Happy New Year everyone!
We are all having a little celebration here. We have a lot to celebrate. 2009 brought us some grand adventures. While we said goodbye to several wonderful pasture mates, their presence in our lives were a true blessing.
Here is to 2010. May it be a year filled with blessings, peace, joy, friends, and family.
To all of our readers, thank you so much for sharing the past year with us and we look forward to sharing this new year with you.
Enjoy your day and don't forget to hug your DOR!
These pictures are of a decoration that hangs right outside the DOR's front door. Look at those ice crystals. It was frosty and cold last night.
I was a bit upset about being tarpped yesterday evening. In fact DOR had to put my halter on because I would not stand nicely. I am not sure why, but the fact that I ran off when she put the tarp on my back made her very happy, she looked at me and smiled. Alright then I see a lot of running from the tarp in my future, you know how I love to keep the DOR happy.
She put the halter on me and proceeded to put the tarp on my back. Not wanting to quit making the DOR smile, I danced from side-to-side and spun around. The DOR just laughed and said "Look Boogie, we are finally dancing" and she rubbed my neck. Then her eyes started leaking...I think she has finally done and gone crazy. She danced around with me and finally got all of my straps hooked up. She then gave me a big smooch on the nose and rubbed my forehead. "Boogie do you know what you just did?", what does she think I am stupid? Yeah I know what I just did, I failed to escaped the tarp, but that wasn't what she was talking about. "You just moved your feet when you were worried, you didn't have sticky feet-look." With that she flapped the tarp around by my belly and I started dancing away from it. She grinned real big and kept flapping the tarp. I finally stood still and looked at her, she was right my feet weren't stuck. That is another sign things are getting better! Now the DOR said there are advantages to my feet being stuck when I was worried or afraid, the biggest one being I couldn't run off. She also knew it was a sign that my nervous system still wasn't working right and that was a bad thing. So she is happy to be doing the "tarp dance" with me and that makes me feel good.
Freezing rain called for today, I am glad I have on my tarp.
Enjoy your day and don't forget to hug your DOR!
Here I am in a snow storm. Okay it wasn't a snow storm, but it was snowing. I am trying to hypnotize the DOR with my stare--to be warm you will give me treats, to be warm you will give me treats, to be warm you will give me treats...
It worked! I got treats and I am pretty sure that giving them to me made her feel warm inside.
Enjoy your day and don't forget to hug your DOR!
I hear the treat jar!
I like the DOR being on vacation, it means she spends extra time with us. Extra time means the treat jar makes the rounds in the morning when she comes out to give Freedom his mush.
The DOR visits each one of us and gives us our treats after we do a job. Alrighty then I will work for treats, although I think she should just give them to me because I am so darn good looking. Geeze whatever happened to just appreciating fine works of art?
This is the treat jar. Currently it has green apple treats. Sometimes it has apple asses, berry treats, and once it was full of mini carrots.Shandi has to let her ears get rubbed, then she gets a treat. Salty has to walk beside the DOR without shoving his shoulder into her space, then he gets a treat. Coelho has to stand in one spot when she walks to him in the pasture, then he gets a treat. Darby has to let her rub his ticklish spot without kicking or stomping, then he gets a treat. What do I have to do yo ask? Well I have to back 5 steps-get a treat, flex my neck three times to each side-get a treat each time, do bum tucks/backups-get a treat, do wither lifts-get a treat, and if I will stick my nose in a white bag I can eat the five treats that are in it...it is hard work for me to get treats. I am not going to fuss about it too much because right now I get two times a day I can get treats, once the DOR is back to work treat opportunity only comes around once a day.
Enjoy your day and don't forget to hug your DOR!
