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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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Caption This: Clean Desk
Hu-Dad succeeded in turning in his latest novel to his editor (sort of on-time if you don’t count the delay because of moving back to Asheville), so he was able to clean his desk (some). Roscoe approves of the clean desk and has more to say. But what? Fridays are for the readers to supply the captions, so what did Roscoe say?
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Something Is Missing
After the shocking event of Monday, the fence installation team finished up their work yesterday. Well, sort of. They reported that a crucial item had been delayed—gates. We noticed right away that something is missing and, because of that, Hu-Dad still insists we wear our leashes in the backyard. We have paws crossed this week, but with the holiday weekend looming…
P.S.—Hu-Dad submitted his manuscript to his editor on Wednesday with about an hour to spare before the deadline. He claimed that makes him early.
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