Happy Thanksgiving!

Owens River

 We packed up the pups and headed to Mammoth Lakes for Thanksgiving this year. The weather was beautiful, the food was delicious, the dogs had fun, and we got to spend time with family. What more can you ask for?

Our wonderful hostess Briana

Roland's new best friend Greg

The first of many games, Pass the Pig

After-dinner clean up and hopeful pups

Roland sucking up the attention

Friday we took the dogs down to the Owens River to run around. It was Roland's first time in the area and he had a great time running his fool head off. He even mustered up the courage to swim across the river when the other dogs did. Well, Ayla walked it since her legs are so long. My city dogs sure did enjoy playing out there; I wish we had something like it here.

Ballerina Ayla

Checking out the river

Shake!

The Boys

Roland being zippy

Willie's shadow

Majestically muddy

Ayla fording the river

My boys

Determination

It was the first time we've taken the Ford off road, and it did wonderfully.

We also did a little target practice with Greg's 9mm.

The ride home smelled like wet dog. But it was worth it.

I think Roland didn't want to leave. He really enjoyed playing with Willie and being spoiled by my brother-in-law and his girlfriend, and eating cookies for breakfast. We'll have to go back soon! Thank you to my wonderful family for a fun Thanksgiving, and I hope everyone has something to be thankful for.

Fourth of July

 

Happy Fourth of July, albeit a little late. The picture above is not necessarily patriotic, although it is of a Ford. We just can't walk past the car without Roland begging to get in. That puppy loves the car! I broke out the kiddie pool over the hot, hot weekend. Rollie just loves to be outside, and I was worried he'd overheat in the 100 degree weather, so we filled the pool with water to help keep him cool (along with making sure he came inside regularly). He had a great time playing in the water, and got a major case of the zoomies and sprinted around and around the pool too.

Here's a little video of the playtime too.

He was super interested in Chris' beer.

So he got to lick the (empty) bottle. Then he got tired.

And kinda grumpy looking.

Oh hai!

So Ayla and I played her favorite patio game, bobbing for the ball in the big blue bucket.

Love my silly girl.

And its just not a holiday without silly dog get-ups...

Merry Christmas!

Someone must have been a very good girl this year.

Happy Holidays!

Happy Halloween

Or would that be Howl-oween?

I'm Still Here!

So, that was a long blog break. I kinda lost my mojo for a while, and then looked at my Google Reader where I had somewhere between 400 and 500 unread posts, after which I threw my hands up in the air and just walked away.

But, I've since regrouped. I simply marked all of the unread posts as read without looking at them. I'm sure I've missed seeing some great things, but sometimes you just have to let go. And now I'm back posting here in my little corner of the world.

Here's some pictures from our trip for the 4th up to Mammoth. Hopefully I have other good stuff to put up soon too. Until then, enjoy and thanks for coming back!

Chris and Greg, and Greg's awesome truck that he drove through a creek

The hippopota-Willy

 Beers and a bulldog on the deck

 My two favorite guys

 The most patient lab ever - he didn't even try to take my sunglasses off

 Chris and I went up to the Main Lodge on the mountain and wandered around. It was completely empty, but everything was mostly how we remembered it from when we were kids skiing up there.

 We played mini golf just around the corner from Greg's place. It was actually a good little course too.

Pool and Big Game Hunter at Grumpy's, as well as Hefeweizen and jalapeno poppers

I took Ayla and Willy for a hike around Horseshoe Lake on our final morning

There was a snowboarder building a ramp over a bridge to jump - I can only assume he wanted to land in the lake and its ice-cold snow-runoff water

Willy sure likes it though

Ayla prefers to play fetch on the beach, but I didn't have her swimming vest so maybe she would have like swimming too... dogs are strange

Case in point

Mac loves that Ayla is forced to snuggle with him in the car