A lonely blue dog disk, all by itself.
Sofie: “Hey guys, do you see that blue thing over there?”
Louise: “Mojo, lets play keep away from Sofie!”
Louise: “Free-for-all!!! Sofie now’s your chance to pounce!”
Mojo: “Sofie, get off me you little pest!”
Sofie: “I’ve had it with your Labs, I’m taking a nap!”
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤ 
What an incredible week to receive multiple awards! We received this really HOT award called the “Blog on Fire” Award for our sweet friend Taylor and her Mom, Jessica, at “I Adopted A Dog – Now What?”
Taylor is just the cutest 1 year-old Scottish terrier/dachshund mix with a personality all her own. She was adopted at a Bay Area shelter this past June by her Mommy and Daddy. We enjoy following their antics and seeing what wonderful adventures they have.
I really appreciate that other bloggers find DogDaz enjoyable, and think it is so exciting when someone says we are HOT, especially on FIRE. We like that a lot! Thank you sooooo much for thinking of us.
This award requires me to share 8 unusual tidbits about either myself or my pet. So, here I go:
1. Louise and I seem to bonk heads a lot. She will be jumping up while I am leaning down. We both look at each other and go ‘Not Again?’
2. Sofie whimpers in her sleep. It is so sad, but she is still sleeping.
3. Both dogs snore and sometimes it can get very noisy.
4. I feel kind of lost if I am home and the dogs are not with me.
5. For years Louise did not know that I did not lock her kennel door at night. But one night she figured it out and about 4 AM she started poking me to wake up and play. Now whenever I forget to lock it at night, she will sneak out and poke me.
6. Sofie will do any silly antics she can to not go to bed, even though she is really tired. She lies down right in front of her kennel and rolls on her back and says ‘I’m so cute! Do I really have to go to bed?’ This is an every night thing. She cracks me up!
7. Noel, the Christmas cat, hates to be picked up. I force her to submit to the pick up and she cries until I turn her over and hold her like a baby, and then she falls asleep in my arms. Anyone else who tries this will loss an arm (just warning you) but it ‘our’ thing.
8. I would much rather blog and play with the dogs all day than work – I guess I know what I will do when I retire (if ever that happens).
The next thing is to pass this award to 8 blogs (in no particular order), who each display humor, class, and positivity with every post:
2. Rumpydog
8. Something Wagging This Way Comes
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Cool beans! The Guinea Piggies at Hutch A Good Life gave us a “Wonderful Team Member Readership” Award. That is so special. And silly me, I would have missed it because I never realized that I was not seeing all my notifications that people left on the blog until today. I have a year of comments that I never addressed (oh my!). Sorry about that folks, I will try to be a more wonderful team member. I love all you bloggy friends and I do feel like a member of a team. Thank you so much to my sweet piggy friends, Nibbles, Nutty, Buddy & Basil – you pigs are the best!
1. The Nominee of the Wonderful Team member Readership Award shall display the logo on his/her post/page and/or sidebar. Done below
2. The Nominee shall nominate 14 readers they appreciate over a period of 7 days (1 week) – this can be done at any rate during the week. It can be ALL on one day or a few on one day and a few on another day, etc. Oh Wow! Here we go! I hope you do not think this is a cop-out but since we are a virtual team of bloggers, if you are reading this and you blog, consider yourself nominated. You know in your heart if you are a team player and you are welcome to stake claim to the award. All I ask is that you let me know in a comment back to this post so that I can read your blog if I don’t already. 
3. The Nominee shall name his or her Wonderful Team Member Readership Award nominees on a post or on posts during the 7 day (1 week) period. Done
4. The Nominee shall make these rules, or amended rules keeping to the spirit of the Wonderful Team Member Readership Award, known to each reader s/he nominates. Done
5. The Nominee must finish this sentence and post: ”A Great reader is…” …someone who comes back time and time again, through good posts and bad, and shares their life experience with us, opening up new worlds every day and sharing life’s daily adventures in living. We really are a virtual team of blog friends.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
“If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy, and if it were merely challenging that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” – E.B. White
I know exactly what White meant when he said this. In the beauty of the autumn days it is almost impossible to concentrate on the tasks at hand and not just want to grab a leash, some water, and a day pack and head out into the woods or along the river. It is on days like this, when the air is crisp and cool but not yet cold, when the sky is bluer than blue and the clouds hang in the distance like fluffs of cotton that were placed there just for my observation, that I am forced, by my thirst for connection to mother earth and all her creations, that I stop saving the world and just bask in the gift of the day.
Anticipation of the colors that will come in the next few weeks from the changing season brings me great happiness. The reds, yellows, and oranges of the changing Maples, Oaks, Elms, and SweetGum. On our walks the acorns and large nuts are falling in large numbers on our heads. I kept thinking that the Squirrels were aiming for us, but I realized it was just… fall. Are you familiar with the ‘GumBalls’ that drop from the SweetGum? They are prickly and roll under foot. On many a walk, because I tend to be looking everywhere else but down at my feet, I have ended up flat on the ground after stepping on one of those silly balls. I always laugh when that happens, because the dogs come to me as to say, “Mom, Mom, are you Ok? What are you doing down here?”
What an incredible opportunity the change of the seasons provides us in understanding the cycle of life and the importance of change. The having to say goodbye to things, like butterflies and hummingbirds, that will make their way to Mexico or Panama, or some other nice warm southern spot to winter and reproduce, and say hello to the wild swans and the geese, coming down from the Yukon or somewhere in Canada to winter on my Chesapeake Bay.
Fall for me is the time to take stock of myself, my world, and my place in it. It is a time to regroup and prepare for the ‘going in’ of winter. To clear my slate, with humans and with nature, for any wrongs I have transgressed in the previous months, and to start fresh for a whole new year. Today I will enjoy the world, tomorrow I will get back to saving it.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Breezy Point was a little breezy today. Did I explain that it is called that because it is the point where the Magothy River (which is our tributary to the Chesapeake Bay) splits into 2 creeks, Divining Creek and Mill Creek. I live in the middle of the 2 creeks and the peninsula point tends to always be breezy. This is one of my favorite spots and I think it is for the dogs too. The dogs and I love to go down to the very tip of the point and watch the boats out on the river and the seabirds doing their seabird things. Lulu likes to run in the stand of bamboo which is always getting overgrown and Sofie likes to venture out on the pier and sniff for new smells (she would like to dig in the sandbox, but I do not let her).
There 
are days that I could just loose track of time watching the clouds go by but the dogs seem to have a different agenda. They need to always be moving. They want to run and find something new and exciting to do. They need to chase a squirrel or a stick or each other; not content to while away the afternoon with me just reading a book on a bench. So off we go on another adventure, somewhere, over a hill or visiting a dog friend. I guess there will be time enough, when they are older to sit and just enjoy the view (maybe), for now, we press on and go explore some other beautiful vista.
Do you have a favorite spot with your dog?
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
