Howliday Saga

So much to bark! No typist to type! Finally the ma has a little quiet time to help me update my diary.

The day befure our trip to SoCal the dad was makin' breakfast burritos to freeze and have on hand in the motyhome. Wellwoof, he and the ma started talkin' about all they has to pack and do befure the trip... blah, blah, blah. While they was talkin' I went into the kitchen and found a plate of sausages just sittin' there on the counter. This is the part of the counter I can reach if I stand on my hind legs. The folks is usually careful not to leaves stuff on that level cause they know I has no scruples about checkin' that out. But the dad got distracted and wellwoof, yum-yum, those were good sausages! I got about half a dozen or so. What a good start to the Howliday trip fur me!

So we left on December 19th after My Boy got outta school and made it to a place called Pismo Beach. It was about 8 o' the clock and dark. Pismo Beach is about mid way on our journey to SoCal. The folks decided to hunker down here fur the night. We found a spot fur the motyhome but did not go to the beach that night. But the next mornin' we found it was a short walk from the motyhome park to the beach. We brought my ball and Chuck It along. Then the folks remembered they did not want a wet, sandy dog in the motyhome fur the rest of the drive. It was very hard but we all turned away. No playin' at the Pismo Beach fur me:( They threw my ball fur me back at the motyhome in a grassy field nearby. Then we hit the road. Next stop, our destination, Bolsa Chica State Beach.

We got to Bolsa Chica about 3 o' the clock. Plenty of time to make it to the Dog Beach befure dark! I got to fetch to my heart's delight pretty much every day from here on out. No new pictures but there's a coupla new videos of me runnin' in the waves. The ma even tried to be a little artsy on wunna them and got a surfer dude in the background. There was lotsa surfer dudes sharin' the ocean with me on this trip:) Guess there were sum tasty waves!

On December 23rd we made a trip out to Oceanside to visit my uncle's family. This was the furst time I gotta meet my Golden Retriever cousin, Captain. Captain and I have different energy levels and different retrievin' styles. He likes to take the ball and keep it. Fur me it's not the ball but the act of chasin' the ball so I always bring it back. We have agreed to disagree on retrievin' but we both are nice, furiendly dogs and got along well. The peoples even left us alone together at Captain's howse while they went and did sum people things.

On Christmas day we went over to the grandfolks house fur dinner. There was a little accident and I ran into their 'invisible' screen door and broke it:( Wellwoof, it's called an invisible door and it really is! My fambily felt really bad I did this. But the grandfolks said not to worry they was plannin' on takin' it down soon anyway. Still we don't like to destroy people's houses when we visit:(

My aunt, Lil Baby Girl's ma, got me a Christmas present. She got me sum fancy doggy petite fours! They are very yummy!

We came home on December 27th and celebrated the start of the New Year quietly with some neighborhood friends.

Thank You Secret Santa!

Finally gotta open my package! Woof-howl, I got lotsa pawsome stuff!

I gotsa stockin' filled with stuffies, a pink ball, a small rope and a squeaky bone. Plus a red and a blue large size Christmas tennis balls. And I look so pretty in my pink and black Kong collar!

My Secret Santa is so generous and thoughtful! Thanks so much!

And now I gotsa bark good bye to all the Dogsters fur about a week:( Road trip:D

Secret Santa package and Back to the Vet!

My Secret Santa package has arrived! But I'm not supposta open it until Moonday! Moonday! We is leavin' fur the SoCal place on Moonday! I will open it that mornin' befure we leaves. Sorry, I won't be around to do the group party thing, Howard:( But I'll make sure to take sum pictures and put them on my page:)

Went back to see the Vet Man today. My ear is gettin' better but he said 3 more days o' the drops oughta get rid of the buggers in there. So 3 more days it is. Fun!

Drops, drops everywhere, but not a drop to drink!

But not to worry, I gots a full water bowl so I don't need to drink no drops. BOL!

Been gettin' those ear drops every day twice a day and yesfurday got my flea and tick medicine drops. Tomorrow I goes back to see the Vet Man and he is gunna look in my ear again. Hope those ear drops can go aways! But the treats twice a day can stay!

Visit to the Vet man!

Had my annual check up on Twosday! Wellwoof, this ole Pepper girl is just fine and dandy! Just one thing, found out I has a slight infection in my left ear. Gotta put sum drops in there every day fur a woof while. That's been fun! While I would never think of bitin’ any person, I can be very wiggly and active and make things like puttin’ drops in my ear very difficult. The folks has been gangin' up on me every day to get those drops in:(

Anywoofs, heartworm is negative and poopies is clean. So other than an itchy ear everything is good!

Secret Santa Shoppin'!

Our power is back and the wind is gone and things are back to normal. Now I can bark about goin' shoppin' fur my Secret Santa pup! My pal Howard invited me to take part in the Secret Santa event he is organizin' over at The Dog Park group right here on Dogster. We participated last year and it was real fun!

Anywoofs, we went over to the PetSmart place. I loves that place cause I did all my puppy obedience there! Guess I seemed real excited cause a couple came over and said I was the happiest dog they have ever seen! I has heard this many times in my 3 years on this earth so far. I have a very happy, cheerful disposition!

So we picked out some treats and toys that I thought my pal might like. But doesn't I get anythin' fur all my hard work o' shoppin'?! The ma let me have a new glow in the dark ball cause my others is missin' at the moment. When we got home she even let me have it in the house even though this is supposta be an outside ball. Wellwoof, I went into my crate and worked on it and chewed a big hole in the brand new ball. That teaches the ma to buy the non Chuck It brand that was a coupla bucks cheaper! Wellwoof, hope my Secret Santa pal gets to enjoy his/her toys longer than I did! (We did NOT buy him/her a cheapo glowey ball!)

The adventure to school and work!

Wellwoof, I was so rudely interfurupted by another possible power outage! Anywoof, our drive to get My Boy to school on Turdsday was pretty infurestin’. Furst we took our normal way. A man was standin’ in the middle of the road signalin’ sumptin’ with his hand. The ma was not real sure what he wanted us to do, continue on or turn around, so she put down the window to talk to him. He said the road was gunna be closed fur a woofwhile. So we turned around and went the next route when the main road is closed. Wellwoof, wouldn’t cha know it, there was a tree down on that road, too! No one was there yet to turn folks around and the ma sorta considered drivin’ under that tree as there was just enuf room fur a car to fit. But she decided not to, not worth the risk. So there was one other way out that Ma could think of.

This way takes us way north so that we can go way south. Ma does not like goin’ this way cause it’s real winedy and real remote. We saw not one other car on the road. There were parts of the road so covered with debris we could not see the road. Ma was really regrettin’ makin’ this choice, better to have stayed home. This was a real white knuckle kinda drive, whatever knuckles are! Anywoof, the ma said that felt like one of the longest drives of her life. But My Boy was only about a half an hour late. Later we found out there was one shorter route the ma overlooked and that’s why we was the only one on that lonely road. Boy did she feel dumb!

So My Boy made it to school and the ma and me continued on to the office. We stopped like we always do and I gotta fetch a bit at the Covered Bridge Park. But the ma cut that shorter than normal since our commute took so much longer than usual. The power was on at work and we had pretty much a normal office day.

The drive home that night was another story. Ma works in the big, little town of Scotts Valley. Scotts Valley has 2 main streets with lotsa businesses. The street the ma’s office is on still had the power. The other street did not. We has to drive down this other street to get home. We have NEVER seen this street all dark like it was. And dark it was all the way through the valley the whole ride home.

Now it is Fryday night and our power is still out. We have enuf outtages in our neck of the woods(literally) that we all has generators here. And we have an infurnet connection so I can post this! The winds have died down fur the time bein’ so maybe the electricity peoples can work on our lines without endangerin’ themselves. The folks is very grateful this all did not happen last week, right before they was tryin’ to prepare fur the Turkey Day feast!

Crazy Winds Blew in Me Santa Suit!

Oh my, the winds is blowin' here in the Santa Cruz Mountains! That means power outages and road closures, both of which my family is experiencing. The power has been out since 3 o' the clock yesfurday and it's not back on yet. But we got's a generator so we has lights and our fridge is keepin' the food cold, but we don't force too much else on the generator power. Ma's usin' her work confuser to type a little fur me but we're lucky her office still has power cause lots of Scotts Valley is also outta power.

Anywoofs, to cheer things up a little I gotta a nice package in the mail from Ebby, Ceeley and their mom! They was all so sweet to send me a Santa Coat! The card said it was Rinky's coat that she never got around to wearin:( I am so honored and touched they sent it to me.

Dadders couldn't help but have me try it on right away! After all, there's no TVs or confusers to take up the peoples time right now, is there? Good thing I is a small labby and not one o' those giant ones. It fits just perfectly! I'll post a picture when things calm down a bit around heres. Thanks much Ebby, Ceeley, Mom and Rinky!

Wellwoof, better sign off now. The lights is flickerin' here at the office and we're not sure about the conditions of the road for our way home. We had quite an adventure gettin' My Boy to school this mornin' but I better bark about that later!

Infurnet Spotty, Expandin'/Contractin' Pack & Diary Pick! Oh- My!

Dadders is stubbornly workin' poor Moe Dim to the death! Wellwoof, in fairness to Dad a call to the Cable Guy(our IP) seems in order first and callin' that guy tends to not be too fun. So right befure havin' lotsa company the ma tolds me we cannot be spendin' lotsa time waitin' fur the confuser to do its thing. Between Moe Dim's problems and Dogster's glitches the ma decided not to be checkin' in on Dogster fur a few days. She had sum extra cleanin' and meal preparations to do. So we has not been around since my last diary entry.

Fur Turkey Day we had my grandfolks, my uncle and aunt and their lil baby girl up from SoCal. The weather was nice and Lil Baby Girl likes bein' outside all the time which means an adult needs to be outside with her which means I has a ball thrower! Lil Baby Girl is not quite ready to throw the ball fur me herself but she's gettin' there! All the extra ball throwers, um, I mean, family left on Sunnyday.

I just realized today my diary was a pick on Fryday! Thanks pups fur the swell gifts and comments to celebark! And Thank You to MrJack and his Growlmy fur the commemorative picture!

New Bed!

Ma brought home a new bed fur me yesfurday! She moved my old bed out to the garage a coupla days ago. She's been meanin' to wash the cover fur those coupla days, but other washin' always seems to get in front. Anywoofs, I been layin' on that old bed when I's out with Dad supervisin' his garage tinkerin'. So once that old bed gets washed it's gonna stay out in the garage as my outside bed.

The new bed is in the house in my 'lookin' out the window' spot! It smells good although humans' opinion of good not doggies'. It has a smoother texture, too, so think not as much stuff is gonna get stuck in it like to old one. I like it!