More Puppy: Tybee and Perez

Lucy and TybeeMy first guest puppies! Many thanks to Lucy Kubo, high school librarian and reader extraordinaire, for being the first one to jump on my offer to feature readers' pups on the blog. Though, I must say, the puppy pics and stories are really coming in...you would almost think people loved their pets!

Lucy writes, "What a great idea!  I’d like to share photos and the story of my newest family member, Perez, aka Prezzi.

"In Texas, it is a spring-time ritual to take pictures of one’sPerez in the bluebonnets children/babies/spouses/ loved ones in the bluebonnets. This year the bluebonnets are a bit sparse due to the lack of early spring rains but they have finally decided to put on a decent show anyway.  Yesterday evening I took the pooches out for their bluebonnet portraits; here is Perez, the newest member of our family."

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More Puppy

Most recent photo of Ella, taken this a.m.My friend Melanie at the blog Reclusive Bibliophile recently gave some thought to what her blog needed.  The answer she came up with?  More puppy.  Her blog needed more puppy.  So, inspired by Presenting Lenore's Cat Tuesday, she instituted Weimaraner Wednesday, and posted adorable photos of her dog Wiki.

I found myself thinking (out loud, on her blog thread) about the possibility of Mutt Monday.  Melanie replied that she enjoys Ella pictures any day of the week, no alliteration necessary.  Which is good, because I tend to blog when the mood strikes me, not on carefully planned schedules.It was a long rainy season

For those of you (this is highly unlikely) who know nothing about Ella, I got her from the Santa Maria Valley Humane Society in June of '06.  She was only four months old.  Oddly, on the day I met Ella, I headed south having no idea the SMVHS even existed.  I was headed (I thought) for

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