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The Dynamic Duo - Savannah and Augusta

Doggie life back to normal

Hi every pup and dog,

We the dynamic duo aka the "twins" are happy to report our snow is gone and we really loved it and now the heavy rains and flooding so life is rather returning to normal. We have tons of branches and tress down on our property so we are loving to sniff and check it all out. We spend hours doing so, rather frustrating our mom who would prefer we come in after a short period of time. We really went though lots - snow for almost two weeks which is unheard of in Oregon and then flooding and then ice and then flooding again. We have been exercised challenged but are doing OK because Mom is letting have time out for an hour twice a day. We love that. We all had cabin fever. I hope no other doggies need to experience the lack of electricity, no water, no lights or heat for four days and mom attempting to care for sixx dogs who drink tons of water. We wish all of you the best and we survived and loved the snow but it was a challenge.

Two weeks of SNOW !

We are having a bunch of fun playing in the 12 inches of snow we have had for the past two weeks. We go out and run around and stick our noses in it and roll and frolick and have a ton of fun. We do not like to come back in because this is so much fun and are rather driving our human mom crazy. It is suppose to rain starting today so we guess our snow fun time is over. We enjoyed having a white Christmas.

The other challenge to our human mom was going four days without electricity which means we had no heat or water. Luckily mom had stockpiled water and with so many of us in our dog family we drink lots of water. The woodstove provided us with heat and actually it got too hot in the house and all of us were panting.

The super strange day was last Sunday when we had freezing rain most of the day. The tree limbs all over the acreage broke and would fall and sound like a war zone with the noise as they fell. We were not used to that kind of noise so barked as branches fell down. Now the yard looks a mess with all the downed limbs and we have to jump over a bunch of them to even go out the door. They are so heavy that they cannot be moved until they thaw out and can be sawed. We rather love sniffing these new items in our yard.

So we had a very white Christmas which is very unusual for our area. The longevity of the storm was also history making and driving is still a challenge for our mom mainly for her to get in and out of the driveway to go purchase us treats and dog food.

We have a visiting dog with us this week, Cowboy, whose human dad is in Minesota. Cowboy is an Australian Shepherd and loves to go out with us as we run around. He will be here until January 4. We are quite the pack with seven of us.

Hope you had a great holiday and that 2009 is a wonderful woofable year for you.

It's our Birthday Today!

We are two today and our person mom is going to get us something special for dinner tonight. We are calming down and not as energetic so that pleases mom. We still have our daily routine when it does not rain of going out in the acreage and digging for moles and gophers and quite often we catch them to our person mom's dismay.

Our dog family is all doing well. Torch is getting acupuncture for his hip dysplasia and it has improved his ability to walk. Miranda and Bogart play with us all the time and go out to the field and also dig for the moles so we carry in a bunch of dirt every day. Allie is staying in most of the time and getting some arthritis but she still rules and is top dog around here.

Mom has a pet sitting business and one person whose wife recently died is traveling so much that now at night mom brings over Cowboy and Australian Shepherd. Interestingly he takes over top dog position when he is here. Mom has fun watching the doggie dynamics.

We are going to go enjoy the rest of our special day. Hope all you other dogs are as lucky as we are to be so spoiled.