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Monthly Archives: July 2012
7.21.12 Walking On The Ceiling
“Since Mommy is on the other side of the globe, in Australia this week, I thought I would see how I look to her from there.”
“Spiders walk on the ceiling, so it can’t be to hard.”
“I am getting a little light headed though.”
“Mommy – please come home so that our world goes right side up again!” – Lulu Belle
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤ 
7.20.12 She’s Gone Again
Mommy left us again on another business trip and this time she said she is going to the land of the Kangas and the Roos (wherever that may be). She told us that though it is summer here and very very hot, it will be winter there. How is that possible? Worse of all. she has left Noel, the Christmas Cat, in charge of the zoo. But why Mommy? Why? Noel is not the oldest, The Muffin Man is; she is not the meanest, Miss Constance Kitty is; she is not a dog, so why should she be in charge? We are confused. Mommy did tell Sofie and I to keep the blog going the best we can while she is 25 hours away (she got there with the help of a big silver bird). She also said that when it is today here, it is tomorrow there. Wow, we are really confused. So Blog friends, we hope that we can keep you amused until Mommy returns; we may need to bring back some of our favorite already blogged blogs. I am sure you won’t mind. Keep and eye out for Mommies physical return in a few weeks, when she will be able to once again blog without our assistance. (We hate when she goes away!!!!!) – Lulu Belle
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
7.19.12 The Art of Napping
The dogs love when we come back from a walk and they can stretch out on the office floor and on their dog bed and take a nap. It is funny because I will turn around and Louise will be fast asleep on the dog bed. Then I turn around again and Sofie has taken over the bed. I didn’t really think about it until this picture but maybe they are to big for the dog bed. Come to think of it they are usually half on the floor. Lil’ Sofie does look half off the mat here, doesn’t she?. Their bed is a mess because shortly before they fell asleep they had some bone tucked underneath one of the sheets and were pulling the bed apart to free the bone. (Silly dogs – I have been trying to teach them how to do ‘hospital corners,’ but they keep reminding me that they do not have thumbs to fold sheets properly.) Sofie actually moves around a lot in her nap cycle. She will start to sleep on the dog bed, then get up and lie right under my chair (so that I can not roll), then over by the door, then right outside the office door…. Louise pretty much stays put on the bed or floor, but occasionally she will lie under my desk with her head on the rollers of my chair. There have been a few times, when I just can’t keep my eyes open during the day, I have lied on the dog bed with them and caught a nap myself for a few minutes. Napping is an art that I just don’t have. Another lesson that I really need to learn from the dogs.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Thursday’s Unidentified Species
ev0lutionary: An unidentified species of Pipefish, off the coast of New Caledonia.
(photo by Autopsea)
7.18.12 A Glorious Afternoon
To sit with a dog on a hillside,
on a glorious afternoon,
is to be back in Eden,
where doing nothing was not boring-
it was peace.
– Milan Kundera.
Peanut made me this little picture and quote 3 summers ago, when Squash was in his last summer and Louise in her first. Squashy was totally blind by then and sat wherever I placed him (hence why he is backwards). He had his summer scissor cut. This is such a true statement. There seems to be no greater peace sometimes but to be out in nature, quiet, and serene.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Tuesday’s Manta
A Manta Ray, Manta birostris, opens its mouth wide to engulf zooplankton and other tidbits in the water. The dark marks visible inside the mouth are its gill slits. Manta rays, which are filter feeders and have vestigial teeth, often appear to be curious about human divers. WHOI biologist Simon Thorrold photographed the ray while studying fish on and around coral reefs in the Red Sea in May, 2010, as part of WHOI’s research collaboration with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
(via: NSF Science 360)
(photo: Simon Thorrold, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
7.17.12 Nikki and Peanut
This was Nikki; my absolutely gorgeous buff Cocker Spaniel, after my daughter, who was about 7 years old at the time, did her hair. That dog would allow Peanut to do anything to her. Nikki (D&L’s Nikkolette) was actually my first child. She was the first dog that I raised from an 8 week old puppy to the good age of 18 years. In her puppy days I lived in an apartment and had to carry the little thing down 2 flights of stairs several times a night. I was younger then. Her crate was at the foot of my bed and the little thing would cry and wake me up, and half asleep, I would stumble down the stairs so that she could relieve herself. I worked really hard training Nikki. She and I went to many training classes and even had a private trainer. I did not have much understanding of what I was doing, or suppose to be doing, with a dog in those days, and she was so easy. Then, when she was about 3, I gave birth to Peanut. Nikki loved the baby so much. I remember introducing the animals (in those days it was Nikki dog and the cats, Alice and Gertrude) to the bassinet, even before I went to the hospital, and letting them sniff new smells before the baby came home. I love to watch the interaction between children and animals. Children and animals, for me, they are just perfect together.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
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