Sunday, April 4, 2010

Happy Easter Bunny Zane













  • Good Easter Sunday morning Zane and friends,





It seems like months since I got to meet the great Zane Train and Gary, Vicki and the Johnpeers in Los Angeles, but it's only been about five weeks! Happy Easter to everyone.





There is so much to share. As you can see in the picture, Dad got to visit Zane, his first guide dog, and I got to meet him as well. What a hunk! Zane is so mild-mannered and I'm such a wild thing! I could tell that Zane could bring a lot of balance into my life and time to "slow down and smell the roses!"





I also got to meet this young kid named Jed, who the Johnpeers are raising, and gosh he's already as big as I am. And he is fast too! And strong! We played tug a lot while I was there visiting. Zane would play sometimes, but mainly I was chasing Jed all over the place to try to take away the bone, Kong, rope tug or whatever he had, I wanted it.





It was Zane's 4th birthday party too while I was there and Kimberly got us a doggie-biscuit birthday cake and Vicki divided it up and then we sang happy birthday to Zane then devoured the cake! Yummy!





I really enjoyed my field trip to college with Gary as he taught his Earth Sciences class and Dad listened intently to learn more about glaciers and they tpes of rock formations they have left behind. Dad even got to work with the studeents to help build glacier trails out of clay. I really enjoyed all the loving from the students as they just adored me, well, they just can't help it!





Speaking of that Easter bunny, Cuzzie, my half-sister, who I live with here in Colorado, has this bunny that she likes to play with. I try to steal it from her all the time, but she gets back at me by standing over my Kong and won't let me get near it. Cuzzie has this stare that just stops me in my tracks. Ugh. She is very intimidating and has such a nasty growl. I'm just a pussy cat. I'm a lover, not a fighter, but I do like to play!





Dad and I just made a couple of whirlwind trips to Tecas, one to San Antonio to help them raise money to cure blindness at the San Antonio visionWalk which raised over $120,000 in a very tough economy! We also went to Dallas to hlep kick-off their 3rd Annual VisioinWalk on May 15 and then to Houston for their Symposium on Research Advances to almost 200 people.





On April 1, Dad and I had lunch with Ms. Phyllis Coors and it was such a delightful lunch and she gave me lots of loving as well.





Wow, I'm tired, I think it's time to take a break today. Didn't my friends at McDonald's say that too? I wish everyone a very happy Easter and a wonderful Spring!





Ruff, ruff and lots of puppy love, licks and wags to everyone, Miss Parka

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Zane - the birthday boy!




  1. Dear Zane, the original Zane Train and my friends,




Zane I'm looking forward to meeting you finally!




I understand that you are almost 4 years old and I will be there to meet you and celebrate your birthday and the upcoming birthday of my Dad on March


2! Dad tells me the Johnpeers will throw quite a party on Wednesday night!




It's very exciting to be heading to Los Angeles, because I've never been there and I hear that it's a lot warmer that Denver! I saw snow in Seattle as I was growing up, but it just stays COLD here all the time.




Dad showed the picture here that Zane sent us to remind Dad to bring some birthday presents with him. Well, we had a GDB Colorado Chapter meeting on Feb. 13 and Dad bought a couple of presents for you BIG BOY!




I'm bringing some tug toys that Dad bought me for my birthday and Christmas so be ready to have a "tug-off!"




See you soon and lots of licks and puppy hugs, Miss Parka




Sunday, February 14, 2010

Suri with the fringe on top!




Good morning and Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!







With much love and affection, I introduce my birth mom's, so to speak, new baby! Yes, Becki has chosen to take on another puppy to raise hopefully to follow in my pawsteps. She certainly is a cutie-pie and such a cute name! My Dad keeps singing "oh what a beautifual morning and surrey with the fringo on top" and he tells me that it's from some musical called Iklahoma. OK, I get it!







But I can't believe how GDB are raising their puppies now with classical music? My Dad just keeps feeding me Country Western music when he leaves me in my kennel and I can't figure out why whenever he comes home, I just start two-stepping all over the house?

I'm excited for Becki and hope Suri grows up to be just like me!

Happy Valentine's Day to all my lovers out there! Miss Parka