Big and Little Wednesday

It is Wednesday and that means Big and Little come to play at my house. Of course I kept my eyes on Little hands because when he is done eating something, he just drops the rest. But today it was Big that ate us out of house and home. Mom (who knows a lot of kids) says that Big is the pickest eater she ever met. But today not only did he eat all the food he brought, he also ate most of Little's food and a lot of our food. And I just don't mean the junk food, I mean the real food too. He ate almost all of our bread. He says he likes our bread because it is big and fat. They only have diet bread at his house. Mom is happy he's eating better.

Since it was raining, we couldn't play outside, much. When the rain slowed mom and the kids went out to puddle jump. That is when I took a nap.

When they came back in we had a rock and roll party. Big played the keyboard and Little played the electric guitar. It is still a little too heavy for him so mom held it like a stand-up bass for him to play. Mom says that once school starts she is going to start him on real music lessons.

After the rock and roll party, they played Taboo. Little was the time keeper and the buzzer presser. I did not like the buzzer at all. If it wasn't raining, I would have gone outside. Mom was once again super impressed with Big's reading skill. He will be starting kindergarten this month and he was reading words like aroma and subway. And he knew what they meant. Mom thinks that his kindergarden teacher will have her hands full.

The boys wanted to go to Pork Chop's funeral, but mom said it would be too crowded. Mom and dad went to the wake yesterday, they waited in line for over an hour to pay their respects. It certainly shows how loved Pork Chop was.

So the boys explored all over the house but when mom says it's time to clean up they did pretty good. There are still some things mom needs to put away.

Those boys did tire me out. I only got three naps today instead of the usual six. So I am going to go try to take a big nap to make up for the lack of sleep.

Thanks

I wanted to say thank-you to all my pup pals for all the kind thoughts and sympathy. I walked passed Pork Chop's house today and it was just so strange not to see him on the porch, not hear him hollering: "Hello!" not to share a cookie with him. I am so happy that I have such good friends sending me good thoughts.
Mom and dad and the entire neighborhood are going to the wake tonight. Mom says it is very telling that the entire neighborhood is going. It shows what a good neighbor Pork Chop was.

This is one story that mom tells so everyone knows the kind of man Pork Chop was. Our neighborhood is small. You would need to walk around it twice to walk a mile. Everyone knows everyone else. Sometimes when we walk, it takes an hour because we are always stopping to talk to people. We had this unofficial thing called Adopt an Old Person. That was when you would pick a neighbor who was older and just make sure they had what the needed. You know, a ride to the store, heat in the winter, a fan in the summer, someone to talk to, you get the point. Pork Chop was 86. He adopted an old person. He found the oldest person in the neighborhood and always checked up on him.
Pork Chop taught us all in the neighborhood how to be a good neighbor. Boy will I miss him.

Sad News

I got some sad news today. Pork Chop, one of my closest friends has died. Pork Chop was a man not a dog. Mom says his real name was James. He was such a good friend. Whenever I would run away, I would always go right to his house. He always had a cookie or a treat for me. He didn't care if I hung out on his porch all day. Mom said he was pretty old, in his 80's. He fought in World War II. He was a crossing guard for the school so all he knew all the kids in the neighborhood. I am so sad that my friend is not here anymore but mom says he is watching us from heaven making sure everyone crosses the street safely.

Rain

As most of my dogster pals know, rain doesn't normally bother me and only the loudest of thunder makes me upset. But today we had a huge, huge, HUGE rainstorm. It didn't even thunder and this rain got me upset. I needed to find a good place to hunker down.

Fortunately, mom's closet door was open. But before I could hide, oops I mean hunker down, I had to make some space. The last time I hi-hunkered down in mom's closet, dad's crutches fell and hit me on the head. It was a good thing I didn't have to get them out of the way today. Mom told dad to put his crutches in his own closet. I think mom replaced them with purses.

So I had to take all of mom's purses out of the closet. Why does mom need so many purses anyway? It's not like she has any money in any of them. More importantly she did not have any food in any of them. The only thing I found in the all those purses was an earing and an old klennex.

Anyway, I managed to get all of mom's purses out and what was under the purses but tote bags! Geeze mom you don't have that much stuff.

AND THEN under the purses were shoes! OK mom I know you only have two feet. I have twice as many feet as you do and I don't have any shoes!

So after working all day I finally got a nice hiding place-I mean special spot to chill out in-in the closet. I got all comfy and mom comes home from work.

"Dorothy! Why are all my shoes and totes and purses scattered all over the house! You need to get out of the closet and help me clean up!"

I think I will need a hiding place after all.

I am NOT jealous

Huck is a doggie who lives across the street from me. My miracle field actually belongs to Huck. Huck is just a typical doggie, a West Virginia Brown Dog. I have know Huck all of my life. He is someone fun to play with. Plus I really like his person, George. George always gives me treats.

So like I said, me and Huck have known each other forever. We sometimes play together, but mostly I check his field for food that mysteriously appears. I really didn't pay that much attention to him. I am a strong independant doggie and I don't need a boyfriend for validation.

Molly is a new doggie that moved in next door to me. She is a little tiny wiener dog. She is always going over to my oops I mean Huck's field and playing with Huck. If Molly wasn't so little, maybe I could actually see her and I would be able to tell her to get her paws off my stuff. (But, I can never see her. I am always right on top of her before I realize that she is there).

Mom says I am jealous and that I like Huck and I don't like Molly. Silly mom. It is not Huck I like. It is his miracle field. I haven't seen any food appear for a while. I just know that little tiny Molly has stolen it. GRRRRRRRRR!

Big and Little and the Secret Passageway

My house has a secret passageway. Yes, I know it is too cool. It goes from the company room to the master bedroom. When I was a much younger pup, mom used to do a magic trick with me-making me appear in the guest room. (Ta-da). Then mom and dad decided to use the secret passageway for storage so that kind of blocked it in. (Which was good, because I really didn't think that magic trick was as funny as mom thought it was.)

Yesterday, Big and Little came to play. They were both in bad moods. They hated each other as only brothers can:

"I Hate you."
"Well I hate you more."
"Do you know who I hate? You.""

Well, you get the point. Finally, mom had had enough. She said: "Since you two hate each other so much, then Big you play in the company room and Little you play in the master bedroom. And don't come out until you can play nice."

Little got super mad at that and slammed and locked the door to the bedroom he was assigned in. And he couldn't get it unlocked. Mom, of course didn't have a key and anything she could have used to pick the lock was locked in the bedroom. So mom had to take all the things out of the secret passageway and send Big in to rescue his brother.

Big did rescue Little. Little was so happy he forgot he hated Big. They have been playing in the secret passageway all day long leaving me alone to sleep. I just hope they don't need me to do any magic tricks.

Vacuum

Yesterday mom was using the evil, evil vacuum. She said the filter for the heater/ac needed cleaned. In the hall is a big vent where the heating/ac filter is at. Mom opened the vent and took the filter out and got the vacuum to sweep it clean. Suddenly-the attachment mom was using to sweep the filter flew right off the end of the sweeper hose and fell down the hole where the vent was.

Ha!Ha! Stupid Evil Sweeper! Now you are sunk! You will not work good without all your stupid evil attachments! No more vacuuming ha!

Mom could see the attachement,but she just couldn't reach it. So she asked dad. It was right out of his reach too. But, dad got the broom and took it apart and taped a stick to the end of it so he could pick it up.

BOO on dad he got the attachment and now mom can vacuum again.

Where's Mom?

Yesterday started out pretty normal. Dad went to work. Since it is Summer, mom works sporadically so she was home. We did some fun stuff, picked up the house, played the piano, ate lunch. Then someone picked mom up and she was gone! Where did she go? Dad came home from work and mom was still gone? Me and dad had dinner-without mom! Dad said mom had to work a weird time, because Big and Little's mom had to have some surgery. Dad didn't know how long mom would be. It was getting late at night. How could I go to bed without mom! Oh I was so sad! Then FINALLY! mom came home. Big and Little's mom was doing ok. Mom had to give Big and Little dinner and put them to bed.

This morning, mom went to work at the regular time. Both Big and Little thought she stayed all night at their house.

I heard they were coming to my house tomorrow.

Uncle is gone

Uncle left this morning. I will miss him. I had such a good time with him. We ate so well when he was here. We had seafood and corn on the cob and jambalaya and pizza and chinese. It was such a delicious visit. Uncle and mom and dad went to the movies to see Harry Potter. They went with Jake and his brother, study buddy. I am changing Study Buddy's name to L. They will just be J and L in this diary. Mom and J and L were excited about the movie. When they got home mom had some popcorn. So I was excited about the movie. Uncle had great weather while he was hear and we spent a lot of time outside. Uncle will be back next month. Maybe grandma will be with him.

Uncle

Uncle is visiting me. He came on Sunday night. Dad made his world famous wings and rice. It was soo good. When Uncle came, I waited and waited for grandma to come in the house. She moves kind of slow, so I went outside to help her. I walked all around the car waiting for grandma but she wasn't in the car. I looked all over for her, but she wasn't there. Mom told me that grandma didn't come on this visit. She isn't feeling so good. So I hope all my pup pals send grandma some good thoughts so that the next time Uncle comes to visit grandma will be with him.

You know, when grandma visits, I usually get a hot breakfast. But, I resigned myself to eating yogurt like I do every morning. But, for some reason, dad and mom are on vacation ,too. So dad got up this morning and got us delicious sausage biscuits.

Mainly mom and dad and Uncle have been hanging out in the pool. I have been sleeping on the air conditioning.