This afternoon T&J (our 2 legged people) carved their pumpkins. Angus and I just sat and watched as it's hard to carve pumpkins without opposable thumbs - bol..... They did a pretty good job if I say so myself. There is a really big one, a medium size one and 2 little ones. The medium sized one represent J because it has a ribbon attached to the stem - kind of like a hair ribbon. Each pumpkin represents the 2 legged family members - T, J, C & R. BTW --- congrats to R! He just got accepted to University of Oregon. He may be a duck. I kind of hoped he would go to University of Washington - at least that way he'd be a huskie. That's really a BOL! We are getting very excited about Halloween but I know they T&J will make sure we don't get scared by all of the activity Friday night. More to come and I'll try to get them to put a couple pictures up on the blog. Have a great evening!! Rosie

It's a dog's life

Ah - another great day in LA although it's been a bit hot. It was probably mid 90s today. With the heat we haven't taken our walks as much as we like. So Rosie has spent time just hanging out in the backyard waiting for squirrels to come down from the trees. Rosie will sit for hours on end just watching and waiting. And when the squirrels won't oblige, she heads inside, jumps up on teh couch and relaxes. It sure is a dog's life.....

Our first note

Hello!! Today we begin our 1st blog..... we are so excited as we are very new to this whole technological world. Normally we just spend our days sleeping, and chasing tennis balls, and laying in the sun and laying with our people as they work. As much fun as that is, we decided it was time to get with it and join the rest of our 4 legged friends.

A little about us -----

Hi! I'm Angus - I am a 13 year old black lab. I was born along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. My family brought me home when I was just a puppy. We lived in Maryland for a few years and then in 1997 we moved to LA. WOW! It's paradise every year. My family also brought my 2 cats - Tasha and Deanna. They came home around the same time I did and we have all lived together from the very beginning. About 7 years ago, my family decided I needed a bigger friend to play with so they went to the Golden Retriever Club of Greater Los Angeles Rescue http://www.grcglarescue.org/ and we were lucky enough to bring Rocky home. He was such a great brother to me! He only had 1 eye that made him look like a pirate and I loved him!! He was the best brother I could ever ask for. Unfortunately late this summer he got really sick with cancer and had to leave us and cross the rainbow bridge. I know I will see him again someday...... I was so sad - we were all so sad because we missed him SO MUCH but then we thought that he might be happy if we went back to the Golden Retriever people and see if there was another golden who might want to come home with us. WE WERE SO LUCKY!!!!!!! Low and behold - Rosie was waiting for us! We met her in late August and she seemed to like us so she came home and is now my new best friend and sister. We all love her SO much and even the cats are OK with it. We like having alot of activity in the house again. I will let her tell you a little about herself now....

Hi! I'm Rosie. As Angus mentioned, I came home with him in late August and am now part of a family that seems really happy to have me in my forever home. I am 8 years old and previously lived with an elderly couple from the time of I was puppy. Unfortunately, my former people both got sick and couldn't take care of me any longer and the golden retriever rescue people found me. I was with a wonderful foster mom and foster siblings for a few weeks and then along came my new people - J, T, R, C --- and they asked if I would like to be a part of their family. I took one look at them, and at Angus and said "sure!" So home I came.....

I love my new home. I like to chase tennis balls - I run around the house finding new ones in all kinds of fun corners and closets. I have gotten a bunch of new toys that squeak and squawk and make fun noises. I pretty much ignore my feline siblings but that's OK because they ignore me too. I love to go for long walks but am just as content to lounge around the house and be with my people. I am lucky - they both work from home so they are here alot. This is a great place. And when Angus told me he wanted to start blogging, I figured what the heck - let's do it!

So --- HELLO from LA!! We will try to keep you up to date on what's happening here is SoCal as they call it. BTW - we live really close to where the Porter Ranch fires just happened. We had lots of smoke near our house but we were never in any danger..... I always felt really safe too. Bow wow wow for now!!!!