SLURP

Head on over and go get one!

Wow, so many slurps to choose from!  Go get yourself one or two!

Thank you for all of your concern this weekend.  We are enjoying the sunshine today!

Irene

Well, it’s a weak one, but she’s definitely here!

5:30 – Finn needs to go out!  Momma’s thinking, “Are you kidding me?!?!”

If you look closely, you can see her, the big golden blur in the middle of the lawn.

7:30 – just tons of rain, tons and tons of rain…

And at 8am, we’re still wet from our walk two hours ago and we’re heading back to bed for some more snuggling.

9am – Who was I kidding?  She knows it’s raining and she loves it out there. Hope everyone else is weathering through okay!

Storm is Coming!

…or is it the early morning haze?  7am here…

8am and all the lawn furniture is secure.  Finn takes a sniff around…

10am – where is everyone?!?  I want to play!  It’s just a little rain…

No sign of the froggie in the backyard, thank goodness!

3pm:  After an afternoon of napping and waiting, the rain is here!  See you on the other side!

Dahlias, Camellias, and Rhodies, Oh My!

Last call for flower pics!  Get them in to Momma at 

marianne(dot)d(dot)howard(at)gmail(dot)com before Sunday!

And this is what we call hurricane prep:

What, There Was An Earthquake?

We were too busy to notice!  A visit from Grandma at lunchtime kept us occupied!  Look who is becoming a Finn fan!

We did feel a little shakin’ at 1:55pm but it was smooth sailing afterwards!

Failed Photos

I admit, when I am planning a blog post, I take a ton of pictures.  Who am I kidding, I take a ton of pictures all the time.  Sometimes, they are pretty awesome, and sometimes, they are an epic fail.

Too dark

Eyes closed

Too blurry

Not looking at me

Flash

Subject too far away

What do you do with your failed photos?   Sometimes I just delete them, but sometimes they get saved, because they are just part of the bigger moment.

Here’s the rest of the set from the first one, too dark – 

I think she’s cute even when she’s blurry, dark and not paying attention, no?  These pictures are from our first day at home together, how could I delete any of those!

***Subliminal message***

Just a few days left – send them on in to marianne(dot)d(dot)howard(at)gmail(dot)com

PS-I still haven’t seen the frog hopping around anywhere and I am CONVINCED it’s still in the umbrella.  Did you see his sticky finger-thingamabobers?!  Gross!

In News Unrelated to Finn, But Still Involving Animals

I was contenting watching tv yesterday when I was summoned to the backyard.  At first I thought maybe something happened to Finn, so I made sure to get myself out there.  I soon discovered this.

Looks normal, right?  I was promised dinner outside last night, and so I noticed the umbrella was in the table, cleaning up of the area was happening.  All seemed right with the world.

Take a closer look.

Screams!  Why did I have to see this??  Why, why?  And then this.  

The darn thing moved.  Fast.

And it hopped right into the crease inside the fabric and we didn’t see it come out.

I have a frog living in my umbrella.

We ate dinner in the dining room last night.

Finn Notices the Deer…and it was borrrrring!

It started out just as a simple walk, but as I turned the corner, I saw…four little deer!  I ran back to get my camera, thinking I would get some pretty interesting interactions, maybe Finn getting exciting and jumping around a bit, but Finn noticed them and then just sat down and watched!

The deer noticed us.  They watched us watch them.  And then the deer ran away.  Just not the reaction from either party I thought we would get.

And least we weren’t on When Animals Attack!  Next time I think we’ll turn around and just go about our business!

My Green Shoe

I posted this great picture of Finn with her new toy – the green shoe – in my previous post and someone had a question about it.  It’s actually just a piece of rubber in the shape of a shoe with a rope attached through it.  It came in either green or orange.  I purchased this toy on Saturday and she’s pretty much made her way through the entire rope.  Nice and quick work.

I bought this thing because Finn’s been known to be found like this – she will actually pull the sole out of the shoes and shaking the rubber around!  

Aw, so precious.  At the same time, I bought this little squeaker too.  It makes a quacking sound when the head gets pulled from the body.  She’ll pull it, the noise will be made, and the she’ll jump back.  Oh Finn!

Don’t be forgetting to send in your flower pics!  Look, so pretty!  

I’m just kidding, I promise more beautiful pictures than that!  

And check out Sarge’s list for all of the party details!

Happy Friday folks!

Versatile Blogger

Well, I was just tickled when the 2 Brown Dawgs passed along the Versatile Blogger award to us this week!  We are just honored!  Finn meets a lot to our family, and so it makes me very happy that she has her own following here in Blogville.

The award requires that we share seven things about ourselves.  From Finn’s point of view, here we go…

Hanging in Momma’s office yesterday

1. I’m Momma’s first dog and it just drives Pops crazy that she is the one who has trained me to listen to all commands.

First picture together

2.  I’m a girl golden.  Lots of people call me a “he.”  They don’t see my pink collar??  Or my loveable cute face?

3.  Every morning, I head into Momma and Pop’s bedroom and see what they have left on the floor for me to bring downstairs and throughout the house.  Some mornings it’s a sock, some mornings it’s a t-shirt.  They know I am coming up to find something to retrieve, so they leave it out for me the night before.  They think I don’t know this.

4.  Momma is petrified of bringing me to the dog park by herself, so I only go with both humans.  She schmoozes with the other humans while Pops makes sure the pool and bowls have clean water and that I am playing nicely with the other pups.

5.    They can’t believe how quickly I chew through the toys they buy me.  I have very sharp teeth.  It doesn’t matter what they get me – squeaky toys, rope toys, stuffed animals – there are very few toys I haven’t destroyed.

6.  When Pops comes home late, I follow him around until I am ready to fall asleep at night.  I just miss him so much during the day if he’s not around.  As you saw yesterday, I just wait at the door and look out for his vehicle to pull in.

7.  Momma always checks the geographic location of my bloggie viewers!  We can figure some of our international friends out, but we always love to see new places pop up – Portugal, Russia, India – who are the folks checking in from here?

And now, to pass on the award, I would like to honor my friend Megan.  We’ve been friends for about ten years; we met working together during graduate school.  She’s a wife of a Marine, raising two children in Japan, and she blogs about her transition to life there and about her wonderful family.  I am always looking forward to what she has to post next!