Happy Birthday Petals!

Here's the birthday girl! She looks very fetching surrounded by "petals!" I hope I got her age right. Petals wants you to know she loves her bone, she misses you very much, and what are you bringing her from South Africa. Her beard is a sight! :(

The Joy of January

It's still snowing and windy here in Rhode Island. Though we're not getting huge amounts of snow, the wind is freezing. This makes it a lot of fun when I take Petals out at night to pee. Getting Petals down to the business of peeing can take some time. She runs around, then she stares at a neighbor's house, then she scratches the left side of her face, closely followed by scratching the right side of her face. She also has to smell every inch of the yard, as if a troup of dogs traveled through while she wasn't looking. By this time I say, " Hurry up! I can't feel my toes! " She finally pees, so we can go inside where I give her a cookie. I tell you, it it gets any windier, Petals will fly away like Krypto the Superdog!

I found the front door key. It was on the floor by the sofa. SOMEBODY must have been fooling around with it. I have no idea who that SOMEBODY could  have been!

This is what it feels like! :D  I'll take some more pictures soon of Petals if she'll hold still long enough.

Petals in the Snow

Hi Karen and Michael,

As you can see, it snowed again. Petals just loves the snow. After running around and around the yard, she spins in tight little circles around me.

The roads in Providence were VERY slippery yesterday. According to one radio station, there were 75 accidents in the city by midafternoon. It was blamed on Providence's failure to pretreat the roads properly. See what you're missing! Actually, we only got about two inches of the stuff.

I hope you had a fun New Years in South Africa. One of your neighbors must of gotten carried away, since the fire department showed up last night with flashing lights. They didn't stay very long. I'm glad they didn't knock on the front door, as I don't know were the key is. Though usually placed on the small table by the door, it's not there this time.

Petals is being an excellent girl. She's probably learning all kinds of bad habits though. By the time you get home, she'll be drinking beer, smoking cigars, and playing poker with the boys. Ha! Ha! Your new trainer will be cross.




 Here's the boys. Petals isn't there as she's gone out to get the beer.