Circus & Cousin Dog

1. Here are the pictures from last week (maybe it was 3 weeks at this point) of a real live circus that came to our town! 

There were two real camels who performed under the big top.  One camel had a taller bump thingy on it's back than the other one.  And since Benji is taller than me (Lassie), Mommy referred to the taller camel as "Benji Camel" and the other one as the "Lassie Camel."

It was interesting seeing Camels in a circus.  The Circus Announcer made 3 announcements right before, during, and as soon as the camel act began. The Circus Announcer said for parents to make sure to keep and eye on their children during this act and to make sure the children stay in their seats. 

Mommy was a little scared by them making 3 announcements like that for the camels. 

Mommy was sitting in the front row at the circus -- so she kept a close eye on her nephew who was sitting beside her.  So, she wasn't fully able to watch the entire Camel act. 

From what she saw, the handler said "Waltz" as the command, and the Camels spun around in a circle.  Kind of like how dogs spin when humans say "Spin."  Mommy thought that was neat because the 2 camels looked like they were dancing.

 

There were miniature ponies at the circus too.  They gave pony rides.

 

We weren't able to take pictures of the acts during the show, butt they had humans and dogs performing too.

 

The dogs did tricks like "Weave" between human's legs.  They also walked standing up on their back paws.  Oh, and there were these brave two dogs who walked on a spinning circle.  It was pawsome.  The dogs looked very happy the entire time.  They all had big smiles and all were full of energy.

 

The dogs even got to play on a sliding board -- it was like a comedian act.  The dogs were pawsitively our favorite part of the circus.  

 

Mommy shouted "PAWSOME" while holding our picture of flat Lassie and Benji under the Big Top. 

 This is a picture of us Flat Lassie and Benji under the Big Top before the show started.

 

Here is a picture of us with souvenirs from the circus.

 Here is a picture of Mommy under the Big Top at the Circus.  How did we let this picture of Mommy get into our blog -- oh well -- I think this makes the third picture of Mommy to ever make it onto our blog.  (Mommy is the one on the left -- not the clown.)

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2.  Our Cousin Dog got to sleep over our house for  a few nights last week (or was it 2 weeks ago).  It's all kinda a blur.

We did all the formal butt and other private parts sniffing ceremony.  Butt we kinda had to keep refreshing the butt and private part sniffing ceremonies throughout his entire visit with us.  Things were a little tense in the beginning and we all had to wear our leashes and stay in separate corners.

 By the end of his visit -- we were getting along ok.  I think we would have needed another few days together to really be best friends.  Butt, we came a long way. 

 

Mommy dressed our Cousin Dog in Bunny Rabbit ears.  (I think he enjoyed it.) I know Mommy had fun.

If you couldn't tell before, our Cousin dog is like a giant compared to us.


Have a great night.

Lassie and Benji

PS. Our Park Day Bingo isn't going very well.  We aren't giving up yet though!  I think we filled in the "Free Space" and a couple of other spaces. 

Cell Phone Photo Adventures - The Lost Archive

Mommy has been slacking when it comes to helping us with our blog.

So, this morning Mommy starting looking thru her cell phone photos and found a bunch of our older adventures that she never helped us share with you guys.

In no particular order....

1.  Bark Less  =  Grandma says I (Lassie) bark too much.  So, in attempt to please Grandma, Mommy bought us some new treats called "Wag More, Bark Less".  Mommy fed me the cookies that said "Bark Less" but it didn't seem to help me with my barking addiction.

These treats were pawsome!

 

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2. Bowling in a real Bowling Alley.  = Flat Lassie and Benji went to a real bowling alley for a birthday party.  We ate pizza and everything.  Mommy had them type in "L.B." for us since she wasn't sure if "Lassiter Chase and Benjamin" would fit on one line on the score board.

 

Here is a picture of our first "Strike" in was in the 3rd frame or whatever it's called.  The "Strike" is a big letter "X" on the scoreboard.  A "Strike" is when you knock down all the pins.

Our final score for our Bowling was 107.  We got 3 "Strikes" in our entire game.   Versus the people who played on our lane, we came in second place.  We thought that was pawsome considering we don't have thumbs.   (We used the bowling ramp for a first couple of our throws, it was an interesting adventure alright!)

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3.  Flat Lassie and Benji in a Tropical Forest and Underwater Adventure

 

 

Those birds were kinda quiet for birds.  Not a peep out of them.

 

Gee Mommy, nice job cutting Flat Lassie and Benji out of this "Something Fishy" photo!

 

I think all these fish had huge teeth.  Do you see us in that Monster green fish's mouth.  Is that a piranha!

A close up of us in the piranha's mouth.  Don't worry, we got out of there in one piece!

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4.  Vegetable Display

Mommy had to bring vegetables to a pawty.  The only reason we are posting these pictures of the vegetable tray is to protest!!!   Mommy made an aluminum foil elephant in like 3 minutes for the vegetable display.    Why on earth didn't Mommy have us contact aluminum foil SUPER SHELTIE for the display. I think Super Sheltie would have looked better in the display than the elephant!  (in case you can't tell, the elephant is facing to the left holding his trunk in the air.)

 

Oh, I almost forgot to say.  Mommy made those carrot heart shapes because she remembered Big Honey Dog did a blog post once about a meal at a fancy restaurant.  And Mommy remembered Honey's meal head heart shaped carrot slices on it.  Mommy thought that was so fancy, so she attempted to make them, and she put the hearts on a stick and it turned out ok. 

 

The spiral carrots were made from a carrot spiral tool. 

 

The Celery Fans are just made by slicing a piece of celery and sticking it in ice water overnight in the refrigerator.

The cucumbers have little ridges on them.  Mommy just took a fork and pressed real hard along the skin of the cumber to make lines.  Then she sliced them.

Mommy has a crinkle cutter tool, so she sliced the carrots with that.  Butt apparently you can buy crinkle cut carrots in the supermarket.

If Mommy makes another vegetable display (with Super Sheltie instead of another aluminum foil animal)-- she will try to use broccoli for the tree tops instead of the celery leaves.  The celery leaves kinda wilted after a while.  Butt I guess that's how you learn.

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That was an exhausting blog post.

I still have a couple more adventures to tell you about from last week including a real live circus and our cousin dog's sleepover pawty.  I hope to post about that real soon.

Lassie and Benji

Solar Halo at the Jersey Shore

Let's just say -- Mommy messed up!  Big!

Mommy had to go near the Jersey Shore for a work thing on Tuesday, May 14, 2013.  (She was in the area where Prince Harry visited NJ to see the damage after Hurricane Sandy  -- probably 10 minutes away -- butt she didn't try to go see him.)

Anyway, she had her bag (with our flat Lassie and Benji picture) inside the building at her work thing.

She heard people say -- come  -- look at the sky quick -- there is a rainbow around the sun.

Mommy ran outside (without our picture) and tried to take a picture with her cell phone.  (The sun was too bright -- so couldn't look directly at the sky.)

Mommy photoshopped our picture in the picture, since she done messed up and didn't have our picture with her!  Butt this is what the picture would have looked like if Mommy brought our picture outside with her.  (The only thing missing from this image is Mommy's hand holding up our photo.)

 

This is the correct color of the sky.  The sun is behind the roof (woof) of the building where our picture is.  Can u see part of the solar halo (looks like a rainbow.)

 

 

This is a picture of Mommy pointing the cell phone directly at the sky and snapping a picture (but she couldn't look thru the screen to take the picture because the sun was too bright.) The cell phone picture makes the sky a much darker blue than what it was -- and it put pink dots on the photo.  (Of course our picture is photoshopped over the sun because the sun is too bright.)

 

 

 

Since Mommy couldn't tell if she actually aimed the cell phone the right way - she took another picture from a little different angle.  And do you totally see what was in the sky.  An Alien UFO.

 

Grandma says Aliens don't exist.  Everytime we tell her the aliens destroyed our stuffies or shredded tissue papers in the house -- she never believes us. 

 

Mommy doesn't think this is an alien UFO either.  Don't take me wrong -- she believes us when we say we don't destroy stuffies and stuff -- but she says somehow the cell phone made that image of what looks like the "UFO."  

 

Mommy said, she accidentally had her phone on video mode instead of photo mode, and she says u can see the "UFO" image jerking up and down like crazy when she was moving her hand trying to switch it from photo to video mode.   Mommy says a UFO wouldn't fly all spastic like that.

 

I told Mommy -- we've seen you drive a car -- so whats your point -- you drive all spastic sometimes!  Why can't a UFO hover around like that!

 

 

What do you say blog friends--you believe us when we say the Aliens made that halo around the sun!

 

Have a great day.

 

Lassie and Benji