Dog Parks

I am lucky enough to live in a town that has two dog parks. One on the beach and one in a park setting. Yesterday we took the littles (what we call our dachshunds) to the dog park and I took a few pictures. They had a ball! Once the big dog area cleared out a bit we let them wander over in that area. Dexter loved it, he is a big explorer and was off checking out every tree. DJ stayed closer to Vic and I. At one point two jack russells came up to say hi and when DJ did his aggressive bark they quickly put him in his place. His feelings were hurt and he didn't much want to do anything after that. He is the most sensitive little dog!
Here are some pictures, I also posted a short video on my youtube channel, if you'd like to see it the youtube link is up in the right hand corner of my blog.

Days Like These..

What a great day this has been! In fact THIS is what all Saturdays should be like.

We woke up and decided to take the dogs to the dog park. We went first with the dachshunds. The last time we were there they barked at everyone and didn't really have any other little dogs to play with. Today, however the small dog area had a nice selection of pups. Dexter and DJ had such a good time! They still longed to be over with the big dogs and would run up and down the fence whenever anyone would walk by (by anyone I mean any dog). They barked but not nonstop like our first visit. Their tails never stopped wagging...so I think they were very happy boys!

It was such a good trip that we came home and thought we'd take the big dogs (Labradors) up to check it out too. Dakota about pulled Vic's arm off just walking to the gated area.  We did not even get into the big dog area and Scout started doing his vicious bark. It was embarrassing! Anyone would be scared by him the way he looks and sounds when he's being that way! We turned around and hauled them right out of there. I'm sure people were looking at us and wondering why we would ever bring such a jerk to the dog park...but I swear he is the sweetest dog ever..he just acts up sometimes (today being one of those times!) I mean just look at that face!

So anyway...we let them go with us to get gas and then dropped them off at the house. We enjoyed a nice lunch at Panera Bread and mapped out our plans for the rest of the day not feeling guilty any more about not spending time out with the furchildren.

For the last few weeks we have been talking about buying or leasing a new car. Vic has done all the research online and we've stopped by the Ford Dealership a few times to have a look around. I've exchanged emails with a man named Gary for over a week now so we decided to go have a test drive on the SUV that we've been thinking about. To our surprise Gary told us to just take it over night and see if we liked it! So we spent the evening driving around town, by the beach and then on to cracker barrel for dinner. It is a great car! That was very smart of Gary because now it will be super hard not to keep this car! It is the color and make/model that we were looking for. It has only had one owner, is in excellent condition and is in our price range...what a deal!

I hope that everyone else had as good of a day as I did. Happy Saturday!!

The Dog Park

Today we took the littles to the dog park for the first time. There were a few dogs in the big dog area but we were the only ones in the small dog area. It was very hot and humid but the dogs LOVED it. We will definately be returning with them.