Park Day Pressie

We are so excited to tell you we won a present from pawticipating in Park Day Bingo.  It was so nice of Finn & Charley to send us a surprise gift in the mail.  Finn & Charley are so pawsome! 

We got Kong treats, more Kong treats, a special note from Finn, Charley, (and Gizmo), and a blue and yellow float toy. 

Did I mention Kong treats!!!!!!!!!!! YUM

We love the present.  Thank you so much.

Mommy, said I was like a kid on Christmas opening the present.  She didn't take a video, because she was too busy smiling from ear to ear watching me paw at the Kong treat bags.  She said it brought out the puppy in me.  It was the brightest part of her day!

 

 

Lassie & Benji

Versatile Blogger Award

We were nominated for a Blogger Award furever ago on May 25th!  (Mommy hasn't had a chance to help us post about it on our blog until now -- Bad Mommy!)

Our pawsome new blog friend Dina Dog nominated us to receive The Versatile Blogger Award.

Thank you Dina Dog. http://dogthedina.blogspot.com/2013/05/surprise.html

In the rules, it says we need to nominate 15 favorite bloggers to receive the award, and I don't think we even know 15 bloggers.  So, if  you want to play along, just say we nominated you for the Award.

The Versatile Blogger Award Rules:

-Add The Versatile Blogger award photo on a blog post

-Thank the person who presented you with the award and link back to him or her in your post.

-Pass the award along to 15 favorite bloggers. Contact the chosen bloggers to let them know about the award.

-Share Seven Things About Yourself

Here we go:

1.  Grandma has a lift chair.  A lift chair is a motorized recliner chair.  She can push the remote control button to put her feet up in the chair in a reclining position or push the button to put the chair back into a sitting or even a standing position.  Well, Benji barks at Grandma ONLY when she pushes the button to put herself back into the sitting position.  He won't bark at Grandma when she reclines her feet up, only when Grandma puts her feet down.

2.  You will never guess what happened to our hula hoop. 

Mommy's niece somehow threw it on the roof of the house when she was playing with it and there is no possible way to get it down!  Mommy's niece promised to buy us a new hula hoop to replace it "one day."  We have been waiting an awfully long time for "one day" to come.  Mommy suggested we write a letter to Santa Paws and ask him to knock down our hula hoop from the roof when he stops by with his sled on Christmas Eve with his reindeer.   (Can someone please write a comment to Mommy and suggest that Mommy buy us a new hula hoop from the dollar store, because it will take furever to wait for Santa Paws.)

 

3. Speaking of Hula Hoop.  We made a musical production in our house in April. Yes, I said April and this is JUNE. And Mommy never posted it, it was her secret.  So, since it was from a happier time when our hula hoop was still on the ground -- our hula hoop is in our musical production from our outdoor scene.  So, without any further doggie doo -- we present Les Sheltie 'r ables.

 

 

http://youtu.be/gIHwbygANXw

 

 

 

 4. When Mommy is eating in the kitchen.  Benji sits on the floor to the left of Mommy.  I (Lassie) sit on the floor either under the table in front of Mommy, or I will sit to the right of Mommy.  We keep watch to see if Mommy "accidentally" drops any food on the floor for us to clean up.

5.  Whenever Mommy comes home from work, and she puts the key in the door to open the lock, the first dog's nose she usually sees when she is pushing the door open  is .... Benji!  Yes, Benji like to help pull the door open to let Mommy in the house.

6.  Benji absolutely hates it when.... Mommy takes her socks off the cheating way.  Instead of reaching down with her hand to pull off her sock, she will just rub her feet against the floor a couple of times to slide her socks off.  Benji barks like mad whenever she does this.   (I think this motion is similiar to how dog's pee and then they kick their foot in the dirt to spread the pee scent around.)  Maybe Benji thinks Mommy is gonna pee when she starts kicking her socks off and is trying to tell Mommy to go to the Restroom.

 

7. Guess what Grandma called me and Benji the other day....  Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber!   (We can take a joke -- no worries Grandma.)

Hope you enjoyed reading 7 things about us!

Lassie and Benji

Park Day 2.0 BINGO

We decided to join in the fun and play Park Day 2.0 Bingo.

We printed out Finn's TEN Bingo Cards on different color pieces of paper.

 

 All month long, we were trying to find the stuff on the Bingo Cards (in no particular order).

Finally we put together a Master List of all the things we found all month long and it was time to play BINGO.

Lassie with the Master Bingo List

 I (Lassie) was the official BINGO Caller in the house (since I'm the Head of House), Mommy checked over the 10 Bingo Cards, and Benji was the Bingo Verifier to make sure we actually got a BINGO. 

Benji validating the Bingo Card!

 

We got a BINGO on Card Number 7.    Ah, Lucky 7 !  

Bingo = Find a Dog Playing Frisbee, Find a Butterfly, Park Bench, Visit an Urban Park, Find a Geocache.

 

Our Bingo Adventure took us all over the place!   

1.   Flat Lassie and Benji  visited "Smithville" in NJ an outdoor shopping place with park-like surroundings.

We saw a wooden  Butterfly and lots of other wooden things for sale.

 

 

We saw a statue of Uncle Sam in an arcade (that counts as a monument or sculpture).

We saw Flowers on a Wind Chime at a store.  

Mommy liked the Wind Chime so much -- she purchased it -- and it is now hanging in our backyard for all of us to enjoy from Smithville. (That's Benji in the picture on the right.)

We even saw a Park Bench at Smithville that had wooden cut outs of dogs as the sides of the bench.

And even though it wasn't on the list, we saw a train.

 

2. Next our Bingo Adventure took us to the community lake.  (Its our nearest body of water if you don't count the bath tub.) 

There was even a squirrel we spotted by the lake!  We were barking our heads off as we drove by!

Lassie in the car.

 

Benji in the car.

3.  Flat Lassie and Benji visited an Urban Park in Philadelphia and saw a dog playing frisbee.

 

 

 (Well, the dog kinda didn't catch the frisbee, the sun must have been in his eyes. The human threw the frisbee and it went right past the dog.) 
 

4.  And finally, flat Lassie and Benji got to use the computer, and we looked up what "Geocaching" is and found a park to go to.

This was our first ever geocaching adventure.  We went to "Liberty Lands Park" in the Northern Liberties section of Philadelphia (this park is more than 30 minutes from our house) and brought a pencil along with us because that's what it said for us to do. We were supposed to find a minature Lemonhead Lunchbox with something inside for us to sign.

 

When we got to the park we saw there was a mural painted on a wall and it was pawsome. It had 3-D Birdhouses and insects on the wall of the building.  (That building is actually the back wall of a bakery.)  It's funny because the park entrance is located on a one-way street. Mommy drove down that street before when she went to the bakery to buy rye-bread, butt never noticed the mural on the building because she would have to look in the rear view mirror to see the mural.  (Mommy was like -- I can't believe I never knew this mural was there.)

 

We went to the Park twice to try to find the Geocache!  We had to go twice, because when we went the first time, we looked in the garden for the lunchbox and didn't see anything. So, Mommy looked again on the computer and Mommy forgot to read the secret message on the Geocaching site that said to look at the foot of the mural under a log.  Ooops!

 

So we went again the next morning and we looked specifically for a log.

Looking for the log at the foot of the mural.

We found the "log" butt Mommy said the "log" looked more like an entire "trunk" of a tree.

 

Mommy couldn't figure out how to get under the log to find the miniature Lemonhead lunchbox because plants were growing under the log.  The log was slightly elevated off the ground with bricks.

Mommy said she wasn't gonna try to move the log -- because it looked too heavy.

So, we just took a picture with us with the log, and hope that counts as finding the Geocache!  I'm sure it counts!

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What a fun Park Day 2.0 adventure.  

Have a great weekend everyone!

Lassie and Benji