almost Thanksgiving

Do you like the new colors of my blog? i thought they were kind of Christmasy. It's almost Thanksgiving!! That means turkey and gravy for me! This week mom made a ham. Yes... a whole ham. It was a Paula Dean Ham. She had a meeting and that's what she took. Buddy and I had Ham scraps. Don't tell mama Renee because she'll fuss that we are fat. I'm not fat. Just comfortable. I'm anticipating growing taller this year so I need to fill out first.
It's been a pretty good week. We had walks most days. 2 days mom got home too late. Of course these days if she isn't home by 5, it's too dark. She said we'll get long walks this weekend. We'd better. Tonight when she walked us, she got all frustrated. I've gotten this new habit that is annoying. Ha ha. As soon as I see another dog or person, I run at mom and just start jumping on her. Then I keep doing it even after they have gone. I jump non stop for about 5 minutes. It makes it really difficult for mom to walk and she starts tripping over me. I love that! Then she gets all mad and says "walk Sonny!" in that very stern voice. But I just keep jumping. Between that and Buddy having to stop every 5 steps to smell something, we barely make it around the block. Of course mom blames us but I watch the dog whisperer and I know it's never the dogs fault. It is always the persons fault. Isn't that true with kids too? Always blame the parents. I love that!
Not much else happening. Mom was a little grumpy the past few days. I think it's PMS but I don't dare mention it. She'll bite my head off. She is finally getting over that cold she's had. It's been 3 weeks! She is still coughing some but not as much. At least she isn't waking us up at night. she went to the Dr. because she insisted she had pneumonia. But, it was just an upper respiratory infection. She still swears it's pneumonia but we all know how dramatic she can be. Because of all of the coughing, she hasn't been running for 3 weeks. She tried last week and fell into a coughing fit. I don't know how she plans to run that 10 K on Thanksgiving morning. the one for the Sacramento food bank. I keep telling her to do the 5K with Jane and the kids. we'll see.
Okay. It's time to snuggle on the sofa.
I'll write more later.
Sonny

Is it the weekend yet?

How can it only be Wednesday? I want the weekend to get here. On the weekends, mom is home with us. During the week she goes to that dumb job. Why can't she just stay home and play with us?
Not much new stuff these days. Mom is still fighting her cough. Most of the cold is gone but the cough still lingers. She's woken us up every night coughing. I need my beauty sleep.
We had a nice walk today but yesterday no such luck. It's dark by 5:30 these days and yesterday mom didn't get home until 6:30. She said.. Too late. I wanted to bite her.
Mom lit a fire in the fireplace the other night. it was delightful. The 3 of us stretched out on the Chaise, Buddy on one side and me on the other. We watched a movie and snuggled. it was the perfect evening. Mom said it was slightly pathetic.
I'll write more this weekend.
Sonny.

I can't believe it is November!! How did that happen? It has been a busy/ crazy couple of weeks. Mom was in New Orleans all of last week for her Leadership conference. She said it was inspiring and fun. She flew out last Saturday and spent a free day playing in the city. She went on a graveyard tour with some co-workers and ate biegnets (fried dough). The conference was 10,000 people, all mgrs and DM from US and Canada. They did 50,000 hours of community service, painting houses, planting trees, painting murals, clean up etc... PLus on the last day, which was the one big group day in the arena, Bono talked to them. Now, I don't know much about music but I do know that this guy Bono is pretty big stuff. I guess Starbucks is going to participate in the Red campaign. Providing support to Africa. So now mom is all jazzed up and ready to go. Except... she came home sick. SHe is coughing like crazy. She's drinking cough syrup like it's wine and sucking down cough drops by the bag full. I guess too much fun will do that to you.
So while she was gone, Aunt Rory took good care of us. Nothing much happened but it did rain which is pretty unusual. The rain started a couple of days ago and it hasn't stopped. The only drag with the rainis that it means we don't get our walks. Not Good.
Right before mom left, she bought me a yellow toy. It was soooooo fabulous. For 2 days I squeaked and squeaked. I was determined to find the squeaker. and then on the 2nd night I broke through and dug into the guts of the toy and.... found the squeaker. Once I got a hold of that squeaker, I was able to sleep. But the next morning mom woke up and and screamed. there was stuffing/ guts all over the bed. I didn't care because I had the squeaker but mom did not seem too happy. She took the yellow toy away. Why oh why!!! I have posted a photo of me with the yellow toy for your enjoyment.
Stay dry.
Sonny.