Happy Thanksgiving, everybody! Daisy Jones-Klein here, and
still everybody’s favorite
dogblogger. (Go ahead! Google it to check me out!) I know I haven’t blogged for a while, but there’s lots to do
here, and, truth be known, my Peeps have gotten a little lazy in helping with the
typing.
It’s Thanksgiving weekend here in sunny New Mexico, and there’s much to be thankful for. Actually – and you rescue dogs out there reading this will agree – any day you’ve got Peeps who care for you is a day to be thankful. FUN FACT! IT’S TRUE!!! The Google says so:
- “grateful rescue dog” – 4,800 hits
- “ungrateful rescue dog” – 10 hits
But Thanksgiving is a special time for reflection and
appreciation. And I’m talking about a lot more than just helping lick the
plates. It’s been about six months now since we packed up and left our Virginia home, caravanned
across the country, and arrived here in Santa Fe. In dog years, that’s over
three years! That's a lotta time. And it’s been a good time to be Daisy! Why, here are just a few of
the things I’ve done since I got here:
- Number of meals served: About 360
- Number of meals not eaten: exactly 0
- Number of walks around the neighborhood: About 360
- Number of walks that were “meaningful”: about the same
- Number of walks with eye-popping scenery: about the same
- Number of bunnies spotted and chased: about a thousand (but maybe some were repeat sightings)
- Number of bunnies caught: none, yet, but any day now ….
- Number of trips to the vet: 1 too many
- Number of baths: 4 or 5 too many
- Number of times I didn’t go into a frenzy of barking when the doorbell rang: C’mon, you should know the answer by now.
Yes, it’s good to be Daisy.
And about that disturbingly low ratio of bunnies caught to bunnies chased. At first I thought it was just me, struggling to find my running legs at 7200 foot elevation. But then, thanks to the Google, I learned another FUN FACT!!! If you Google “Jack Russell Terrier” (in quotes), and also “chasing bunnies” (in quotes), you get 444 hits. But if you substitute “catching bunnies” for “chasing bunnies”, you get only two hits across all the Internets! So I guess I’m not alone in my bunny-catching prowess – we can think of this as an opportunity for improvement – but it’s probably not the proudest moment for my breed.
But we JRTs are a proud breed, and cute as all get out. Google hits for "Lovable Jack Russell Terrier" are now up to 142,000, while there still hasn’t been a single instance of "Unlovable J--- R---- T----" across all the Internets.
And people write about us a lot! "Jack Russell Terrier" in quotes gets you 9.1 million hits on the Google! Go team! Now I grant you, that’s not quite up to Beagle (49.6 million hits) or Poodle (39.9 million hits) standards, but at least it’s way ahead of Irish Setters (5.7 million hits). Take that, Portuguese Water Dogs (2.6 million hits). In yo’ face, Labradoodles (3.3 million hits)!
Me and my Peeps have been doing lots of fun things here. Sometimes we all do our adventures together, but sometimes they decide that bringing along a certain noisy yappy Jack Russell Terrier wouldn't be ideal, and that I'm better off guarding the Homestead. Oh well, at least they usually take pictures to share. For instance, later in the summer, we finally got our address marker mounted, the one that Dad made back in Virginia, giving it its new Forever Home, too:
And while it doesn’t rain a whole lot here, we often get
really neat rainbows afterwards:
And further up in the mountains, there are these huge
forests of aspens that all turned gold in October:
And last month in Albuquerque, my Peeps went to the Albuquerque
Balloon Fiesta, with more hot air balloons than anyplace in the world:
The sunsets still manage to dazzle us in new ways most every
night:
And in the middle of November, we had our first bit of snow:
And Friday night, right after Thanksgiving, they put up the
holiday lights and decorations around the Santa Fe Plaza:
But my favorite times are the simple things: taking long walks, hanging around
the house with my Peeps, finding sunbeams to pin down, napping in the sun, helping with the
after-dinner dishes, and receiving the occasional belly-rub:
And when Mom and Dad are in their offices, I like to keep them company. Mom set up my travel crate up in her office, making it a second home of sorts for me. I guess you could call it my pied–à–terrier:
Yep. There’s a lot to be thankful for, this week and every week. For this lucky pup,
it’s still a pretty sweet gig. Hope yours is too!
Daisy Jones-Klein
Daisy Jones-Klein
