Its a dog's life!

Well we did have a few cooler days, but now its hot hot hot again.  The only thing to do on days like this is to find somewhere to flake out.  The small settee is one of my favourite places when the curtains are drawn to keep the sun out.

Go point that camera at someone else, I'm busy snoozing.  Actually, I can snooze all day, but I make up for it, I keep them coming up and down stairs all night.  Wee!  Drink of water.  Wee !  another drink of water and maybe a bit of grub.  Poo. Snooze.  Wee again, Mum, snooze.  Oh I can keep it up all night.  Mum reckons I am the cause of the black circles under her eyes. When Mum finally flakes out and hands over to Dad I get my trip into the garden, but that is it, game over.  Dad dont play that game.

  Never mind, by the time Dad takes over I have had a few trips into the garden, at least three drinks of water, and possibly another couple of bowls of grub.  Good game.


Well, dont just stand there Dad, make yourself useful, tickle my tummy!  The folks reckon I have the most tickled tummy in the universe.

We wait until its cooler before we go out for a walk, but I am still heading at full speed for my hole in the hedge.  Its a shortcut to the next field where my main objective is ... the splash.

Over in the field across the river they have harvested the crop the old fashioned way, and have pitched onto the trailer.  It will go to the old mill to be ground into flour, and then baked into bread which they sell on days the mill is open to the public.  All done as it was in the past.

Dad thinks this is interesting.  There is no accounting for humans.



Now THIS is interesting.  They went out shopping.  The meanies put all the rubbish bins up on worktops where I couldn't get to them to investigate.  So I had to look elsewhere for entertainment.  I found it in the dining room.  Dad had put a couple of bags of barbeque charcoal under the table.  That bag just sort-of fell open in my mouth, so I had a bit of a dig around.  It went a long way.  Unfortunately they came home before I got to the second bag.


Barbeque night again tonight Dad?  I love helping Dad with the barbeque.  I've found the charcoal for you, so no excuses!

Its never boring - even when its hot!

Its been so bloomin' hot that none of us have wanted to do very much.  Its been a good time to catch up on my essential beauty sleep.  Mum's got a good trick for hot days, she splashes a few ice cubes into my water bowl and I do a bit of cube-catching ...  I chase them around the bowl with my nose until I can grab one and crunch it up.  Like that trick.

When we go for a walk the only thing to do is head straight for the splash.  I can spend ages just messing about in the river.

I was just poking around and I found something interesting.  It took a fair amount of poking and scraping, but I got it up.  Hey, its my half-a-ball!






I happily played tossing-it-over-my-shoulder and then digging it up again for a while until my mates arrived.

 Patrick is a Setter and he is usually up for a bit of a chase, but this time they had Grandma with them ...

..and like all good Grandma's she has an almost- never-ending supply of treats.

You have never seen such well-behaved dogs.  Sitting nicely in front of her.  Mind you, we had a bit of an ulterior motive - Grandmas was going nowhere.  She wasn't getting past us until that treats bag was empty - and we had each investigated it thoroughly to make sure!

You can come again, Grandma, any time.

On the way back to the car we saw a huge column of black smoke coming from the farm buildings.  Then we heard that whoo-whoo-whip-whip-whoo sound, coming near and nearer.

It was large red-and-yellow truck with ladders on top.  The first one had hardly got its hoses sorted out when a second one arrived.





 The old barn was well on fire, and the trees behind it were burning too, but the Firemen had large size hoses and put lots of water on it.  When the roof of the barn collapsed lots of sparks few up .. it was a bit like fireworks night only not so noisy.

We watched from across the road with the rest of the spectators - dont know where they all came from, unless the Fire Engine brought them along for the ride ....

Mum went shopping and came home with a new toy for me.  I just love new toys.  This one has a very satisfactory squeek ... I can almost play tunes with it.

After a while Dad disappears up to his computer and puts his headphones on.  Cant think why.

This is my very biggest I'm-a-happy-puppy smile.