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!

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!

Pippin’s Peek at the Past #4 … My Name

For today’s “Peek at the Past” I want to take you back to our post on some of the critters we’ve found around here. This same post is when I got my name changed from Neelix to Pippin!

Here are the questions for this week’s “Peek at the Past”:

1. What did the pups find in the back yard? _________

2. What was BG’s little ex-mistress doing in the picture? ________

3. What did they find in the tackroom when they went to feed the horses? ____________

For new readers/players, here are the rules: There will be 5 sessions, (this is the 4th one) and the winners who answer all questions in each puzzle correctly, will each get a Badge to display for the weekly wins. At the end of the 5 sessions, all of the winner’s names will be put into a Corgi Toss and the Grand Prize Winner will be chosen. (It was possible to have 5 entries if you'd gotten each week's questions correct.)

The Grand Prize Winner will get their choice of one of two prizes…

1. A “Little Dott Finds A Home” book  OR

2. A $15 Gift Certificate to our Country Corgi CafePress Shop We’ve added a LOT of new designs – here are a few…  Also, if you have a picture of your dog, and would like a design made, let me know, and I will work with you on it. 

   

AND

A $10 donation in your name to the Unity Thrift and Outreach Dog Rescue that Grammy’s Sister works with. They take 50+ dogs and puppies to no-kill shelters on the coast in various cities every month (over 1,000 dogs saved already) and have helped pay for over 400 spays/neuters this past year!

The following link is to a Newspaper Article about Linda Hodges (Trixie) and Unity Thrift and Outreach if you’d like to know more.  (Auntie Naunie is just to Mrs. Hodges right, in the purplish blue top.)

Remember, too, that I put on comment moderation during the game so that everyone has an equal chance of coming up with the answers. I will moderate and show the comments after Midnight on Friday, so you have until then to get in your guesses for this week’s contest! Good Luck, Everyone!

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...

We Found a SNAKE! By Mercy

The other day, we were out in the front yard and guess what I found! It was a long, living rope, that moved and wiggled, and it was right by our front yard fence!

I called Auntie Sadie and she said that it was a SNAKE! She said they can be very bad and not to get to close. She said you need to be ready to jump back cause they might try to jump at you and BITE you!

She started yelling at it and alerting our people, so Mama Dott and I helped her.

Pretty soon, GrandPaw Robert came out and took a look. Apparently this one wasn’t the really bad kind of snake and he told us we were good to have told him about it!

He went in and got the flashy box and took pictures, then chased it off into the woodpile so it can catch mice and maybe keep the bad kind of snakes away.