Bank holiday weekend

and we've been out nearly all weekend, but back indoors now so a good time to update the blog.
We've planted, weeded and played in the garden all weekend. And we've been painting some windows a lovely blue / green colour. Maia liked it so much she picked up a bit on her side and has a lovely bluey streak, I think I'd like some blue-lights too - but don't tell my Bean, I think she'd be cross!
It's not all been playtime, I did some practicing with the proper "bring back" stuff, it was very hard but Bean was very happy so that's all right then.
And then I tried to help with the croquet game, those balls are very hard but apparently I'm not supposed to bring those back and had to watch the sidelines - that was not good.

Beans been away

It's that time of year, the beans have been away fro a day. it's very stressful, we have to keep watch all day for their return and to double sniff all visitors. Our Amy-Amy let us out and took care of us and gave us our tea (a most important job) but then shut us up again and went away and it was years before our beans returned. Cara had a mad spell of throwing dog bag beds around but Boss Bean wouldn't let me join in.

Welcome back

I know, a veeeerrrrryyyy long time since I last posted anything. But well I've been busy growing up, destroying things - you know the general small labrador sort of thing but I'm nearly two now and have lots more to say, as you can see I have lots more words but still the same interests.

Ball gone missing

My lovely birthday ball went missing, I've found bits of its stuffing but the ball is no where to be found. However, whilst searching for it I found an open drawer and in there was another sort of ball. This one was hard and smelly, I brought it downstairs to play with and chew a bit. When I started breaking bits off it left foamy bits in my mouth that tasted disgusting so I left it alone and went to find my GirlBean, she took one look at me with white lather all round my mouth and promptly dunked my head in the water bucket which also filled with the foamy stuff, so she threw it away, filled the bucket with lovely fresh water and then did it again and not only that but she poured water into my mouth and rubbed round my teeth - yuck! But it got rid of the foul taste and the foam.

It's my Birthday!

Today I am ONE!!!!

I like birthday's.

I got a soft football, two pairs of socks of my very own and a purple softie that might be a cat or could be a dog but what ever it's called 'Purple Thing', it's got beads in it and it's brill for throwing around. The ball's good for that too and for pulling out the stuffing which is squishy and wiry, strange but nice.


Sorry about the long break, I have been keeping my blog, but just not finding time to post it online. I'll get Bean to post it somewhere and give you a link.

gardens in the rain

We had a busy weekend, on Saturday I got two walks, the first with both M+J and the second on my own, and we played for hours in the garden, the beans were moving bits of garden around – very strange. Sunday was one longish walk to collect the paper from the post office but then it started raining and it seems that beans aren't waterproof like me, I know I get wet but my skin stays warm and dry – it's really good, I just shake and go. Instead of another walk we played fetch indoors and wreck the cardboard box, I'm very good at that, but after tea I still had lots of energy and was rather bored so I asked Cara to play and she said yes but the beans said no – boring old beans. So I snoozled for a bit and then woke ready to go again and this time my bean gave me a kong stuffed with bread and cheese, that was lovely and kept me quiet for a while, until almost bed time.

Today I've been having 'serious training' I'm not sure about this, it involves lovely meaty treats, today it was corned beef, but it also means having to behave and if I forget myself, which if I'm honest I do rather easily, I'm a Gemini with a butterfly brain apparently, then I get pulled into line and growled at or ignored and I don't like that.

I'm back!

I'm not very good at this – when we're near computers all I do is sleep, work is sooooo boring.

But when we're not near computers – wow, can I go.

I'm nearly all growed up now and am wearing grown up clothes – meaning yesterday I took off my second puppy collar and when I'm at home I don't wear another one, just my dogskin. Although unlike J+M I still wear a collar when out and about along with my lovely burgundy slip lead. I got a brand new snazzy black leather collar yesterday but the Mother Bean says I look like a rotweiler – rotten thing. We go out nearly every day to fetch the newspaper from the Post Office, I'm very good at this. Then sometimes we go again but now it's usually dark and we need the portable light (Maia says it's a torch and I must start using the proper words) so sometimes we play fetch indoors or in the garden which I think I like even better than going out in the dark on a string. But a bad thing now all big is that I don’t seem get supper any more, I have once this week but it was hardly worth calling supper more of a snack, still a Labrador never turns her nose up at anything even vaguely edible.