my whistle

Check out this cool new addishion to my collar.  it looks like a grey box.  It is callt the whitstle.  It tracks me with sumptink callt gps tecknoligy.  Mommy can look on her phone and it will tell her where Percy is.  sumptimes, it jest sez Percy is at home.  But win I em away frum home, it sez, Percy is away frum home.  and it can tell her jest xactly where I em and how miny miles I has walked and all kinds of great stuff.

mommy telled me that Santy Paws can use it to keep track of me being naughty or nice.  So I bedder watch out.  

star lighting

tonight is the speshil night!  the star is gonna light up and then we will see a fire werks show.  it is a chilly night, but we have sleeping bags in the back of the truck to keep us warm while we wait.

mommy sed "don't look away Percy, it is going to happen any second".  So I jest watched and waited.

Thin all of a sudden, there wuzzed a lighted star and sum big bangs and pretty lights in the sky.

the star is on to celebrate the season!  it wuz so citing.  I saw it light up!!

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and the fire works were so great!  here is sum pitchers of the coolest ones.

do you see the star?  this next one I rilly like--it luks like a people who is hasing their arms in the air and saying, this is so great!!  WEEEEEEEEE.

me and mommy sed YAY so miny times, we laughed and smiled and sed COOL!

did you notice that the fireworks are red and green for  the season?  I ruvved it so much.

mommy reminded me that now Santy Paws is watching me to make sure I stay nice for a Christmus gift.  I hope I member to not be naughty.  

gitting reddy for the starlighting

Tomorrow is a very speshial day here in Cassle rock.  it is the day that the big star gits lighted up to celebrate the hollydays.  The big star is on top of the rock...you know, the liddle hike me and mommy do a lot of times.  innyways, lookit this guy who is way up high on the star making sure it is reddy for the light up tomorrow.  he is brave.   he is jest the liddle black dot to the left of the flag.

and gess whut? me and mommy are going on a venture to see the star light up tomorrow!! 

I so cited, I cannot wait.

the edge of the earth

today mommy and I taked a liddle walk close to our house.  we has been there lots of times before, but today we taked a difrent path.  this is sumptink callt a cairn.  it marks a trail or way.

I gave a Percy smile and sed, well, lets follow the cairns!  we did and we commed to the edge of the earth!.  mommy sed, "dunt get to close to the edge Percy, you might fall right off."

it wuz a long way down.  so I has to stay on my leash.  I injoyed the view and had sum water.

I has so much fun, I jest smiled and smiled.  heres anudder one!

I axilly sniffed out a rabbit and gave voice and we tracked it for a long while.

I wundered where it went.  

but I wuz so interested in the view, I jest stared at the bootiful marvels.

I sure ruv the ventures me and mommy has togedder.  whut a grate life I has.  tank u mommy, tank u.

i never get tired

this wuzzed me after my 5 mile hike a couple days ago.  I sed oh mommy, I has your kichen towel.  lets plaay chase!  

mommy sed "Percy, my feet are killing me, I CANZ NOT CHASE YOUTONIGHT."  I sed oh boo mommy, my feet are not killing me, and I steel has so much inergy, I wunt to play with you.

mommy sed no, I em sorry Percy, I canz not play chase.  she sed she has lot to do.  that made me sad.

                                                              So I pouted for an hour.

funny cousins

Has you ever hurd of Doxhunds?  They are doggies like me, they are axilly kind of cousins to Basset Hounds.  They are very pickuliar liddle frinds.  These were 2 guys at the hunt test...they are earth dogs.  They like to go in earth tunnels.

                                            

                                                            I tinked they were so funny.  I lauffed out lowd!

                                                     goofy cousins. Rabbits are for Bassets!!

new santa fe trail

win I getted up dis morning, mommy sed "come on Percy, lets go on a long walk."  She telled me we were going to go to the new santa fe trail.  I tinked she wuzzed talking about Santa, like Santa Paws at holyday time.  I never knowed his last name wuzzed fe, I tinked it wuzzzed claus.     Thin she telled me that santa fe is a town and a train name.  and that we mite evin git to see a train on our walk.  I has never seen one, so I wuzzed all cited bout that.

we saw sum rilly neat red hills.  Thin all of a sudden, I sawed sumptink else red...right in the middle of nowhere!!

 
that wuz preddy funny to see. suddenly mommy sed, "Percy, hurry, run quick and look". I runned fast

Thin I heard it.  HOOOOT HOOOOOT.  A train wuz coming, and I wuz so happy! we taked a pitcher

I climbed on a bench and opened my eyes all big so I cud see it bedder!  I ruvved waching it.

after all that citement I wuz ready to lay in the shade and rest for a bit.  I drinked a lot of water.

lookit these mountains of sand we found.  I hiked all over them.  

and got all dirty and messy.

mommy telled me to go wash off in the lake.  I sed ok.

I drinked sum clear fresh clean lake water and pretended I wuzzed a big moose in the mountain lake.  canz you see the drool coming back out of my mouth?  Jest like a reel Moose!

scrub a dub dub

                                                           Percy is in the tub!

nice day for a float

It is November and it is still gud enuf weather to go out on a lake and enjoy the sunshine.  I drifted around and jest put my head down and enjoyed the views.

thin, sumptink grate happened--I finded a crab claw!  I barked and barked and barked at it.

It dent seem to care a bit about me or my barking. sooo i abandoned ship. 

I played on sum rocks and mommy keeped telling me to "be careful Percy, don't turn your ankle".  I sed, don't you worry bout a ting mommy. I em jest fine!

                                               See how fine I em???

later on at home, I conked out and sleeped so deep evin my tongue sticked out 

whut a fun day.  tank u mommy, tank u.

rearranging my beds

Usually my bed is in this spot, but today mommy moved it over to be in frunt of the fire for old man Max to lay on because he is shivering cold.  I goed over and taked Maxs 2 beds and dragged them here.  To where my bed shud be.  I made a pile of beds and evin turned one upside down for comfort!

it wuzzed preddy gudd, so maybe I will drag them here all the time!  nite nite.

Howloween agin

my scary pitcher is on facebook agin!  sumone must have liked it nuff to share and post it for all to see.

I hope everyone likes it too.  it wuzzed a preddy scary pitcher.  I wunder if those empty sneaks are still sitting at the bottom of that tree.  eeeeeek.  sumday we will go and check to see.

Percy pottery

lookit what my mommy got to pick up today--the pottery Percy she made!  I ruv how it turned out.  he has lace ears jest like me.

he also has eyeballs dat luk like he is tinking up sum trubble--jest like me too.  

my mommy sez it is a one of a kind.  Jest like me too!

freezing cold today and my new hat

Evin tho my grass is still green, winter is here and it is only 26 degrees today.  it snowed a liddle bit dis morning so mommy sed "Percy, it is time to get out your winter cap".

she sed "let us put in on yur sweet liddle head so you canz go out to go peepee"

the ear flaps would not stay down to cover my ears, so I made a disappointed face.

mommy tried to help.

but this wuzzed the best we could do.  

Mommy told me that we will have to fix that before the nasty blustery weather comes.

I sure hope so, cuzzed this hat is preddy lame-o.  Don't you agree?  I tink I wud radder has a coat and scarf.  My face sez it all, huh?  maybe I em like elmer fudd hunting those wabbits.  that is all.

my eye duz not feel gud

Win I waked up this morning I cud bearly open my eye.  mommy sed oh no Percy, whut is wrong?  I em so worried I has to take you to the doctor.  here is how I lukked.

so, I goed to the doctor.  I has to git all kindz of tests, like awful paper sticked in my eyeballs and wet stuff that made my eyes turn green.  the doctor sed that I has sumptink callt follicular kunjunktavitis.  he sed it wuzzed caused from being in the hunting field all weekend.   mommy sed oh no, poor Percy boy.  whut canz we do?  the doctor sed that I has to have sum eyeball drops in my eyeballs for a week and thin I will feel bedder.

I kind of like going to the doctor, I git lots of treats and love.. and win I git home I get spoiled and treated speshial.  

I evin gitted fresh, warm scrambelled up eggs! 

                                                           Percy feels bedder already!

Hunt test-Day second

Well, I did it!  I showed those jujes exactly whut they wunted to see and earned my first qualifying score towards my Hunting Hound title!

I cud not wait to git back out to those hunting grounds...  this is me surveying the area.

today the sun wuzzed up becuzzed it was sumptink callt daylight savings, and I goed 4rth instead of 2nd.  

I started my time and checked under evry yukka, and evin lukked inside that old rubbage pile agin.  

I smelled in the air and caught a BIG whiff.

I telled mommy to hurry and come along.

I runned so fast and finded a ginormus hippity callt a Jack Rabbit!  it commed out of a yukka and runned for his life.  I sed rufrufrufrufrufrufrufruf and runned as fast as my liddle legs could run!  I heared sumone yell Tally Ho!  and then I heared a gun shot!  I stopped and lukked up, but  membered that big ole Jack and came back to where I kicked him up to find his scent again.  I runned some more following his smell and barked out rufrufrufrufrufruf.  He wuzzed gone, but that dent stop me frum hunting him.  rufrufrufrufrufrufrufruf.  he wuzzed as big as me, and a lot faster runner.  he wuzzed gone and I losed his trail.  but mommy sed gud boy Percy, that is such a gud hunting Percy!  we hugged and hugged and mommy sed. lets go git your award!

I kissed my mommy cuzzed I had such good weekend hunting with her.  thin mommy told me that only me and a doxhund qualified--out of 14 doggies!  I wuzzed so proud of myself that I taked a bow.

if I do whut the jujes wunt to see 2 more times then I will has a new title of Hunting Hound!  

                                                            I will!!!

Hunt test-Day 1

I had such a fun time today.  I gitted to go to a hunting test to try to find sum hippities.  When we furst gitted there the moon wuzzed still out!  And it wuzzed full.

Lookit dis bootiful sunrise.

When it wuzzed my turn, I hunted and hunted and hunted.

me and mommy lukked everywhere.

The sun wuzzed barely up and we were hunting and hasing such fun.

I like to look at mommy so she canz help me know where to search next.  I finded a few hippities, but the jujes sed I dent do enuff werk to pass my bilities.  that is ok.  me and mommy knowed how hard I tried and that I rilly did do a great job.  I made a  a new friend too.  he iz a lawma.

we talked a lot togedder bout the werld and tings.  we liked each udder.

mommy sed, its time to go home Percy, so you canz rest up for tomorrows hunt test.

I did jest that when we getted home.

snore snore snore