We’ve GOT IT!

Mama Dott and I have MASTERED the WHOLE Obstacle Course, including the Balance Beam!

 



Yep! I FINALLY can do it with NO PROBLEMS!

My brothers will show you that they can do it later, but since Gimli was laughing at me the last time, Grammy said I could show you all first. 

How was that? 

Obstacle Course Addition… By Gimli

GrandPaw Robert made a new addition to our Obstacle Course. He added a 10 foot balance beam to one end of it.

Mama Dott and I really like it, and Pip uses it too!

Mercy isn’t quite so sure about it.

Her GrandPaw, Robert, is working with her, but it looks like it will take some time!

Maybe she did get a bit of a scare while she was away,

and lost some of her confidence.

She’s still a grumpy “teenager” around me and Pip, and it doesn’t help that I like to show off on the new beam,

and try to “help” her see that there is nothing to it!

Ladder Training Vids… By Mercy

In my last post, I told you that we would get the videos of GrandPaw Robert teaching us to climb the ladder posted as soon as we could get them uploaded, so here they are. GrandPaw was able to get that done while Grammy (GrandPaw’s Mom) was at the doctor. She is over her tummy sickness mostly, but her foot has been bothering her a lot and she was finally able to get in to see him. He is going to send her to a foot doctor.


This first one shows GrandPaw working just with me…



I started to get the hang of it and He thought that maybe it would help me to not be so nervous if I could see Uncle BG and Mama Dott doing it. I think that he has figured out that if THEY are getting jerky, then I will try harder so that I can get some, too!



The last video shows BG, Gimli, Pippin and Sadie going up and down the new obstacle on our course.

A New Trick… by Mercy

I guess that you all saw the new trick that Gimli and BG learned while they were on their Big Road Trip. It was pretty cool, and when they got home and GrandPaw Robert found out about it, he decided that would be a good thing to add to our Obstacle Course.



First, he used the ladder that they used on the trip because it had broader stair steps. Then he used our regular ladder at a slight slant against the table. He worked with Mama Dott mostly on that one, and just a little with us.



Finally, he decided to fixed up our regular ladder with carpet (to make it easier to grip and not so slippery.)




He attached it to the side of our Obstacle Course so that now we have THREE ways to get to the top: the ramps on each end and the ladder on the side.




Then he started trying to teach ME how to climb it. I was NOT to sure about that! (We will be posting our Ladder Training videos tomorrow after we have a chance to upload them on a faster computer in town while Grammy is at the doctor’s, but I begged Grammy to let me post MY story tonight!



I finally did it, but I wasn’t real thrilled about it! . Mama Dott & Unca BG had to show me that it really wasn’t that bad.

After that, Gimli came out and showed that he could do it, too, but that wasn’t really air because he’d had a lot of practice on their Road Trip. Even he wasn’t real sure about coming back down, though!









Pippin swear’s that he didn’t practice on their trip, but he sure does go up that ladder pretty fast. Looks like he’s flying! Grammy says it’s probably because he is smaller and so the steps are bigger for him in comparison to the rest of us. She says that’s also why Mama Dott makes it look so easy!












Sadie didn’t think it was very fair that we got to do tricks and get jerky and she didn’t, so she talked Grammy into putting OC into the house and letting her try the ladder too! It only took her 2 tries to get it down pat!












After that, we had a photo shoot on the ladder. What do you think? How do we look?

A Day to PLAY!

We like to play rough!

Here we were learning how to play on the Obstacle Course before GrandPaw put up the net.

And here is our Course now that it is Puppy safe...

The Next Day… (Workin’ on Grammy Cont. by Pippin)

The next day, the sky peed a lot… Grammy calls it “Rain.” OK!! I guess it “RAINED” a lot. We woke up Grammy wif with VERY muddy feet!

She says we are her “Corgi Alarm Clock!”

We played for a few minutes on the bed, but then Grammy said she had to get up… (By the way, Sasha, that toy you gave us is STILL our favorite, though it has had to be repaired a few times.)

GrandPaw went out to work on our obstacle course, which he was making out of Mama Dott’s Lookout. He had already made it much safer so Mama wouldn’t get hurt again. They said they will do a post about making it later.

He had let us run on it a bit, but was afraid it wasn’t safe enough to let us play on it whenever we wanted.

When he would come in, he would take down the ramps so we couldn’t get on it unless he was right there watchin us…

It’s been a lot of fun to play on, and we begged him to fix it so that we could play on it whenever we wanted.

So, that day, he went out and fixed several things on it, and then he put a net over the whole run so that we CAN’T fall off of the high run parts!

Grammy went out and helped him a little bit when he was almost finished… thought of some extra safety features…

After they were finished, they went around to the front yard to turn on the water to the back so Grammy could go out and water and feed the horses. She was thrilled to see this rainbow in the sky! It wasn’t a whole one, but it WAS a double one. She said it was another “God Smile” for her. They ARE kind of pretty!

Grammy sold one of her pictures of Mama Dott on Ebay. It was done from one of the photos in Mama’s book, and is from when she was sad. She was kind of happy about that.

We hope Grammy will be able to finish getting some of the vids of us on our obstacle course finished for next time… You should see us speeding around! It's a BLAST!!!

We’re Workin’ on Grammy…

We’ve got so much to tell you about all the things we’ve been doing over this past week, and Grammy just can’t seem to get off her duff and help us get the pics, etc. put together to get goin. She’s looking at all the stuff she’s got to do around here before Christmas and getting tired before she even starts! PEOPLE! They are just so strange sometimes!

First, Grammy got a call saying that her son, Little Bear, and his Mom were coming out for a visit for the WHOLE day!!!! She was so excited she started working on the house and got out that nasty, noisy sucking machine again, which ticked off Grandma OC, Uncle BG AND Mama Dott. We just decided to beat a quick retreat and headed outside.

Things got changed, and she only got to see Little Bear for a few hours when they came out so that he could ride his Quad in the pastures and dirt roads around here with his dad. She was happy that she got to see him, but disappointed that they couldn’t stay longer.

WE, in the meantime, had to stay in the yard! Talk about DISAPPOINTED!!!

She was afraid that we might end up under the quad or that motorcycle that her son was running around really fast on. Little Bear is just learning how to handle the quad, she said, and might not stop on time.

The motorcycle was new and her son was having fun racing it down the hill in the side pasture, down into the ditch and jumping it out of the ditch. Grammy told us that he is one of the ones that used to “fly” down that hill when it was a VERY windy day, using a homemade “parachute.”

When the two “riders” went out to ride around for a little bit on the dirt roads, Gimli got to go out of the fence on his leash to play for a little bit with their Chihuahua dog, Cassy. Oh, did I tell you we are starting to go to school and learn about leashes and stuff? That will have to be another story, I guess! I told you we have a BUNCH of them!

Grammy was pretty bummed that they had to leave early, so we went out so that GrandPaw could show her some of our agilities obstacles that we’ve been playing on and try to raise her spirits. We saw a hummingbird on the fence for a little bit when we went into the side yard so she could see our A-Frame. Grammy said it was a "God Smile" for her.

Here I am on the A- Frame… Then Mama Dott showed Gimli how to do it…

Finally he got the hang of it and we both did it together. Grammy was proud!

It took that GIRL, our sister, Mercy, a whole nother day to get the hang of it… snicker…