Long Lonely Day

That vacation thing was great, I got into a nice routine. I would get let out of my sleeping house by Daddy, get breakfast, go outside, and then go back to sleep with Mommy for a few more hours. Then when Mommy got up I would get up with her and follow her all around the house. Don't get me wrong, I love Daddy, he's my Alpha in the house. But let's face it, I am more likely to get treats and other good stuff from Mommy, she is much more into the sharing thing than Daddy is, I think it is the kindergarten teacher in her.

Then today it all changed. Mommy let me out of my sleeping house, fed me breakfast, and let me outside before she went and got into the shower. No sleeping in! That should have been my first warning sign. After the shower Mommy was putting clothes on, drying her hair, and doing her other morning things. She didn't go out and have breakfast, play on the computer, or sit down in front of the TV. Then she gave me loves and said goodbye! She was gone all day! That's when it hit me that her vacation must be over. I moped, that's what Daddy calls it, around the house for most of the day, laying in front of the door so that I would be able to hear her when she came in. When I finally gave up and was in the office with Daddy for a while I heard her come home! I was so excited.

On to a few other things. I had been waiting for Mommy to download the camera to post some pictures, and she finally got around to it. I've been wanting to post some pictures, because someone once said that it makes the blog more interesting and makes people want to read it.

This first picture is of my playing with my green golf ball. I love this ball! As I chase it around it drops pieces of food out of it. How much better than that can you get. It's a great distraction for me when Mommy and Daddy have to leave.

My next pictures are of me at the last Beagle Meet up that we went to. The first picture shows what I love to do at the dog park, SMELL THINGS! Were you expecting something different? I know that some dogs go there to play, and I have on rare occasion been known to do a little bit of that, but I would just rather walk around and just follow my nose. The second picture here is of me telling Mommy and Daddy that I am ready to go.

Oh, Mommy and I are all caught up on our guilty pleasure of reading Fred and Hank Mark America (I have a link to it on the side here). Daddy just shakes his head when he sees it on the screen. Mommy has read him parts of it and he either has a good laugh, or just shakes his head and says "That's bad, that is just bad." I LOVE all of the pictures of Fred and Hank that the people put on the blog.

Well it is almost time for bed. I better sign off so that I can go and check the kitchen for crumbs.

Loving Fred and Hank

I took a few days off, Mommy and I were catching up on Fred & Hank Mark America. We are finally up to date on that GREAT blog. There are some fantastic pictures of some really cute Beagles as well. Mommy commented to Daddy that maybe we should take a long driving trip and he gave her a funny look and said, "Are you crazy?" Does that mean that we are not going?

I'm really loving having Mommy home. Today my cousin came over and visited. She loves how soft my ears are! I got to go for a ride in the truck when we took her home. That meant an extra treat! I always get a treat when I get home from a ride.

Shopping Trip

So I've figured out that it is not a holiday and that Mommy is on vacation! I get her home and all to myslef for three whole weeks! Okay, I guess I should say that I don't get her to myself, because I do have to share her with Daddy and the guinea pigs. But, it is great to have her home. I keep following her from room to room and give her grief if she leaves without me. She was singing something to me this morning, "Me, and my shadow; strolling down the avenue; me, and my shadow." What do you think she means by this?

Today Mommy and I went shopping. The first two stops were boring, I had to stay in the car, and Mommy didn't have any treats to give me. Our last stop was my FAVORITE stop! We went to PetSmart. I love that store. I like it because I get to go in and smell things, and try to get food from under the shelves. In my opinion the PetSmart we went to today was to clean, there was hardly anything on the floor for me to snack on. But as far as PetSmart experiences go, today was pretty far down on the list. When we went to check out the guy didn't even acknowledge me! Hello? I was sitting/standing there all cute and everything. He did not give me my well deserved treat, and I know that he had them there at the register, I could smell them. Luckily Mommy sensed my distress and when we got outside to the car she opened my new bag of treats and gave me one, well two actually, I was distressed after all.

Well I'm going to go for now, I just heard Daddy in the kitchen starting to make lunch, maybe I'll get lucky and he will drop something!

Beagles on the web!

So Mommy was looking at things on the internet, as she often does, when she found this great travelblog. It is about two Beagles who are traveling across the country on vacation with their owners. Since it was about Beagles it caught my interest, and we started reading it. Mommy and I are kind of dorky in the fact that we have to start something from the beginning, so we have only read through day four (or was it five) of their journey, but I think that we will be caught up in a day or so. Let me just say that this is pretty funny, although I think there needs to be a bit more about what Fred and Hank are doing and less about what the humans are doing. I do have to say that the pictures are pretty good, especially of Fred and Hank. So here is the link for you to check it out:

http://fredandhank.typepad.com/fhma/

Maybe some day Mommy, Daddy and I will take a trip like Fred, Hank, and their parents.

Is It a Holiday?

So, I'm a little confused here. I am not sure if it is a holiday or what. From my calculations there were two weekend days, and today should be a work day. How do I know this you ask? Because on weekends Daddy opens my sleeping house, feeds me breakfast, and lets me outside to do my personal stuff. After I come back inside I usually get back in bed with Mommy and go back to sleep for a little while, she is not as early of a riser as Daddy is. On work days Mommy lets me out of my sleeping house, feeds me breakfast, lets me outside to do my personal stuff, and then goes and gets into the shower (which I cannot understand why she WILLINGLY does that). But today, Daddy let me out of my sleeping house and we followed our weekend routine.

I'm not complaining or anything. I love having Mommy home, I'm just wondering if there is a holiday out there that I should be observing or more importantly, getting something for. MAYBE it is International Maggy Day! Nah, that was on March 11th, which is my birthday. When I find out I will be sure to let you know.

Terrible Weekend

It has taken me a week to recover, but last weekend Mommy and I didn't have a good weekend. Our reasons for having bad weekends were entirely separate, but to put it plainly the weekend sucked for both of us.


I will tell you about my bad weekend first, since it is MY blog. I was coping with being home alone because both Mommy and Daddy left on Saturday Morning. I was minding my own business when Daddy came home. Of course, I was happy to see Daddy and even did an appropriate amount of wiggling when he told me that we were going for a ride. I like going for rides with Daddy and sometimes the places he goes to gives me treats. We were in Mommy's car and he turned on the seat for me (read previous post on my opinion of heated seats) and things were going well. We pulled up at Petsmart, I like this place; I think that I should be able to go into a lot of places like I do here. Daddy and I walk in the door, and instead of turning left to get dog food or treats, or turning right to get stuff for the guinea pigs we go straight to the back of the store. That can only mean one thing; BATH! I start putting on the breaks but Daddy drags me along and leaves me with those strange people who do terrible things to me. They gave me a bath, put me in the drying thing that I don't like, and worse of all cut my nails. It took Mommy and Daddy a long time to come and get me too!

Now about Mommy's bad weekend. She went and met Aunt Laurie to go blab, blab, blab. I don't know how they can talk for so long. She left there and went and met Daddy for lunch, this was before he came and got me. She took some of those plastic things out of her wallet (Daddy said it was something called her license and ATM card) to go and pay for her lunch because Daddy had eaten without her. I guess somehow she left those plastic things on the tray and when she got up to go potty one of the workers came and took the tray to throw the stuff away. Mommy was pretty panicked. Daddy was pretty mad and told her that she needs to keep those things in her wallet. So Daddy had to drive her around until she could go to a place called DMV where Daddy and I dropped her off at. She was there for a very long time. The good part of the mess was that she stayed home on Monday so that she could go to that DMV place and we got to sleep in and she was home with me.

Other than that things went back to normal. Mommy is something that Daddy calls stressed. She has been needing extra love from me, but I don't mind.

Okay, enough for now. Sorry I don't have a picture this time, I haven't been in the mood to smile for the camera.

A Quiet Week

The week sure went fast. Both Mommy and Daddy were off of work and being very lazy. The three of us spent a lot of time together on the couch. They were watching TV and Mommy was knitting or cutting stuff apart for her classroom. I slept through most of it. We took walks, I got treats, we went places in the car and truck. *sigh*

Saturday we went to Beagle Meet-up again. My friends Bandit and Kirby were not there, but there were other dogs there that I hadn't met before. Mommy said that it's always good to meet new friends. However, I'm not sure if I would classify one of the dogs as my friend, since he was trying to get very personal with me. He kept trying to kiss me (he was licking the side of my mouth), was following me around, and by the time he left both of the backs of my ears were wet. I did enjoy seeing other Beagles and getting to sniff around the dog park at my own pace instead of Daddy telling me to come along that we are out for a walk and not a sniff.

Mommy and Daddy said that it is one of their New Years Resolutions, whatever those are, to try and take me to more Beagle Meet-ups. That makes me happy!

Well I'm being lured outside with a walk, so I will close for now.