Getting ready

How do I look, is my tie on straight?

We are getting ready to welcome back to Blogville our furiends Finn and Charley.

They took a long blogging break last year and posted "gone fishing".   Mommy loves the card game "go fish". That must have been some long fishing game!

We want to thank Finn and Charley fur coming back to Blogville.  And we want to thank Sarge fur holding the "recruit a pal" campaign to get previous bloggers  and new bloggers to join our Blogville family.

Sarge, you had a major paw in getting Finn and Charley back! Thank u.

We hope everyone will stop by Finn and Charley's blog and Welcome them back home to blogville.  

https://finnhoward.wordpress.com

Welcome Home Finn and Charley! 

We missed you so much!

Sheltie Astronomy class

Mommys niece is learning about astronomy in science class.  

Us Shelties demonstrated a concept about direct and indirect rays.

See Benji and I were sleeping as Mommy was trying to help her niece understand the concept.  

Mommy said pretend the lamp is the sun.  Lassie is sleeping on the table and is leaning closer to the sun and getting stronger direct rays from the sun. Lassie is like Summertime in the northern hemisphere where it is hotter.

Benji was laying on the floor further from the lamp (sun).  Benji was demonstrating indirect rays from the sun in wintertime in the Northern hemisphere. Those rays are weaker and cover a larger area (mommy said to her niece, an easy way to remember this is that Benji is fatter than Lassie so the sun is covering a larger area.)

Mommys niece totally understood the concept now and answered 2 pages of homework easily based on our Sheltie demonstration.

Glad us Shelties could be of help.

Paw in the air, headache, and the FINGER

Furst we would like to thank our friend Sweet William fur the pawsome picture of me (Lassie) bouncing a Soccer ball.  Thank you Sweet William. 

The Blogville Barkers Soccer Team won the soccer tournament earlier this week (or was it last week.)  Well in any case, we won and have been celebrating ever since.


Mommy has been slacking posting comments to blogs.  Shame on Mommy.  We read blogs and we admit we didn't comment on some of them because our Mommy got LAZY this week.  (We hope Santa Paws isn't seeing how bad Mommy is about not writing comments on posts. )

Then Mommy had the nerve to tell me this morning that she "had a headache" and couldn't help us write  a post earlier today!  I told her...you aren't allowed to get headaches on MY time.  If you insist on getting a headache you should do it during the workweek on company time at your job.   The weekends are Lassie, Benji, Mommy time and I won't allow the headaches to interfere with MY time! 

Then, oh my goodness...

Grandma gave me the FINGER today!

Oh it was horrible!

It wasn't the middle finger --- it was the index finger (the one next to the thumb.)

(To us dogs, the 2nd finger is worse than the middle finger.. am I right or what...)



See we had the front door open, and only had the screen door locked, so we could get some fresh air in the house. 

And the neighbor's kids were outside in the street.

So I was trying to be FRIENDLY and I started barking nonstop.

I was yapping saying...how are you.. yap... isn't it a nice day today....yap... yap...yap


Grandma told me to stop yapping.

And when I didn't stop yapping... she got up... closed the front door ... then she stuck her FINGER (index finger) up at me and started waving it in front of my face saying NO.


How insulting!

I was just doing my CIVIC DUTY trying to be nice to the neighbors having a friendly conversation.


I was so insulted I immediately went and crawled on Mommy's belly (since she was laying down from the "headache") and then I started licking Mommy's cheek.  Then I was giving my paw at Mommy.

Mommy comforted me and pet me and said How DARE Grandma stick her "Finger" up at you.

In a matter of 87 seconds I forgave Grandma and took a nap.

Have a great weekend,

Lassie and Benji

Us on stage at the theater.

"Flat" Lassie and Benji went to the theater.  We saw the play West Side Story.  (Do u see our picture propped up on the seat with our programs and water bottles.)

Mommy bought an extra seat just fur us (cough cough..,mommy really bought the seat for elbow room fur herself...cough cough).   

Wasnt that fabulous we had our own seat.

Mommy texted Grandma and guess what name Grandma accidentally texted to Mommy. she wrote Lassie and Bento.  

Bento?

Well i guess that meant in West Side Story that I (Lassie) am a JET and Benji / Bento is a SHARK.  

The Jets and Sharks are the gangs in the story.   

Well...come to think of it...  I Lassie hate when jet planes fly by.... And Benji will snap at your fingers when you try to feed him table scraps.  (He doesnt eat gently).    So, us being Jets and Sharks sound fitting.

Someone didnt ask me

What the dog!  

Mommy got a letter in the mail saying the vet office where she takes me and Benji to is moving to a new location.

Who authorized this move?

I am Blogvilles dogtor and i think someone should have asked my permission if they wanted to move out of the neighborhood.

Unacceptable!

Mommy looked on the map, and i think the new location is on another planet in some galaxy far away.

Sigh!

Now Mommy has to look fur a new vet office on this planet to take us too.

Then after Mommy was finished reading the vet letter and we were all depressed, we heard the ice cream truck driving down the block.  

Mommy bought herself and Grandma small vanilla ice cream cones.  Us dogs got to eat some icecream.

Butt then when the ice cream was gone and we barked at Mommy fur more... She said she wouldnt drive around the neighborhood to find where the ice cream truck went!

Grrr!

Next time the ice cream truck comes by, Mommy better order a large!

Best seat in the house

We got Grandma the best present ever fur Mothers Day. 

No it wasnt candy.

No it wasnt jewelry.

It was... A brand new toilet seat.

She has been telling Mommy since Christmas that she wanted a new one!

  We still dont know why peeps dont go potty in the yard like us dogs! Anyway...

Grandma was happy that Mommy FINALLY went to the store and got a new seat.

Dont worry mommy bought grandma some flowers too, and planted them in the garden, so the seat wasnt the only gift.

  

This is us posing with the new seat in the box.

Mommy didnt wrap the gift.

She was thinking of putting a bow on the box, butt she ended up dumping that idea.  LOL

Us dogs decided to play fetch with Mommy fur mothers day, and we gave our mommy our old piggy Stuffie and pulled some stuffing out of it.

We had a nice day!

Hope everyone had a nice day too.

Lassie and Benji

Yum

Our present that we won on the Idaho Pug Ranch blog came in the mail.  http://idahopugranch.blogspot.com

We've been barking ever since we saw the package in the mail.  Our mommy has been slacking on sending us treats thru the mail, so this was extra special to receive these treats from our furiends.

In this picture we noticed the card on the bag of peanut butter Zukes that the Idaho Pugs sent us.  I am barking at Mommy to hurry and open the card, but Benji wanted the treats opened furst.

Mommy gave in and opened the treats furst.  We never had Zukes before, so Benji couldnt wait another 87 seconds to try them.

Yum Peanut Butter!

Next we opened the card.

Gotta love the pawprint on the envelope.

Here I am posing with the card and treats.

Thank you Mr Bailey, Hazel, Mabel and Angel Greta. You are all pawsome!

Also...

Our furst Blogville Barkers official soccer practice is tomorrow may 5th.

And we bid on an item on the Auction for pets blog.  The auction is fur a good cause and it runs thru May 12. http://auctionsforpetz.blogspot.com

Ok gotta rest up fur tomorrows soccer practice, we hope Coach Easy goes easy on us.

Lassie and Benji