October 14, 2010

Answer Your Phone!

Does your peoples have a picture of you on their phone? This is what the tall guy sees every time he uses his phone.

I think it's pretty darn cool.

He says he has no idea how he got the picture of his phone screen but it just showed up the other day in his picture album (but now he does, because he just Googled it).

So go check your people's phone right now and make sure that your face is the first thing they see every time they need to call someone. It might remind them that it's been like 20 minutes since they gave you a cookie!

October 13, 2010

Yuck!
I almost eated a bug!

We were out walking at the park and I noticed something on the ground. I thought it was a pine comb. Not that I go around eating pine combs, but sometimes occasionally I might see what one tastes likes.

But then all of a sudden it moved.
Turns out it was some kind of horrible worm-apillar-bug.

You can't really tell from the picture, but it has all these spiky things on it.

And to think I almost eated it.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

October 12, 2010

Let's Play
What Am I Barking At?

The fabulous new game show
where YOU try to guess what I'm barking at!

Ready. Watch the first part of the video:

Can you guess what I am barking at?
You've got 1 second.

Oh, I'm sorry. Time's up!
Did you guess another dog?
Well, you are SO wrong! :)

Watch the rest of the video to see.

That's right. I'm barking at the plastic water bottle on the other side of the fence.

What's that? We didn't have any winners? Oh well. That fantastic trip to Hawai'i for 4 will just have to go back into the prize closet until next time.

So tune in again next time and be sure to play
What Am I Barking At?

Also available in our home version.
Just get a dog of your own and you're all set!

Oh, the tall guy said to tell you he took the videos with his iPhone, so that is why they are so skinny.

October 11, 2010

Things I Just Learned
by Jack

Sometimes when we go out on a walk, we go through these areas called 'washes'. It does not have nothing to do with washing your clothes or your dishes or even taking a bath. Actually, I do not know why they are called washes, as it is almost always dirt and rocks. Maybe they should call it rocky dirts. Or dirty rocks. Maybe that is why they call it a wash - there are so many dirty rocks that they need to be washed.

I also learned a very important thing on our last walk:

Do NOT jump over the dirt and pull the string so that the tall guy gets jerked when he is holding the string on the side where he got hurt. Unfortunately, he thought I was just going to climb over the dirt when he started to take the picture, but I got froggy and decided to jump.

Boy can he scream really loud!!

October 10, 2010

I won't be online much today.

I'll be out on one of my 93 walks today.

Someone owes me big time!

October 9, 2010

BUPKIS!!

So the tall guy FINALLY got back home last night
from the Salty Lake and what did he bring me?
NOTHING!
No cookies, no pie, no cake.
Not even a t-shirt that said
"Someone went to the Salty Lake
and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!"

Just for that, I'm gonna erase
"Modern Family"
AND
"Top Chef"
off the DVR.

Remember:
Your dog should always get presents,
every time you leave the house,
even if it's just to walk out
to the mailbox!!

October 8, 2010

ATGPBT!!
(All Tall Guy Pointy
Bulletin Thingy!!)

This is a special all tall guy bulletin. The tall guy was supposed to come back home today but he is not here yet. I may need to go to the Salty Lake and start looking for him. He had better not be in no hotel with a swimming pool is all that I have to say.

This is the last picture I have of him.

If you have any information about the tall guy, please contact somebody!! AND I didn't even get no cake!

What?

Oh. He's not supposed to be home until later tonight? Why didn't someone tell me?

Oh. They did tell me but I just forgot.

Well, he had better bring me some cake is all I got to say!

October 7, 2010

Well, now what am I supposed to do?

The tall guy just packed up his box with the wheels on it yesterday and just up and left. He said something about having to go to the Salty Lake.

I told him that I wanted to go to the Salty Lake too, but he said he had to go up in an airplane and that I would not like where I would have to stay when he was in the airplane. I asked him why couldn't I sit in the plane next to him and then he said that I needed to hush because he was laughing so hard that it was making his riblets hurt. He doesn't think I would be a good airplane passenger.

I would too be a good passenger. I would even watch the airline people when they were telling you about how to buckle your seat belt. And I wouldn't even ask for extra peanuts or eat the ones that people dropped on the floor.

So, if any of you are near the Salty Lake and see some guy hobbling down the street pulling his box with the wheels on it, would you tell him to hurry home? Thank you.

October 6, 2010

Getting ready for
HOWLoween!

I noticed that some of you have already started picking out your costumes for Howloween.
Since my job is staying home and helping to hand out the candy, I want to be able to scare the kids when they come to the door. Here's what I'm working on.
First I come to to door all nice and sweet:

Then I jump at them and go 'BOO!"

What do you think? Scary huh!!!

October 5, 2010

Ain't them the breaks!

I stepped on a thorn yesterday at the park
and now my foot hurts.
I am mad at the world right now!

Oh and the tall guy says he is feeling a little better thank you and to stop jumping on the bed when he's trying to sleep because it hurts and not to lick his face when he's asleep either because then he jumps back and twists his back and it makes it hurt even more.

Needless to say, we are both a bunch of grumpy gusses today!

October 4, 2010

A Monday Poem
by Jack

I think that I
shall never see
a branch too big
come from a tree
that I can't carry
and run so quick.
So give me a tree limb
and not a stick!

October 3, 2010

It's a calling...

(Note from the tall guy: Oh dear God, someone help me!)

October 2, 2010

SHEESH!

A little bit of agonizing, excruciating pain
does make some people crabby!

I only got to go on 3 walks today.

I'm gonna fade away to nothing!

October 1, 2010

Looking for the ribses

The tall guy fell down and broke 2 of his ribses.
He's really sad.
So, I'm trying to find him
some new ribses to replace the ones he broke.
If you have any extra ones laying around,
can he use them for a while?

Thank you.

September 30, 2010

Do any of you have this problem?

Sometimes my ears look A-OK!!

Side-view:

Then sometimes, they look like this:

I think I need a Bump-It!!

And then sometimes:

I don't know WHAT'S going on here!!

(From the TG: Actually, that last picture
was caught during the middle of a bark.
So that's why the ears are just flopping
around everywhere!)

September 29. 2010

Brought to you by
PAWdermilk Dog Biscuits

They give shy puppies the strength
to get up and do what needs to be done.

On the other hand,
if you want me to get out of this car,
you're gonna have to give me something
better than a biscuit.

I want cash!

September 28, 2010

It's been a quiet week here
in Lake WoebeJack.

I think I'll take a nice nap.
Please wake me up if you would
like to play.

September 27, 2010

Do we HAVE to look at those
vacation pictures again?

Yes, now be quiet and act like you're interested!

We saw lots of stuff when we were at the campings.
Here is what the cactuses look like in the mountains.

Someone said it didn't look like Arizona.
Well, it really is.
I asked the tall guy where we were and he said
we were in a town called Greer in the White Mountains.
There is even a ski place there.
I think Khyra and all the other huskies
would like that when it snows!

Evidently I have a tendency to get
a bit excited around the water,
and my listening skills aren't
as good as they should be.

Which led to this:

You may have noticed that in the first video,
I was 'sans string'
which means I could run all over.
You may also have noticed in the second video
I was no longer the free-spirit, speed demon
that I was in the first video.
Something about how I ran away
into the woods the first day
and didn't come back when the tall guy called for me,
and he got all scared that I was going to get lost,
and I knew where he was all the time,
and, blah blah blah,
I don't want to go into it.

I did help gather the firewood.
Even though the cabin had a gas fireplace,
it never hurts to be prepared!

We saw so many different things.
Here is a gate.

And here is another gate.
Can you see the bear and the elk?
I don't even know what is a bear and a elk,
but there they are.

That second gate was for the house
that costed two millions of dollars.
It is for sale.
When we found out that it
costed two millions of dollars, well...
It is still for sale.

This is not the house with the gate.
This house was near our cabin.
I asked the tall guy why we didn't stay at this house.
I did not know what was the 'stink eye',
but I do now!

I still got to go back and play in the water:

It was really really fun!

I hope you have enjoyed seeing my vacation.
You will have to come with us next time.
Just remember to bring something to read
because it gets really dark at night
and the tall guy won't let you watch anything
but the HGTV on the teevees.

September 26, 2010

Our Woodland Adventure!

There's a lot of stuff you need to know
when you go to the camping!
First, the tall guy really laughed when
Mistaya started talking about tents.
He said if you were supposed to sleep on the ground,
there would be mattresses instead of mushrooms!
He's more of a sleeping inside on the bed,
watching the teevees type of camping dude!

Here I am trying to get him to hurry
so we could go smell all the outside smells.
I needed some outside smells to fill up my head fast!

This is the 'crik' that was beside our cabin.
I thought it was a creek, but the tall guy said
we had to call it a 'crik' since we were in the mountains.
I think the altitude got to him.

Well, it just so happened that the 'crik'
ran underneath this 'bridge'.
It did not look like any bridge I had ever seen before.
You could see all the water running underneath it.
As much as I wanted to go see the water,
I did NOT want to cross
the 'bridge of untimely death for dogs who have a hard time
when they can see through where they are walking'.

But, the water called to me, like sirens on the open seas,
so I decided to allay my fears, and take the plunge.
Not literally, I just decided it was not TOO bad.
(I was still not very happy, as you can see above.)
And then to top it off,
we couldn't get to the water from here,
so I had to cross back over the bridge.
A lack of planning on someone's part I think!

We finally had to get in the car
and drive to some place where I could get in the waters.
Here is a short documentary about
me playing in the water.

Of course, there were sticks a'plenty!

Well, that's enough for one day.
The tall guy said I can talk about the trip
for one more day.
He said if you did not want to see any more
pictures about me traipsing around the mountains,
that you could watch the footballs on teevees tomorrow
and come back on Monday.
He said I can tell you about the house
that costed two millions dollars
that we saw.

See you soon.

September 25, 2010

Now I can tell you!

Earlier this week, the tall guy had me to get in the car.
But he didn't say where we were going.
I did notice that he had put
a bunch of stuff in the car with us.

Needless to say I was very ANXIOUS!

We drove for a long time and then what did we see:
TREES! Lots and lots of real trees!

I seemed to remember these trees from last year.

We kept on driving for some more.
And then I figured it out.
We were going to the camping!!

It was raining pretty hard, but I didn't care.
I only had one thing on my mind!

Could it be?

Is it?

Yes!!!
It is the water that I got to play in last year!!
YEA!!!!

So, the tall guy said to apologize that he has not gotten to visit you this past week, because we did not have no Internets at the camping. He was NOT a happy camper! BOL!!
(Because he is addicted to the Internets.)

We have like 18 million pictures
and even some movies of me at the camping.
I'll have the tall guy help me put up only the best ones
for you to see in case you want to go to the camping too.

So, we are back!
We missed you!

September 24, 2010

What Do YOU Do
When You See Another Dog?

For some reason, and the tall guy doesn't know why,
whenever I see another dog walking out at the park,
I like to sit down and wait for him/her
to come over and say hello.
He did not even teach me how to do this.
I just started doing it on my own.

The tall guy gets tickled,
because everyone always says
"Look at that good dog.
He is so well behaved."
(That part always makes the tall guy laugh!)

If they start to come over,
I will usually lie down,
so that they will know that I am not going
to jump on them.

Well, maybe just once,
I kinda tried to kiss the person
with the dog,
but that was just because I was
so excited that they brought their
dog over to see me.

What?
Oh, all right.
The tall guy said that I sorta kinda might
have a very slight tendency to almost
always try to say hello to the people.
But we are working on that.

What?
Did I tell them the big news?
I thought you told them.
Oh my.
Well, the big news is...
What?
What do you mean I've
typed too many letters for today?
And that I'll have to wait until tomorrow to
tell everyone the big news?
I didn't know I had a letter limit.
Oh well,
I guess everyone had better come back tomorrow then!

September 23, 2010

How to duck a catch
er...
catch a duck.
by Jack

Here are some easy steps
for you to follow to learn
how to catch a duck!

First, you have to wait ANXIOUSLY.
Jump around a few times.
If you don't wait anxiously, the tall guy won't play.
Make him think that getting that duck
is the most important thing in your life!
Remember, he's going to pretend to make the duck fly
in different directions, but don't be fooled.
Wait until he has actually made the duck fly before you
go running off!

Next, run and get the duck,
remembering that it is probably going to land
behind you because the tall guy thinks that's funny
to watch you looking for the duck when it's really behind you.

Grab the duck and run back to the crazy, yelling guy,
er... I mean run back to the tall guy.

If you don't bring the duck ALL THE WAY BACK,
you won't get no treat.
Sometimes, you don't get no treat anyway,
but you never know.
The tall guy says it's MITTEN REINFORCEMENT,
but it's too hot to be wearing mittens,
so I have no idea what he's talking about.

It is always fun to pull on the duck's head
when you get back.
But be careful or sometimes the body will pop-up
and hit you in the eye!

And here's the best part of the game.
Wait until the tall guy has made the duck fly
a really really long way away.
And then go to the duck and sit down and eat a stick.
Remember, don't do this every time.
Use your mitten reinforcement.
How else will the tall guy learn that
you're done playing the game?