Thanks, so much! by Pippin

I want to thank all of you for your prayers for Papa. We went and got him this afternoon, and he is home tonight! I was dancing for joy!

Ok... so it's an old video, but it fit...

Grammy says that the test results aren't fully in, but the ones that did come in, say that he is not in an "urgent" situation. They gave him medicines for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and to thin his blood some, and put him on a cardiac diet. Grandma OC says she doesn’t like the sound of THAT cause the word “diet” NEVER means something good!

He has to see his regular people vet as soon as possible, and his heart vet next week for the rest of his results, and to figure out what comes next. Grammy says he HAS been under a lot of stress lately… I’m just glad he is home!

His chest still twinges a bit and they did see the skip in the heartbeats while they were doing the tests, but Grammy feels a bit better that now they will be watching him. Thanks again, everyone. We are Praising God around here, for His answers to all of our (and your) prayers.

Is This Princess Leah... Or is it Our Mercy?!

My Big Adventure - RESCUE!

Fourth Installment of Mango's Big Adventure 

Yep!  MY niece is right in the midst of the trouble all right!  We are just hoping that she doesn't get hurt!

Note from Dott to Dexter:

We are speechless over here! The boys are actually "rooting" for their sister! They are also fussing at each other, saying that this adventure is WAY better than going to the beach was! 

I am proud of her, but still want to RING HER LITTLE NECK for running off like this! Please be careful all of you! When the evil Lacie Beast is involved, from what we've seen in your other adventures, things can be dangerous, but hopefully she is gone now. We still can't believe this of Khyra and Twinkie!

Dott and the rest of the Country Corgis minus one VERY MUCH IN TROUBLE young lady corgi!

Happy Birthday America!

And God, please bless our friends, human and animal, on this day we celebrate the Independence of our County!

Yummy CORN and Otter Pops! By Gimli

Grammy cooked some corn the other night and we got to eat some of it!

It was TOTALLY yummy! She didn’t think to get out the camera until after I’d already eaten a whole cob of it, but she did get a few vids of me and some of the others getting some of the second cob.

I really enjoyed that corn…

Mercy only got a little taste because Grammy wouldn’t let her take it away for herself, and she got mad and left to pout!

Pippin chewed off the rest of THAT cob!

After we finished the Corn and some of Papa’s Butterscotch pudding, Pippin also got some of Papa’s Jelly Belly yellow Otter Pop, too! Hey man, what’s with THAT! 

BBQ & Road Trip!

Friday evening, it was so pretty outside that Papa decided he would try his new gas BBQ grill. (It’s not really “new” but Manuel just gave it to us recently, so it’s new for us…)

He’d gone to the store on the way home from work and gotten some pork steaks to cook. Grammy cut up potatoes, carrots, and onions and wrapped them, with a bit of bacon and butter, in some heavy duty aluminum foil. She also cored an apple, put in cinnamon, a bit of sugar and a bit of butter, and wrapped that in foil, too, so that Papa could grill them.

They shared some with us, and BOY, WAS IT GOOD!!!

Poor Sadie had to stay in the yard because Grandma OC was out with us. Actually, we pups could only be out, a few at a time on leashes, because our people didn’t want us out of their sight since the neighbor’s dogs were loose over at their place, and they didn’t want us ganging up and heading over there.

We all sat outside for a while after and talked.

Mama Dott listens, so she was loose, but she kept her eyes open for rabbits out in the front pasture. She had to stay close, so she had to crouch to see under the car.

Afterwards, we all went in and snoozed with full tummies while our people watched a movie on the TV.

On Saturday, Papa decided to take us (BG, Gimli, Mercy & Pip) on a road trip. We went to the Big Town where the Kern River runs through some of the parks, and we got to go and play in it!

We had lots of fun! There were some really pretty flowers in the Water Lily pads.

We got to see some people in what Grammy called “inner tubes” floating down the river, but Grammy was taking pictures of us watching them and didn’t get pictures of them.

Then we went to a store to buy a BBQ utensil set since it was on sale at 60% off the regular price. Papa was really happy with it, and plans to BBQ quite often now… Yippeeeeeeeee!!!!

Look for Pippin's Peek at the Past #4 tomorrow...

Ventura Road Trip… By Pippin

Note from Grammy:  This morning I realized that my foreign friends would not be able to use Google Translator to translate the picture captions in this post.  For that I am very sorry, so decided I'd better repost Pippin's story with the captions above the pictures.  My English readers can still read the picture captions if they want and let me know if you get more of a feel of being with Pip on his adventure... 

  
Grammy and Papa DID get to go to Ventura on Friday morning, and Grandma OC and I got to go with them! 
Let's get this show on the road, Papa!

Mmm... Sausage Biscuit for Breakfast on the way up...

  

Ventura, Here we come!  Look at that pretty purple on the hill...

Pretty purple flowers on the mountain going toward L.A.

Finally we got to the La Quinta Hotel in Ventura...

Look where the magic room took us...  3rd Floor?

This is a really NEAT room here at the La Quinta!  (We ALWAYS stay at La Quinta Hotels because they LOVE pets and allow two to a room!)

Ahhhh...  No Sadie!

 

What a WONDERFUL roaching rug!

 

Air Conditioning!  Is THIS cool, or what!?

 

SEE, Grammy... Isn't it NICE with no Sadie around?         NO GATE!  I'm FREE!

He LEFT us here...  Papa had to go to one of those "Jobs."

 

Ahhh... THIS is the LIFE!

 

IS it...!?  Is that PAPA I hear !!!

 

I want to play, Papa!

 

HA, HA, HA!!!  Quit tickling, Papa!

 

So MUCH FUN, Papa...  I'm ready for a nap!

 

High 5 Dad!  Dinner's a GREAT idea!

 

Grammy, Is Papa EVER coming back?!!

Finally, he got back and we had dinner and then went to bed. In the morning…

OPEN... OPEN... Come ON, DAD!!! I want BREAKFAST!

Yummy! Waffles, hard-boiled egg, Yogurt… 
Grammy... What's a Jacuzzi?  Why couldn't I go with Papa?

 

What's that BIG dog doing?   WOOF!!!

 

Hey, Mr. Rottwieler... Watch IT!  There are TWO of us corgis!

 

So... THIS is a beach?

 

Well... Are we going to get out there?

 

We spent a little time at the beach...  Hmm. Seagull?  What's a Seagull, Papa?

 

Hmm... What's down in here...  Snort, sniff, kick dirt...

 

What a HUGE, noisy caterpillar!

After we left the beach, we started home, going through Ojai. We hoped to see Gracie, but they were out of town… (This was such a last minute trip, we didn't have time to call ahead...) The Highway through the mountains was very pretty though…

Beautiful mountain flowers all along a long stretch of the road...

 

Little Waterfall in Mountains on drive home...

 

Beautiful Yucca Plants flowering

 

The "Badlands" taken from the top of the Mountain on Hwy 33...

Finally we got home…

Mercy:  Don't know why I couldn't go... :(

 

Gimli:  Grammy, You LEFT me... We need to talk!

 

UNCA BG!!!   I MISSED You!!!                 Ok... OK, Kid... Get OUT of my MOUTH!

 

 (Notice Dott's just NOT speaking to us... )

YUCK!     Puppy Spit!!!