EARLY BIRTHDAY

Tomorrow is my seventh birthday but we are celebrating today because Lawrence will be away for most of the day. Lawrence bought me a bag of Beggin Strips and has been giving me one each hour. Boy are they yummy. I usually don't get any junk food. Each day I get one measuring cup of dry Purina One kibbles in the morning and the evening and one Milk Bone biscuit. This is how I keep my girlish figure. After all of these goodies today I will have to spend extra time on my Pilates tomorrow.

OLYMPIC SPIRIT

We are really pumped up about the olympics. The athletes are really inspiring. If they had an event called "Begging For Treats" I would be a champion.

BEAR IN THE FIELD

Yesterday when we drove in from our evening drive there was a bear sitting in our field. He seemed to be just smelling the wildflowers. There were also some deer in the field at the same time. We have seen more bears this year here at Doubleview than ever before. They have been down in our peach orchard tearing up the trees. Instead of just eating the fruit off of the limbs they break the limbs off of the trees and lie down on the ground and eat the fruit. Bears do thousands of dollars of damage to the orchards in our area each year. We really enjoy seeing the bears but they have really increased in numbers and are destructive pests.