BYE, BYE, AUNT CHERYL!

We had to get up early this morning to say goodbye to Aunt Cheryl.  She is on her way home to Austin now, and we won't see her again until maybe next year.  Ever since the cactus conference got over with, Mom and Aunt Cheryl have been busy running around every day, going to thrift shops and garden centers and estate sales and all sorts of places.  We dogs mostly stayed home and took naps because it has been really, really hot outside,...

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AMERICAN CROWS

This summer we have a whole bunch of crows in our neighborhood.  I don't know why, since this has not happened to us before.  Well, sometimes we see one or two crows, but this year we have a regular murder of crows hanging out here.  My own theory is that a few crows came here to scout the place out, and then they went and told all their friends that this was a nice neighborhood to live in, and everybody came here.Anyway, I got curious...

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WE SURVIVED! YAY!

Mom came and rescued us from Pooches' Paradise yesterday afternoon because the cactus conference was all over with, and she and Aunt Cheryl were home again.  So we dogs got to come home, too, and we took naps all evening in the nice, air-conditioned house.  We helped Mom and Aunt Cheryl watch "American Pickers" on TV, and we got to eat supper out of our own bowls. The cats are not home yet, and we like it that way.  Even Mom says that...

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THE CACTUS CONFERENCE IS HERE!

And Aunt Cheryl is here, too!  She got to our house on Tuesday morning.  I remembered her right away, but Barry forgot it was okay to let her come in the house and walk around without barking and lunging at her.  Then after a while, he remembered that Aunt Cheryl is a very nice person who loves and understands dogs, so he started behaving more nicely.Mom has been going sort of nuts, trying to get everything ready to take to the conference....

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ALL THE LATEST NEWS

Well, first of all, Ingram the kitten got adopted!  He went to his forever home last night with a very nice couple who just moved here from Indiana.  This is the first place they've lived where they can have a pet, and the man wanted a Manx kitty because he had a couple of them when he was a kid.  These people are also thinking about getting a small dog, which I believe is a very fine idea.Oh, but guess what!  Ingram got two more...

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FUNNY PEOPLE NAMES

Well, once again it's time to look at a list of strange names and wonder why anybody would give such names to their poor, innocent kids.  This time I'm only going to tell you some first names.  Most of these came from the obituaries.  Some of them belonged to a woman and others to a man.  And some of them are a mystery, because a lot of obituaries are short and don't ever use the word "he" or "she."Female NamesBlancholaVerlietteGladaVertleCinnamonLoxieEuphemiaJettieAthaArvillaPheloOneyEglentyneCloreneVenniqueAdelmaNovaIvenaJustisDelyteIodieEldevaMaudeflorenceUpleLuddieElvessaSundayLoyceMarcordiaWinzelMale...

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A DOG NAMED XIAO SA

Back at the beginning of May, a group of Chinese cyclists started on a long trip through the mountains from Chengu, which is the capital of Sichuan province, to Lhasa, which is the capital of Tibet.  On May 4, they saw a little white dog, and they gave her a chicken leg to eat.  Right away, the dog decided she had been invited to come on their trip, so she ran along with them for the next 1,100 miles until they reached their destination...

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MOM IS WAY TOO BUSY!

Mom is like, way too busy these days, and I am not happy about the situation!  In fact, nobody in our house is happy about the situation, including Mom.  I think maybe I told you one time that Mom said 2012 would be "The Year From Hell" because so much stuff was going to happen.  Well, we have got to the hellish part, and it's going to stay pretty much this way until mid-August.  After that, we hope we can have nice, normal lives...

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ADVENTURES AT DOG-N-JOG, by Nicky the Greyhound

Mom took me with her to Dog-n-Jog again this year, and I have to say that I had a pretty good time.  We were at the REGAP booth, and I was one of the ambassadogs.  Some of the other ones there were Bhric, Felicity, and Flynn.  Of course, I was the most handsome of all, but I'm modest enough that I prefer not to make a big point of it.Now, before I tell you more about Dog-n-Jog, I have to tell you about my boo-boo.  On Friday morning,...

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