Sunshine on my puppy (2008)

In the immortal words of John Denver (well, kinda/sorta):

Sunshine on my puppy makes me happy 
Sunshine on my puppy can make me cry 
Sunshine on my puppy looks so lovely 
Sunshine almost always made us high 

If I had a day that I could give you 
I'd give to you a day just like today 
If I had a song that I could sing for you 
I'd sing a song to make you feel this way 

Sunshine on my puppy makes me happy 
Sunshine on my puppy can make me cry 
Sunshine on my puppy looks so lovely 
Sunshine almost always made us high 

If I had a tale that I could tell you 
I'd tell a tale sure to make you smile 
If I had a wish that I could wish for you 
I'd make a wish for sunshine all the while 

Sunshine on my puppy makes me happy 
Sunshine on my puppy can make me cry 
Sunshine on my puppy looks so lovely 
Sunshine almost always made us high 

And here's a link just in case you would like to hear the original song.

Oh yeah, and a bonus profile picture in the sun.  

Wow.  What a tongue.

Long tongue (2007)

As Frito heats up, the long tongue makes an appearance.

I suspect there was some running going on during this photo shoot.

Shaggeriffic (2007)

Someone's looking rather shaggy.

But Frito doesn't mind (since it kept him warm in the winter).

And he's got his tennis ball, and is showing off his tongue freckle.

You all are very lucky, donchaknow.

World's largest water bowl

So if it's good to drink lots of water;

And if it's good to cool off by getting into water;

Then it must be super-duper to drink with a big tongue while cooling off in the world's largest water bowl.

Frito was one lucky dog.

Smiley

Hi Howdy.  This here's Smiley.

A little hot, but darn happy to see ya,

Frito could swing both ways

With his tongue I mean.

Yep, definitely ambidextrous.

Try that in your spelling bee (Alpha failed ;-)

Hot dog

Who needs to sweat when you've got a tongue like that.

Panting is just fine for cooling off.

Cuter than a stuffed dragon

And could even stick out his tongue just like that stuffed animal

Yummy treat?

Frito looks like he's waiting for some sort of yummy treat.

Gotta lick dem chops.

What a little shaggamuffin.

Thinking about some frogs ...

... and how yummy they would taste ;-)

Actually, Frito never "ate" the frogs.

But he did try to catch them.  

And when he did, they were gonners.  (Thankfully, not that often.)

You could say it was Darwin at work, and the smartest ones got away.

Sorry little froggy spirits -- Frito was just following his instincts.

Dog Breath

Alpha says I have "dog breath".

What does he expect?  Cat breath?  Well 'duh!

Alpha also say's it doesn't smell very good.

In fact I think the words he used is "OMG Frito, your breath reeks".

I though he said my breath rocks.  I can get behind that.

But is it really so much of a price to pay when you can get such great shots of my nose and tongue?

I'd say it's a good deal for you all.

And a pretty good deal for Alpha too.

After all, he got to have me lay on his chest while he was sunning in the yard.

So stop your whining Alpha.

Doin' the walk-about

So, I have a new "thing" that I'm doin' lately.

It's called the "walk-about".

When I no longer want to snooze, I get up and just ... start ... walking.

I never leave the yard.  But I just keep going around and around.

I will come over to say "hi" when someone else is in the yard, but after that, back to walking.

What can I say -- sometimes old dogs do learn new tricks ;-)

So here's how yesterday's walk started

Yeah, so Alpha carried me this far, and then thought I would start walking with him.

We're still in our own yard (hee, hee)

Such a silly boy.

Doesn't he know I can play a good mule when I want to?

And if needed, I'll just lay down and see if he plans to drag me along on the walk ;-)

Turns out, I made him carry me all the way over the railroad tracks to our hillside walking trail.

Sometimes I'm such a stinker ;-)

In the pink

Hey Mom, check it out.

My tongue matches the color of your shirt.

How very pink of you ;-) Or did Alpha mess with the color again ;-)

It sure does make you colorful!


Not to mention comfortable.

Thanks for the ride.

Sometimes the ol' legs just need a pick-me-up.

Passel o' paws

Look at that.

It looks like I'm mostly all paws.

They are very cute (and occasionally a little smelly ;-)


But Alpha, must you keep taking pictures?

I'm really getting rather bored with the whole affair.


Or else very hungry.

So let's wrap up this photo session and get moi some food, 'K?

Big hair, little tongue

Hey Mom, you've got some Big Hair today!

OK, maybe it just looks big compared to my cute and adorable little tongue.


So here, let me enlarge my tongue for you.

Anything I can do to help ;-)

The finished product

So here I am after my bath and rollin' rollin' rollin'.

Don't I look beautiful? The little tongue tip is just a little bonus ;-)

Oh yeah, and I'm lying in Alpha's bathrobe.

Just like mine -- only bigger and softer.

Tongue tip tease

Hey, want a little peak?

Isn't this just the cutest tongue tip you ever saw?

I'm such a tease!


OK, just for you.

Here's the real thing.

OMG I'm adorable.

Lip smackin' good

I want to show you a few of the many faces of Frito.

Yesterday I was acting particularly cute when Alpha brought out the camera.

Here I am showing my marvelous tongue.

Yep, I make a lip-smackin' good photo, don't I?

Quite a tongue

I'm visiting the Vet, so I get a little bit nervous.

So what does Alpha do?


Well, of course, he takes pictures.

Thanks for all the comforting Alpha.

Jeez.

But at least you all are the lucky ones, since you get to see another Frito close-up!