Wednesday Woof

Sadie Jo here, pawing another edition of the Wednesday Woof.  Boy, has it been busy around our home lately.  The most exciting thing to report was our trip to the Long Beach Peninsula on the Washington State coast.  My brothers and I knew something was going on especially the night before we headed out.  Our Daddy packed the truck while Mama was prepping food and then packing the food and all the other stuff out to the camp trailer.  I knew there was no question of us going but Cash was so nervous that he would not eat the night before.  It worried Mama a bit but that did not slow down here packing frenzy.  Trust me when she is doing laundry, prep food, and going back to her list you do not get in her way. 

This was our first trip in the truck that our parents bought after Thanksgiving last year.  Oh yes, I almost forgot Mama had to make a new seat cover since the new back seat was bigger than our old truck.  Daddy made me a special ramp to get in and out of the truck.  My brothers love it.  The verdict is still out for me on the ramp.  After six hours of driving which felt like days, we arrived at the beach.  It took Mama and Daddy no time to set up the camp trailer.  Good thing since it was quite warm.  Mama says that it was 83 degrees which is very warm for where we were.  Before we could have a romp on the beach, Mama and Daddy had to go buy razor clam digging licenses and buy a clam gun, which looked like a big white tube to me.  After this we got to drive the truck out on the beach.  There were lots of people so they decided we would go back to where we were camping and walk out across the dune grass to the beach.  Finally my favorite part of the whole trip racing on the beach and then rolling in the wet sand.  It is quite a delight to roll in the sand after racing around after your brothers.  Daddy caught me and told me not to do it again but Mama said it was fine.   I knew I loved her best. 

The next day we all went razor clam digging.  Okay we watch Mama and Daddy from the truck.  Between the two of them they caught 8 razor clams.  Then it was time for more racing on the beach and rolling in the sand.  This time I rolled in the sand when Daddy was not looking, but Mama was watching and snapped a couple pictures of me.  Then it was time to go back to the camp trailer and take a nap while Mama cleaned the razor clams.  For some crazy reason, Daddy went to bed early and Mama walked us out to the beach right before sunset.  She forgot to take her camera but there was a great sunset.  Would you believe they got up at 1 AM to rescue the canopy because the wind was going to carry it off?  I thought all was good until Mama started to make coffee.  Very strange indeed.  Next thing we know we are getting out harnesses on and being told to get into the truck.  We drove in the rain, then we sit in a parking lot and just when I am dozing off Daddy gets out, kisses Mama and takes his lunchbox and goes off in the dark.  Mama promised that it was fine as Daddy was going halibut fishing and it would be a good thing.  She then drove us back to the camp trailer and we went to bed.  I figured after a good nights sleep I would question her about this again.  We woke up to more rain.  Next thing we knew our Grammie Lady was there.  Oh I love my Grammie Lady.  This is Mama’s mom.  She has really great toes that I only like if they are painted red, which she did.  Oh how I love her.  Barry still is not sure about her but Cash agrees with me.  It was not long until Mama was telling us to get in the truck and we were going to pick our Daddy up.  We got him back, so all is good.  He caught a halibut, which means yummy dinners this summer.  We had dinner at the place Grammie was staying at.  She did not know it did not allow dogs so we protected the truck.  The rest of our stay was not too exciting because it rained and rained.  It did let up enough for Daddy to load the truck and get the camp trailer ready to head home.  We were exhausted and slept most of the way home. 

Here are a couple of snapshots from our trip

Now it is time to start gardening.  Mama has been going out to the gardening spot and planning what we will plant.  She was worried about planting before we went to the coast but now she says we have to get things in the ground and growing.  I love gardening but you do not run through it.  This will be interesting since Barry has never experienced vegetable gardening yet. 

Have a woofunderal Wednesday, Sadie Jo   ^. .^