my 6th birthday..

Well, today I am 6 years old, whatever that means....all I know is I was treated like a Queen today...even more so than usual....
I had a walk early this morning; Mom gave me TWO new squeaky toys...I do love to SQUEAK them....I also got another rawhide bone....I get those alot but I still like getting them....in fact every time mom comes home from someplace with those plastic bags, i wait in the kitchen because I know she is going to give me something.....usually a bone!!!!
I am also getting a new bed though I like mom and dad's king size bed just fine....maybe they are going to sleep on it and let me have their bed all to myself, deserving that I am!!!!

Also I got canned food today instead of those miserable little hard kibble junk...ugh....ever taste that stuff???

AND I went on a second walk around the wetlands by our house and at the dogpark by our house....where you can be OFF leash...glad they trust the humans there so you don't have to drag them around on that leash....I can roam and play there and the humans can be free too!!!
I did teach a young golden retriever, who was not sure what to do with all that water in the lake at the doggie park, how to fetch a stick and SWIM!!
i am thinking my humans should go ahead and let me be a lifeguard like my teenaged girl is....
I am one good teacher! after I swam out a few times to get a stick (I do this to please my humans...) this young 3 month old golden retriever...got the hang of getting in the water and doing this dog paddle thing and by the time we left, it was swimming out maybe 6 feet and bringing back the stick...thinking it was really cool!!

I chased some frogs in the water; I smelled alot of smells and got to smelling alot better by rolling in some wonderful scented dead things....mom made me get back in the water (not a chore for labs:) and wash off abit....oh well I smelled GOOD for a while:P
So it was a good day and a good birthday! now I am tired so going to go lay down on my king sized bed....so glad my humans that I own are going to give this to me....nite nite.

another no walk day:P

Just because it is 10degrees with what they call the wind chill, my dad who by the way was off work and spent a good part of the day laying on MY couch taking up MY space, did not take me for a walk...can you believe it?
10 degrees is like near perfect weather for we labs! What more could you ask for, a little snow in the air, cool crisp air to invigorate one while walking....I am trying, TRYING to take care of my humans but there are times when I wonder if I am wasting my energy.

I go outside and I play around, throwing my bone up in the air, chase my tail till I get that whole big deck spinning like a top...I have to stand still just to get the deck to stop spinning at times but know what? do they come out in that great air? I get a squeaky toy and squeak it for all I am worth till my jaws ache? does that entice them OUT in the fresh air?
well actually MOM is more likely to come out b/c she seems to speak lab-ease but she comes out for a few minutes and then goes back in complaining about winter.
HOWEVER MOM does take me for walks almost every day...the other day it was snowing so hard that I looked like one of those white labs when we got home ( I am a black lab thank you ) and mom's gray hair was all white..but it was fun running around catching snow flakes.
OK well enough for my first entry; I am tired now from a day of imagining going on a walk.....Mom is off tomorrow , she will take me!