Awesome Day!

Today I got to go to school with Allana. It was great. I wore my little name badge and went to the Early Childhood Building and got to read with a dozen little first grade students. We read a book about filling a bucket and how you can fill somebody's bucket with love and happiness with just a smile or a kind gesture. I think the kids really enjoyed it and they filled my bucket because I got to visit with them and I know I filled their bucket too as they got to read with me. It was a win win day! But I have to admit, I think the best part of the day was that the show off blue dog, Taio, stayed at home and I got all the attention!

Grandma is here!

I'm so happy that Grandma is finally here! She seems a little under the weather though. She is walking around with a walker and seems rather pale and not very chipper. She's not feeding me my usual amount of extra treats too. She usually notices me when I beg, look cute, put my cute little paws on her or even just stand around and look like I'm starving. This concerns me. I'm going to work really hard on trying to cheer her up. Of course she did notice the ribbons Taio brought home on the weekend as they were clustered with the previous weekend's ribbons and went on and on about "how proud she is of him" and "how beautiful and grown up he is looking". This is really getting annoying. I think I need to come up with a plan to outshine Taio. I can't have him getting too much more attention around here.

A Busy Friday Night

There is so much going on here and I don't quite understand it. Grandma is in town but not staying at the house, so I'm not getting the extra treats I need. Uncle Guy and Auntie Thelma have arrived and brought Roddy with them. Chris and Katy came too. There are so many shelties here it must be a dog show weekend. Of course it is raining, so everyone is all concerned about the show dogs getting messy feet. I figure it will all brush out so I think the other dogs could just be ignored and it should be all about me. The good thing is that I'm in the house and the others are out in the kennel. Well, the puppies are here, but everyone is too busy watching a movie to notice them. That is pretty amazing. Usually the puppies can trump anything.

What happened to routine?

O.K., this is how things usually are on a Thursday night at the Hemenway home. Allana comes home around 7:00 p.m. from work and she usually brings pizza to feed Dan and me. Then she is usually way too tired to do anything so she will take it easy and just play with me and the other dogs or relax and catch up on all the shows she has recorded through the week.

Tonight she came home with pizza but after she ate and did not share, she invited me outside and then it happened...I knew it was a trick. I was snatched up and carried off to the kennel for a bath! I'm not going to the show this weekend so why do I need a bath already. I'm not the one running through the puddles and getting all messy! This is so not fair!

Allana said that Grandma was coming tomorrow. I hope that is why I had to have a bath. At least Grandma fusses over me and feeds me snacks all day. I really want the regular routine to return around here.

A Purple Ribbon followed him home

It's killing me! Can't you tell? Taio gets to go with Allana to the show on the weekend and I'm stuck at home with the puppies and the babysitter and then when they return Allana has to tell me how wonderful "Taio" is and how well behaved he was and blah, blah, blah, blah. I can't take it! I may be retired from shows, but that doesn't mean I don't need to be reminded on what I'm missing out on. So what if he got his second major and took a big 5 point win this weekend. I already have all my points and I don't see any other titles after his name. I have way more hair, know way more tricks and am truly a crowd favorite. I think I should enter myself in a show on line. Let me figure out a way to do that.

Quiet Weekend

Dan took Sita and Taio to Houston for the weekend, so I have Allana all to myself without that young blue attention seeking Taio around. We've had a nice weekend. The puppies are becoming a little more demanding as they are getting into that stage that Allana refers to as "super cute and need to play with them all the time" stage. I really don't like this stage as they tend to get access to the family room area and they like to grab my fur when I walk by. Allana is spending a lot of time laying on the floor playing with them. I prefer the view from the chair.

The Circus is Here

Allana has really lost her mind now. It is specialty show season and instead of fluffing and brushing and bathing and show training, she is teaching all of to jump through a hoop. Now, I'm not saying that we don't mind all the treats that come with the training, but we are not running away to a circus anytime soon and I don't recall a class at any show called "jumping through a hula-hoop". Will someone please tell Allana to just brush us and give us treats for being pampered?