Getting Ready for Date Night…

We got our outfits in today and have them hanging up all ready to get into for tomorrow night’s big Date Night at Twix's. We can hardly wait! Both BG and I are so excited, but also kind of shy. We haven’t ever met either of our dates in person before, but we’ve become great friends online!

Here is a picture of the dress being modeled, that I chose to wear… I tried it on, and my Dad says that I really look good in it. I hope that Bender will think so too, when he sees me…

Here is BG’s Tux, hanging up and ready to go… He thinks the neck is a bit tight, but he really wants to look good for Lorenza, so he’s going to wear it anyway. He also got a flower to give her.

The pups are all bummed that they are too young to go…

Grammy gave all of us some treats so that they would feel better about it!

But they are still pouting about it.

My tummy had so many butterflies in it that I was wondering if I was getting sick, but Papa had a talk with me and we figured out that it WAS just nerves and I was NOT getting sick!

Well… Wish us luck! BG and I are going to go out for a run to see if we can get rid of some of this excess nervous energy!

Maybe we’ll even find a bird to chase!

A Bit More About Country Corgi Critters

First, we wanted to answer a few of the comments we got on our last post about the Tarantula Hawks. Mom hates spiders, too, but isn’t totally arachnophobic (like her brother-in-law who goes into a fetal position at the site of more than one spider of any kind). She only dances if one gets on her. The tarantulas around here aren’t particularly poisonous unless you happen to have an allergic reaction.

One of Mom’s crazy sons likes them and will pick them up and play with them (She thinks that's NUTS!!!) She will have one taken off the property or at least to a wood pile usually. The one we took pics of was almost frozen and almost dead when we found it last November. She set it out in the sun & took pics, but it never came around… She thought it had probably been ‘seeded” with a T. Hawk, so she put the body in a jar with a lid so that she would have it to show her grandson.

We don’t like those big spiders and they don’t like us. If we see one, it will usually rear up and looks like it is shouting really nasty bad words at us in “spider language.” We tend to leave them alone, and we don’t see them at all except during the late fall, and maybe only one or two around here every year or two… It is more on the roads while driving that we will see several.

Mom says we’ve never had one IN the house, though that one came close, being on the wall just outside the back door of the patio. We HAVE had snakes, scorpions and centipedes (which have a painful sting) come into the house.

The T. Hawks aren’t aggressive and won’t chase you like the Yellow Jackets. Mom doesn’t like ANY kind of wasp or bee, so she ducks a lot if there are some around, but isn’t really afraid of them… just doesn’t want them in her hair.

It’s the Brown Recluse Spiders that are really dangerous around here! The Black Widows, and Brown Widow Spiders can also make you kind of sick feeling for a while unless you are allergic and THAT can be a problem. Mom says, Praise God, she isn’t allergic because she’s been bitten by Black Widows a few times.

These three kinds of nasty spiders are smaller and hide in dark places. They will get you if you don’t carry a light and check any dark place you need to put your hand into… like when feeding horses at night.

We will probably post more about these nasty critters some other time. Mom just wanted you all to know that she thinks the rattlesnakes around here are a MUCH worse threat to us, but she prays for us a lot about the nasty critters in this area, and is glad that we have been really smart about pointing the nasty things out to her … Well, DUH! We ARE Corgis!!!

When we see a nasty, we bark our “ALERT!” bark and bounce back and forth at it, staying out of reach, until she comes and takes care of the problem appropriately! Auntie Sadie is the one that taught us that. Border Collies are really smart too, I guess… Auntie Sadie sure is!

Also, about the Road Runners… Mom’s not crazy about those either as they are mean to other birds and animals. They eat eggs, kill chicks and other small birds as well as lizards. We will post more on them later sometime, too.

Sorry Dott hasn’t wanted to take her turn at posting lately. She started eating like a HORSE instead of her usual “bird like” appetite a few weeks ago, and then, suddenly, she seems to have lost a lot of her appetite and is kind of dumpy and sleeping a lot more. She does get out and run when we do go out, but she doesn’t seem to be able to “fly” like she used to when she jumps up on things.

Mom is watching her closely and she doesn’t really seem to be showing any signs of sickness, but she is acting differently, and so we are still wondering about the possible “Puppy” thing…

Oceano, Here We Come! Part 1

Corgi Country has been sweltering in temperatures around 105 degrees the past couple of days! Dad has come in from work with his work shirts white crusted with sweat. It’s been awful!


Dad decided that this weekend, we were going to the coast because it was only supposed to be in the low 60’s there. It was a Saturday, so that is a day that everyone sleeps in. We got up and had a good breakfast, and then we found out WE got mail!

We twitter under the username ocmist, and Dott has her own twitter under LittleDottBooks, and one of our twitter anipals, called BestBullySticks, had a give away of some samples of their Bully Sticks. We’ve heard of them from some of you, and so we asked for some and they got here Saturday morning!

You that have mentioned them are just SO RIGHT!!! They are wonderful! We thoroughly enjoyed our snack treat while waiting for Mom and Dad to get ready to leave! Yumm, Yummmm…!!!

We didn’t leave until around 1 in the afternoon, but once in the truck, it was COOOOOLLL! Dad’s truck has a wonderful air conditioner that will almost freeze you out no matter how hot it is outside. MUCH better than the old swamp cooler in the house! Two wonderful hours of riding in a nice cool truck being petted and loved on!!! THAT is the life!

Once we got to Arroyo Grande, we stopped at a MickyD’s to get US a double cheeseburger! Yum, yum, YUMMY! While they were there, Dad and Mom decided to have one too.

We drove on down to the beach, which was PACKED with cars, people, and dogs! I guess we weren’t the only ones wanting out of the heat!

It was COLD out there! They said it was in the low 60’s and it was overcast, foggy and there was a COLD breeze. It was NICE since we had our Corgi coats on… We had only been there a few minutes when several screaming trucks roared by, splashing water! They had pretty red, white and blue flashing lights on them, but the sounds they made about split our eardrums! There was a whole bunch of people gathered and the Rescue people (that’s what Mom called them… wonder if they save dogs?) jumped out and ran into the water with long red tubes.

They came back with someone (Mom says they must have been in trouble, so I wonder if they were doing bad things? Oh… no, Mom says they might have been drowning) and put blankets around the person, and the ambulance people checked them, but I guess they were ok, which is good. Mom had been praying for them. She didn’t want to bother anyone, so she only took a couple of pics from a little ways off. We stayed with Dad while she did that.

After things settled down, Mom took us, each, for a little walk around to sniff things out. I got to go first. I found a feather and Mom had me pick it up so she could look at it and show it to the pups when we got back to the truck. Trucks and cars kept coming by near us and distracted me a bit, and Mom was juggling a camera, the leash and trying to get the feather from me, so the vid is a bit jerky… sorry ‘bout that.

We homeschool the pups out here in Corgi Country, and try to find all kinds of things to teach them about… Mom and I let Dott examine the feather...

After that, BG checked it out...

When BG went on his walk, he saw a dead seagull that had gotten hit by one of those screaming trucks that went by so fast. At least he could see what happens if you don’t listen and get out in a “road” where those vehicles go. Poor gull...

Dott went for a little bit, but she didn’t like all the people, cars and that water that chases you, so she came back right away.

I hate it when Mom takes the pups and not me, even though I’ve had my turn, and I tell her in no uncertain terms that I should get to go too, even though it is really hard for me to walk on the sand. Finally, I got tired of yelling after her, (and Dad telling me to settle down) and so I just laid down on the sand and relaxed by Dad.

When she finished walking all three of us, we all sat by the truck and relaxed. Mom and Dad hadn’t brought any jackets, so after a while, they ended up wrapping themselves in towels, but they just sat out in their lawn chairs, listened to the waves, chilled out (literally), and watched the pellet cans. These are a bunch of weird birds that dive into water… I guess with a can… and catch fish!

This is getting to be pretty long, so I will finish telling you about the rest of our wonderful Saturday next time, ok?

Freedom and FUN!!!

Note: I wrote this Wednesday night to post Thursday, but our computer and/or internet is having problems and Mom spent over 5 hours yesterday trying to get this vid uploaded, gave up and finally got it to load today... (If we disappear for awhile, then you know it was the computer... :( )


We got out TWICE today!!! We went out for our morning walk with Robert to go get the mail. As usual, Mom didn't want Auntie Sadie to go, and I kept telling her to leave poor old Auntie alone!

We saw a quail…

and some kill-deer.
Mom wonders if it is the pair that raised some chicks here last year.

The neighbor dogs came half way across their pasture yelling at us. Robert got video, but Mom accidentally erased that one while trying to load it onto the computer. It’s a new camera and she doesn’t know how to work it well, yet. She was pretty upset! We were really good too, and didn't go under the fence and onto their property... this time...

This evening, Mom took us out with her when she fed. Robert had put Dancer and Tuffy into the back pasture, and moved Cory out into his corral with the gate opened so he can get into the side pasture, too. As you can see, Tuffy has almost shed out completely and is now gold instead of cream colored.

We all got to run in the side pasture until dusk started to settle...

Mom called us in so that the coyote that comes out then wouldn’t get us.

Personally, I think that with Auntie Sadie with us, we could take on that old song dog… NO PROBLEM!