Friday, 26 May 2023

Gilbert the Good - my morning

 

Gilbert the Good - my morning


I slept in a bit this morning. It was a busy day in the garden yesterday, helping to repot lots of plants. Roxy didn’t do much; she doesn’t really like gardening but I like to get my nose into everything. The humans call me a Monty Don dog. So, anyway, I was a bit tired and didn’t get up until 6:15.

After breakfast, I played with Frankie when he came round and after he had gone to school I made Roxy play with me.


Later on we all went for a walk. It was lovely and green. We didn’t go to any of the ponds but I managed to find a muddy puddle and bowled Roxy over in it. She was covered in mud and she’s still quite damp, several hours later. I only got mud on my paws.

When we got home it was time for my elevenses and then I had a snooze on Janice’s feet. That way I can be sure she doesn’t go anywhere without me knowing.

There are lots of boxes in the house. New ones come every day, big, small, heavy, light, all filled with interesting things, though some of them seem to have more paper in them than anything else. I reckon it’s my job to make sure nothing has been hidden in the paper. I’m very thorough. I did a really good job today.

 When my humans saw the results of my work, they laughed, but I went away from my bed to lie somewhere different, just in case I was in trouble. I don’t think I was, but a lad can’t be too careful.

Dreaming 

Look! No mud now!

After a while, I went back to my bed because I wanted to play with my squeaky pig. When Callum gave it to me I was only very little and I was frightened by the noise. Now I love it, especially when one of the humans steps on it by mistake and it makes them jump - that makes me laugh.
Arthur and Lottie came to stay last weekend and I thought they were coming again this weekend, but they’re not. It was fun, but we were so tired when they went home, we slept and slept.

 I think my humans had a bit of a zizz, too, though Barry calls it ‘watching rugby’ and Janice says she’s doing cross stitch. Is it called cross stitch because she gets cross when she’s doing it?

 This is a video from earlier this month showing my approach to searching. See how meticulous I am? 

Turn the sound up and you'll hear my pig!

14 comments:

  1. Gilbert, we loved reading about all the important details of your day. The video was a bonus.
    Toodle-oo!
    Nobby.

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  2. We love your daily journal posts Gilbert. You seem to be living the good life.

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    1. Thanks. Tigger. It's not bad, all told - woof.

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  3. You are an excellent shredding machine, Gilbert!! Your people could hire you out to make some extra money! I'm also impressed by how carefully you moved your toy out of the "work area" :)

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    1. Thanks, Jenny - I'm glad you noticed how I moved my toy - woof.

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  4. You bowled Roxy into the mud? Tsk Tsk. You certainly had fun with all that paper.

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  5. Roxy didn't really mind as we were playing - woof.

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  6. Hi Gilbert - well they've provided you with good tearing paper - it makes a wonderful noise, but I prefer piggy's grunt - cheers Hilary

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    1. Pigs are forever, paper doesn't last - woof.

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  7. I like the name Gilbert The Good, long but character-filled.

    My late labrador was named Emperor Rudolf II of Prague which was also too long to use regularly, so we called him Rudes :)

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  8. That's lovely. There are some fanciful names around, but I'm really just Threevalleys Gilbert - woof.

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  9. I loved reading about your day, Gilbert! It seems you're and excellent searcher and shredder, but surely it wasn't very nice to push Roxy into that mud! xxx

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    1. She didn't mind. We Labradors like getting wet - woof x

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