were likely the ones doing the fireworks on the long weekends. Almost every house around me has a dog so maybe we are getting away from the fireworks. I am sure not going to complain about that! No fireworks!!!!!

Today was a nice sunny day. I spend my afternoon outside and I got to watch the peepoles, sniff around, lay in the grass and sunbath. The little kids down the street have two battery powered little cars (that they sit in and steer) that they were driving all around my field. It was rather interesting to watch. They couldn't go very fast so it didn't scare me. A few pups walked by and some peepoles walked by too. Mommy sat in the outdoor living room and was staring at a book. She normally stares at her kindle thing but she said she has books to read (that she bought pre-kindle thingy) and wanted to read them. All and all it was a nice day.

Boring

Today is a real boring day. All day it has done nothing but rain. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain.......... I run out to potty and come right back in. I can't spend any time in the outdoor living room because it rains on everything. Mommy, maybe we need a roof on the outdoor living room?? There are no interlopers walking on MY path. Absolutely nothing! I have been napping and supervising Mommy doing some housework all day. Like I said, "BORING!"

Wring their Necks!!

It was nice out yesterday evening so Mommy decided to open the windows so we could get fresh air in the house. It was the first night that we went to bed with the windows open this year. Everything was going good until about 4 am. At 4 am we were woken up by some loud teenagers outside. Mommy, half a sleep, said she would wring their necks. She didn't do that and we fell asleep. Then at about 6 am there was a real squawky bird outside. That bird squawked and squawked and squawked until about 7:15 am. The bird was much worse than the teenagers. Mommy said she was going to wring that bird's neck too and she didn't. Everything was quiet after 7:15 am but that is likely because it started to rain and that squawky bird took cover.

Lake Effects

Mommy says she likes living in the part of the City that we live because of something called "lake effects". What is that I ask? We are right on Lake Superior which Mommy says is a very big lake and the largest of the "Great Lakes". The temperature in my City can greatly vary within a very short distance because of the lake. The lake has a significant cooling effect on the northern part of the City which is where we live. Today it was 30 C (86 F) at the airport which is in the southern part of the City while at my house it was 21 C (69.8 F). To get that extreme change in temperature you would only have to drive about 10 minutes. Last summer it was the same. Regardless of how hot it got during the day there was always a cool breeze at night. Mommy and I are happy because we prefer the cooler temperatures. :)

Not a Good Deal

It sure doesn't seem like I got the best of this deal. I will tell you what happened. Today our door bell went "ding dong" and I went running to the door. Mommy came and opened the door and it was Daisy and Daisy's Mommy. "Hi Daisy", is what I said. I love it when Daisy comes over. Daisy's Mommy had something in a container that she handed to Mommy. It turned out to be some rice krispies squares for Mommy. It is those things made from rice krispies cereal and marshmallows. In exchange Mommy asked if Daisy would like some treats. Mommy gave some of MY treats to Daisy. Hmmmm....this doesn't seem fair to me. Mommy got some treats and she gave away some of my treats. This may be a good deal for Mommy but it doesn't sound that good for me.

Long Weekend

The long weekend is finally here. Mommy got home real late last night too, getting home at 10 pm. She said she had a meeting last night. What? Do you believe a meeting on a Friday evening of a long weekend? Sounds fishy to me but she is holding to her story. Then she said she went back to the office to do some work so she could free up the whole weekend for ME! Now I like that last part. Oh well, the long weekend is here and I am one happy pup.

Mommy was late

Mommy was late coming home today so I didn't get as much outside time in the outdoor living room. She was slow at feeding me too so I had to scratch on the little mat to remind her. Those humans can be slow learners. Right now I am looking forward to the long weekend that is coming up. Three days with Mommy will be wonderful!