October 5, 2010

My brother, Grady, has been came over to play once a week because he is too little to go to work with his raiser. We played and played until we fell asleep. After our nap, we played some more until it was time for Grady to go home. What a great time we have!

October 2, 2010

I'm still to young to go help with GDA booth and events so Denise has been renting GDA puppies for them and today she has Harley a female black lab to help out at Knollwood Country club. The GDA Foundation was having a fund raiser 18th hole game. For five dollars if the golfer gets his ball with in the white circle the golfer would win a pouch and three new golf balls and if they made a hole in one the player would win the bag, balls, and 20% discount in the pro shop of the country club.

September 20-21, 2010

My brother Grady came over to have a slumber party while his raiser goes to work really early tomorrow morning. We shared my crate but like all great slumber parties we did not go to sleep right away we had to play first. In the morning Denise put us out in the X-Pen to play till Grady's raiser came to pick him up.



Grady

 

Gentry

Yes we "Get Busy" together



June 23, 2010



Fern and Digby

Denise and I helped out at another Children’s Workshop.  This time was at a Boy Scout Day Camp. The boys were earning their disability badge. Denise and I were at the vision station and had a special treat of having Mr. Paul and Guide Dog Rawhide work our station. Mr. Paul showed the kids all his neat toys to help him find the correct color for his clothes or read bar codes for when he goes grocery shopping and more.  After Mr. Paul’s presentation, Denise had the kids try on different glasses to show what it was like not to see.  Then, she had them blindfolded and try to put together puzzles, tie shoes, string shapes on to ribbons.

Vision Station were the boys where blind folded and had to put puzzles together, string beads, count out play money from a wallet, and tie a shoe



Mr Paul and Rawhide show all his cool toys from color reader, bar code scaner and his talking watch



Glass with Mr Paul's blindness

June 12, 2010

Today was the GDA Annual Open House and Puppy Trials. Denise and I arrived earlier to help set up. While Denise worked, I played with Kayla and Allison. Once the gates were open, Denise and I walked the Puppy Trial obstacle course which included obedience, walking towards a mirror, stairs, walking on weird surfaces like bubble wrap, sitting by a table like at a restaurant, walking by these strange hot dog plants, bubbles, balloons waving in the breeze, as well as llamas, lambs, goats, ducks and other farm yard animals. Then, I had climb on the vet table where Sarah, the vet tech, checked my ears. Finally, I climbed on the GDA bus and sat quietly while we pretended to go for a ride.

Later in the day, Denise left me with Paul and Chris (3 yrs old) and we went into the dorm to have a nap. They slept in the bed while I curled up under the bedside table. At the end of the day when all the ribbons were announced Denise and I won second place in our age division.

Baby Boy "C" Yummy Rice Crispy puppies at the bake saleFenix and BobHanging out at the cotton candy booth

Wow look what we won second place for our age group

June 11, 2010

Denise and I have been going over to Pam and Ember’s house to help make this year’s open house photo background. I really don’t do much but play, play, play with Ember but Denise and Pam painted and made tons paper flowers.

May 31, 2010

The next morning we got up real early to clean the Scout house and pack, since we were leaving today. We walked to Erik Shat’s bakery for breakfast and picked up Grandma B’s order of bread. When we left Bishop, we made a stop to see the Manzanar Internment camp where we watched a 20 minute film about the camp and then walked around the museum.

Bishop Scout House

Manzanar

Louise (friend) with Fern and Ember

At lunch time, we stopped at Alabama Hills for letterboxing, lunch and climbing before we said good bye to the girls and went home. It’s been a really fun weekend and I hope we go on another fun trip again.

Letter box Rattle Snake Dick in Alabama Hills

Alabama Hills

May 30, 2010

This morning Denise, Pam, Ember and I went to Mass at the Catholic Church. When we went up for communion, I tried to shake but Denise would not let me all the way up the aisle. When we got to the front of the church, Denise did not catch me and I gave a really loud tail slapping shake in front of everyone.

After mass, we met our group at the park for a pancake breakfast with the local Lion’s Club before we left for Laws Museum. Laws is a very peaceful place with lots of old buildings to see and a nice green lawn and giant cottonwood trees for shade. They had a couple trains and one trolley to ride, but we didn't.

The girls were put on puppy duty so Ember and I had a great time exploring with them and around 1:00 pm, we met up with the adults and had a picnic lunch. The girls wanted to go swimming at the pool in town so Denise, Pam, Kathy, Ember and I stayed a little bit longer at Laws to explore. While we were there, some people asked Denise and Pam if Ember and I were the “Catholic dogs” so I guess we made an impression on everyone.

Denise and Pam

The Ass shoot with the Girl Scout Troop

Around 2:00 pm, we went back over to the park and pool where we dropped off Kathy to find the girls. By 4:00 pm we were all hungry so we went back to the fairgrounds for dinner and met Cari and her guide dog, Denver to watch the final show of the weekend.

The girls, Fern, Ember and DenverDenise & Fern, Pam & Ember, and Carri and Denver