Hi!
Ellie, the Dog here. My food provider, Frank, said that I could write in his blog today. He is typing, I am talking. He talked about my not having some kind of thumbs and not knowing how to spell. Whatever…

I like the farm. It has a lot of smells and lots of other dogs that I can hear. Of course, I talk to them when they are talking to me. It is fun. Frank says it is annoying.

You want annoying – try not getting breakfast. I was hungry this morning but there was no dog food for yours truly. I asked Frank about it and he said something about not wanting to leave dog food in the cabin because rats might get into it. There is that word again – rats. What is a rat? Maybe I will get a chance to meet one someday. That should be fun.

After my non-breakfast, Frank and I got into the big pickup truck. We need to talk to some people. The first was Mr. H. D.. He must be a very bright human because he drilled a well and supplies all his neighbors with water. We are a neighbor. We get his water. What a nice man.

We talked with him in a small house. In the kitchen there was a big table. It had lots of meat on it. I was hungry. The meat looked very good. The meat smelled very good. I asked Frank about the meat and he said it was deer meat. The body on the table was a dead deer.

Yum! I am hungry. I like meat.

I asked very politely if I could have a doggy bag with some deer meat inside but I only got hostile looks. I guess they were not through eating it yet.

Next we went to the bank. Frank made me wait in the truck. I studied the sign – “The West Central Georgia Bank”. I suppose they choose that name in case they get lost – they can just look at their bank and then they would know where they are. Very clever.

We went to the Home Depot and bought some things for the cabin. Then we went to WalMart where Frank FINALLY bought me some food. And bowls. And rawhide bones (yum). And treats. And dog brush. And Blanket for me! And nail clippers – ugh.

Back to the cabin. Slept on the nice new blanket. Heard the acorns hitting the roof again with a new sound. Frank had cleared the limbs (almost hitting me) and leaves from the roof. Now the acorns hit and you can hear them roll all the way down the roof. A fun sound. Frank disagrees. (He can get really grumpy when he doesn’t get enough sleep.)

Dawn. Frank is up, getting some milk and juice from his ice filled cooler (a big orange bucket that says “Home Depot”). Breakfast for me! Life is good.

We go outside. Frank ties me up. I lie in the sun while he does something with the porch. He explains he is staining the porch so it will last longer. Who cares? The sun feels so good.

My master arrives later with a friend. His friend is very cool looking, for a human. He has lots of pieces of little metal things sticking through his skin. Maybe he got caught in a barbed wire fence? There is one on our property. I warned him about it and advised him to stay away but he just patted my head. Sometimes humans just don’t understand me. 😦

He also had lots of beads twisted into his beard. Very beautiful. I asked Frank to twist some beads into my hair and he said he would love to but that my hair was too short. Too bad for me, sigh.

He and his friend had a big gun that they wanted to shoot. POW, POW, POW – very fast. It scared me. I stayed in my room until they were done.

Humans are strange.

Bye,

Ellie