Temporary Screen Door

Mommy and Grandma like to sit in the backyard after dinner  -- butt us dogs like to walk back and forth going inside and outside and inside and outside.

The bugs seem to only know how to go inside the house. They don't seem to understand the going outside part. 

So, Aunt T (Mommy's sister) got us a Screen Door for our BackYard Door to keep the bugs out of the house.  It's 2 panels of screen connected together in the middle by magnets (velcro holds it to the frame of the door.) 

Us dogs were a little scared of it at first, butt, Grandma grabbed us by the butt and pushed us in and out of the house when we were afraid -- and then we weren't afraid of it anymore!

It seemed to be working fine for a couple of days, until Mommy went Grocery Shopping! 

Mommy is a little paranoid of us running out the front door since there is no fence or gate in the front of the house. (We only have the back yard fenced in.)  So, when she comes back with the Groceries, she usually lets us in the backyard so that way she can go in and out of the front door carrying the groceries!

Mommy forgot about the new screen door.  She didn't remember that we like to jump at the backdoor when she is carrying in the groceries. 

And I think you can figure out what happened next.

The note says Benji did it (butt everyone knows I ripped it.)

Mommy hurried up and fixed it with Duct Tape. The duct tape has been holding for the most part.

We will see if Mommy will actually sew it back together again.  NOT!

Oh, and that pattern of Duct Tape is called "Hound's Tooth."  Seemed appropriate to use that particular Duct Tape color, eventhough our paws seemed to do all that damage.

Lassiter Chase & Benjamin the Shelties

Aliens ate the Peanut Butter ???

Can you believe Mommy actually conducted a "Breath Test" on us dogs after she found the jar of Peanut Butter on the floor with the lid chewed off!    (She actually got down on hands and knees and sniffed our breath -- Mommy said, "I'll never do that again!!!!")

My (Lassie's) breath showed no trace of Peanut Butter -- butt, Benji's breath had a tint of something.  Mommy couldn't positively identify the tint on his breath as Peanut Butter -- so there was reasonable doubt to accuse us dogs of eating it.

These photos prove the little green Aliens did it.  (See how far away Ben and I are from the crime scene!)

Lassiter Chase & Benjamin the Shelties (Lassie & Benji)

Pee-mail Fire Hydrant !!!

We received our Fire Hydrant in the mail!  Thank you so much to the Cowspot Dogs!!!  We entered Reilly & Denny's Pee-mail Competition a couple of weeks ago (remember when we sniffed baby bunny peemail in those 2 clover flower patches in the yard), and we won first prize in the contest. 

We opened up the package (with a little help from Mommy's oldest niece) and it was like it was snowing in our living room.  The little white pellets from the packing Styrofoam were snowing all over the carpet - it was so exciting!

The first thing I (Lassie) did when it came out of the box, was try to chew the top knob of it - try to pick it up and tell Mommy where to put our brand new Fire Hydrant.  We know we want it in the yard, butt aren't sure where to put it.  So, temporarily it is by our Tomato Garden.  It looks nice there, maybe it will stay in that spot.

In other news.... Mommy noticed Benji starting lifting his leg to pee instead of squatting.  Instead of squatting a peeing a river in one area of the lawn -- Benji is lifting his leg and squirting a little on the bush, a little on the tree, a little on the bottom step of the deck...  (Grandma said, she liked when he used to squat and just pee in one spot of the yard.)  Congratulations to Big Ben -- You are a Man now   - You are a Big Dog now, eventhough Mommy still calls you her Puppy!

Looks like that Fire Hydrant is going to get a lot of use in our yard now!  None of us have christened it yet though -- at least not that Mommy knows of.

Our Fire Hydrant just opened from the box --see the snow on the floor from the packing styrofoam

We are so happy with the Fire Hydrant!   (Mommy kept pushing the wrong buttons on the camera to turn the flash off -- she wasn't able to figure it out in time while we were in this position.)

There's our Fire Hydrant by the Tomato Garden.

Mommy pulled weeds on Father's Day and she tied up the Cucumbers to those poles.  We even noticed some little cucumbers starting to grow.  How exciting! (This picture was taken on the Friday after Father's Day - the garden was planted on Mother's Day in May.)

Thanks again Cowspot Dogs for having the PeeMail Competition!  You guys rock!

Lassiter Chase & Benjamin (Lassie & Benji)