Another Birthday

Time for another apology about my absence from blogging. It’s Mom’s fault, though, not mine. She’s been busy with work…again. If it weren’t for the fact that she keeps telling me that her working is why I get to eat, I might be a bit more insistent. Maybe I will anyway. Maybe her entire “work = food” story is just that – a story.

Well, whatever the case, I’m back now, and today I’m going to tell you about another birthday that happened recently – Aunt Julia’s birthday. Since Aunt Julia had so many people who wanted to come to her birthday party, she needed a fairly big place to have it. Mom and Dad said she could use our house, which was really cool because it meant I got to meet lots and lots of new people, and show them how much fun a Borzoi can be!

Aunt Julia brought her Greyhound, Dash, to the party with her. Poor Dash was depressed because Liza, the alpha dog of his pack, had died recently. Everyone tried to cheer him up, but it didn’t help very much. Having just lost a pack member, I understand how he was feeling.

Poor depressed Dash.

Aunt Julia also brought her foster Greyhound, Rio. As soon as everyone met Rio, they knew she wasn’t going to be Aunt Julia’s foster dog for very long because Julia was going to adopt her – and she did!

Aunt Julia and Rio

Even better than all of the visiting people and hounds, was all of the food the people brought. Unfortunately, the food wasn’t for us hounds. Still, I felt obligated to check it out, and to see if I might get some of the party-goers to let me sample some of it.

Just look at all that yummy food!

Can I have some, pretty please?

Alas, no one wanted to share their food.

But Uncle Mike showed up!

And here’s Carol and Marii, too!

I, of course, made myself at home with everyone.

I even got to sniff the birthday girl’s toes.

One really interesting thing that happened is that the party invitations didn’t say anything about there being lots of big dogs at the party, and some of the people who came were scared of big dogs. But as soon as they saw how nice and well behaved all of us were, they didn’t have any trouble at all being with us. They even complimented us on being so good and mellow and non-scary.

Since Aunt Julia knows how much I like paper that makes nice crinkling sounds, she gave me a piece while she was unwrapping her presents. What fun!

Later in the afternoon, after the weather cooled down a bit, some of the people and hounds went into the back yard where I decided to show everybody how happy I was by running around and around.

Me and Peaches

Me standing in the pool.

Belly rub from Marii. Yay!

TIme to start running around!

SPLASH! through the pool.

Whee! Out of the pool.

Around the lawn

Back toward the pool

Back into the pool

And back out

Another lap around the lawn

Into the pool yet again

And back out

Look out! Wet Borzoi coming through!

And that pretty much did me in. I spent the rest of the party lounging around, but it sure was a lot of fun! Maybe next year Mom will have a big party for ME at our house.

BTW, in case I didn’t say it then:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AUNT JULIA!!!!

Until next time,
–Sergei