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8.28.12 Signs Of Fall
This week has been wonderful for butterflies in the garden. I capture this shot of an Eastern Black Swallowtail on the grape right before Louise tried to eat it. A Yellow Swallowtail actually landed on her and freaked her out a bit (it was cute but I could not get the camera out fast enough).
Butterfly on the Grape
August 2012
Sofie Chasing Butterlies
Both dogs don’t really understand flying insects very well. I see them constantly trying to eat bees and jump after butterflies. We also have these very large furry spiders that kind of encase the house in webs this time of year. I was bringing in groceries the other evening and one swung down over the front door and caused me to drop the case of water that I was carrying and run. I worry that one of the dogs will try to eat one of the spiders and die: they are really scary looking.
V found a whole family of new born mice inside the extra vacuum we store in the garage the other day. This is a sure sign of fall coming our way. Mother Mouse must have come through the bottom bar and up the hose and had her babies in the inside bag (how smart is that?). While V was working in the garage there was this nibble nibble scratch scratch noise and upon closer inspection, unzipped the bag part of the vacuum, and all these little pink babies fell out. They were quickly scooped up and placed back in the bag and brought outside, with the hope that Mother Mouse will move them somewhere else (outside please!). I guess the Black Snake, who always leaves his skin on the garage shelves for us, will tell us where the mice are… because that is life in our garage in the late summer.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤ 
Monday’s Baltimore Oriole
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Maryland’s State bird and isn’t he a beauty!
8.27.12 Lulu’s Lament
Here we are waiting for Mommy to get home from taking Peanut to college many hours away.
We are tired of waiting and she always seems to leave us behind. Someday we want to go with her. We promise that we will be good, We won’t throw up in the car, or bark at every thing that passes, or try to get in the front seat, or any of that. Well, I can’t speak for Sofie. She doesn’t do well riding in the car. Sofie turns kind of green if she can’t see out the front window all the time. Mommy tries to make her lie down but she doesn’t like to listen. Sofie tries stepping in between the front seats, which is a big ‘No – No!’ I don’t know how to tell her if she just laid down and closed her eyes she would be ok. I don’t like the car very much either, except I get to be close to Mommy and that I like. And if I stay behind the front seat, I get cookies! I love cookies. Maybe that is Sofie’s problem, because she does not like cookies very much. She spits most of them out and gives them to me. The only cookies she seems to like are the little one’s with molasses in them or the real chicken pieces that Mommy makes. It is not natural, a dog that doesn’t like cookies. Maybe Sofie is really a fox or something. She does smell funny at times. I do hope that Mommy comes back tomorrow like she said she would. V is going to leave us at the Dogcare place overnight tonight because K8 has to go back to college too, and we have never ever ever slept at a kennel before. I hope that they keep Sofie with me, ’cause she gets scared and needs me to protect her. When Mommy gets home this time I am going to make sure she never goes away again… (I have a plan for Sofie and Nine to eat a hole in her suitcase (don’t tell her please.)) – Lulu Belle
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
8.26.12 Silly Cat Places
Noel 2012
Kitchen Sink
Nine: Making the bed
Not sure why Noel decided to sit in the kitchen sink but I was lucky enough to catch a picture of her. Animals do the silliest things. Noel is an especially funny cat. You will find her in some really weird places. Now, Nine, he likes to make the bed, which is a very cat thing to do.
Where are some of the silly places your animals like to be?
The Muffin Man
In my pocketbook
Miss Kitty
Watching TV
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
8.25.12 Where’d They Go?
Lulu Dreaming
on Peanut’s Bed
Mommy has taken the younger human, Peanut, somewhere. We do not know where but we know that there were lots and lots of suitcases and bags and stuff that left the house and went into 2 of the big moving things with wheels that we ride in to go places. This seemed different than other times because almost all of Peanut’s stuff went with them. Will Mommy be back? Will we ever see Peanut again? Her room seems different. It is clean: there are no clothes or hair-things or shoes to chew on. I like Peanut’s bed and that is still there (thank goodness). She lets us on her bed (well me actually, Sofie does not really like to jump up so high). I like being on her bed (and so does Muffin and Nine). Mommy does not let us on her bed (but I know that Sofie sleeps there when no one is looking – she jumps on the stool at the end of the bed and uses it as a step). I do hope Mommy comes home soon because I always miss her when she is gone. Can I have Peanut’s room if she doesn’t come back soon?
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
8.24.12 Leaving Day
Aunt Judi’s service dog, Socki
2005
Horse Camp
2006
Summer
2005
Squash Hug 2007
First Day of School
Leaving day is finally upon us.
I enter this day knowing that I did everything I could to love, teach and mentor a worldly aware citizen of the universe. Now it is up to her and to the ‘Great Powers’ to protect her and guide her on the next part of the journey. She told me I am not allowed to cry. I am not sure I can do that.
Louise Hug 2011
Nine Snuggle
2012
NOT Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
