We have Warp Speed!*

Heh!  Mom has finally re-installed everything on her computer, so the ship has been righted.  Also, fearing a loss of irreplaceable** bitey-face-in-snow pictures, Granny and Grandpa bought Mom a 2TB (yes, that would be terabyte) external hard drive as an early birthday present, so Mom can back up ALL our bitey-face photos!  And 2TB should hold A LOT of bitey-face photos!  Thanks, Granny and Grandpa!

So, a few things to catch-up on.  First, for those of you who might not have been paying close attention, Abby took 3rd place in the Working Stiff class at Mango Minster!  
  

While I'm impressed with Abby's mastery of the blarney (seriously... did you read her entry?), and I'm proud that she placed (the competition was Very Tough!), I'm equally pleased that a REAL working dog won the class!  And, of course, I was thrilled to judge the Too Darn Cute category (and even more thrilled to see that Miss Mollie Jo won Best in Show!)  As always HUGE thanks to Mango and the Mango Momma for putting on the Greatest Dog/Critter Show in the Universe!

We also finally got some more snow, and Mom finally took some pictures of us.  While Mom seems to like her SuperNerdy job, it really cuts into her picture taking time... However, she did get over 200 pictures of us this weekend, so I can't complain TOO much... 

We continued to test the tensile strength of the frisbees...

 
And we got in a little frisbee snow zoomie time...

And there was much Sisterly Love expressed...

Serious Sisterly Love time!

Heehee!

And yes, there were snow zoomies for the sake of snow zoomies! 

We did sit still for a moment or two, so Mom could snap a picture of us 'hanging out'.  Heheh!

Happy weekend to everyone!

*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Hippobottomus



*Well, where 'warp speed' means Mom will be posting once a week.

**Irreplaceable in the sense that no bitey-face-in-snow picture is exactly the same; they're like snowflakes - we get lots of snow every year, but each snowflake is different... Or so we're telling Mom!

My Sister is Such a Suck-Up

Seriously. Abby is a total suck-up. Wave a few Vienna sausage bits in front of her snooter, and she'll fake being a good dog. Look at this....

Suck-up. Total suck-up.

Let me back up. While I am enrolled in a happy-go-lucky doggie class, Abby is enrolled in a AKC Canine Good Citizen prep class. I could go on and on about how my sister is so NOT a good citizen... I mean, she steals my bully sticks, she has to have everything I have, and she's a bed hog. But apparently the AKC doesn't grade her on how she behaves with her loving older sister.

Tuesdays Abby goes off with Mom and learns how to suck-up pretend to be a good citizen, while I get to stay home with Dad and have some quality Abby-free time! Mom thought it was "only fair" to take pictures of Abby's class, since she took pictures of my class.

Abby's class has a bunch of well-behaved dogs. Like Zoe, the Swiss Mountain dog:

And Hefner, the standard poodle:

In the back is Denver the mutt, who is also a well-behaved doggie.

And Indie the pit bull:


And then, there's my sister....

Derrr....

Yeah. Um. Apparently Abby was the 'demo dog' for showing people how to deal with dogs who can't walk without pulling. Because Jessi knew Abby would pull....


Needless to say, Abby didn't disappoint! Heehee. Although... in all fairness, Abby finally got it...


Although I'm sure there were lots of turkey hotdogs involved. And I'm sure Jessi depleted her Vienna sausage supply to get this....


I don't think Abby ever quite got to Zoe's level....

See how she's all calm, and lying down in the middle of Petco with no humans frantically waving at her? Of course, as Mango suggested, as a fuller-figured gal, Zoe is quite adept at lying down and doing nothing. Abby? Um, well, let's just say she still suffers from puppy-brain-itis.

She's a goof-a-doodle!

All my harassing aside, apparently Abby is doing pretty well. She's less of a spaz than she used to be, and can (occasionally) walk calmly on a leash. Mom's got a lot of stuff to do to get Abby ready to take her test, but she's still got 4 weeks, and maybe my little sister will learn how to be less of a doofus. At least some of the time...

But enough about Abby. Let's see some pictures of me, dontcha think?

C'mon, Mom... would ya throw the frisbee already??

Much better!

So, I've been playing frisbee bitey-face with my sister...


And just some plain bitey-face...

Like my Jaws of Doom? Heehee!

And I've been checking on the squirrels...

Hmmm. No squirrels here. For now...

And really, I love my sister. Even if she steals my bully sticks... I mean, if I didn't have Abby, I wouldn't be able to do this:


Heehee!

*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Hippobottomus

Springtime Playtime!

Mom was a little under the weather (nothing serious, she was just a little worn out today) so Abby and I got a lot of backyard playtime today. And Abby is ready to play 24 hours a day. Seriously. This girl could be the answer to world's energy problems. I'm just saying...


But if the wee beastie wants to play, as an obliging older sister, the least I can do is, well, oblige her.

A little frisbee time...



A lot of bitey-face time...






Don't let those picture make you think Abby is smacking me down. I've got the psychological advantage... Heehee.



She thinks a little showing of teeth will intimidate me, but she would be wrong...

I prefer to sink my teeth into her, rather than just show them to her...

Heehee.

But I love my sister.

Really. I do!

I can't imagine bitey-face without her!

*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Hippobottomus