Adios Dale-e-os

Bye Dale-Os!!!! I'm gonna miss you guys more than anything in the world - you've taught me soooooo much about what it means to be an Airedale, put up with me when I messed up, and finally conferred the coveted Summa Cum Quietly diploma upon me when I calmed down and stopped barking for my stick in the backyard. I can't wait until I see you again - you HAVE to visit me in Portland, or I'll steal the keys and take the Bogie-mobile down to see you again sometime.

I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!! AND MAREIKE TOO!!!

Travelling tomorrow morning - this should be interesting... I'll blog if I can and catch up on what everybody is doing once I'm there!!! Thanks for all the love and good wishes everydog!

Love,

Bogart

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Where's My Stuff?

All of my stuff is gone... simply gone. The apartment is almost-empty and all that's left are litter boxes and sleeping bags. It's so weird!

I wanted to post more of the box-filled madness, but alas, I haven't been able to convince mom that this was paramount. Many days I couldn't even find her for all of the mountains of boxes.

We'll be leaving for Portland on Sunday last I hear, a long road trip. I'm kind of looking forward to it, but I think the kitties won't be nearly as happy as I. They have to travel in carriers, and from the looks on their faces they're already planning destruction of the Bogie-mobile.

No photos either - remember how the last excuse - er, problem - was the batteries always dying? Well you should see the latest, it's a doozy. Now the camera is taking these weird psychedelic photos, all neon colors and weird effects. And mom can't figure out how it happened, and from what she says she can't fix it. So we'll see, she's promised to take a closer look at it once we arrive in Portland...

Big Aire Kisses to everydog, I'm gonna be a Travelin' Man!

Love,

Bogart

Photo of the Month Nomination

OHMYDOG!

One of my photos has been nominated for Photo of the Month over at The Bone Zone on my favorite website, Dogs With Blogs!!!

So everyone needs to go over there and vote... your conscience of course... for whichever photo you really think is best... there is an awfully cute one of Miss Maggie too... mine is particularly cute, an action shot, taken from a burger's point of view, of me lunging at it.

Vote April 08 DWB Photo of the Month!

Love,

Bogart

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The Week of Dale Day Care

Dad is home from Portland, triumphant, keys in hand to a house with a back yard. Whoopee!

I spent much of this past week at Dale Day Care - yup, that's Mareike's house - hanging with my buddies. I gotta tell you, as many cool things as there are here in Los Angeles, the ONLY one I'm gonna miss is Mareike's house. And my Dale buddies.

And even the kitties that live at the Dale house...

Love,

Bogart

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Stay... Out of the Apartment

Another white-hot day in Pasadena. It was hot enough today that I was doing my Mexican-jumping-bean dance at streetcorners whenever mama and I had to wait for a light to change - since I'm not wearing shoes, it's gets kind of toasty on the pads. It's still always fun to walk around tho, and get away from all of the looming moving boxes in my apartment. Not too much space there right now for a majestic Dale such as I, so I do like to go out as much as possible.

This past week that meant I spent my days at Dale Day Care - aka, Mareike's house - and there is truly no better place to be. Rather than being cooped up in the apartment, before she goes to work mama drops me off at Dale Day Care and then she picks me up on her lunch hour. So I get some time with my buddies and to check messages at my office, then some relaxation time until she arrives home at night. Not too shabby.

During our walk back to the Bogie-mobile, I met these two lovely ladies from Australia - and got an excellent, three-person massage while the Airedmiration flowed. They were so sweet! Mama and I stayed to talk with them for awhile on the street, so long that they lost the friends they were originally walking with! What can I say, I have that effect on people...

They were so cool - hope you enjoyed your time in SoCal ladies!

Love,

Bogart

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Zen... WORKS!!!

You dogs are GOOD....

We have a house! With a big, fenced backyard! In Portland! It's a little further out from the city center than mama originally wanted, but it's near an area with a lot of hiking trails, it's got a fireplace and wood burning stove to keep us toasty, oh and did I mention that I will have MY OWN BACK YARD???

Mama, dad and I send BIG AIRE KISSES to all of my doggie friends all over the world who got their Zen going so that we could find a house and a back yard. So now we'll be moving at the end of the month... I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

Love,

Bogart

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Dad in Portland

Ohmydog, Dad is in Portland! Looking for a house for us, and a yard for me. I'm so excited!!!

Can you doggies do me a favor? I really, really want Dad to find us the perfect house and he doesn't have a lot of time (we're moving at the end of this month - yikes!). Would you all think positive-house-for-Bogart thoughts? Maybe with help from dogs all around the world we'll find exactly the right one.

Paws crossed!

Love,

Bogart

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Feelin' Better

Feeling.... GOOD! It was just a weird one-day thing - maybe stress, maybe something weird that I ate, I dunno. I'm just happy to be running and hungry again (oh, and not puking - that's the best part).

Well it must have been all of the Aire Zen that I felt comin' toward me... but I'm feeling MUCH better!

So thanks everyone for all the good wishes and helpful hints - the chicken and rice has been yummy, and I haven't had a chance to try the saltines that T-Bone Beasley suggested but that sounds good too...

Love,

Bogart

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Feeling Pukey

I don't know what it is, but this morning I've been feeling all puke-y. Not to be gross here, but it's basically just fluid, and I feel kind of tired. Must have been something I ate.

But in much happier and less pukey news, I got this lovely award from my buddies Maggie & Mitch - thanks guys! That really cheered me up today!!!! I'm gonna pass it along once I feel a little better.

Love,

Bogart

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MIA

Could be missing in action, more likely MOVING in Action. Lots of boxes have appeared this week, and things seem to be progressing toward our impending move to Portland. Mom talks about it non-stop and how much I'm going to love it, and I'm actually pretty excited too. So far I think it's all of the activity around here that's doing it, and of course all of those boxes. The kitties seem to like the boxes too - although they mostly jump inside them and then jump back out again.

But something new this week a-bakes. LIVER COOKIES!!!!! This is the dough on the cookie sheet, ready to bake.

And here they are - cooking into perfect little bites of livery goodness.

This is what they look like once cooked.

And this is the bowl that the batter was made in. Who wants to lick the bowl!!!!

Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

That was tasty, but now the humans wanted to get something to eat. So instead of the usual spots, dad wanted to try somewhere different. So we loaded into the Bogie-mobile, and went to Il Capriccio Wood Fired Pizza in Hollywood.

Argh, here we go again. The service at restaurants here in LA can be soooo bad. Notice dad peering inside (there were no other customers when we arrived nor the entire time we were dining) looking for our waitress. And see the carefully-cultivated look of disdain on my Aire-face at her sub-standard service.

So, to amuse ourselves while we waited for ANYTHING to arrive, we were looking directly across the street at the local Ford dealership. Well looky looky here. Somebody can't spell - The F-150, American's #1 Turck! - and of course the ever-popular Fusion, Electricfying New Ride. Mama LOVES things like this, when someone goes to the trouble of having posters made with blatant misspellings. Makes her giggle. And I like it when she giggles!

Love,

Bogart

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Bed Warmer

I take my jobs around the house very seriously.

While mom is at work, SOMEONE has to keep the bed warm. Especially her side.

I'm just HERE TO HELP

Love,

Bogart

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