2012 Year In Review

I noticed that the trend for today is to blog about the year in review.  I think there is a website/blogger's rule or something, so I better do it too.  I wouldn't want to get reputation as a bad blogger.  I haven't been blogging long, so I can't do my ten best blogs or anything like that.  I'll just do the 10 highlights of my year, the best I can remember them.  I'm a dog...one day is pretty much like the next. 

Me and Huckleberry.

1.  Huckleberry!  My cousin, the beagle, came to visit and we got to play out in the yard.  This was the first time I was allowed to play with a visitor dog.  (Well actually the second, but the first time didn't end well).  He also brought children with him.  I didn't like that much.  I don't understand children; they are short and scary.

2.  Being a bad dog.  I bit the neighbor dog and mom got really mad at me.  I don't get to have as much fun as I used to because she says I can't be trusted outside except in the back  yard or on a leash.  This is a bad memory.

3.  My new brother.  Rocky came to live with us.  I'm still up in the air whether that is good or bad.  He's fun sometimes, but he hogs attention, he's dumb, and he talks funny.

Rocky's First Day.

4.  Dogsitter!  Ryan came to stay with us while mom and dad were gone FUREVER!  I seriously thought they were gone for good, so even though I lurve Ryan and he lets me sleep with him, I got a bit stressed out.  Rocky showed me how to dig under the fence and we got out and scared the neighbors.

5.  Mom and Dad came home!  Hurray!

6.  More visitors!  Dad's brother and little girl came to visit.  She is a kid, but not a little one, so I wasn't scared at all!  They even took me for walks!

7.  Grama (I love visitors, can you tell?).  I was worried that she would love Rocky as much as me, but she doesn't.  I'm her favorite.  I heard her tell mom that.

8.  Walks and the walking drought.  In the fall, I got walked every single morning.  Sometimes with Rocky and sometimes alone.  Then it got dark and cold in the mornings and mom quit walking us.  In fact, she got all kinds of busy and we didn't get much attention at all; even on the weekends.  She says she has a resolution for the New Year to walk us.  I'm not sure what Resolution means, but it is very close to my real name (Resilience), so I'm guessing it is a good thing!

9.  Newtown.  I don't like to think about that.

How I felt about Newtown.

10.  Christmas!  New toys.  New friends.  Too much food! I even was allowed to kill a stuffed alligator with hundreds of squeakers in it!  I love Christmas.

So, that's pretty much it.  It was a good year at our house.  Not so good for the rest of the world.   Too much hate and not enough loving.  It makes me sad to think about it, but happy for my good home.

But, hey, I have to run.  Rocky is barking at the cat in his hidy hole and is going to get in trouble.  I get to watch!