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Our Own Dog Park
One of the advantages of being a multiple-dog family is we never have to get in the car to go to a dog park. We are, after all, our own dog park. One of the challenges is what to do with the, er, output. Hu-Dad commented he wished he could find the disposal stations just like the big parks… and then discovered you can buy them. So, yes, this now sits in our backyard. Unfortunately, our Hu-Dad has good ideas and bad jokes, so it only took a few seconds until he called it The Thundering Turd. Yeah, we know, that joke stinks.
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A Sweeter Prince
His Royal Highness Little Prince Typhoon Phooey goes by many nicknames, including the Little Curmudgeon for his grumpy attitude. He complains when things are late, uncomfortable, or not to his liking. He gripes when the humans ask him to move, not to counter surf, or to behave. Just the other day, Hu-Dad suggested he should try to be a little sweeter. Typhoon’s answer was an attempt to drink the nectar from a hummingbird feeder in the backyard, his best attempt at a sweeter prince.
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Caption This: Boom Not Booming
Hu-Dad came around the corner to discover Landon stretched out in a doorway. Rare to find the Boom Boom not Booming, but we all assume a good reason existed. But what was it? It’s Friday, so it’s time for you to Caption This photo. Why is the Boomster being so sedate?
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Suave Security
Now we are back in the mountains. Bears wander by. Deer visit. Squirrels and rabbits bounce everywhere. With our fence complete, we need to secure our border. Frankie takes a calmer approach to the duties than Miss Kiska, but, as our senior member, he performs a careful inspection each morning. We’ll call it the Frankie Suave Security Services.
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Inelegant Suave
Frankie is normally cool, calm, collected—the unflappable member of The Herd. When everyone else went crazy with the installation of the fence, he maintained his composure, right? Let’s just call this inelegant suave, but even our senior dog did some zoomie laps around the yard.
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Fuzzy Boom Booming
Like everyone else, Landon was ecstatic to have a fenced yard for Siberian games. He raced, bounced, twisted, spun, hopped, and, most importantly, Boom Boomed. When Hu-Dad developed the photographs, he also noticed a certain fluffiness to our class clown. So, yes, we have a Fuzzy Boom booming.
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The Gates To Chaos
As you might have guessed from today’s photo, the gates were installed on our fence. We might be a wee bit excited by this development. The Trouble Brothers demonstrate some of the chaos unleashed (yes, Hu-Dad worked hard to get that phrase into the story) as Typhoon pursues Roscoe around and around and around the yard.
We don’t know why Hu-Dad was smiling though. When we got inside, we were too tired to do our nightly wrestling matches in his study. We don’t know how he got any work done over our snoring.
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Caption This: A Royal Neck Twist
His Royal Highness Little Prince Typhoon Phooey is known for back talking the Hu-Dad, but he added a Royal Neck Twist to his incredulous look. For this week’s Caption This, give us both Hu-Dad’s question and the princely reply. And, yes, Landon (aka, Boom Boom) couldn’t help showing off his fluffy tail in the background.
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Get Ready To Rumble
The fence company has advised us that they plan to install the gates on Friday. Are we ever ready! Typhoon challenged Landon to the first chase around the yard. Boom Boom doesn’t look like he is backing down from the games. Let’s say the Herd will get ready to rumble this weekend with some raucous games in the yard! Unless, of course, some other delay crops up. Shhhhhhhhh!
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Evil Sticks
Sometimes, a story is just too long to be told in a paragraph or two. You’ll need to click the link to find out the entire horrors of the evil sticks and their unprovoked attack on Roscoe (and Hu-Dad’s totally inappropriate laughing at the situation).
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Happy Independence Day
For all of our readers in the USA, Frankie Suave has stepped up in his role as senior member of The Herd to wish you a very Happy Independence Day. For those of you outside the USA, thanks for being readers! And, for those of you from Great Britain, no hard feelings, okay?
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Trial By Jury
The fence company let us know the gates have been delayed until after the holiday weekend, so it will be the middle of next week—at best—before our fence is complete and we can run free. We, of course, blame the Hu-Dad, so we held a trial by jury. The vote was unanimous for conviction. Typhoon’s disappointed look is never a surprise but even Roscoe fired off a narrowed-eye look of blame.
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