Friday night fumble

I know that football season is over but I have to say that mom really dropped the ball when it came to tonight's post.

 

She got home from work and started reading all your blogs and completely forgot about posting on her own. 

 

I had all day to read your blogs and I could have caught her up but no, she said she wanted to read for herself and leave comments.

 

I handled things here though. I think I made an excellent recovery. What do you think?

Blame it on the dog

It's all Duke's fault and now I'm starting from square one.
Along with my new plan for following my favorite blogs, I started a new plan for doing my posts. I've sort of been working ahead. I'll write my posts a day or two ahead and then schedule them. This way I'm not scrambling to get a post together after I finish reading all your wonderful posts. Well, last night Duke was so excited about doing a post that he just went ahead and published it without scheduling it for today. That meant 2 posts for yesterday and nothing for today.
Since I'm starting from scratch again and working on putting together a few posts, today I'm going to bring you a design I put together and named "Starting from square one"
It got it's name because this is what I started with

 

One black square is where this all began.

From there it led to this

 

Next came this

 

and the final product

 

It's a good thing tomorrow is Friday and my weekend starts. It will give me some extra time to catch up on things.

From my desk

Yesterday mom showed you something about me so today I'm going to show you something about her. Want to see what was on her desk?

 

She was busy making another one of those notebooks again. This time she even liked the way it looked and told me I could show it to you.

 

She put this one in the mail to cousin Joyce the other day. Mom says Joyce is a lucky lady because she got to do something called retire. 

 

I wonder if dogs get to retire. 

Wishful Wednesday

A little bit of wishful thinking for Wednesday. If you've been following my blog you can probably guess what I'm wishing for. Yes, that's right, SUNSHINE and summer. Since some of you were eager to see Duke on his raft and that goes right along with my wish for warm weather I thought I would bring on the pictures from last year and the year before.

 

Here he is thinking about jumping in. And yes, he does jump in on his own. If you don't watch him closely, and he wants to swim he just goes for it. Believe it or not, he'll jump in from the ladder, swim around and then he can climb back out all on his own. He swims back over to the ladder and climbs it. 

 

Ahhhh, doesn't that look refreshing?

 

Here he is on one of our rafts. This one has always been his favorite for some reason. He loves to get underneath the back of it.

 

This was after he got his first hair cut and I bought him his OWN raft.

 

Last summer we bought him this boat. He normally gets on one of the rafts, floats out to the middle and then just sits there and barks because he's not moving. Well this one we tied a rope to. When he floats out and stops we just pull the rope and put him into motion...lol He also loves it when you kick water at him. 

I hope you enjoyed your little swim with Duke today