i am waiting for sumptink called new year

my mommy telled me that a new year is coming soon,  so I am watching out the frunt window for it to come.  I waited and waited, but I never saw that new year come at all.

I am starting to tink it is not coming...  I sed mommy, its not coming.  and she telled me oh yes it is

so I watched and watched and den I finally  jest falled all asleep.

me and my mittens

I don't tink I has ever told you how much I ruv mittens, and gloves!  of all kinds and colors.  win my mommy wearz them I go all crazied up and tack her hands.  we play and play.  well, I getted my own wintertime pair in my last Bark Box.  I carry them all around and mommy lets me play tug with them! 

sumtimes I pretend dat I em wearing them on my paws hehehe

oh-do you see my basketball hoop?  I am learning to play dunk!  innyways, I ruv my new mittens

then on my walk today, I digged a glove out of the snow!  I wanted to bring it home but mommy sez no no Percy, you already have some mittens at home to play with.  darn it all

so I leaved it behind in the snow.  I hope its owner finds it.  its cold outside.

do you see whut i see?

I wuz minding my own bizness when I noticed a hippity right out my frunt door.  he wuz eating my mommys frunt yard.  oh I barked much.  then mommy let me out the door and I chased that rabbit far away.  bark bark bark

me and my shadow

so last Wennsday  was sumtink callt the winter solstice.  at noon time mommy sed the sun was the furthest away from us that it ever iz, and that then it stands still--I dent knowed innyting cud stand still, specially me.  innyways we taked my pitcher at noontime cuz my shadow is the tallest it ever can be then.  lookit my shadow!  it is bigger than me.  whut a neato ting to do!

I learning to hunt so good

I am practicing to hunt hippities cuzzed that's whut I wuz breeded to do.  my mommy and me go everyday and I knowed jest whut to do now.  I sniff them bunnies out and they hippity hop away frum me so fast that I cant see where they go.  so thin I must use my nose and sniff them out of their hiding spots.  I git so cited that I bark bark bark.  mommy calls it giving voice.  and she yells tally HO!!  and I bark bark bark sum more.  here I am hunting them out of these sticky bushes.

lookit this next pitcher--all you can see is my white tail in the sticky bushes.  did you know that is why Basset Hounds have white tails?  so hunters can see us in brush!  you couldn't see me unless I has my white tail. 

and here is my face looking out. 

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now its time to run across the bridge to go play in the park after my hunting session. 

I do ruv my exercise!!!!!

i has a white Christmas

 do you see this snow coming down?  it wuz on yesterday, Christmas.  mommy wuz so happy she sez it was a winter wonderland.  do you remember that my name is Baywind Ghost Of Christmas Past? 

and I am white!  so I tink I am a white Christmas!

dat must be why my mommy is so happy with me.  or may be its jest cuz I em so cute and smarty.

Merry Christmas!!!

yes evrybuddy there IS a Santy Paws!!!  you cannot believe whut happened to me Percy this morning--my phone ringed and it wuz Santy Paws calling me!!  I wuz at first a little wondering if it wuz really him, here is me wundering it.

then my mommy showed me who wuz calling--it wuz Santy Paws for sure alright.

and the best part wuz me talking to him!!  I quick got out my recorder and so I haz proof of my very special call!  he iz so real he even knowed that I am 1 yrs old now.  he duz see me when I'm sleeping and knows when I'm awake!  he even knows that I ruv sloppy joes! 

jest listen for yourself!! 

I Percy even talked back to his questions!  canz you hear me saying bark bark?

my hollyday pitcher card

here is my happy Christmas wish card to all my frinz.  I Hope you like it.  I do like it.

one of my frindz sed bout this pitcher that my mommy almost makes me look human....wait one minute, she tinks I am not??

I also ruvved this one, but I tink the little santa eating apples wuzzed cuter.  which do you like more?

my longest recall ever

lookit how fast I come back to my mommy win she calls me.  and I is so far away.  i haz to zoom so fast to git to her!  thin we can play and play.  and i also practice my trick mommy callz windshield wiper.  i roll back and forth like one.  i ruv this and i do it everyday at the park! 

we haz so much fun togedder!  and jack frost is not biting  me either.

i almost got bitten by the frost

this pitcher is frum a fun walk before the cold winter commed.  maybe the day win i saw the star in the sky. my mommy sez we cannot walk win it is only -3 outside like it has been.  she sez that jack frost might bite me.  oh, I dent tink i like jack frost.  so we stay inside and play togedder and learn new tricks!!  go away jack frostbite. 

i tink this so cool

we were walking one day and suddenly there was a star in the sky!!  oh I tink it might be the star of Bethleham!  i know Christmas is coming.  but thin my mommy sez it is only airplane trails.  darn it. 

but I steel tink it is so cool!!!

talk to the hand

when my mommy wuz trying to take pitchers of holiday and me I kept not staying.  so mommy givved  me the stay hand.  but thin a pitcher gotted taken of me gitting the hand to talk to.  i tink it looks like a mommy stop sign.  so i did stop.  i always listen to the hand!!  and i taked gud pitchers!!!

i hate mommy leaving

when my mommy sez she is getting ready to leave I always git so sad.  I usually take down the kitchen towel so she will git sidetracked and chase me around for it and not really leave soon.... see me?  i is laying on the towel and trying to git her attention.  I saying looky mommy, I has sumping I not sposed to.  come and chase me to git it back...

it dusnt always work often.  so then I go and git in her rocking chair where we rock togedder.

 I try to give her needy face.  but it dusnt work often either.  and she still haz to go.

but thin I go in my kennel den with a treat and I jest wait til she comes back. 

she always duz come back and she opens my kennel den door and sez hi liddle boy!  and we hug.

i like win muy mommy comes home always.

my birday party!

oh, I has such great birday party!  here is my guests--grumpy old man Asa and my friend Max!!
They both dressed up for the sellybration.

and here is my birday cake that my mommy made!!  num num num num

me and my frinz all feasted to sellybrate!  i ruv to share!

look at grumpy Asa-- i tink he is sticking his tongue out at me...  partee pooper Asa. boo.

birday boy eats furst.

my mommy is such grate cook

grumpy Asa"s turn-see, I not sticking tongue out at him....

i not sticking tongue out at Max either.  i haz good mannerz!  i even dressed up too!

Happy Birday me, Percy!!

i RUV evrybuddy!!!  tink you evrybuddy for a grate Birday! 

i haz new name sort of

                                  one year ago I commed out #5 and wuz called lace ear.
                               now I am Baywind Ghost Of Christmas Past CGC RATN NTD!! 
         here iz me Percy with all of my tings I earned in my furst year!!  Whew I haz been buzy boy!
                                                    Do you see my big smile?  I so happy boy!

i canz weight for my next year!!!!!

guess whut day it is?????

IT'S MY BIRDAY!!!!!!!  i am 1 years old today 🎉🎂  i has growed up so much-my mommy sez yes too, but not in the mental department.  i dent knowed whut that means.  but here is me growing so big up!!

my mommy wuz making gruntink soundz, hehe, see the vain popping out of her forhead?  dats how heavy i am now.  i tink i way 65 pownz! 

did you ever see me win i wuz jest tiny puppy?  i tink me and mommy look jest same as then.

but I tink mommy has grayer hair now.  she sez me Percy gived it to her.  i dent get dat-i only gives her red and white hair, and a lot of it too.  oh well. i is so bigger now! my mommy made me a birday cake.  here it iz.

my sellybration is gunna be later, but i wunt my birday cake NOW!  here i iz tryink to git it from the counter.  mommy sez Percy stop it.  you has to wait.  hey, lookit my nose haz sum birday cake on it.  i wunder where dat commed frum?  hehe, mommy let me and Max and Asa lick the mixing bowl!!

well, mommy sez i haz to go nap now and dat i canz bog more later.  so i well see you later.  i dreem about my cake i tink!!  yay me Percy!!

i is famous

you all member win i goed to see Santy Paws, right? well, I dent knowed it but they prized me and put me in the newpaper!  my mommy sez me PErcy is kind of famus!  I tink evry doggie has his day and this is my 15 minutes of famus!!  i do tink I is the cutest of all these other cute doggies--specially with my raindeer antlers.  I  m a Rudoff !  i jest know I must be on Santy Paws nice list now, right? 

me Percy is cutest, right?

I jest could not wait to see Santy Paws.  this iz me wanting my turn.

and this iz me hasing my turn!  I tried to be like rudoff so I cud maybe hep Santy with his delivries.  see me looking to the sky to show Santy that I be good flyer?  i dunt tink Santy Paws noticed.  he wuzzed too buzy posing for the camera.  shiissskk.. i guessed I needed a red nose too...

Christmas caroling with my buddy Asa

here is me Percy, and my frind  grumpy old man Asa howling a  duet of Silent nite.  my mommy sez it was innyting but a silent nite.  thin she also sez that there is never such a ting as a silent nite where me Percy lives.  and dat is jest how I like it!!  grumpy old man is even in the happy howliday spirit -- he must be worryrid dat Santy Paws mite not bring him sumpting if he is grumpied up all time. 

Holiday lites

I got my pitcher taken after I saw Santy Paws.  just looky at how pretty it iz!!  I ruv how everyone is so happy at this time of year, mommy sez its cuz if they are not then mr Santy Paws wont bing them doggie toys and treats.  jest like me.  but I always happy innyway.  I tink Mr. Paws mite bring me sleds and sleds full of good tings cuz I good doggie!

my eye

this is my eyeball.

whitch pitcher do you like better? 

I tink they are both neato!!

me huntin dem ratties

so here I am sniffin out dem vermints for my mommy.  I doned so good-like I already telled you!!!    watch my work!! I ruv barn hunting!  wait, is dis really a barn???  now dat I see it, it duznt really look like a barn from above....  me percy sez hmmmmm..

looky whut I finded

I found the best treasure in the park today---some udder doggy left behind the most perfect ball!  it was popped and  worned out and I could git it in my mouth and even squish it!!  me and mommy played fetch with it for a long time and I had such fun! 

see me?  I is so excited!  I ruv my new ball.

happiness day!!!

santy Paws

oh goodness, I getted to go see Sannty Paws tonight.  I sitted on his lap and he asked me whut I wunted for Christmas cuz I has been such good boy this whole year.  I telled him I wanted to live forever cuz I ruv life so much.  sannty paws laughed and sed he wuntd that too!  but wait... I dent tink sannty paws ever had to worry bout not living forever....

I tink me and sannty paws is making same face!!