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Peace

Mom & I have been away from home this week. My great grandmaw got some sickies earlier in the week. She transitioned to the Rainbow Bridge earlier this evening. Mom is a little bit sad, but Great Grandmaw was 93 years old and had a long full life. She was very proud of her 6 great grandkids & 7 great grand furkids. Mom knows she is at peace, with Hannah-dog lying at her feet keeping them warm, and Sophie kitTON purring in her lap.

RIP Grams

July 14, 1917 to August 29, 2010

Banned!!

Apparently, I'm a dangerous dog.

At least that's what the Sandy Eggo Padres think.

For the past few years, they have held an event at the stadium downtown. "Dog Days of Summer" is suppose to be a fun event that humans & their doggies can enjoy. Apparently though, only certain types of doggies.

In order to attend this event, you had to apply in advance. Strangely enough, lots of doggies were getting turned down, with no reason given. There were a number of doggies from my Great Dane Meetup Group that wanted to attend, but none of them were approved.

And then the breaking news story came out.

Doggie discrimination. The Padres have created their own list of breeds to ban from this event. What breeds are on that list, no doggie knows...the Padres won't share that information. So far though, it appears that Danes, Shepherds, and Pit Bulls are among the group of 10-15 doggies that won't be allowed to attend.

Don't the Padres know that I have been attacked by more chihuahua's that I can count on 1 paw?

Sigh....so disappointing. Mom sure as heck won't be attending any more Padres games, with or without me!

Almost Wordless Wednesday

sunset at dog park tonight...

passed out pooch...

Coast News Group - Ruff times

BOL!

Mom & I went to the Cardiff, Dog Days of Summer event last weekend and while we were there we got our picture taken.

She just found out it made the front page of the Coast News Group - Ruff times

Do you think it makes my head look big?

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Happy Boy

52 Weeks for Dogs

Me & My Shadow & a Saturday Blog Hop

kinda like a carnival mirror shadow!

Hot Summer Nights....

Man oh Man....Summer has finally arrived here in Sandy Eggo.

Over the last few months, its been unseasonably cool. Typically we have what is called "May Grey" and then it morfs into "June Gloom". What that means is a heavy layer of coastal clouds that creep inland and can sometimes take all day to burn off. So us Sandy Eggo-ans know that May and June are not warm months. What we don't usually have is that cool grey weather creeping into July & even August!

But finally...this week...Summer has decided to arrive. And let me tell you...it arrived with a bang!

Me & Mom's house (lets be real...its my house & I just let Mom live there so she can take care of me) is pretty old for California standards. A small cottage, built in 1926, its nice and cozy with lots of character. Unfortunately, that character doesn't come with insulation...which means the house soaks up lots of the suns warmth and then does  not want to let it go. Lots of times, when its super hot during the day...even if its cool at night the house stays warm. Last night, Mom got home from work and it was almost 90 degrees inside...even though it had cooled down to a nice 75 degrees outside.

I was hot. So Mom loaded me into the car and we headed to Fiesta Island!!

Can you guess what the first thing was that I did when we got there?

If you guessed this, you were right!

Up to my neck in nice cool water...woo! That felt GOOD!

after a bit of a cool down, it was time for some romping...

and some fishin. Nope, din't catch anything!

and some diggin in the nice cool sand...

I met some new doggie friends who looked a little surprised to see me!

and played with some old doggie friends as well (that's Atticus!)

practiced a little bubble blowing in the water...

and then we saw this crazy dog! Boy was she insane over her ball!

Check out that bounce!

she was quite amazing to watch as she charged the water and made a tremendous leap to get her ball

Chloe couldn't believe the distance she could jump!

Ari was there too...but in her typical fashion, she just lounged around like a queen

Chloe followed suit...

Finally it was time to head home. Boy oh boy, I coulda stayed there for another couple a hours!

please Mom...just 1 more hour of swimmin? I'm not soggy at all!

But Atticus was pretty pooped, so Mom said it was time to go home..

Thank goodness for oceans...cuz otherwise I might melt!!

Calling all good thoughts!!

if you have a moment this morning...could'ja swing by Dante's bloggie and send him some good thoughts? He's had a case of the stomach sickies for the last day or so and his Mom is worried about somethin being stuck in there!

He's got a vet appointment this morning, so he needs to paws & fingers crossed in hopes that its nuthin serious!

Wordless Wednesday

Versatile Blogger Award!

My new furiend George was too kind and presented me with this fabulous award! Thanks George!! I can't wait for Mom to add it to my "awards & contests" page on my blog!

This award comes with a few rules. Nuthin difficult, and they actually make it much more fun!

1. I gotta thank the doggie who passed this award on to me (already did that...see above!)
2. I gotta share 7 things about myself...

• if you haven't noticed...I am a Great Dane with natural ears. This means Mom didnt think it was humane to put me thru a cosmetic surgery just so my ears would stand up straight. I gotta say, I'm sure glad she made that decision! I love flipping and flopping my ears around!
• lately, I've been kind of a butthead to certain intact males. Mom is NOT very happy about this change in my attitude and I've been gettin into big trouble. I can't help it, I'm jealous!!
• a few of my favorite things are 1) running on the beach & in the water, 2) playin with my kitTONs, and 3) hangin out with Mom.
• I get fed a Raw Prey Model diet, and I love it! My favorite meat is beef or pork, but I will only eat organ meat if its frozen in an organ-cicle.
• my favorite position for sleepin is on my back, all twisted up like a pretzel
• I have an slight drinking problem...I love love love drinking water from water bottles. If you have one in your hands, watch out cuz I'm gonna try to make you share
• I am a big scaredy cat sometimes...big guys with hats kinda make me nervous, and large cardboard signs with pictures of animals are super duper scary

3. I gotta pass on this award to 15 bloggers (this is gonna be tough! there are so many cool bloggers out there!). Here's my final selection, in no particular order. I tried to select some new bloggers that some of you may not know about yet!

Nubbin Tails

The Dogs are really in charge

Wags, Wiggles & Giggles

William of Mass Destruction

The Daily Coyote

Stella the Boerboel Mastiff

Pupalicious

Lucille a Great Dane in Humanland

2 guys 2 pups

Reactive Champion

Urban Canines

Life with a hearing dog

Raising a Superdog

House of Spots

Gone to the Dogs or Something's Fishy

4. Once I finish #3, I gotta make sure all of those 15 bloggers know how special I think they are!

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Aids Walk Sandy Eggo

Oh boy! Mom just signed me up to do the Aids Walk here in Sandy Eggo on September 26th! She signed herself up too, which is good since I prolly can't go by myself.

So...now I gotta get serious on my fundraising. Mom only put my goal at $125 since I'm new to fundraising, but I've already raised $80 so far so she might hafta raise it!!

Check out my link, and if you are feelin generous, feel free to make a donation! And...if you want, feel free to share my link with your friends and family in case they want to make a donation too! Mom says when it comes to fundraising, the more the merrier!

Wordless Wednesday

Cow-a-bunga dude!

Man, this surf dog thing is a LOT harder than it looks!

Since I love love love the beach so much, Mom decided to sign me up for the Helen Woodward Suf Clinic. The cool folks who put together the fundraising events were offering these clinics in preparation for their Surf Dog Surf-a-thon on September 12th. Today was the big day...I was gonna become a surf dog!

I was ready. Made sure Mom got me to the event early so I could grab the longboard. I figured a big dog needed a big board!

Dis neon green one was perfect. Even matched my collar! Only problem was the flowers on it. Kinda girly if you ask me, but I guess it'll hafta do.

Mom, of course, brought that flashy camera beast with her so of course she had to have someone take our picture together.

This was serious though. I had to pay attention...check out da waves...I was tryin to read the water to see how the waves were breaking. I needed to study da water so I could master it once I got in.

Sheesh Mom! Put dat thing down already and LETS GO!!

Ok! One more picture of my awesome instructors, and then lets GO!!

woah! Once I actually got out on da water, I quickly realized this isn't as easy as it looks!

Sheesh, guys! I got a tall center of gravity, and no body told me the surf board was gonna move!

Ok, maybe layin down is the way to go...

at least the dang surf board isn't tippin all over da place now!

WOAH! You want me to actually RIDE that wave!?! I'm outta here!

Ok, lets try this again. Slow and steady...let me get my balance...

wipe out!!!

Dang! Don't let nodoggie tell you surfing is easy! Its definitely NOT! It takes a lot of talent and skill! Even Mom didn't realize how tough it was gonna be!

I definitely couldn't of done it without my fabulous team though. They were awesome and had some of the best surfdog experience out there! Here's another picture with my pawsome team...

Judy to the left of Mom is Surfdog Ricochet's Mom. Boy did she have some good pointers! (my personal favorite was dat can of cheese whiz!) Kneeling behind me is Peter. He surfs with Nani the surf diva. We saw both Ricochet & Nani at the surfdog competition held earlier in the year. It was pawsome to have such expertise standing beside me!

After that last wipeout, Mom decided I'd had enough and we got to head back to shore (whoohooo! back on solid ground!) and watch some of our other doggie friends take their lessons.

Ginger, one of my bffs, did awesome! She caught the first wave she went out for and even rode it for a bit!

But then that ole gravity tripped her up, and she had a pretty spectacular wipeout herself.

Don't worry though. She recovered quickly and even got back on the board to catch a few more waves!

Next up was Jack. His human is Dawn, from Leash Your Fitness...so of course he's a natural!

Check it out! He even showed off a little backwards surfing! Pretty cool, huh!?!

Lastly, it was Rilee's turn. She's a labradoodle, so of course she was a natural also. Check out those awesome ringlets of hair! Aint she pretty?!?

Here she is, actin like a pro after 1 lesson and waiting for the exactly perfect wave.

She rode one wave all the way in to shore! Way to go, Rilee!

Ginger was even waiting at the shore to congratulate her!

Boy, what a fun day. I was pretty exhausted after it was over with. The super nice people at Helen Woodward even offered to let us come back for free next weekend! I think they felt kinda bad cuz even the biggest longboard they had today wasn't quite wide enough for my big ole booty. Next week they said they'd for sure bring out an extra big paddle board for me. So, it looks like my surfing days aren't quite over yet. Gotta give it a try at least one more time!

Hopefully Mom will bring some more protective gear for herself next time. She came away from the surf clinic with a tiny cut on her foot (wimp!), and a big scratch on her thigh which has now turned all kinds of black, purple and blue colors! She's tryin to blame it on me, but I think its her own fault...whose big idea was dis anyhow!?!

She says she'll live though, so I can't wait to get back out there one more time!

Hang Twenty Dude's & Dudettes!