A Visit from the Beagles

A couple of weekends ago, my "sister" Megan came to visit us from Austin, and she brought my two cousins, the beagles with her.  There were some people at our house building a new deck in the back, so we couldn't go outside and play very much, but we still had a good time.  Meg took them for walks in the neighborhood, and when the deck was finished, we got to spend some time out there, just hanging out.  They're pretty cool pups.  Peanut is almost ten years old!  Franklin is just a kid; he's just one year old.

Cappy doesn't like dog hair very much, so she put sheets and blankets and stuff all over the furniture while they were here.  That looked kind of funny.  She says she likes poodles, like me, because we don't shed, whatever that means.  I will get to see the boys again in a couple of weeks when we go back to Austin and stay at their house.  That will be fun.

Boat News AND Our Trip to Moody Gardens

I know it's been a really long time since I've updated my blog, but I've just been so busy that I haven't had much time, and of course, not having thumbs makes it really hard to type.

Anyway,everything has changed for us.  Cappy took a new job (She won't have to travel all the time anymore, and it pays better - more treats for me), and she said it doesn't look like she will be able to take much time off from work for a while, so that means no trips for us, for a while.  So, she and John decided that rather than leave the boat in Florida, and just drive out there when we can to use the boat, they would bring the boat back here to Houston, so we can use it when ever we want.  Cappy said that just means, "Now John can WORK on the boat when ever he wants." 

Anyway, since it took us forever to get the boat over to Florida in the first place, Cappy was afraid that she wouldn't have enough time to do the trip.  So, John's brother Tom (I like him a lot.) agreed to help him bring the boat back.  Fortunately, as John said, they had good weather and good wind, and it only took them four days to get to Houston from Destin.  I remember on the trip over there, it took us four days just to get to Louisiana.  And if you look that up on a chart, you'll see that's not very far.

So, in the middle of April (That's what Cappy said.) the boat came back home and now we get to spend more time on it.  Since then, we've done a lot of work on it, and we got to take a really cool trip.  We had a long weekend (I think they said it was Memorial Day, what ever that means.) and we sailed over to a place on Galveston Island called Moody Gardens.  It's really pretty there, and they have a nice beach and all sorts of fun stuff to do.  John said the wind wasn't very good that day, although it seemed OK to me, and it took us a long time to get there.  But when we did get there, there were some other boats there that were friends of John's and Cappy's and we had a really fun weekend.  My good friend Lilly came with her people and we got to hang out for awhile.  That's always fun.

We had to come back home on Sunday, and John said the wind was a little bit better, but it still took us a long time to get home.  I managed to get in a couple of naps on the way, but I was still right there when they needed my help.

The Boat is Back

Well, a couple of days after our fun trip to Moody Gardens, John had to leave to go help his brother Tom (the one I mentioned earlier) sail his boat from a place called Naples, Florida to some really cool sounding place called the Bahamas.  Cappy said, "Poor John has to go help his brother with his boat."  I don't know for sure, but I think she was being silly, because she really wanted to go too.

While John was gone, we didn't do much on the boat, but my "cousin" Travis came and spent a Sunday night with Cappy and me while he was waiting to start sailing camp on Monday.  We had a really good time, and I think Travis is now officially a sailor.  I wish I could have gone to camp.


The last weekend that John was gone, Cappy and I drove over to Austin for a weekend.  It was my "sister" Molly's birthday and we went to help her celebrate.  I got to see my cousins Casey and Riley, and we had a really good time.  Cappy and I drove back on Sunday and we were supposed to pick John up at the airport on our way, but he had some problems getting home, so we didn't see him until really, really late that night.  Actually, I didn't see him until the next day, because I was asleep when he got home.

The next weekend, we got some really bad news.  My good friend Sammy died, and everyone was very sad.  He was such a cute little dog, and everybody liked him a lot.  But something happened and he got really sick and died.  We are all still very sad.

This weekend, John and Cappy, and I worked on the boat and took a bunch of stuff apart.  John said we can't take the boat out again until we get it put back together, so I am hoping that will be soon.