Treat, Mama, Treat

Scout asking for a treat.

Scout was begging for a treat this morning.  Do you know why she really wanted it?  She wanted me to move from the bed.  Normally when we get treats, Scout takes the bed on the floor and I take the dinette bed.  I fooled her today and stayed on the bed.  BOL!

Poor Scout!  BOL!

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Getting Smarter Every Day

"Will It Shoot Out?"

Yesterday, I was out walking with Scout and Mama.  Scout was right on my butt.  Mama said "Scout, you better be careful!"  Mama started laughing.  When she stopped laughing, she told us about something that happened with Jack when she first adopted him.  According to the story, Mama was visiting Grandma with Jack.  Mama's nephew who was about eight at the time was visiting.  We will call the nephew "N" to protect his privacy.  BOL!   N had never really been around dogs.  He was fascinated by Jack. Mama took Jack out for a walk and N wanted to go along.  N kept asking Mama all sorts of questions about Jack including his "bathroom habits".   N kept walking directly behind Jack's butt.  Mama kept telling N to give Jack room.  Mama turned around and N was squatted down and his face was inches away from Jack's butt.  Mama told him he better be careful because Jack might need to go to the bathroom.  N said "Is it going to SHOOT OUT?"  BOL!   Poor Jack.  He had to wait for N to leave before he could do his "business".

There isn't much going on here today.  We had storms yesterday.  We may have more today.  The neighbors that ran over the frog have left.  It is now just us and the people behind us.  We can't figure out how many dogs they have.  We see new ones almost every day.  Mama thinks maybe the lady is a dog sitter or something.  The couple is not very friendly, but we still say "hi" to them when we see them. Their black dog is big and he hates us.  He tries to get at us whenever he is out.  His people walk him on a flexi leash.  Mama has a very strong dislike for flexi leashes. She says people don't have control over their dogs when they use them, especially big dogs.

Thanks to Bunny, my half sister, for telling us about the Blogger app.  We didn't know there was one. We loaded it and Mama said she will try it. We are really behind in our apps.   We just found out there is one for finding vets.  It is really good if you travel.  It is by IAMS - Vet 24/7.  It is an Android app.  We don't have a smart phone, but we have a tablet.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Might Teach A Kid A Lesson If They Get To Close To His Butt

RIP Mr. Frog

 As you know, there are only a few of us living here.  We have a neighbor one site over from us and a neighbor to the back of us.  There was a huge frog that had been living under our rig.  It looks like he decided to go for a  hop around and ended up in the street.  What are the odds that our neighbor would come home at that time and and run him over?  Yep, he is flattened in the middle of the street.  It is not a pretty sight, so no photos will be posted. He is covered in flies.  I swear, you should see how fast the flies come out here.  Our poop is covered in flies before Mama can even bag it.  Anyway, we are sad the frog was killed.  He was fun to watch.

My sister, Scout, being sassy.

Yesterday, Mama and I took a walk at noon time.  We left Scout behind.  We were having a grand time, but then I stepped on some burrs.  Mama didn't realize that is what I had done.  She kept asking me what was wrong.  I didn't limp but I was walking really slow.  When we got home, she took Scout out and when she came in, I was trying to pull the burrs out.  Ouch!  She said "Oh, you poor baby!"  She removed the burrs and put some medicine on my paw.  It is fine now.  She did a quick search on Cheatgrass to be sure it wasn't that because a fellow blogger had huge problems with that and her dog.  Cheatgrass looks different, so that is good.
 

This is what was in my foot.  There were several burrs.

Our bully sticks arrived safely on Monday. Mama ordered us some huge bones, but we are not fond of them. Mama received her mail, too.  She is waiting for her prescriptions and then that it is for now. 

Mama cleaned out two cabinets and ended up throwing out a whole bag of garbage.  She still feels like it is not organized because she still has two plastic bins of junk, but now she can put the laptop away at night in one of the cabinets instead of leaving it on the counter.  Speaking of our laptop, its' days are limited.  Our battery will not charge again.  We had replaced the cord on the laptop earlier this year and that solved the problem for a few months.  The cord allows us to work off of electricity but it will not charge the battery.  That is the same thing the old cord did.  The battery has been replaced twice.  It is such a pain. It is several years old, so it is time to replace it.  Mama just doesn't want to spend the money.  She wants to replace the window shades in here first and hopes the laptop can hang on until Christmas.  We have a tablet, but she finds it difficult to do much on it other than browsing and it seems to have trouble with our Wi-Fi at times.

We may get storms today and maybe some flooding.  We are not worried because we don't expect it to be as bad as last Friday. Dad may have trouble getting home from work though due to possible flooding and the President is in town today.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Upset With The Neighbors For Driving Over Mr. Frog

A Funny From The Past

Mama likes to see what people are reading on our blog if it isn't the current days post.  She normally knows what the post is about by the title, but the other day one came up that she didn't remember.  She read it and started laughing.  She said "Jack was so funny!"  Today, is the second anniversary of Jack's death.  Mama has been pretty sad because she still really misses him and he has been on her mind so much lately.  Since I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Jack, I thought it would be nice to re-visit the blog post that made Mama laugh last week as a small tribute to Jack, the founder of our blog.

FYI:  For those of you who didn't know Jack, he was a huge TV fan.  He couldn't watch Animal Planet or America's Funniest Home Videos alone because he would try and attack the TV.  If a greyhound was on TV, he would whine.   He loved Judge Judy.  Scout and I don't watch TV, but we know when Judge Judy goes off, it is time for us to take a walk.  BOL!

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Knows If It Wasn't For Jack, He And Scout Wouldn't Have Been Adopted Into This Home And Thus We Wouldn't Be On A HUGE Adventure.

Originally posted on October 28, 2010

GROUNDED

Jack and Scout

Jack and Scout reporting to you this morning.

Jack: We were grounded yesterday. NO TV!

Scout: Yep, grounded, no TV.

Jack: No People's Court, Judge Judy, The Talk, etc, etc.

Scout: I really don't care for TV much so it didn't bother me. There is a commercial I like though. It has a whale in it and I've been imitating his sounds which is driving Mama crazy! LOL Jack loves his TV though, so he was very upset that he couldn't watch it.

Jack: It's Scout's fault that we got in trouble.

Scout: You could have said "NO" Jack, but you didn't.

Jack: What did we do? Well, we got Mama up around 2 a.m. to go outside. That's not why we got in trouble though.

Scout: No, we do that a lot.

Jack: We got in trouble because we did zoomies around the yard. Mama told us to come in and we just ran circles around her.

Scout: It was so funny! Mama was standing out in the middle of the yard dressed in her jammies. Her arms were flapping and she kept yelling at us to get in the house. We just kept running circles around her.

Jack: Mama said it looked like she was a lion tamer in the circus.

Scout: It was a lot of fun, but Mama didn't think it was. She said "YOU'RE GROUNDED, NO TV!" I just laughed and said "whatever". It was worth loosing TV for a day.

Jack: So, yesterday, I missed all of my favorite shows. I hope I can catch up on Days Of Our Lives today because it was at a dramatic part when it ended on Tuesday.

Scout: I'm sure you didn't miss anything, Jack. That show moves slower than a turtle.

Jack: So, that's why we were grounded yesterday. We didn't get Mama up last night, so we are golden today.

Scout: Yeah, we are golden. LOL

Jack and Scout
The Ungrounded Greyhounds

The Beach

Now, don't get excited.  We didn't go to the beach, but the folks did.  Mama said no dogs were allowed and it was too crowded anyway.  They drove to Hugh Taylor Birch State Park because there is a tunnel that you walk through to get to the beach. 

The tunnel that goes under the street and to the beach.

People enjoying the beach.

Mama said that it seemed much brighter in person than in these photos.  The folks took these photos and headed down the street to find something to eat.  They decided the walk was too far and decided to head back to the park.  Mama wanted to walk the Hammock Trail.  She thought it would have huge trees covering the trail like an umbrella.  It was not.

She worried about snakes falling from the trees, so it wasn't very enjoyable.  They both felt like bugs were crawling on them after getting off the trail.  I think it would have been fun!  Scout says she was happy to stay at home in the air conditioning.

The folks took another wrong turn and the next thing they knew, they were being asked for their passports.  BOL!   They turned into the port where you board cruise ships.  Dad told the officer that he took a wrong turn and the officer said it happens all the time.  Duh!  There were no signs to say it wasn't a regular street.  They took Dad's driver's license and held it until they turned around.  I guess they wanted to make sure they didn't make a break for the cruise ship.

The folks ate some good food this weekend and we all know that makes Mama happy.  She will update her blog on that later today. 

There was a 20% chance of rain yesterday.  We had four heavy downpours.  I guess that is just the norm here.  We were out walking twice when it happened, so we ducked under a porch for a while. 

There are some ducks here that Scout really likes.  She really had them on the run the other day, but Dad said that wasn't very nice.  He is the "fun police" you know. 

The ducks that Scout likes.

Scout watching the ducks.  The ducks are near the top of the photo.

Everyone left yesterday but the guy who seems to live here permanently and then one motor home came in last night.  The count if you are keeping track is now three of us staying in our section.   Two of the cats seem to think they should live under our motor home.  I think it makes life interesting, but Mama not so much. 

Our regular mail and our bully sticks are supposed to be delivered today.  Our paws are crossed.

Joey,
The Greyhound Who Is Memorized By Cats