a bumper crop

bailey is posing with our first crop of oranges from our orange tree. Most of them were bigger than bailey's head! does your dog eat oranges? i offered a taste to bailey, she just sniffed it and turned away but aoife loves them.

bailey's naked? yes, it's been really hot here in so cal. yesterday was in the mid 90's and the forecast for today is 98!!!

sunday funnies #7: down here!

princess bailey

the day we rescued bailey, she went from being an unwanted, homeless dog to being a princess and she wears her crown with pride. ok, not literally, but everyone around here knows who the princess is. (the title of queen, previously held by my kibbles, was retired on 1.26.10 when we lost her to cancer.) but bailey happily accepts her role as the little princess.

bailey reigns over the backyard as well.

when i saw that a princess tag was available, of course i had to order one for bailey.

do you live in the presence of royalty too?

fireworks are scary

we hope everyone had a safe and happy fourth of july.

our day was very relaxing, UNTIL...

the fireworks started. our city puts on it's own fireworks display and has made private fireworks illegal. but that doesn't stop the knuckleheads from going to the neighboring cities and purchasing their fireworks there and bringing them back here. the legal display made bailey very nervous but she went into a panic with the illegal stuff. she started panting and shaking uncontrollably. it took her well over 3 hours to finally calm down. we had a terrible night. did you have any trouble or did your pooch not even notice "the bombs bursting in air"?

"fireworks are scary!"

ww: 3 cheers for the red, white and blue!

batter up!

hey baseball fans, this one's for you. how's your team doing? the dodgers have been doing lousy (according to hubby).

i think this about sums up how bailey feels about all of our photo shoots; but i don't care. i love posing her and taking her pictures and i hope you enjoy them at least half as much as i do.

let's have a sing-a-long!
take me out to the ballgame, take me out with the crowd;
buy me some peanuts and cracker jack, i don't care if I never get back;
let me root, root, root for the home team, if they don't win, it's a shame;
for it's one, two, three strikes, you're out, at the old ballgame.

teeth cleaning day

bailey's breath was beginning to get a little stinky so i scheduled a vet visit for a teeth cleaning.

"my vet rocks!"

they ended up extracting a front tooth and this monster premolar! i didn't know her tiny little mouth could have such a big tooth!

poor baby slept all the way home (a 45 minute drive but our vet is worth it). this is her drowsy face.

this is how she spent the rest of the day.

check out her canine tooth before the cleaning:

and the same tooth after:

now her mouth is kissably fresh and i don't have to hold my breath when i kiss her anymore :)