So popping around the net … wasting time as I sip on my morning coffee and blink the sleep from my eyes (woke up at the horridly late time of 10:15 am lol) and thinking of some new designs for our Zazzle shop. Fun fun!

We bought Toby a new pool last night – since we decided to NOT show him this weekend due to his spraining his paw last Sunday – we figured we’d do something nice for him. We would have taken him to the lake … so he could get his first experience with a LARGE body of water (we really want him to have it be a POSITIVE and GOOD experience, as we think he will ADORE dock jumping) but that seemed as dumb as showing him considering he just had a bad sprain.

Outside of his old kiddie pool, he’s not really had much experience with bodies of water really. His breeder has a pool, and she says every litter always has every puppy fall in lol, but Toby was the one that didn’t. Smart boy LOL. Anyway, I think he’d do best with his first adult swimming lesson if it isn’t a sharp drop off on the edges (like a pool) with only one easy way out (the stairs in the pool), but rather a slope, something that eases into the water gradually, like a lake or river.

Well the rivers around HERE – are cold vicious little killers with hidden and fast undertow currents – many adults, kids, and dogs die in our rivers every year … so yeah … it’s not going to be a river. So it will be the lake. But not this weekend. So anyway we’ve been meaning to replace his old pool that finally died the good death this year – but hadn’t had the money when we could find the pools and when we found the pools we either didn;’t have money or if we had the money and found a pool it wasn’t the right kind (the ones with a slide built in) or the right size (PetCo and PetSmart were selling some TINY pools this year what gives with that? lol).

But last night, driving to WalMart, I made the usual drive by past the garden area, looking to see if maybe finally they had some pools and they DID!! And for only TEN bucks too! WOOOO HOOOO!

And we also replaced his lost beloved soccerball! We gave him that last night – and man – he just LIT up. He kept checking on it to make sure it was still outside ALL NIGHT LONG. Gave me the giggles. Such an earnest boy! we’d have given him the pool too, but it was already dark and that really is a daytime toy lol.

So later this afternoon we will surprise him lol – put it out and fill it up and then let him play. Should have the camera too as I bet he will be so cute!

Fun fun!

Oh and while I was puttering about the net this morning, came across this video … and was complewtely charmed by it and thought I would share! Enjoy