My Olympic events

I thought that you, my faithful readers, might be interested o learn that I will be competing in the Olympics.  I will be competing in the famed and popular Cute-ing event.  Cute- ing is an intensive and competitive sport, that requires skill, stamina, and endurance.  Here are some pictures of me participating in Cute- ing. You have to submit a bunch of pictures to the judges, before making a personal appearance.  Here's my portfolio

My official picture

From the back

Relaxing

Another candid

The "gazing adoringly" look

My front paws

An action shot (you'll see more of these in my other events)

My back paw

My nose

I'll show you my other events in a minute.

Love,
Rosie:)

The Olympic opening ceremonies (live blog)

I'm here watching the Olympic opening ceremonies. They're currently switching from agrarian England to Industrial England, complete with all the appropriate symbolism. I'll update again in a few minutes!

UPDATE: Now they're honoring WWI veterans. And they're back to the industrial revolution....

Update#2: After a discussion about the Olympic rings, the girls have decided that they aren't actually a Lord of The Rings reference. What do you think? I'm cuddling Tiggy while Roo types. My life is good.

Update #3: that was really cool the way the Queen came in. The corgis were almost as cute as I am. :) I think it was a cool idea to have God Save the Queen sung by a signing choir.  They were wearing PJ's, which we  think may be have to do with Peter Pan.

Update #4: That was kinda weird at first, with the doctors and nurses and the villains, but then 40 Mary Poppins arrived, and it was awesome.:)

Update #5: That was awesome! It was a combination of Mr. Bean (a British comedy show) and Chariots of Fire. It was hilarious.:)

Update #6: They just did this kind of weird thing transitioning from the industrial age to the digital age. (Read the following sentence in a British accent for full effect)The costumes are somewhat odd, but they're playing some of the greatest hits of the '60's, '70's, and 80's, on 98.1 WOGL.

Update #7: The end of that was really weird, with lots of bad rap music. At this point, Roo would like to make a PSA that not all teenagers party like that, and that the vast majority of them have better taste in music.  The Olympic torch has entered the stadium!!!  They showed the torch coming down the Thames.

Update #8: Not a whole lot of excitement. Ryan Seacrest interviewed Michael Phelps.  Maybe we can have popcorn soon. I like popcorn. Popcorn is very yummy.

Update #9: They're in the parade of nations now.  Greece went first, and then they go alphabetically. Now, you may be asking yourself why Greece goes first.  The answer is of course, the word Olympic, like all words, comes from Greek.  Now they're on Canada. We're eating popcorn. Did I mention that I like popcorn?!

Update #10: We've made it through China.

Update #11: Egypt. And begging Tiggy for popcorn.

Update #12: Eritea through Grenada.  The German outfits were awful.Hot pink does NOT go with the colors of the German flag. *hides eyes behind paws*

Update #13: Israel....

Update # 14: South Korea

Update #15: Mexico

Update # 16: Rwanda

Update #17: The parade is dragging on. I've gotten bored and left the room. We've made it through the "S" countries, I think. :)

Update # 18: Uganda

Update #19:  WOOO!!! GO USA!!!!!!!!!

Update #20: Roo's going to take her shower, so it will be a little while until my next update.:)

Update #21: The parade is finished. There was some music. Now they're doing the ceremonious part.

Update #22: The games are officially open. They're marching the flag around the stadium.

Update#23: The torch is arriving. I wonder who's going to light the cauldron.

Update #24: It's been lit. They're setting off fireworks.

Goodnight, all!
Love,
Rosie

The Greatest Heist that Ever Failed

So, this post is either about my attempt at taking one of the two objects that are featured in the two pictures below. 

Any guesses which one?

Crunch and Cleans and...

Elementary Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems (a form of calculus one believes).

Come on! Any guesses?

Hint: It's not the calculus book.


So, here's what happened.

Kanga went grocery shopping today at the new grocery store near us. Well, it's actually not new new- it had been another grocery store but they got sold to a different store which shut the place down for a while and renovated it, and now it's just reopened. Confused yet? Not that the history of the store has much anything to do with the post. Anyway, at the store, Kanga bought me some crunch and cleans and I love those biscuits!!!!! I haven't had them in a long time.

Tigger gave me one and a half right before the family ate dinner and then left the box on the island in the kitchen. I saw them and a plan formed in my extremely large and intelligent brain. (By the way, I am also incredibly humble!) As the family was eating dinner, I pounced on the box pulled it off the island and began to snarf down the biscuits.


I forgot to take one thing into account though when formulating my plans. The box didn't hit the floor silently and Tigger guessed immediately what was going on and lept up and cruelly snatched the box away from me and put the biscuits away. It was very sad- there I was with an entire box of crunch and cleans within my paws, literally, and tit was taken away from me.

I would like to point out though, that the humans have only themselves to blame for my attempt at taking the biscuits. If they bought me crunch and cleans more often, and if Tigger had given me more before dinner than I would not have felt as compelled to help my self. Also just this morning Kanga remarked that it must be very sad to always have to wait for someone to bring you food (it is), so I was being a self-motivated dog and helping myself.

The story does have a happy ending. (I know you were all on the edge of your seats waiting to hear that!)Tigger gave me some C&Cs when taking the pictures for this post.

WWFN,

Rosie the Wonderfulest Dog That Ever There Was

Posing with the box. Do you know how much self control it took to not just dive right in?

Tigger does this thing with me where she puts a treat on my paw and won't let me eat it until she says I may.

I have to look away so as not to give into temptation.

At last! The treat is mine!!!!!

Doings, Happenings, and the Like

Well folks, what's been going on in my life?

Well, first of all the Roo is off at the Aunt and Uncle's over the river (and through the woods to Aunt K and Uncle J's we go...). I miss her, but am not as lonely as I would have been since Tigger has today and yesterday off from work. Yesterday was really hot- the sort of day where you put your big fluffy tail between your legs and try to avoid going outside. Today is much nicer out. Tigger and I were out there weeding for over and hour, and it was lovely.

It's been so hot, that I need to look at pictures of the beautiful, happy, snowy time to cool myself off!

I'm getting ready to go off to the post office with Tigger. My friend the electrician is here. He's great and I love to see him and I wag my tail lots. Yesterday I was somewhat upset at first when the people came to fix the stucco on the house. I wanted to go out and visit, but Tigger refused to let me.


WWFN!

Rosie

Introducing the newest Celery!!!!!!!!!

GUESS WHAT?!!!!!!!! THE NEWEST CELERY ARRIVED TODAY!!!!!!!!!! SOOOO CUUTTEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M PUTTING UP PICTURES AT THE END OF THE POST!!! THE YOUNGEST CELERY IS JUST THE PERFECT SIZE FOR AN INFANT OF THIS AGE!!!
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Aw! Just look at Bear-y Celery

So cute!

S/he looks just like Buffy

Did I trick you?! 

Love and wags,

Rosie
xoxoxoxo

My Girls

(Be sure to sing the song "My Girl" while reading this)
My girls are pretty wonderful.  They take very good care of me every day of my life. They feed me, and take ticks off of me.  They make sure that I'm well groomed and attractive.  They teach me new tricks so I won't get bored. They give me treats, and lots of pats and love. Don't you wish you had girls as amazing as mine?

My girls (and boy;))

What can make me feel this way?

My girls!

Getting bathed by my girls

My girls!

who gets me to pull my cart?

my girls!

getting fed by my girls

my girls

Getting dirt on my girls

                                               

MY GIRLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of love to all,

Rosie

xoxoxoxo

Of disloyal humans, weddings, and golden retriever puppies

The family went down to VA this weekend for Aunt L's wedding. I got left behind, although I did have my friend K. come by and visit me and take care of me. The family had a good time at the wedding, although they missed me terribly. There was a cute golden retriever puppy there (which makes me say "HEY!!!!! Why didn't I get to go?!!?!?!??!?!?!?!!").

Abby the puppy, visiting with Tigger.

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The silly dog went swimming!

Check out those paws!

One of the tables for the reception. The flowers were all arranged by the family, and set up the tables  etc too. There were only 24 people at the wedding, including the bride and groom.

It was by a lake. Here's where the wedding was.

Cake tragedy. The second pound cake (i.e. the wedding cake) got stuck when the plate is was on and the glass thing somehow created a vacuum. I really hope they got it unstuck, because otherwise the bride wouldn't have gotten any cake!

WWFN,
Rosie

P.S. Congratulations to Aunt L. and her new husband E.  !!!!!!