Louise is not allowed on the living room couch, but she is tall enough, when she cheats and stands on it with only her front paws, to look out the big picture window down into the back yard (which is one story below since this is the second floor). We live on the high point of a court and are less than 1000 feet from the river (which we can see in the winter when the trees are bare), so we have a great view from our picture window. I assume she is either looking down the block at human or dog activity, or spying birds or squirrels that are right up at her level high in the maple tree. She is wearing her summer ribbon collar (which I found at a craft show one winter) made out of a neat palm-tree piece of ribbon. Louise loves summer and I like to think, since yesterday was summer solstice, that she was watching astronomical summer arrive. Gosh, I love that dog!
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Cuddles 2007
She was anything but cuddly. A seriously grouchy girl but she loved french fries. Meow Out Loud!
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This is Noel and Miss Constance Kitty (Connie) when they were kittens in 2008. Connie is gone for several years, but Noel is Queen of the Zoo. We have shared our lives with so many animals over the years. Connie had a good sense of humor for a cat. I don’t think Noel finds much funny, she is a very serious sort. I miss all my animals at different times for different reasons. They all are pieces of my heart. I am so lucky to be able to share my world with them.
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Louise is a wonderful gardener if you give her a nice spot to dig in. BOL!
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I’ve been noticing that Sofie is always sideways or upside down. Is that a submissive thing or is she just being silly? Louise, on the other hand, tends to have this look in most of the pictures like I have really ticked her off: “Oh, Mom, will you stop with all these pictures already!” Capturing the blond and black in a way that works in pictures has it’s challenges. Half the time if I have Sofie’s coloring right, Louise’s eyes disappear in her beautiful darkness. When I get Lulu right, Sofie seems over exposed.
They are a lesson in contrast, not only in fur color but in personalities. Sofie walks off lead and stays close, Lulu is on a harness with a heavy leash (she is unpredictable and easily distracted). Sofie barks at everything and whines and whines and whines, Louise only barks when she has something important to say. Thunder unnerves Sofie, but not Louise. Louise loves her kennel and at bedtime she opens her kennel door, goes in by herself (I think she would close it on her own too if I taught her how), eats her cookie, and goes right to sleep. Sofie has to be bribed to go in her kennel anytime and puts up a big fuss at bedtime (“No! I am not eating my bedtime cookie because I do not want to go to sleep. I am on strike! Blah, blah, blah, whine, whine, whine). I love my studies in contrasts.
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Happy Sunday!
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Relaxing on the deck on a nice spring day. Caught a shot of Sofie day dreaming.
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Every animals deserves a family. I am blessed as the human Mom of 5.
Have a great black and white Sunday.
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Louise: “Mom, could you please tell her not to touch me!”
Sofie: “Ah, Gee Louise, I just like to tick you off”
Louise: “Mom! Mom! Make her stop!”
So much for a peaceful Sunday morning watching TV.
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Stella and Nine have found the first open window of spring.
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Sofie says: “There is nothing as fun as a nice roll in the grass on a Sunday morning.”
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