Dog days of summer

Here in Hawaii, long around September/October we get, what is called on the mainland, Indian Summer. It gets hot and humid and generally pretty miserable. And that's what it's been like lately. The good news is I'm on break for the next 2 weeks. Woo Hoo!!! The dogs love when I am home. They don't do anything special, they still sleep during most of the day, but they love having me around - I can tell :) Hopefully we will get the opportunity to do some fun stuff. I want to go hiking with Bella a couple of times and definitely walking, walking, walking. I'm looking forward to it. I also have lots of other things to do, clean house, work on school work, etc. But most of that can be done from the comfort of my desk chair. Yeah!!!

 Bella is getting into everything. Everything. This is almost worse than when she was younger. We can't leave anything on end tables or shelves that are her height because she will take it and chew it. We can leave anything in the bathroom trash can because she will take it and chew it. The other day I left my sewing machine pedal on the floor and she chewed the cords off it. Nice!!! It's really getting to be a bit of a problem. She is so big that it's hard to keep things up high enough. She can reach on my desk, the end table, the counters, everywhere!!! We have to be real careful that she can't reach anything that will hurt her or that's really important like a scott kay ring a friend left here. Ugh!!! The good news is I know this will pass. I know she is going through her teenage time and she will outgrow this. Also, most dogs don't chew or destroy things for all that long. It's a phase. She has enough toys I guess she just likes to try different things. Oh, the other night she got my phone!!! Luckily she just took the cover off, but she didn't chew it or the phone. Yikes!!!! What's really funny is when she grabs something new to chew on the other two dogs run. It's like they are distancing themselves from her so they don't get in trouble too. It's pretty funny.....

 Okay, that's all. I have to go workout but first I have to move the sleeping dogs from my room :)