Pupdate from the Crate: Frankenstein Oil and Alien Bambi-things

Hey friends!  I've been off having the BEST DAYS EVER but mom is super busy cause our house is for sale and she is always doing something with Oreck and Deana and that bald-puppy-baby Sawyer these days and sometimes she is too tired to let me on the computer.  This is what happens when get puppies get sent to old people-parents.  I guess they just lose their zoomies really fast.

So anyway, speaking of zoomies, I've been going nuts here, especially yesterday.  It wasn't my entire fault, but I just had to run and roll and fuss because mom put Frankenstein oil on my little belly boo boo and man, does that stuff S.T.I.N.K!  I could not get away from it!  Mom told some lady that the oil has really high vibrational energy and it is a healing oil and it has been used since before the Bible and it is used to bless stuff, heal skin, and raises your spirits.  Well, IT DID THAT!

After the Frankenstein oil, I went crazy!  I ran around the patio throwing all the cushions off the sofas and chairs -ALL of them.  Then I raced into the house and threw all the pillows off my people-sister's bed onto the floor and the best one ever, the round rolled one accidentally got shredded from it's beautiful beaded pillow cover cause I loved shaking it so hard that it just exploded.

Well, when things calmed down, mom went for a shower and I took a nap on her bed.  Uh....nope...I didn't.  Actually.....I, uh....decided to help mom put new sheets on her bed.  Yep!  First I took off ALL the sleeping pillows and the fancy pillows and just put them all over.  Then, I squiggled into the covers and got so tickly and goofy under there that I forgot all what I was supposed to be doing - taking a nap - that somehow ALL of the sheets and the cover and the fluffy feather thing were all off the bed onto the floor.  Nothing was left on.  Man!  Was mom surprised!  By the time she got out of the shower, I was exhausted and sleeping in the middle of the naked bed.  Funny, the shower must dull sound cause I was having a royal rumpus and she didn't hear a thing!

It was cause that oil made me extra vibrating and I could not sit still. I'm sure of it.

Now, to keep me all wired up, I have to be on the look out for these 3 little spotted alien things mom calls Bambies.  They are magical - I know they are- cause they appear out of nowhere and then they FLY on their stick legs and disappear right into the woods and you can NEVER see them until they sneak up on you again.  One second they are there - the next gone - and they are so quiet, even when you scare them they don't scream or anything!  They must be aliens.  

The Bambies run behind my dog yard and when I see them, I go BeZERK!  I yell and yell " GET AWAY!  THIS IS MY YARD!  I'M TELLING MOM!" and if they don't disappear, I get worried that they might pounce on me with their tiny hoofy feet and poke my eyes out, so that is when I go into my HulkArdie mode and grab the fence with my teeth and shake the daylights out of it to show them how strong and fierce I am and they better go back to outer space RIGHT NOW!

Sometimes the Bambies know I'm inside with mom and they come right out into our yard so bold and everyone can see them and I lose my mind!  Mom tells me it is ok, they are just visiting, but I don't trust them.  They are using their mind control on mom, making big eyes at her and twitching their fluffy tails but I can see right through them.  I can't let them into our yard - I must save my family no matter what it takes.

Man, if I have that Frankenstein oil on me when the Bambies come around. . . . well.....that would be all she wrote for those spotted-baby-disappearing-aliens.

So, now our house is SUPER clean, and I mean super clean and now we are doing what mom calls the "hardest part ever" which seems to be sitting around and checking her phone for something she calls "feedback".  

Hah!  I think that's what I'll call it when I tell the Bambies to get out of my yard - yeah - FEEDBACK!  Bwahahahaaaa!

Hope you are having the BEST DAY EVER and giving your feedback to your friends so they don't sit around all day being sad looking at their phones.  

XOX  Ardie   (PS  Mom wants me to say that the oils is NOT Frankenstein oil - it is something like Franklycents.  Whatever.  It still raises my vibrations!)

Pupdate from the Crate: I'M BAAAACKKKK!!!

Hidey Ho Everyone!  I'm BACK!  I'm back to being SUPER ARDIE the amazing flying, jumping, zooming puppy!  Ya huh!  I had a not so best day ever on Monday when I got an ear infection and sent mom into a panic cause I stayed in my crate all day, even with the door open.  I just feel safe there and I love my new giant townhouse crate and I slept all day and when I was awake, I had sad eyes.

BUT - TA DA!  I was better by 11:00 AT that NIGHT!  Suddenly, my legs got all squirmy and they sped off to the family room and I grabbed my head-less walrus and was ON FIRE!  It was the best case of the zoomies I've had in a long time, but mom said that at 1:30 a.m. I had to go to the crate for sleep.  But, not to worry, today is Wednesday and I'm still flying through the air, landing on the sofa, bouncing off the footstools and racing everywhere.  So - this is THE BEST DAY EVER!

On my sick day, I was laying in mom's bedroom when the giant fluffy sheep somehow got off the back of the chair and mom thought I did it, but what she heard from the bathroom was me trying to put the big guy back and convince him he should not have launched himself down by me even if he was trying to make me happy, that mom would kill us both if she found out and while I was talking very quietly .....and trying to shake some sense into him. ..... we got busted.

Mom peeked around the corner to see what it was all about but the sheep and I are really really fast.  We instantly laid down, with my chin holding his head down and we gave a big soft sigh and gave mom our "lovey dovey every-thing-is-good-down-here-mom" look.  Well, that didn't last long and the big guy got a really good talk from mom and put back on the chair.

Now, at training I'm learning to spin, put my "paws up", shake, and walk on a loose leash.  Man, that stuff is hard.  Specially now, when a bee-you-teeful black lab is now in my class with me.  Hubba hubba!  I wanted to go wrestle her right away but I had to stay on my own side of the room and try to ignore her.  I do have to admit, the hotdogs took my mind off that babe!

So now, I'm like 7 months old now and mom wants to know when I'm gonna learn to lift my leg to go potty so I quit peeing on my own feet.  To tell ya the truth, I don't even notice it cause I look at birds, worms, the sky, my mom - anything - while I go cause I'm just that way.  She seems to be disgusted and I need to wash my feet a lot now.  

In my training mom and I play "find me" and she turns away and I get in front of her.  I do really good at that!  I've decided to play it with mom now.  I do it from my people-sister's bedroom where my crate is so it should be MY bedroom but its not.  Anyway, I sneak away and go right on top of the bed and just lay there then I say "mmmm-ark!"  which is bark talk for Mom! find me, in a quiet voice like if people put their hand over their mouth.  Just a few times and she comes looking and there I AM!!  I wag my tail and roll over and show her how cool it is that I'm on my people-sister's big bed!   You should see her face!

Anyway, mom had a ton of stuff to do, and she stepped in dog poop today with her good sneakers on, which I don't know why she had them on cause she has special rubber shoes for that job but who knows why she didn't wear them this time.  And she is all upset about pee pee on my foot!  

Mom says that we are somewhat disturbed by this blog program that keeps freezing up and changing fonts on us.  We sometimes have to go to different computers to do one post and that makes her so crabby.  Somewhat disturbed is what she is saying now instead of "pissed off" cause she is trying to keep me from learning bad words and stuff and to be a tolerant and patient puppy, whatever that means.  I just let it go in one ear and out the other and still have the best day ever and sometime I run around and say "pissed off! Pissed off! Hahahahahahaaa!" And I know she can't hear it so it's ok.

Thanks for helping me get well by prayers and wishes and I love you so much!  Gotta go shred......xox Ardie the reasonably tolerant puppy

Pupdate from,the crate:

Hello everyone!  This is my really happy face in the car from having the best day ever at dog day care

Doesn't it look like I'm glowing?  Hahaha! That's the sun you crazy people!  My mom has a very tiny car that I barely fit in there in the back seat but I do so far and as happy as I was to go see my puppy-dudes and play spit head all day, I was just as excited to come home and mom took this picture of me five seconds before I passed out.

I get so excited to go to day care that mom said I nearly wag my tail off.  That can't really happen can it? 😳😳. She says I swing my whole little butt so hard I'm gonna need a chiropractor pretty soon, but I just can't stop it!  It's the best place ever, except for Aunt Margie's house!

So I had to go there today cause we had a showing on our house and mom needed to keep my hair off  of everything and mop floors and she's been at it for two whole days now and I heard her say she got so exhausted she ate an entire bag of fruit gummies before she came to get me and now she want to throw up.

So, we are having a nap and, then we might sleep right through to tomorrow to when the plumbing guy comes because this morning dad might have pooped too big or too much or something cause the toilet flowed over and some other stuff and mom had to clean extra hard before the showing, which is why she needed the fruit gummies.  

Sheesh.  If people pooped in the yard, none,of this would,happen, but don't tell dad I said it cause mom catches him sometimes sneaking in the woods just to do a #1, and it makes her nuts and she says "FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!  We have 6 toilets inside!!  This is NOT the country!! ". And dad laughs and says he likes to go out in nature, and mom hardly figured it out for a long time, because she thought Bruno was going potty in strange places in the snow in winter and then that couldn't happen so she thought wild dogs were coming into the yard and that couldn't happen, and then she thought their must be a BIG squirrel someplace that visited us.....but.....it was only dad,  and I can just roll around my crate laughing about it cause he is so funny to do that, just like me!

Anyway, mom says stop talking about potty stuff and take a nap, so I will.

Hope you had the best day ever, and that you get to go potty wherever it makes you happy!   Xox Ardie, the exhausted glowing puppy!

Pupdate from the Crate: it's always something

Hellooooo my dear friends!  I bet you have been waiting to see how my whole day with dad alone worked out, right?  Well, it was X-awe-sting!  Mom came home late at night and could not find me.  Dad was at his computer in his office.  Well, I was in my crate with the door open cause I took myself there myself and I could barely lift a paw when she came in.  I spent the whole day with dad, in the garage crate while he cleaned for FIVE hours and I know that cause he told mom FIVE hours about a dozen times and it was really true!  Then my people-brother came with Deana and that people-puppy Sawyer and we went straight to the pool and stayed awake and on high alert for three hours which is really true, because they went swimming and I was stuck there staying as far away as I could from everyone and every drop of water. Then I arte dinner and passed out in my crate and that is it.  Dad told mom I was EEEEmazing because I didn't pee on anything and I didn't eat anything, and I didn't run away but.....dad said I have to be watched in the garage pen because I kept trying to find cloth stuffed in holes in the cool-a-roo cot but that was because my teeth go really bored.

Then yesterday I got a tummy sickness and didn't eat my Monday dinner or Tuesday breakfast and my tummy was doing pings and squealy noises and gurgles and I could not lay down so I had to stay the whole day at the vet 😩. But nothing was wrong and I get to eat boiled beef and rice, eggs and broth and that is really yummy!  Mom said she had an old car with a bad radiator that pinged and squealed like my tummy and she was so worried.

Hey!  I am now 44 lbs big and I outgrew my baby crate and I got moved up to the mansion crate!  Ya huh!  The biggest crate in the world!!  It was my Bruno's crate and mom said it is wayyyyy to big for me but dad said we are doing a "financial adjustment" and there is no need to buy a bigger smaller crate.  Just get a look at the difference!

I am thinking I might have a big dog party in there with my buddies and we will have lots of room!!  Mom got sad cause now I'm big, and it reminds her of Bruno who never used this crate after he was 2 years old and might not have even fit in it when he was 8 cause he was a GIANT!    This is him!

Mom has been working her fingers to the bone cause we are maybe having a house showing tomorrow.  Poor mom, she said she wants some time to work in her sewing room, but this house won't let her.  Two big trees fell yesterday and her lightbulb blew out glass all over her sewing room, and a dead bird was in the middle of the driveway and its that time of year for spiders everywhere and a groundhog has dug a giant hole by her studio and the repair guys aren't calling back to fix the barn where the other tree fell last week or so ago and......she says she just wants to cuddle me and then sew.

So you see, mom was worried for nothing when she did her rescue drive, but just so her energy wasn't wasted, My tummy gave her something to worry about a whole day later.  That mom!  She is always right!  Something WAS gonna happen!

Hope you are all staying cool and having the best summer day ever!  With love, Ardie, the little big dog!

Pupdate from the crate: Saturday's Project

Hi everyone, happy Saturday!  I am starting the best day ever by working on my new project that I call "deconstructing toy bin".  Mom says this toy bin came 9 years ago to hold baby Bruno's toys and lots of the toys in that basket were his.  That big goofy boy didn't play with a lot of toys and must have saved them for me.  But guess what I discovered in that basket?

Holes!  Ya huh!  Well, no body but me could see them cause I have super Ardie eyes and most people don't see the holes in rugs, towels, toys or stuff like I can because there is usually fabric plugging them up but I CAN see them and it's my job to clear out those holes and set them free!

The more I worked at it, the more holes I found and then suddenly, ta daaaa!  A giant hole!  I'm gonna keep working at it till I find ALL the holes and get the fabric out of them!!!

I heard mom talking to dad and she said the next toy bin was going to be a metal bin.  I wonder if that will have holes filled with stuff too?  Well, mom says it's ok that I do this project and that I know not to find holes in other things.....except rugs....

Tomorrow, my mom is going on a long long drive to take a rescue dog to his new forever home and I am staying with dad for the WHOLE day!  Mom keeps telling him all kinds of things about how to watch me but she keeps saying over and over " if you can't keep Ardie with you all the time, or if you need to be alone someplace you CAN'T leave him out!  Please put him in his crate.  ARdie is FINE and Dandy in his crate and that is safer and better than leaving him wander because Ardie WILL find something to do and that is never a good thing".

You should hear her voice!  While she is talking, it goes up and down and sometimes gets louder on certain words but dad's words same the same "ok....sure...yeh...got it..."   Something tells me that tomorrow is going to be exciting!  Especially when mom gets home.

Gotta get back to my project!  Have the Best Saturday ever!

Xox Ardie, the amazing hole unstuffer, Goff

Pupdate from the Crate: Spit Head & Look-a-Likes

Yowza!  It's a hot one today so I hope you are finding the best cool spot you can find and enjoying this summer day.  Since I've been born, I could not imagine how weather can change so much and how lazy the hot days make you feel.  It's a good thing I was Super Ardie at day care today cause at home I'm now a sleepy Ardie.

When mom got me today, the day care lady said I had the BEST DAY EVER!  And mom said "oh was he good?" and the lady said "well, his head is covered in dog spit from so much wrestling so yeah - he was in doggy heaven today with his buddies!" 

Well, mom gagged and looked at me and thought I was in the pool there, but they said no, we were all playing inside and that soaked head was. . . yeah. . .. spit!  So, I got my head washed off as soon as I got home.

But what I wanted to really tell you about today is about my mom and me.  The dog training lady told mom that we kinda look like each other!  Bwahahaaaaa!  Yeah.....really....then mom started to think about it because the training lady said it again, "you do resemble each other - quite a lot!".  So, mom and I sat in front of the big mirror yesterday looking at each other and guess what - maybe we DO!  Here is what we noticed we have in commmon:

• small heads - bigger bodies  -   yep
• small ears, one kinda wonky - yep
• white-ish skin - yep
• pointy noses - yep
• small chins - yep
• small eyes - yep
• small teeth and thin lips - yep and yep
• eyebrows that go up and down - yep (and mom wanted to put makeup on mine to make them easier to see, but decided it would freak dad out too much)
• face whiskers - yep (oh crappers - mom didn't want me to tell you that one....)

So here is me and there over there is my mom and even though her picture is a couple years old she still looks like that so you decide!  

She told dad and he laughed and said that just because mom acts like me, probably makes her look like me even if she is not a puppy.

Before I take my crate nap for today, mom and I said prayers for the people of this world.  She says the people are afraid and scared and worried and they are doing sad, sad things.  Maybe you will help someone have the best day ever if you say a prayer for the world too.   I hope so.  I don't know any words to any prayers but I listen very carefully to mom and I always kiss her at the end of them so it is our puppy "Amen" to seal the deal.

OH - and PS - yesterday I got my tongue stuck frozen to the freezer rail!  YEAH, like I know, RIGHT?  Duh.  Well, mom got this amazing fishy stuff and put it in the refrigerator and I tried to get it out lots of times yesterday by poking around the outside of the fridge and scratching on the cabinet of the fridge but I couldn't get it.  Then, mom opened that bottom freezer door to get ice for her tea and that wonderful fishy smell came out of there and my tongue just leaped out of my mouth and . . .wham....I was stuck!  As fast as mom could say "YIKES ARDIE" I had pulled it off - it sounded like pulling a hole in a carpet, kinda, and don't worry, I'm totally ok because after that is when I wrestled the sheepskin rug...and let's not go over that one again.

So, no matter how hot it gets, keep your tongues out of your freezers and say your prayers for people to be better.   

xox     Ardie, the spit head, Goff

Pupdate from the Crate: Hot Day Adventures

Happy HOT HOT July 7 peeps and pups!  I am really hot today and trying to keep my cool.  But that doesn't mean I'm not busy!  Today, I have spent a lot of time trying to amuse myself while mom does errands and works around the house.  

This morning, she freaked out a little because while she was putting on her beee-utiful fancy white pants and beeee-youuuuuteeeful fancy blue swingy top for a trip out with Grandma Hinkle, and I was busy in the dog yard doing dog things before I had to go to the crate.

When she came to get to get me, boy was she surprised!  My little white face and long white legs were covered. . . and I mean C - O - V- E- R-ed in dirt - oh yeah - and water - - -the water made it really cool!  See, I have a nice bucket of water in my dog house and sometimes when I go to get a drink I think I might see a bug in there but mom thinks I see my own nose and then I try to get it with my mouth and my foot.  So that got boring and then I went to work on digging my hole to China.  

Well, I ran straight up to - OK - maybe straight INTO mom when I saw her coming and she started shouting and spinning in circles holding her top up and pushing me away, which is a super cool game and I wanted to play it even more!  There was a lot of wiping that went on in the next few minutes. . . .

Then today is cleaning day at our house when our Deana comes with the little people-puppy to help mom.  That little people-puppy is growing so fast!  Mom says he is 10 months old today and he is taking 3 or more steps all by himself!  I guess that's good for a people puppy, but would be really slow for a dog puppy!  Man, I can't even imagine having to be carried around for 10 months!  I'd go nuts!  

Well, I think that long wait has actually affected that people-puppy's brain. . . uh. . .trying to be kind here .....because, well, he tried to bite me today - right through the big glass door!  Ya huh!  He really did.  I was on the outside, staying safe from Oreck when he came right up to my place by the window and freaked me out so bad I jumped a mile high!  Then I see he could not get me so I just got back close to the door and thought it would be a good time to really check him out. 

 As soon as I got close enough to look at him - HE TRIED TO BITE me!  He put his mouth on the window and sucked his lips to the glass and showed me his two tiny razor sharp bottom teeth and his one bigger top tooth and then made a horrible noise while he banged on the window right at me!  Well!  I NEVER! Mom was laughing but she wasn't seeing that giant baby mouth from my side of the glass, and if she did, I'd bet she'd think twice before letting that kid near her face!

So after they left and mom kept cleaning, I dinked around for a while and it was so hot, but our air is on and then the lawn guys came and scared me so I went to find something to do.  Here it is

No - this isn't ME (giggle giggle) this is what I was working on!  Phew!  I know, right?  Bet you were thinking I started ripping my hair out at the skin, but nope - I decided to wrestle with mom's sheepskin rug that is in our guest bedroom, and boy, did it put up a good fight!  I wanted to keep on going, but when mom caught me she put a stop to it immediately.

I tried to explain that it wasn't my fur all over and that I wasn't hurt or anything and it was just us playing, but I'm starting to think she wasn't worried about me. I guess she likes that rug a lot.

Well, I can't worry about it.  I am remembering my last dog class yesterday when I learned to shake for a treat, and I also am learning "leave it"  which is something I don't really like to do because it is the opposite of doing something but it is really NOT doing something.  But, even when I leave a yummy treat alone when they say "leave it!", strangely, I get a different yummy treat!  It's the craziest thing ever.  Mom's a little slow on the go, and she is there clicking the clicker and saying words and dropping treats and I bite her fingers sometimes, and finally....... my teacher takes over and gets us all back on track.  Mom really needs some practice, but I'm helping her. 

So today, I hope you had the best HOT day ever and that your mom lets you get muddy if you want to, and keeps vampire babies away to keep you safe.  xox Ardie (Brown is the new white) Goff

Pupdate from,the Crate: Laughing rabbits and the Birds attack

Happy July 5 to all my friends!  What a weekend it was here!  This was my very first 4th of July and it was epic! Even without the baby bird fracas, it was pretty darn awesome!

So far, I'm not afraid of the big booms and bangs I heard here, I kinda just snoozed it away on the couch between mom and dad during our TV time, but what I DID DO this weekend was so cool!  I owe lots of my cool times to dad, because he keeps mom busier than usual - he is almost like a giant puppy mom says - because he is always getting into trouble too.

Mom seemed to notice that I am getting so big that she took a picture of me chill-laxin' on my favorite footstool, but I can't fit so good so mostly I need both footstools to chill on and lots of times I just fall off and make the best of it.

This weekend I spent time eating and finding cool stuff!  Dad was here the whole 4 days and when he is home there is a lot more kissing and a lot more food!  Dad is a great cook and I tasted a lot of his stuff because he also isn't a careful cooker like mom and he puts stuff out for me to taste whenever I want even if it makes mom crazy and she wants to put me in the crate, but dad said "no - honey - he is part of the family and you can't just put him in his crate when he gets into something or when we eat!  He will learn...."

So that is how I tasted the salad on the patio table and other yummy stuff this weekend!
While mom was busy with dad or something, I found stuff she hasn't seen in a long, long time!  Ya huh!  I brought out Bruno's best toy ever, a gooey, stiff Snoopy dog without ears and mom was so surprised!  She said "OH NO ARDIE!  That was up in the closet!  You can't have that!" I guess it is super special and I think it has magical powers because I can't even remember how I got it in the first place.  But, guys, in that same closet I found other stuff!

I found a laughing rabbit!  It is the BEST EVER and just like the laughing monkey that was here when I first came.  Mom thought she had thrown it out long ago, but I found it!  I LOVE the laughing rabbit because it is scary and fun at the same time.  Yep.  Just what puppies like!  It sits so still and quiet and then, just when I least expect it, it starts laughing and spinning all over the floor!  So I go into a fit of the yips and it makes me fly around the room and my legs get jumpy and I lose control and pounce on everything and then.....he goes silent.....he just waits....     Mom has a video but maybe can't load it up here.  She is trying.

And speaking of mom, she did ok this weekend with all the attention dad and I gave her.  First off, there was all that kissing and stuff and both dad and me always hanging on her, sitting right on her, and trying to breathe her same air which she seems to love for a while but then she starts pushing  me and dad away which is our super secret signal to each other to start wrestling and playing and mom says she should just let us hang on her cause that is quieter.

Anyway, she did so good, doing her embroidery stuff with colored strings and sharp things and then she had to water the plants on the patio and that started the fracas.  Once it started, she was done for.  Thankfully, it happened last night or who knows how it might have changed up the weekend.


So, you might know that mom hates birds.  She just freaks out and I hear her say she wants to launch them into outer space with a fly swatter when they come near, which I heard she did with a napkin once at a fancy outdoor restaurant in Columbus when she was eating on a patio and she really sent those little suckers flying until dad stopped her because other people at that place were getting upset......

Anyway, there are two bird nests on our front patio; one in the hanging flower pot and the other over the slider door edge.  Mom has been kind, leaving them alone except for watering the flowers there.  She has noticed little baby birds now peeking over the nests being fed by the moms and she gave them loud notice last week that they had ONE WEEK TO GROW UP AND MOVE ON before she was going to "take steps" to move them herself, but they didn't and in fact, I think they got an attitude about it.

Poor  mom was on the patio, minding her own business watering the plants away from the nests when the mommy birds freaked out and flew to a nearby tree chirping their lungs out which then freaked out the baby birds who just happened to figure out that maybe they could fly and go for their mommy birds, but they couldn't!  There were a ton of baby birds jumping out of the nests and trying to fly and landing on the ground all around my mom and she was jumping and yelling and the mommy birds were dive bombing her and the babies were thinking "hey cool we got wings and we can FLY!" and they bounced off the walls, the windows, ran under bushes and some even DID fly! 

I was laying in the living room, by the patio door watching all of this.  I could see some of them running around the ground and some trying to fly.  Everywhere mom went she spooked one of them and they shot out here and there. FYI  - Dad was watching TV and turned up the volume to hear his show....  So, finally, mom tossed the hose down and ran into the house.  I could hear her heart beating so fast, and she was swearing like a drunken sailor.

It took her all night to calm down, because now the birds were all messed up.  The tiny grey momma bird was in the big robin's nest with some of the babies who didn't fly, a cardinal somehow got into the mix and the momma robin was chasing baby birds all over the trees and bushes while the baby birds chirped their lungs out bouncing around up in the trees.  Mom said it was worse than trying to herd cats. 

After that, dad and I knew mom was SERIOUSLY freaked out so we just sat on the couch and got very quiet. The hose is still laying out there and mom keeps checking those nests from the office window and I think our out front plants are doomed.

Today started off pretty exciting too!  Dad went back to work and I started to find stuff to do while mom had her coffee.  I discovered I can get on my sister's bed now, and I brought out her little black bear from her pillows, but I guess it's special cause I can't have it.  So then, I went back and decided to look at mom's filing and business papers she keeps on that bed and I opened a package of papers and was just reading them when mom snuck up on me and told me NO ARDIE again already today....hmmmm....She needs to clean up that area today or else I think I'll do some filing for her.

I hope you all had the best 4th of July ever and maybe you can see my video on Facebook!

XOX  Ardie, the amazing discoverer of stuff nobody's seen in a long, long time