The Keys

Hello Friends!
I want to tell you about something that happened on Memorial Day. Mom had dropped the car to the dealer a couple of days before because it couldn't be aligned and nobody knew why - they are still trying to figure it out - anyway, we only have daddy's pick up truck now. Daddy doesn't like me going in his car too much because I shed a lot and he is very allergic. Mom's car looks like a huge motorized pug because I always go there. Well, I was very surprised when daddy got his car keys and mom put me in the truck.





Where are we going? Where?

Are we there yet?

*Sniff, sniff*

Mhmm... I kind of know this place...

It's the Florida Keys!!

The beautiful place where people have gorgeous houses by the ocean...

... as well as the fishies do!

We went to a beach that is a little down US1. Wait, this street stops here!

Oh, here it is!

The boys - that's daddy and I - were in charge of the umbrella while mom just did nothing.

After working with dad and the umbrella, I went to explore the area and then relax.

Daddy likes to watch fishies. I like to eat them.

This beach is great for me. Few little waves and shallow. I was scared at first but then I entered as I pleased and swam around mom, who was laying on her belly with the water barely covering her back.

After a lot of swimming I was hungry. Where is the menu?

I would like to have everything on this page, please. Yum!

Daddy tried to get everything on the menu, too, by trying to copy my cute-begging-face. No luck for him.

So he had to carefully choose what he really wanted. Only one dish.

If you are wondering where this place is, it is right in the middle of the highway between Miami and Key West, on mile 80. It is called Midway Cafe. It is totally pet friendly including inside the restaurant.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Mom looks pregnant but she is not. All is food and candy. I look pregnant, too but it can't be possible. I am a boy.

PS: The Puggy Luau was our last pug meetup, about 3 weeks ago. I belong in two pug meetup groups, one in our county and the other one on the adjacent county, north of ours. Our county's meetups are always one the same place, once a month. The other meetup is in a different place each time. One of the organizers celebrates the luau every year at her house but this was the first time I attended. A couple of years ago I was planning to go but I had to be hospitalized the previous day due to the addison's disease. I was sad but now I am happy because that's the last time I have had to be hospitalized. Last year I couldn't attend because mom, dad and the kids were in Canada visiting aunty and her family. Friends, suggest this event to your local pug meetup organizers! It is so much fun!!!

Wordless Wednesday - Puggy Luau Edition

Working With The Snuggle Puggle

Good afternoon,
Here is my portfolio of creative ideas now that I am trying to start a business in the fashion industry. Well, the first project was actually a homework that mom helped the kid with. She had to create the attire for either Romeo or Juliet using this as a model, but on a bigger scale:

The kid's initial idea was to cut and paste pieces of fabric to form Romeo's attire. Mom told her that a dress for Juliet would be easier and nicer. Instead of using glue, they used thread and needle and the fabric of an old blouse the kids had. The kid finally glued the dress, the shoes (beans) and hair on top of a drawing of the head and hands. She got an A!

Now, this is my very own project - and I didn't use any help to do it. Dad had a white t-shirt with orange short sleeves (I posted a picture a while ago). It was boring. I found the t-shirt lying on the floor, about to be washed with other red and orange clothes. I got inspired by all the sort of bright colors lying around the boring t-shirt.

And I did this:

A batik design using natural eco-friendly organic dyes*!

What do you think?

Coco,

Professional Fabric Designer

* Technical Information: The orange hue is obtained by an intricated process using as its main source a chewed carrot.

In The Meantime...

Hi Pugs, Other doggies (I would like to know if any of my readers is not a pug) and Kitties (please say hi, so I know that cats read my blog, too!),
After long hours trying to fix the internet connection at home, mom gives up. She decided to post this from her phone again. We are posting some old pictures showing what I do best: be where I was not asked to be, doing what I am not supposed to do:
- helping dad get ready to go out, and make him shout because he almost stepped on me;
- trying to get inside mom's bag (where I was sure I was going to find a carrot waiting for me);
- sitting right in the middle of all the stuff mom is trying to organize because the room was a storage/disaster and was going to be used as a guest room by a friend coming over one hour after;
- breaking the bags and opening the containers where my food was, in the furthest place of the car while we were moving to the house.
That's all. All the other pictures are boring. Mom will take the external drive to the office tomorrow and will blog from there. I hope that the camera doesn't call asking what she is doing. The camera knows better.
Bye friends!