Fall is coming !!

Summer is GREAT but fall is coming.  In August is was HOT and we didn't always spend that much time outside unless we were swimming in the lake.  I am sooo glad Mom and Dad live on a lake so we get to swim a lot !!  Miss M came over one day and we decided to do some picture taking.  After we posed for a few shots me and Miss M played fetch

and then I worked on some of her commands.  I don't want her to forget them after all the work I put into training her.  She did Ok so I rewarded her with some more fetching.  We really have that down and what is even better is that I get to play with those yellow balls just like Avalon did when I was in training.  Miss M has a lot of them at her house.  Mom and Dad have lots of them too so I get to play with them everywhere !!  I miss my orange fetch toy though but it floated away one time when I wasn't looking.

 Mom smelled up the house again doing something she calls canning.  It was hot that day so we had to stay inside and smell the icky smells.  I think she canned tomatoes, salsa and froze some of those red round things.  She also got this big machine out and put something she called a zucchini in it and it came out all shredded up.  Some even went flying on the floor so I went over to investigate.  Zucchini really doesn't have any taste so I don't know what the big deal is ?  Mom cooks with it and bakes with it.

On one of our weekend walks around the lake we stopped at a tree and Mom picked red round things called apples, I think.  When we got home she started canning again and I thought for sure we were going to have to smell icky stuff but that was not the case.  It smelled sooo sweet !  I think Mom was making something called Apple butter and Apple sauce.  I wish I could have some but we all know how that turned out.

I did not get to attend my Grandma K's special ceremony over Labor Day weekend but Mom took pictures and let me look at them when she got home.  They were at a church then had brunch where Grandma lives.  Mom said she now has a special friend to share her adventures with just like I have Avalon to share mine with.

After brunch Mom and Dad came home and started to load up our house on wheels to go camping and watch the first Husker football game.  Dad was soooo excited.  Dad and I put Little Red up in our yard and we all put our Husker red on.  Dad was watching his weather app and it said a bad storm was coming so later in the afternoon Dad cancelled our camping trip and we were just going to stay home and watch.  The BIG BAD storm came and everything was cancelled even the game.  I thought Dad was going to cry  :(

                                                                                                              

Since we didn't go camping over Labor Day Miss M came over and took me to her house and we got to play and work on commands again.  It was hot so after commands we had some swimming time.  I asked Miss M to swim with me but she 

liked to just throw the ball for me. I was fine with that and did a lot of swimming
and fetching.  Mom and Dad stayed home and cleaned out veggies in the garden again. When I got back home I saw the vegetables down on the grass but these ones looked very different.  Long orange things and hard red/purple things.  Mom again got the big machine out and shredded most of them.  I will say the orange shredded stuff that fell on the floor didn't have much taste either.  Don't know what they see in them.

The Omaha World Herald story came out over the Labor Day weekend.  It told the story about my career change and how wonderful KSDS Inc. is.

On 911 this year Mom and Dad told me about what happened 17 years ago.  It is sad that all of those people lost their lives on that day.  Mom and Dad said we should stop and remember them. They were innocent people and some were courageous people trying to save others lives.  Dad told me there were special service dogs that help find people and comfort people.

The next big event was our trip to Lincoln to camp and go to the Husker football game.  I got to go and represent KSDS Inc.  Mom had lots of our pamphlets and cards to give out.


We started our weekend adventure camping in Lincoln on Friday night.  It was a cool camping spot.  Little Red came along with us so he guarded our camp site and let everyone know my Dad is a Husker fan. Next, Mom and Dad put out our other Husker football decorations then it was time for dinner.  We had our usual dog food while dad cooked on the grill.  We ate dinner kind of late so right after we were done we started to get ready for bed.  Kick off  on Saturday at the Husker game was at 11:00 and dad likes to get there early to walk around. He also likes to see the football players when they do something called the tunnel walk. We had really cool seats right on ground level.  I don't think football players can understand puppy talk so it probably sounded like I barked at them twice when I was really rooting for them.

During something called halftime we went outside the stadium for me to "hurry up" and you would not believe who we ran into.  Little Red's twin.  He was watching over something called a tail gate party.  Mom and Dad
talked to them before we went
 back in to watch the game again.

 Avalon did not get to go with us camping and to the game because of her car sickness plus she did not get special permission to go.  When Avalon made her career change she decided to just be a forever family pet while I decided to be an Ambassador for KSDS.  Avalon stayed at home and Miss M came over and let her out to "hurry up" and feed her breakfast and dinner.  They also went for a walk.  In between Miss M babysitting she went for a really long ride on her other four legged very large puppy.  I am not sure I like sharing Miss M with this other puppy but I thinks she really likes to ride so I guess it is OK.  I am not sure the name of the puppy but I know they go to command competitions and she wins ribbons.
                          GO BIG RED !!!!