Naps

Mmmmmmmm naps.....

Naps with Mommy and Daddy are the best.

Naps with Mommy and Daddy when they are scratching my head are the very very best.

Naps with Mommy's Mommy are pretty good too...

Have I mentioned I have two "sisters".  They do NOT like each other.  The DO try to hog the Mommy and the Daddy for nap times.  Just because they are so small, and quiet, they think they can just sit and sleep where ever they want!

Harrumph.

I am Murphy the Healer, but I am not Murphy the great blog writer....I am much too busy with my dinosaur bone...my Daddy's socks....waiting for Mom to come home from work...and keeping any eye and a nose out for any food that may need eating.  Mommy and Daddy would be lost without me there to pick up the bits that fall on the floor, or wash their dishes, or taste each dish...for their health and safety of course....

I am a busy boy....good boy.....busy boy......

This is my best friend Bailey.  He has a lot of clothes.  He thinks he is so special because he gets his hair done...I like my hair the way it is....he is high maintenance.  But he is fun to play with.
He is my best friend, so we go on adventures and talk about the cats behind their backs.  Sometimes we have sleep overs and then we get walkies together at night and in the morning!  Woof!  Walkies are the best!

Bailey does not swim.
I did not swim when I was little.
Maybe when Bailey gets big he will want to swim.
He wears a lot of clothes, so I don't know how that will work.

I love to swim.
I also love to shake and get little of the lake on everyone.  It feels so good!  I want them to feel good too.

Hope you get to swim and shake the lake on your family this summer!
More later!
Woof!

First Snow!!

Very Good Snow - not today :(

Hi!  I am Murphy!  Good Dog!  Very Good Dog!

Today Mom and I went out in the First Snow! I love snow!

Not enough to roll around in but it was cool and wet on my face and the grass was cool and wet on my back!  I love to roll when the grass is cool and wet...Mom is not a big fan.

The wind was blowing through the woods and I could smell all the lovely woods smells, and today was the beginning of some interesting winter smells!  Somebody has been coming to the side door when I am not looking....I smell them!  I can almost see them with my nose.
Poor Mommy....her nose is so tiny...I don't know how she smells anything at all.
She says she likes the way I smell - she is always kissing my nose and sniffing my head.
Silly Mommy - she knows that is not where the best smells are, but that is what she likes to do.

Our First Snow was a little disappointing!  I like big piles and I like to run through the yard in circles when the snow is light and fluffy and inches deep and scoop snow up in my mouth like a shovel.

I also like to dig down deep under the snow and follow my nose to see what I can find down there!  There are always interesting goings on under the snow, if I could just get down far enough, if my nose was juuuuuuust a bit longer.....

I like to catch snow balls when Mommy throws them at me.
I don't like it when she shovels the walk and throws big piles of snow on me!  That is just rude.

I like to pounce on Daddy when he comes out and gets down on all fours with me!
These are the best days!  Best Days!  Woof! Good Dog!!!

Sometimes they bring a tennis ball!  Oh!!!  THOSE are the BEST days! Woof! Woof!
Mommy and Daddy and Snow and Tennis balls!!! Best Days!!!! Woof!

just a little snow, where it doesn't belong

And no cats.  Cats are crazy - Mommy said so.

Last Winter I was with my Mommy
and her Mommy (Mia) and we lived in Louisiana for a long long long long long long time.  There was no snow at all!
Well, maybe once, but I was inside.  Woof.

There were no cats either!  That was good - very good!  Cats are crazy.
I got Mommy all to myself.  I got Mia too!  Lots of bed time, lots of rides in the car and visiting the bird park - lots and lots of good new smells there!

C. Bickham Dickson Park - Shreveport, LA 2013

The snow is coming....
I can tell.  Mommy and Daddy have their layers on and special waterproof feet protectors.  Poor Mommy and Daddy have to protect their delicate feet - and they only have two each!  So sad.

I will try to be Good Dog and write more often.
I hope all my friends are having a good winter and have lots of snow to romp in and dig under and scoop up and eat!

Today is the Only Day

Me and my cousins.  Woof!

Summer is getting good.

Porch with Mom

Sharing MY bed with her.

Some one just opened the fridge!