Goodbyes are sad

Yes, they are...

My dear friend Heidi left a few days ago.  She is sad that she left because she liked sticking her head in gopher holes.

My human friends left too.  They are very dear to me because they feed me.

This is a picture of my human friends.

For some reason they posed by this big bird....

I like the close up picture better because you can see my mom and day better.

How I fool my parents!

You all know that I am an unusually clever canine.  I will now tell you how I fool my parents into thinking that I sleep with them all night!

My parents want me to sleep with them in their bedroom in my Airstream.  They appear to rest more comfortably when they can hear my gentle, melodious breathing.

I am happy to accommodate my parents.  However, I often prefer to sleep in my house in the living portion of my Airstream.

This is what I do! 

Every night I go into the bedroom and curl up at the foot of the bed.  I breath.  They get tired.  As soon as the last one turns off the light I wait a few minutes and then I get up and go to my house to sleep.  Then, as the sun comes up, I leave my house and return to the foot of the bed.  How clever of me!

I'm sure that even though my parents both get up in the middle of the night to wee-wee they never notice that I am gone!

Cleaning up

Since I am known as an extremely trustworthy and hard working canine I am often asked to clean up dropped food after various events.

Today was no exception and I was asked to do the cleanup after the Airstreamer's BBQ.  They had a lovely selection of BBQ'd beef, frankfurters, potato salad, cole slaw, baked beans, creamed corn, jalapeno poppers, pecan and key lime pies, fruit and cookies.

This is a picture of me cleaning up...

Please notice the intense, hardworking look on my face as I go about my duties...

Retiring from the circuit....

I believe the time has come for me to retire from the canine show circuit.

I have won my share of ribbons and believe it is time to let some other canines win theirs.

Here are some pictures taken at my final show at the Airstream rally in Huron, SD:

This is me waiting to "go on..."

Here I am greeting the judges...

This is my friend Heidi and her Dad.  She also participated in the show.

The fact that I didn't win anything has NOTHING to do with the fact that I am retiring!  See the reasons given above...

Heidi

I have made a new friend - a fine canine named Heidi.

She is very large and likes to fun a lot.

This is me and Heidi sharing some quality time together.

My Dad is famous!

My good friend Josh saw the video that was made of the interview with my Dad and sent us the link.

This is the link: http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23116820

Take a look at the video.

Now my Dad is famous!

I am famous!

It's so hard to catch up!

My parents' wi-fi card didn't work so of course I could not blog...

And so much has happened!

We're at a big Airstream rally with lots of my Airstream friends both human and canine.

We barely got settled before this lovely woman Ann - from France - another country - came to interview my Dad.

Of course she got to meet me too and was excited to hear about my blog.

This is me and Ann...