Here's me and Dreyf hanging by the pool just waitin for the chicks!

I can't remember what week it is, they are running together!

Sorry, it's been a busy time lately and I haven't had much time to write, I'll try and catch you up on all the happenings though...

April 21st - Okay PRINCESS has arrived and boy is she FAT!  She also smells funny and looks like a clown...She is one strange looking golden.  Mom says she weighs 111.2 lbs and is using a lot of bad words as she's on the phone to Aunt Janet, she's hopping mad that someone put this girl into this shape.

April 10th - Mom just broke the news...looks like we're going to have a houseguest for awhile...someone named PRINCESS...ohmigosh, I hope she doesn't resemble her name or we're going to have some problems around here...she's got to be a tomboy to hang in this house and chicks named PRINCESS aren't going to cut it.  She's also a bit overweight so she'll be eating green beans twice a day and we'll all be going on lonnnngggg walks again so that's the good part!   I'll tell you more about her on Thursday when she gets here, until then you can check her out on her own page.  She's going to be called Chess here...rhymes with PrinCESS....  Hope she's nicer than Sandi...she was mean to Baxter.

April 1st - First Annual Golden Rescue In Naples (G.R.I.N.) Reunion!!!  Mom & Tom are both coming so we'll have LOTS of fun!!!! - WOW, I've never seen so many beautiful Goldens in one place before, there were about 76 dogs there and only ONE growl all day long and it wasn't even from ME (Dreyf)!  I was a well behaved boy and had a good time sniffin and checking out everyone.  Baxter even behaved himself although SISSY BOY wouldn't face the camera and insisted on being in Mom's lap for the group pic.  Mom's going to dress us up again in our baseball hats and bandanas and take more pictures this weekend.

March 27th - Baxter got to go for ANOTHER car ride today....but Tom fed us both so that was nice!!  Baxter got a shiny new stainless steel fang so he thinks he's some kind of gangsta golden now...wants me to call him Master B now...yeah right, not in this lifetime!  Tom made him a necklace out of tin foil and it has a B on it...Mom got him a Red Sox cap and she's going to put elastic on it so he can wear it sideways like all the other gangsta's...how dumb!  I had to stay home today and baby-sit the roofers while they pounded on the roof.  Hopefully they're done and there aren't any leaks!  Mom almost blew a gasket when the leak appeared over the dining room table on her birthday!  More bad words...tsk tsk tsk.   Good news is that I got a cheeseburger too!  Baxter weighs 74 lbs now and I weigh 80 so Mom is happy!

March 8th - Baxter gets to go for another car ride (without breakfast though) Mom snuck back in and fed me mine while Baxter was waiting in the truck.  She said he had to go to the dentist and he was all the way down in Weston which is over an hour away so that's why we had to get up so early.  Baxter spent the day there getting his root canal.  He got cheeseburgers on the way home because he had to have soft food...I got dog food...not fair.  He wasn't even a good dog!  Mom said that he dragged the vet back to her because he didn't want to go and then howled all the way to the backroom.  She could hear him out in the lobby....

March 5th - Vet appt.  Baxter gets to go for a car ride and I don't...I'm ticked off.

March 4th - I will not bite the chain link fence again, I will not bite the chain link fence again, I will not bite the chain link fence again....   While Baxter is busy writing out his punishment, I'll tell you what Mr. Brawn for Brains did.  There's this Pit Bull that just moved in next door and he's a real butthead but I just ignore him...not Baxter though, he's got to rush the fence barking and snarling each time and they growl at each other in the 6 inches below the wood fence through the chain link that they can see each other in.  Today Baxter bit the fence and broke his bottom canine tooth...Brilliant huh?  I guess he bit his tongue or cut it on the tooth cause he came in and then licked himself all over.  Well Mom got concerned because he wouldn't stop licking so she took him out into the kitchen and turned on the light...holy cow you'd think she'd seen a roach.  She called Tom in because Baxter had blood all over him...they figured out it came from his mouth and found the tooth...really good job too he broke it off right in half, nerve showing...ick.

March 3rd - Wow, what a day!  We went out on the boat for the first time!  Mom figured that Dreyf would be a wussy boy because he fell off a boat when he was a baby and was traumatized...guess she thought I was braver than I really was though.  I flaked...I admit it...it was scary looking at that thing so I flattened myself on the dock and told them that they could pick me up later...Dreyf muscled his way past me and just jumped in the boat and made me look really bad...so I had to let Tom pick me up and bring me into the boat.  Once I got there though it was cool, the wind in my ears and there was water EVERYWHERE....Mom wouldn't let us jump in til we got to Peanut Island though. 

Wow, did we have fun, playing in the water and rolling in the sand too.  I decided at one point to go for a longer swim and Mom was yelling at me...something about being hit by a boat or something, I had water in my ears and wasn't listening...then Tom started clapping and yelling so I figured that I'd better turn around...Mom was peeling her shorts n shoes off...guess she was glad she brought that bathing suit after all although the water was REALLY cold and she was using bad words again....tsk tsk...she really needs to watch her language, I have a pedigree so I KNOW who my Daddy is!  Anyway, she was really happy when I came back so she didn't have to swim out to get me...Tom didn't think she could have caught me anyway...but heck I was just dog paddling and Mom's a pretty good swimmer, she was a lifeguard in college...sounds like a doctor of some sort but it means she can swim faster than I can, I guess.

Some idiot called us Irish Setters though and that ticked Mom off although she was nice to the guy and explained that we were Golden Retrievers...he said we were the longest haired Golden Retrievers he'd ever seen...Mom thinks he needs to get out more...said no that we were average and not as hairy as some!   We decided that we'd better go for a walk before Mom really told him what she thought...  We bothered Mom n Tom while they were having lunch and mooched shamefully...mmmmm.....Tom had turkey and Mom had tuna...decisions decisions.  Mom videotaped our day but the computer isn't behaving itself and the images are trapped....maybe one day she'll actually have proof that we had this perfect day.   We got compliments on how well behaved we were too! 

It was a long day and I slept all the way home.  Can't wait to go again...I'll show Dreyf next time that I'm no wussy boy!!

January 21st - We're both down to 80 lbs now so Mom is quite happy ( see pic of us looking quite svelte) (me with my model pout) (my before and after pics)

Happy New Year!!  - Mom n Tom had a party and we got to hang out with all the friends and eat!!  We especially like our new Uncle Ivan who made sure that two starving doggers didn't perish from lack of food...

December 27th - Uncle Gary, Aunt Lee and Cousin Cole came down for a couple days so we had people to play with constantly!

October 24th - We had a terrible storm...lots of howling wind and Mom wasn't happy...our palm trees were being blown around and the carport was in the pool and Mom kept saying something about the roof blowing off.   It didn't though, so that was a good thing.  We lost power for a week but Mom n Tom took us to Cocoa Beach where we heard NO DOGS ALLLLLLOWWWWED...way too many times.  But they found a nice restaurant on the Banana River where we could bark at the Pelicans and Seagulls and they could have lunch.  We met our cousin Golden that Aunt Lynn has and we got to meet our new Uncle K.C. and see our 2 legged cousin Mike.   So all in all we had a good time although the hotel was noisy with other dogs so we had to bark a lot. 

Saturday (7-29-05) - Weigh In Day -- Baxter is 87 lbs and Dreyf is 81.4!!!

Sunday (6-19-05) We spend a lot of time together on Sundays so that's when I try to do my wackiest things.  Okay so Mom was answering email  and she heard the cat...Indy was making that noise that he sometimes does when he gets sat on...not a good noise as far as Mom is concerned.  So she yells, "Leave the cat alone Baxter" like how she knew it was ME hassling the cat I'll never know but that darn cat made the noise again.  So Tom comes running in to see what's going on and starts to laugh at me, I lose my grip on the cat and get hissed at and bitten for my troubles.  Hey, Mom doesn't let me out unsupervised and a guys got to do what he can when he wants to get a little...er um how do I put this...Yeah...I was getting some kitty, know what I mean??  Huh huh?  Mom didn't think it was funny either, don't worry.  I have a new name now....I rarely get called just Baxter anymore so now it's Baxter the Cat Humping Bastard...I don't think that's funny.  She'd better not call me that in front of the guys at the dog park...it's bad enough that Dreyfus saw me...I'm NEVER going to live THIS one down.

Friday (6-17-05)  Hey guys, just wanted to let you know that I'm down to 85 lbs now, Doc says about 5 more and I'll be good to go.  I came through my checkup with flying colors and Doc says I look great for almost 9 years old!  Hey, I'm still a pup even though SOME folks are calling me a Senior.  Hmmmph gimme a tenny ball and I'll show them SENIOR, yeah right.  Oh Baxter didn't get weighed in because it was my yearly check up so he'll be going in next week or so.    He was down to 99 lbs the last time so he's on the right track, but he's still fat even though he's lost over 25 lbs.  Mom figures it's closer to 30 because he was with us a week before he got weighed at 124 lbs. and he lost 7 lbs in the following week so she thinks he was probably closer to 130 lbs.  WHAT A LARD BUTT!

Thursday (6-16-05)  We started Obedience Training and Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes spent most of the class acting up and barking at Mom because she was paying attention to me and he wouldn't listen to Tom.  HA!  Serves Tom right for refusing to handle me because I'm too RAMBUNCTIOUS!  Hmmmph....guess who is REALLY good at picking things up quickly??  Yeah that's me, uh huh, looking good in class!

Sunday (6-5-05) Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday Dearest Baxter, Happy Birthday to me!  I'm 5 years old today!!  I got to hassle Tom and try and steal his breakfast and then I got up on the counter and ate all the sandwich buns too!

 Mom went shopping and bought us new woobies, I stole Dreyf's and he's pouting under the dining room table now.  Mom gave him back the one I took and he won't even look at it now!  Oh boy, it's going to be a long day...

Tonight we're having Frosty Paws, but Aunt Janet says I can only have one....cause I'm still on a diet ya know.   It's been raining for the last week (I HATE RAIN) so I've been a little rambunctious Mom says.  I ate a couple magazines, some more stuff she left on the counter etc.  I'm just a growing boy though!!  Here I am staring out the window praying for the rain to stop!!

Saturday (5-21-05)  Hey if I put a date on here I'll remember where I've left off.  I see the old guy told you what happened with Mom's money.  Snitch!  How embarrassing is it when your Mom follows you around the yard with a bucket and a shovel?  Ohmigosh...she couldn't even wait til it got cold.   She said she was afraid that Mr. Vic would come mow the yard and her money would be confetti.   She was SO not happy with me that week...just kept glaring at me and then laughing...I'm glad SOMEONE thought it was funny.  On a brighter note, the cat and I are getting along better.  I guess he's figured that I'm here to stay and has to tolerate me.  He's fun to chase!

Alright, so anyway, it was hot yesterday so we played around the pool.  It has a nice wide top step which is perfect for laying down and cooling off after chasing lizards.  There's LOTS of em to chase around here!  Dreyf kept barking so the tennis ball would be thrown but he won't go in the pool either so he'd just follow it til it got closer and then try and snag it and stay dry.   I just like stealing his toys so that's why I was hanging around.

Tell-All - I was just going through this and realized that there's absolutely no mention of Baxter stealing Mom's money, so while he's destroying the Evil Empire one woobie at a time, I'm going to tell you the story.  It was a Saturday and Aunt Kat came over with an envelope with money in it for something she had wanted Mom to pick up at the Pilot Shop.   Well Baxter escaped while they were talking at the door so Mom threw the envelope on the table and went to capture him.  He only goes to the front yard and lays down but still...so then they went across to Aunt Kat's to see her new front door. (Mom doesn't swear as much now when she goes to feed Cousin ButterCup, he hates to be called ButterCup, because the door opens much easier now.)   So then they come back and Mom has to hot foot it to Home Depot so she can finish fixing the sprinklers before dark.  She came home to find a single scrap of paper on the floor with the name of the company on it where Aunt Kat works.   Upon further investigation...she found two quarters...nothing else.  There was $42.50 in that envelope....Mom was ticked!  Baxter looked really guilty.  She followed him around whenever he went potty for the next 2 days, the first day she got $22 of it back!  She kept telling people that Baxter(d) still owed her $20 bucks though.  There was another joke about using her dog for a piggy bank and the shitty interest rate he gave, but she got her money back and it was all mostly in one piece.   Had to soak it in bleach for a couple days though.   Aunt Kat caught her in the front yard a couple days later and asked what she was doing with the hose...so Mom explained.  Thought she was going to bust a gut she was laughing so hard.  She got a really weird look on her face at dinner that night when Mom pulled a $20 out to pay for her part of dinner, Mom NEVER has cash...  NO, it wasn't 'that' money, that was on the counter drying...  So Mom comes home from dinner and walks in the kitchen and there's the paper towel, that the money was drying on, on the floor shredded...I thought she was going to kill Baxter...then she saw the bills under the cabinet and just started to laugh.   Tom says she needs to frame it.

Saturday   Let me tell you how exciting it is living here...Mom's hot Saturday night was helping Tom put the EeeeeLIPtickle together, it's this big thing on the porch so she can run when it's dark.  Dreyf and I supervised but at midnight we were getting a little tired...

Sunday    Mom's getting a lot of use out of that word....that's what she said when I said Hello to Lucy, Tom's cat, and she hissed at me.  So I tried again a little later and the little witch came within a frogs hair of slicing my nose clean off my face!   Hmmph...not going near her again til she gets over that BAD ATTITUDE, what a meanie.  Mom laughed...I didn't think that was very nice but she reminded me that I shouldn't be sticking my nose into places it shouldn't be.  How's a guy supposed to say hello?  On the bright side, Indy's all ticked off cause I guess Lucy threatened to eat his lunch a couple years ago and he hasn't forgotten so he's out on the porch sulking.  I'm bored...Aunt Debbie and Bryan picked up Jessy and now there's NO ONE to play with, Dreyf's out in the living room chewing on a bone and I'm BORED.   Mom did call me in to show me a couple new pics of my sweet Junie though so that made me feel better.  Check out her pink nose...isn't she adorable?  Sure wish she lived closer.

Friday    Aunt Debbie brought Jessy by to spend the weekend...I did something that Mom called IN AH PROPREEEEATE and that's why Jessy growled and snapped at me.  She said I was one lucky boy to have gotten away with my nose intact.  I was just trying to be friendly...Mom suggested that I just sniff her butt like all the rest. 

Sunday    I've been going through Mom's emails...yeah I know Aunt Janet told me that wasn't nice.  But I was worried...especially after Uncle Gary mentioned having to leave so I wanted to be sure that Mom wasn't telling Aunt Janet how bad I was.  She said I was being a bit too rambunctious for my own good.  Okay so I didn't worry about that too much but now I'm reading emails from Aunt Cyndi that told about this 13 year old named Jazz that got turned into Rescue because she was too rambunctious so I had to write to Aunt Janet and ask what that meant and if Mom still loved me.   Course I had to tell her what I'd done to get called that and she yelled at me too.  Mannnn....a guy can't catch a break around here.  However she DID say that the only reason I was still here was because I didn't hurt him that bad and I was really cute and that I was lucky I just got bopped with an open paperback....well that wasn't all she did <looks over shoulder to make sure Mom isn't around> she grabbed my nose too and stuck her face up to mine and told me that if I ever hurt Dreyfus again that I would NOT like the consequences, well I wasn't real keen on that nose holding thing...that's for sure.  Whew, it's a good thing that puncture healed up quick I guess.  I like living here, I'm even getting to like that darn cat although he still hates me.  The deal is I can chase the cat but  better treat Dreyfus with RESPEKT....I guess that means I have to leave his toys alone while they're in his mouth.  DARN!

Saturday    Weigh In Day - Hi, it's Dreyfus, just wanted to get a word in since Mr. BigShot has been doing so much of the writing lately.  I lost a pound and am down to 89 so Mom's happy and Baxter, yeah guess I can't really call him LARD BUTT anymore, is down to 102 and Mom's ecstatic over that!    We're still going for weigh-ins every other week though because he's got to get down another 10 pounds, he lost another 5 in the last two weeks probably because of all the time at the beach along with the walks but I'm guessing that it will take til mid June before he sees anything close to 90 lbs like me!  I'm tormenting him over it too!  No FROSTY PAWS for FAT BOY til June!!!

Friday    Baxter here again, more penance...<it means making up for something you did bad> I got snagged big time Friday night.  Mom and the gang came home from dinner and went for the coffee cake that Aunt Lee bought....it was nowhere to be found.  They found the remnants of it in Dreyf's dish and STILL yelled at me.  How did they know I did it?   Mom says that Dreyfus played too hard when we were at the beach on Thursday so he was a little sore and couldn't possibly have jumped up and reached all the way to the back of the counter to get that so it MUST have been me.  I think she has cameras planted, the chick knows too much.

Thursday    We went to the beach today!  I got to swim in the water and I'm really good at bringing tenny balls back and I was the official welcoming dog at Jupiter Beach, Mom wasn't too thrilled with that but I was really nice!     It was just later that the day got a little crazy....Okay...it really wasn't my fault.  I didn't mean to bite him...  Yeah, Baxter here, Mom made me write this entry instead of Dreyf, she says it's PENNNANTS, whatever THAT is.  Okay so here's my story...  Dreyf was laying down by Mom and started a fight with me....<yes Mom I'll tell the truth on this> okay so he really didn't start the fight, I did.  I just wanted his toy and even though he was chewing on it, it really looked like he didn't want it any more so I went to snag it.  Well Old Timer wasn't buyin that and he growled at me and then tried to jump up and my mouth was open and he ended up with a puncture wound in his nose.  Mom freaked out, because she was wedged in and we were snapping pretty close to her so she started smacking me on the head with her paperback...she didn't want to lose her place so it was open...felt like a fly buzzing my head...after about the 5th smack I realized that she was saying something...okay yelling something, so I stopped growling so I could hear.  Evidently she was a little ticked off.  Dreyf was ticked off and I got sent into the house to think about what I'd done while Mom went over Dreyfus.   She kept saying I see bone...aaaahg...I knew that didn't sound good.  Uncle Gary said that I'd better plan on going back to Rescue if Dreyf was hurt.  That was really scary, I don't want to go anywhere so after Mom put stuff on Dreyf's nose he went to hide in his spot and I went over and licked his nose and told him I was sorry.  Made DOUBLY sure that Mom saw me do it too so I got brownie points.  I guess it worked.

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