Showing posts with label Friday night. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Friday night. Show all posts

Sunday, July 19, 2015

The Life and Times of Olive the Pug: Another Friday Night...

It’s certainly no secret that this is what a pug loves most in the world:


But on Friday evenings, a pug will give up a nap for a chance to spend time down at the beach.  The minute the humans start to say words like “cocktails” and “golf cart” a pug can barely contain her excitement and she might even let out a scream or two in exhilaration and delight.  She just can't help it.  After all, going to the beach for cocktails on a Friday night pretty much trumps all of a pug’s favorite things.  She stands at the door wishing the slow human (that would be me) would just hurry.


Eventually, we all get there and it is a beautiful evening with a slight cool breeze and no humidity.  Lovely!


Unfortunately, none of Olive the pug’s canine friends are coming out this particular evening and she is stuck with just having humans for company.  It's a sad fact of life that humans talk too much to each other and don’t pay enough attention to a dog.  That means a dog might get into a little trouble by getting up on top of the picnic tables.  Of course, she doesn’t have a clue why the humans freak out about that because she knows it’s going to be raining cats and dogs the next day anyhow and the tables will be washed the way nature intended.


Then she spies a couple of lucky dogs whose human knows how to make his dogs feel very special.


But by then she’s pretty sure she wants to get back to that nap, so she heads for home with the humans to take up where she left off.



Thursday, September 6, 2012

The life and times of Olive the pug…



It was just beautiful here last Friday night.   So Greg and I loaded up our golf cart for a ride down to our beach to share some time with our neighbors and friends.  To say that this is Olive’s very most favorite thing to do in the whole wide world is to understate how much she loves these jaunts and looks forward to them.  She can barely contain herself when she sees us making preparations to go.

For some odd reason, last Friday we were the first of our group to show up.  So Olive jumped up on the picnic table to see what kind of treat we brought along to eat.  I hadn’t had a chance to prepare anything good and brought along a bag of pretzels with some special mustard as a dip.  Olive stared at the bag in disbelief.  She knows that we know that dogs don’t like pretzels.


She decided to let Greg know she wasn’t happy about it.


But all that was soon forgotten because her favorite buddy Buddy showed up.  Buddy is about the best tempered dog I’ve ever met and a fine example of what a great idea it is to look to the local shelter for a canine companion.




They soon took off like two dogs shot out of a cannon.  When we finally packed up to go home, Olive wasn’t really sure she wanted to go until she saw that Buddy was leaving too.  That night in bed, her snores were extra loud.  Now and then she would give a little bark and her pint sized legs were moving to beat the band.  I’m sure she was running on the beach with Buddy in her dreams.