My mummy and daddy left me today with Auntie Em

WHAAAAAA
Mommy and Daddy left at 5:00 this a.m. .....but Auntie Em was back at 8:30 and we had a nice long walk with lots of new smells!!! She took some great photos of me but can't seem to download her new Panasonic shots....she has a great one of Mommy and Daddy with their SA attire ready to roll!!!
I was very happy to see her come home but wondered where Mommy and Daddy were.....but she gave me a biscuit or two and I'm happy! Though when she went off to exercise class, I did go in on Daddy's bed.....! Off for another walk around the park!

Early Morning Surprise

Auntie Em has the BIGGEST bed!! Plenty of room for the two of us, even at four o'clock in the morning!! She wasn't thrilled, but, oh well. I'm company.

The Christmas Parade

Greetings and Salutations, Family and Friends, near and far,

Santa scared me to death........and all those little cars meandering down the road?? I mean, really, where did these people get their drivers' licences??? Dog buscuit boxes??? Don't all those old people look like they're having fun??? Actually, I guess they were....they threw out candy to all the other old folks sitting in their folding chairs along the sides of the streets just like the Fourth of July at home.......

Well, anyhow, that was last night. Today, Saturday, I got to go with Daddy touring around the area a little bit and then we came home and took a nap. Mommy and Auntie Em went......ready??.........oh yes, SHOPPING!! Surprise, surprise! But Mommy needs some new clothes to take with her to Colombia.......her old ones are all too big now 'cause she's lost a lot of weight. I guess she found a new pair of pants and a shirt and some underwear but it wasn't enough, so she says she has to go back on Monday. Tomorrow they all are going to church and I have to stay home. I don't mind. I get to go for a long walk in the morning and in the evening, and there are soooooo many wonderful smells here, that the longer the better.

Tonight they went out to supper with Auntie Lee, Auntie Em's sister. She's a lot of fun but I have to be careful when I'm around her because I'm so big and she's just a little Auntie. On the way home, they stopped to watch another parade.......this one of boats on the inland waterway and they were all decorated with Christmas lights. Mommy said it was cool looking but too dark to get any pictures with her little camera. Oh well, the golf cart parade will have to do for today.

Hope you are all well and happy. I miss you and love you all,

Juni

Early morning from the back porch......

Saturday in Florida

We're Here!!!

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Yippee aye!!! We're out of the truck!! Done!! No more riding for awhile....not that I mind, but my daddy is tired. And, a light went on in the dash, so he had to take the truck up to Venice to have the Dodge people look at it and make sure there's nothing wrong with it. That would make him very upset if there was......we used to have a different Dodge truck, you know, and the funny light came on all the time. They could never find anything wrong, but that dumb light made Daddy really mad so we finally got rid of it and got this new one.......and it has a dumb light, too. Sigh. Well, anyhow, we're here!! Yippee aye!! And ya know what?? It's HOT here! We started out this morning at 48 degrees and now it's 80!! Wow!! Mommy had to take off two layers!! She's right down to shorts, a T shirt, and no shoes!! And, get this, at 5 she and Auntie Em are going to a Christmas parage!! I know she'll let me share her pictures with you when she gets back. I'm going to stay here, I think....it's cooler here and I'm not really interested in the parade........it's just old farts doing their thing......

So the pictures are of Auntie Em's house and the little lake......ie pond......behind it. It's really cute......a rental, but it's for sale and she's thinking about buying it. She's also looking at other places, so we'll see.

I had some pictures of our campground from last night, but I didn't have the little disk thing in the camera, and Mommy doesn't know how to download pictures from the camera itself......anyone have any ideas????

We're all fine. Glad to be here. I'll write later, I promise. Love to all,

Juni

Headin' South

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Can you believe it?? I'm traveling, yet again!! For a dog my age, I'm really very well traveled, and I'm so good at it. Really, I'm not bragging, just telling it like it is. I let my humans know when I have to wee wee, or poop, and I chew on my bone while we're riding, or I sleep, or I let Mommy skritch my head and I'm never, ever a bother to anyone. In fact, most of the time, they don't even know I'm there........'cept for the odor now and again.....I'm like my daddy that way.......but we won't go there.

OK, so we'll start at the beginning. We left Vermont yesterday morning, very, very early because Daddy gets anxious on traveling day. It was 50 degrees and raining, but not too hard. Really just drizzling so not a problem. In fact, Daddy said it's easier to drive in weather like that 'cause it's not too sunny. So, off we went and by nine o'clock, we were in Albany and it was 57 degrees. See, we're headin' south so we expected it to get warmer. Nice. By the time we got to Pennsylvanis, it was 47 degrees. What happened??? It was still raining, but now it was getting cold. It isn't supposed to be like this......warmer, not colder. Not to worry....by Maryland, it was 61 and there was a short break in the rain. Yippee!! We stopped for the night in Williamsport because Daddy had been driving for nine hours and he was tired. We stayed at a Red Roof Inn and I got to stay for free!! Those people know how important we dogs are, that's for sure. Mommy and Daddy had supper at the Golden Corral which made Daddy very happy. He likes it there. I didn't sleep very well that night....don't really know why except I did NOT want to sleep on the carpet. I'm just not used to carpet and I didn't like the feel of it. Sooooo, I slept on the bed....next to my daddy, then next to my mommy, then in the middle of my daddy and my mommy........I just had a hard time getting comfortable. Anyhow, the night came to an abrupt end at 3AM when my daddy decided he had had enough and he got up to take a shower. Then mommy took her shower while daddy went out for coffee and we were on the road again at 5AM. Oh yes, still raining but 55 degrees so not so bad. Today, though, we saw lots of accidents. Daddy says the people down here just don't know how to drive and they go crazy fast no matter what the weather is like. That picture of the semi in the median slowed us up for awhile, but on the other side of the road??? A semi had jacknifed, tipped on its side, and vehicles were lined up for five miles down the interstate for who knows how long. And that happened early in the morning when everyone was going to work.

We stopped once in Virginia....the hills of Virginia....to get fuel. It was a Kangaroo Fuel Stop. Daddy went into the store and asked the clerk how far it was to Chattanooga and she said, "I don't have me no idear. Don't go nowhere. Alls I ever do is go home, come here to work, back home, come work. Don't you have no Kangaroos up there in VER mont?" Daddy said, "No, all we have are Moosies." "Never heerd of it. Say, what're the initials of VER mont, like on your license??" she replied. I won't tell you what Daddy said when he got back into the truck......it wasn't very.....polite.

Well, anyhow, on we went, in the rain, and the temperature began to go.....down, down, down...making Daddy very nervous because no one seemed to think it was important to slow down at all, the the rain was beginning to turn to.....yup, you guessed it. SNOW!! When we finally stopped, it was 35 degrees and snowing. Ohhhhhhh, Daddy was mad. Drive two days in the rain to get south and we run into SNOW!! Bah humbug!!

So, here we are in a Super 8 just north of Chattanooga, waiting for the snow to stop. Daddy had hoped to be in Florida tomorrow, but I don't think we'll make it. Oh well. Friday is soon enough. Auntie Em says it's going to be in the 80s this weekend......and NO snow!! Yippee aye.

Hope this finds you all well and happy. I miss and love you all.

Juni