It's pollen season ....

Hi dogfriends. Here are the pictures of the pollen I promised you the other day. This is what was in my water. I finally got my slacker Mother to take some pictures for you.

Here it is on a table on the porch.

Here is is on the porch.

And here it is on my NOSE.

If you look carefully, you can see white stuff on the edges of my nose.

Awful stuff, that pollen.

It's COOPER ....

Cooper .... It's a perfect name for my dog statue friend!! Thank you for all the suggestions but Copper is PERFECT. The reason it is perfect is that my Grandaddy sometimes makes a mistake and calls me Cooper, so it is a perfect name. And the fact that he is a strong (cast iron) silent (never barks) type like Gary Cooper, well that is just icing on the cake .......... or is it peanut butter in the Kong?? My Grandaddy is visiting me right now and I will tell him my dog statue's name is Cooper. He really knows me name is Copper but he has been through a lot lately and ..... well ..... everybody gets mixed up sometimes. I love him a lot! Thank you very much friends for helping me name him.

Meet my friend .......... Cooper

Guess what dog friends ... Hana nominated me for the Awesome Blog Award. I am so humbled because the dogs that get nominated for that ....well, they are awesome dog bloggers. Ivy and Hana and the Dachsies and lot of others have been nominated or even won. What an honor, what an honor. I just don't know what to say. Thank you very much Hana.

Help me name my dog friend ....

Today my Mom and I worked in the yard a little. We washed the pollen off of the porch furniture and the porch, not because pollen season is over, but because we are having company. My Grandaddy and some other people are coming to visit and Mom wanted people to be able to sit outside on the furniture. I really have to stay clear of my Mom when she gets that hose in her hand, sometimes I get wet if I am in the wrong place at the wrong time. And getting wet is worse than having your feet wiped!

While I was out on the porch with Mom, she moved the "dachshund statue" off the porch to wash the porch. She brought this metal dachshund home one day and he sits on the porch. He is very heavy and black and very quiet. He NEVER barks! Mom decided he needs a name. I can't help her. Do any of you have any ideas. I think he is a boy dog.

Another reason people need us ....

Look what I found on the internet............

This is why people need us ... so we can do the hime-lick-man-u-ver on them when they are choking on an apple ......... the apple that they probably did not share. Wow, what a smart doggie! I hope he got to eat the apple!

Ok, dogfriends ... practice!

Please send the water quality inspector .........

I have slipped away from my Mom to post tonight. She is in a bad mood and I am trying to stay out of her way. She had a garage sale today and she has been in bad mood ever since. Even though I was a really good boy and didn't bark at too many people (mostly because she let me sit in her lap) she said she was NEVER having another garage sale EVER again. It has something to do with too many people wanting to pay her a quarter for things when she only asked for a dollar and the things were like new and cost $20 or $30. She says that you can't buy ANYTHING ANYWHERE for a quarter. I am not sure what that means, but it has put her in a bad mood.

Then tonight a boy and a lady came to my house (I only barked softly at them as they left.) and asked my Mom if any people came to her garage sale and gave her any twenty dollar bills. It turns out that three people came together to this lady's house and each bought something for fifty cents or a dollar and each gave her a COUNTERFEIT twenty dollar bill. She had three of them and had lost close to sixty dollars. She was a nice lady and had looked in the paper for other people who had also had a garage sale today and had been going around to their houses to see if they had also taken any counterfeit twenty dollar bills. She wanted them to call the police so that the police could maybe catch these bad people. My Mom says that she does not think any bad people came to my house, just cheap people.

On another note, I just have to show you what was in my water the other day. My Mom is very nice (except for right now) and I have a water bowl inside and outside, so that when I am outside not barking at people (because I hardly ever do) I can get a drink of water. Well, the other day this is what my water looked like.

Aside from the dead bugs that you floating in the water, can you see that green stuff? That is pollen. As you know, I live in Augusta, Georgia. It is beautiful here in the spring ........... except for the pollen. This green pollen you see in my water comes from the pine trees. It gets all over everything outside and a lot of things inside. It is awful and it is really bad this year because it has not rained. My Mom and Dad say that they can't open the windows (so people can hear me bark from inside) because the pollen gets all over everthing in the house. In fact, Mom wiped my feet three times today when I came inside. So, the other day when Mom saw me drinking my water, she changed it and made it clean again. The only thing is she would have to make my water clean every hour and she won't do that today because she is in a bad mood.

I will take some pictures of the pollen on other things tomorrow (like my black car) so that you can all see what I am talking about. It is terrible ........... because I hate to have my feet wiped.

Ahhhh, this is the life .....

Thanks to Isabella's computer skills, I was able to go to that fancy hotel my Mom went to recently. I loved it there. The bed was soft and the cookies on the tray .... well, they were delicious. Thanks Isabella!