when border collies attack

Posted on March 10, 2015 by paridevita

Greetings and salutations everyone; yes, once again it is I, Mani the purebred border collie, filling in for the guy I live with, and here to tell you all about my day. I have one obligatory plant picture for you, too. You may remember me from such posts as “The Couch–An Interlude”, among at least a few others.

Here I am in a characteristic pose. 15031001I had a pretty good day, even though I was left alone for a little while. I stayed in my fort. When the guy I live with came home, I was very happy. I had lunch, and we went outside to look at things. He got all excited by this plant, which I can see, because it’s blue, and about the right size for me.

Hyacinthella glabrescens

Hyacinthella glabrescens

Then I started to think about things. This is me looking thoughtful. I forget what it was I was thinking about. It was interesting, though. 15030102After a while, the guy I live with sat on the couch, hoping to “get a cute picture” of me. He had the camera with him, of course.

Now, what you may not know about tiny border collies like me is that we like attacking stuff. Like, pretty much everything. And we move very fast, as the pictures will show.

I stuck my tongue out at the camera. 15031003Then I got closer.15031005I grabbed the strap. The guy I live with reminded me that the camera “cost more” than I did, which I thought was fairly below the belt, if you know what I mean. 15031006The guy I live with thought this was “only moderately funny”, and it didn’t take long for me to realize he was right. There were a lot more interesting things to attack. 15031007

 

15031008This was the best one. 15031009That was pretty enjoyable, believe me.

Then I spent some time looking out the upstairs bedroom window, and snacking on the tecoma next to me. He put a cage around the tecoma a couple of days ago. Like that would stop me. The guy I live with yelled at me and moved the tecoma into the spare bedroom.

15031010So, since I was upstairs, I found something else to do.15031013You should have heard what he said. He went up the stairs, into the bathroom, and started rolling up the paper, but guess who was faster? 15031014If this hasn’t been an excellent day, then I don’t know what excellent means. And of course I do. 15031011

 

Until next time, then.

 

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and more melting

Posted on March 9, 2015 by paridevita

Greetings and salutations, everyone; yes, once again it is I, Mani the tiny purebred border collie, Mani the needle-toothed, chaser of squirrels and untier of shoelaces, here to bring you the latest news about me, and a bit of garden news as well. You may remember me from such posts as “March The First”, among at least a few others.

Here I am in a characteristic pose.15030905Then I had to attack the camera.15030904I’m very good when it comes to attacking things, if you didn’t know.

It’s really sunny here, and a lot of melting is going on, but we still have snow in the back yard. Plenty for me to play in. It’s really slushy and that makes it even better.

I lay at the back door, in a yearning sort of way. That gate was made to keep purebred border collies out of the house, which I can hardly imagine anyone wanting to do, but I guess in “the old days” there were issues with muddy paws. And now, for the time being anyway, it keeps me inside, but I still get to look at stuff, and we get lots of fresh air. 15030902The guy I live with finally let me out, and we walked down the garden path together, and that’s where I saw the squirrel. I bravely chased it out of the yard, and all I had to do was walk up to it. The squirrel could see my horribly gnashing teeth and the glint in my eyes. It made me feel good to be so tough. I spent all of yesterday untying the guy I live with’s shoes, right after he tied them, and that was pretty fun, but chasing a squirrel was even more fun.

The guy I live with says I need to learn how to chase rabbits next.

He was really busy, because he finally got on Facebook, and was amazed at all the stuff there, and then maybe not so amazed, but the second time we went out into the garden we wandered around, and looked at things, and he saw this cyclamen, and took a picture of it.

Cyclamen coum

Cyclamen coum

He said it looked like it was flowering in the snow, and it really looks like it is. I guess the cyclamen started flowering before I showed up here, and that this is one of those things I’m supposed to get all excited about, and so I looked excited when he pointed it out.

When we came inside, after all that excitement, I felt it was necessary to take a nap.15030901The guy I live with says he’s been affected by Daylight Savings Time, and while I don’t really know what that means, since I eat three times a day, he has seemed fairly listless and boring today. I mean more so than usual.

I don’t have much of anything else to say. I’ll leave you with another picture of me, if you can stand the cuteness, that is.15030903

 

Until next time, then.

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