Umbrellas and Hula Hoops

This is what the front of our house looks like (plus or minus some weeds.)

Last week on Tuesday, there was a strong storm that came by our neck of the woods.  Mommy was at work -- so you could imagine her surprise to come home and see....

Do you see it, our back yard blue picnic table umbrella somehow flew up with the wind OVER our house, and landed upside down in front of our house. That must have been a very strong wind to pick our umbrella OVER our house!  Thank goodness the pole of the umbrella didn't break the window. 

Our backyard neighbor lost their umbrella  too.  The wind threw their umbrella up over a high wooden fence and it landed in our back yard by our Grotto. Mommy was shocked to see it there because there are a lot of trees in that corner, so it's amazing how it still managed to navigate thru the trees to land in our yard like that.

Mommy went to the neighbor and told them their umbrella landed in our yard and it is all broken up -- they said they had 3 umbrellas in their yard -- they all went flying -- two of theirs managed to stay in their yard but they couldn't find the 3rd one.  Mommy jokingly said -- found it!  

A lot of tree tops snapped off trees down the road too.  That must have been some storm that day!


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This week, there was a little storm (nothing like last week).  And then Mommy came home to see....

Wind knocked this chair over.

 

 

You guessed it -- another umbrella went flying in our yard.  This is mommy's Ghetto Umbrella.  See Mommy's niece accidentally broke the handle off a regular umbrella.  Instead of throwing it out -- Mommy duct-taped it to a long pole and she put it by the picnic "wanna-be" area by the shed.  (Trust me, no one eats in this area.) 

Mommy got rid of the Ghetto Umbrella.  She would have been so upset if it damaged something when it went flying like that.

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Oh, on the subject of Duct Tape... during last Tuesday's storm... our Ghetto Jumps got broken.  Here is a picture of me (Lassie) looking at the pool that was standing up against the wall of the house that fell over in the wind.  When the rain filled up the pool -- it managed to knock the sides off our 2 ghetto jumps that were on the floor next to the pool.   Don't worry, Mommy fixed the ghetto jumps with more duct tape, so there is peace in the universe now.  (We weren't very happy Shelties to see our ghetto jumps destroyed like that by the storm.)

Oh, the pool, is a little blow up pool that Mommy had for the niece and nephew, they used it once this year and several times last year-- butt they complained how small it was and it got a small hole during the storm -- so no more pool at our place.

 

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With all that wind going on at our place lately, you would think the wind might have knocked that hula hoop that Mommy's niece accidentally threw up on the roof  when friends visited in Spring --that is stuck on top of our roof  -- off our roof.  Negative!  The hula hoop is still laying on top of our roof even with all that powerful wind.  

 

Butt Mommy bought us a new hula hoop a few weeks ago (its about time).  Here are pictures that Mommy just loves of us playing with the new hula hoop.

I (Lassie) am standing with all 4 feet inside the hula hoop. 

 

Benji

Oh yes, I'm standing in the spotlight!  I deserve an emmy!

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Here is a new stuffie that Mommy's niece bought for us (that Mommy paid for).  His name is Mr. Pigglesworth! 

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And last butt not least.   Mommy tried to take a "nice" picture of us in the yard.  She held a treat in her hand and this is what happened.... Benji is jumping and I am barking saying "GIVE US THE TREAT NOW!"

That picture just makes Mommy laugh so hard! 

Lassie and Benji

P.S.  We entered a Calendar Contest.  It's a fundraiser for Benny the French Bulldog who has liver cancer.  (Do you remember when we posted those cartoon games for Benny a little while ago to try to raise money for  him.)   Good luck to everyone who entered the contest!  I think voting starts tomorrow.  We sure hope they raise a lot of money with the calendar to support Benny the French Bulldog.   Fight Like a Frenchie, Benny!