Left At Home

The rain came back during the night time.  This morning it was raining a bit too.  But today is Monday so our pawrents go for their long run, even if there are rain clouds!

This is mom at about Mile 3 - still a long way to go!

The clouds covered the mountain top.

Dad got thirsty and had to refill his water bottle.  They call this a "pit stop".

When they finished 13 (mom)/15 (dad) miles later, there were pockets of blue sky.

Stanley really wanted to go with our pawrents but they said it was too far for us.  So he was bored.

Actually I was bored too.  If they weren't such good pawrents I don't think we could put up with them running without us.  I guess mom is probably right, that is a long way for little ol' me to run.

Murphy

B&W Sunday

Nothing like a Sunday afternoon nap.

Little Walkie

Today it rained like crazy.  It never rains like crazy here!  Finally the rain clouds went away.

Blue sky coming our way!

So we decided to take a little walkie around our neighborhood.  Not too far since we ran 6 miles yesterday.

Our neighborhood (arrow pointing to our house)

"Hey Dad, what is that?"

"I see it too Murphy!"

Do you see it, standing on the rock?

 At first we thought it was a squirrel but then dad said it was a prairie dog. What do you think?

Murphy


Status of Painting:  There is only 1 more room to go.  It is the office but mom said it might take a week or two before she starts it.  She called it an electronic nightmare.  Then she needs to do some closets but she said that it may be a long time before she starts them.

Stopping For A Sip On Our Run

 Since it's Friday that means we get to go for a run with our pawrents!

It was MUCH cooler today, and overcast.  Pawfect for running but I still got thirsty.  Mom taught me how to drink out of water fountains. 

Stanley said he wasn't thirsty, he just wanted to rinse off his paws.

Then he changed his mind and decided he better take a sip.

Then we were off again!

We're getting really good at our 6 milers!

I know the route so well now I can even do it with my eyes closed!

OK, I was just teasing.  If I really ran with my eyes closed I'd run into a tree or something BOL!

Have a fun weekend ever'body!

Murphy

Treasure Hunt

The last few days me and Murphy have been isolated from our pawrents while Mom painted.  Today we were isolated outside and Murphy decided to dig in the hill to see what he could find.

I kept a look out in case he found something valuable.  Dad is always talking about how Indian spirits are attacking our electrical things.  I thought maybe there might something valuable that Murphy would dig up.

I thought he had found something.

 After all of Murphy's hard digging all we had was an empty hole.

Stanley

Watch Out For The Goat!

As promised, I have to tell you all about yesterday.  It started off with lots of fun.  We went to the park to watch JC play soccer and then had a little picnic for his mom (her birthday) and for my mom (Mother's Day).

It was lots of fun.  There were so many interesting things with all those kids and our own grandpeeps giving us lots of attention.  After that we went home for awhile and then we went to dinner at a friend's house.

This is Emma, it was her mom that invited us over with our pawrents.  Emma is beautiful and has a wonderful smile!

This is Scruffy.  He is staying with Emma for awhile until his new house is ready to move into.  It was his 12th birfday!  He is kind of sick so if you cross your paws for him that would be nice.

The thing about Emma's house is that there were lots of new experiences and smells that we NEVER knew before!  First of all we met her cat.  She was a very nice cat and we got along perfectly.  There was another cat but she didn't like me.  I tried to chase her down and tell her I was a fun guy but she kept running . . . so I kept following her . . .

Jayden, a very nice cat.  We are friends.  I hope Jayden tells the other cat I am a nice Doodle.

 So there was Emma, Scruffy, Stanley, and me.  Oh, and other humans that we didn't know before too.  Oh, also there were two other friends.

Jakota and Makana are now our new friends too.

So after we met all these new friends were were just hanging around the yard, minding our own business.  Just sniffing all the new smells.

"Hey Stanley, check out this smell . . . what do you think it is?"

"Not sure Murph, I never smelled it before.  Hey Emma, what is it?"

"Boys, look up and you will see."

"What is that??  Is that a goat?  No, it's two goats!"

"Whatcha think Jayden, should we go say hello to the goats?"

Emma said the goats' names were Tazer and Karbon so we thought we better say hello"

"Hello Karbon, my name is Stanley. Are you a goat? Can I sniff your butt?"

He didn't say anything, something about "Neaahhh" So We just left and went back to sniffing.

Then I heard a funny sound behind me so I turned around REALLY fast.  Have you ever seen a goat up close?  I mean REALLY close?

He had evil in his eyes - YIKES!

And then I heard mom screaming.  Yes, she was screaming, a blood curdling scream that could be heard for miles and miles (we were close to the mountains so it might have echoed).  "Murphy . . . Stanley . . . run for your lives!!!"

I ran like the wind!  If mom thought I was a fast runner before, that was nothing!  I had a goat hot on my tail!

And then he went after Stanley!

 So it turned out that we both got butted.  We didn't get too mad though, we just wondered what the heck they were doing that to us for?  I mean, how rude!  Anyway, after awhile we tried to talk some sense into them and guess what?  We got butted AGAIN!  Then one of them went over to Dad and said something to him.

"Those two Ding-Dongs are getting on my nerves!"

Dad must have said something to the goat cuz the goats said they were sorry.

"Sorry Doods"

After that we figured everything was fine so we went back to checking out all the smells in the yard.  And believe me there were lots of smells that were new to us!

"Watch this . . . gonna give 'em one for the road . . . Neaahhh"!

And he did . . .


Murphy

Buddies

Me and Stanley went running yesterday but we only ran 4 miles cuz we got hot.  Mom said our tongues were hanging so far out the side of our mouths that she thought we'd trip over them.  Our pawrents are careful to make sure we don't overheat and had planned to start earlier in the morning but got stuck on the telephone with Sprint. (Mom's note:  Actually we spent about 20 hours over the course of 2 days trying to resolve a problem.)

This evening me and Stanley are invited to go to dinner (with our pawrents) to a friend's house.  We have never met this friend but mom says we will be able to play with cats and some goats.  We're not sure what a goat is though.  When I asked mom she just laughed and said she was sure it would make for an interesting blog post.  We can't wait to play with a goat!

Murphy