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Louis here...
Wow, where has the year gone? The holidays are fast approaching, and I can’t believe the weather has cooled down. I can now sit in the sun in the mornings and not melt! Thanksgiving is coming soon, and we are going to Alex and Kathi’s for dinner. They invite me ‘cause they like me. Great folks; they have other friends who like me too, so it’s a nice evening. I don’t have to stay home alone.
Winter here in the desert is the best time of year. Warm days, cool nights, and all my friends are back. Dilly comes to see me, Austin, Harley, Kirby, Coco, Bogie and Nikki! Nikki came late this year, ‘cause his mom had surgery and was going thru rehab so they didn’t arrive until the 10th of November. Went to play with him, when he arrived. Boy he has grown over the summer and is about the same height as me.
We run and roll and have a great time. Mom bought me Christmas presents to give to my friends when they come to visit, I got a snowman for Nikki, a reindeer for Dilly, Santa for Austin and presents for Lizzy and Darcy across the street. They are new to the neighborhood, and they are Welsh Corgi’s, like the Queen has.
The Queen of England that is. Cute, but they bark a lot! I can hear them from my house, and their yard is on the other side of their house. But oh well, that’s their thing, not mine. I just sit and watch the golfers come and go by. Bogie is coming for Christmas dinner. He is fun, but sorta snobby, he is a French poodle. He plays with me for about 5 minutes, then he jumps up on his mom’s lap and ignores me the rest of the time. But he bought me a present, too. A Champagne bottle. Must have known that our family makes Champagne in France. This is fun; it squeeks too!
I just gave him a Santa Ball that squeaks. But boy do I have a new batch of toys. My girlfriend Dilly gave me a Gifelte Fish. It is blue and white and when you squeeze it, it says “Oy Vey, oy, oy, oy.” It is funny. When I got up one morning, there was a bag was sitting by the fence in my yard. Mom opened it, and gave it to me. I immediately buried it. Just the right size for the hole. I just put it in the ground tail up and bury it.
Mom gets so frustrated with me doing that, but she is getting better. I need to tell you what I did. Mom planted three planters of flowers, that included pansies and petunias and some other red thingy. She put them under the big picture window that was covered in rocks so I can’t dig. Well I buried my fish in one of them, then my humpy in another, and my rawhide bone in the third. All in one day. Boy, oh boy did I get in trouble! She even spanked my butt. I stayed under the bed for the better part of the
day! She took them out, and had to replant the flowers in the dirt. That night they went out to dinner, guess what, I did it again! She walked in the door, and I immediately put my ears back and ran under the bed. She knew I had done something, ‘cause I looked guilty! Well this time I was sent to bed! Mom was really mad this time. This went on for about a week, me burying my toys in her planter and then hiding under the bed.
Finally she got the hint. She took the planters out of the yard, put them on the wall next to the pool, and now we no longer have any conflicts! Oh, I still bury things, but in the corner by the bedroom, and there are no flowers to dig up! Hope you all had a Happy New Year and talk to you soon.
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