It's BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!

Ahem! Where's Joe Thornton?

I tried to make the OLYMPICS hockey work for me. But I simply just could not. You see - Team Canada did not pick my favorite PUCK manager - Joe Thornton - to be on their team. So it has been a long long long time since I have truly ENJOYED a hockey game.

All of that ended LAST NIGHT when NHL Hockey returned to the Bay Area. Oh how I had missed it so! I don't know what it is about hockey that I like so much (aside from JUMBO). I can barely see that puck flying across the ice. . . and the action is flat looking to me. But when the SJ Sharks hit the ice I can hardly contain my YIPS and YAPS.

Molly does not care. She will lay there totally unaware of the greatness before her. She doesn't get it at all. Ah. . . but let a cat cross the fence in the backyard and we will have to endure that high pitched staccato bark for the next 4 hours!

HAPPY THING #21: 
NHL Hockey and more specifically San Jose Sharks and even MORE specifically No. 19 Joe Thornton!!!

Throw-back Thursday and Green

We gots some RAIN all day yesterday!!! It rained and rained and rained. In fact, my town got an inch of rain! That is unusual. Our yearly total is normally 15.82 inches, though. So we are far from out of the woods in terms of this drought. Thank you everypuggy for the RAIN wishes, though. We have some more on the way tomorrow. Every little bit helps.

I heard today was Throwback Thursday - so I am throwing it back to 2009 when I was a wee pup. Notice the "carpet" under my cute little paws. It is thick, luscious GRASS. I like to walk on it, roll in it, pee in it. . . and so on. You get my drift, I am sure. I like G-R-A-S-S. Especially after it rains. Then it breathes out the most amazing aroma!! And when it is cut - well it is quite heady, I tell you.

It is a little dry and crinkly this year due to water restrictions; but once we get on track it will green up Daddy Warbucks.

So that is my HAPPY THING #20 for today:

GREEN GREEN GRASS 

Wordless Wednesday WITH Just a Few Words

I love to SHOP

Happy Thing #19

SHOPPING

Hop To It

Sunny Spots While They Lasts

Oh Folks! I am kinda excited today. It is supposed to RAIN A LOT starting tomorrow. I know, I know. . . I usually complain about the RAIN . . . but we need it SO MUCH here in NORCAL that at this point in TIME I am really hoping for a downpour.

In preparation, the WEATHER GODDESS has seen fit to grace us with a couple of WARM and SUNNY days to enjoy and cherish the memories of. . . AND I am taking COMPLETE advantage of it.

I plan to spend my day moving from SUNNY SPOT to sunny spot.

HAPPY THING #18


SUNNY SPOTS

Water, Water, Water . . .

Photo from SFGATE.com

It is common knowledge that MY CALIFORNIA is in the midst of a pretty nasty drought. What's a DROUGHT? It means we are running LOW on water and there has been little to none rainfall this year to put more water in the reservoirs. We don't know when it is going to end - the rainfall we got 2 weeks ago was not enough to change the pattern. We are expecting more rain THIS week, however - another Pineapple Express or River of Rain or something like that. No matter what the name it all means one thing - RAIN.

If it actually gets here, that is. Because weather around these parts is fickle. It looks like a nice sunny day is coming and the FOG rolls in. It looks like record rain is on the horizon and the SouthBay gets NONE. So we are trained to BELIEVE WHEN WE SEE. More on the weather IF the rains arrive.

This DROUGHT does have me obsessing about water, I do admit. I find myself running to my water bowl CONSTANTLY to make sure there is water in it. And then I HAVE to take a drink of that wonderful water when I see it there because what if sometime it isn't there? We sometimes take something like water for granted, don't we? As citizens of the US, we are conditioned to the water being there when we turn on the tap. Not only that - but the water is CLEAN and HEALTHY! What a pleasure it is to have that assurance! I sometimes have to remind myself of this fact so I don't go about wasting that precious resource.

I am even obsessing about water in my DREAMS!!! I have has so many dreams where I turn into a CAMEL so I can store precious water and never be thirsty again.

Which brings me to my HAPPY THING #17!

 MY WATER BOWL: I love to drink from my water bowl. Seeing it filled with cool clean water makes me very happy indeed

Tid Bits About Tid Nips

THESE are DOG treats, Woman! I want NOTHING to
do with THESE!!!

You KNOW I loves me some good TREATS - SO, when Mr. A from Chewy.com asked me to review some new kind that Chewy.com is selling. . . WELL, I said SURE!!!!!

Of the LONG list he gave me to choose from, I picked one unLIKE anything in my pantry - Canidae TidNips Meaty-Licious Turkey, Lamb, Salmon Soft Treats.

I figured WHY NOT????? They sound DELISH and they are by Canidae Natural Pet Food Company, a company KNOWN for good wholesome food. PLUS, I trust Mr. A from Chewy.com when he says he thinks I will like it. Cuz USUALLY I do. Molly, maybe. . . but that is a story for another DAY.

So we picked it and waited, waited, waited for the package to arrive. About a week later, the doorbell rang. We got all excited when we saw it was a package from CHEWY.COM. But then it turned out to be a VALENTINE for the huMOMs and there was nothing for me to sample. I haarrrruumphed and went back to SLEEPING. . . Then one day, IT CAME!! My box of treats came!

DROOOOOOOL

Mommy opened it very carefully so as not to RUIN the packaging. She likes to check the packaging out. Sheesh.  Then she took it out of the box and Oh My PUG! I was salivating just looking at the WORD Meaty-licious.

Here is a little background info on these treats:
Canidae TidNips Meaty-Licious Chicken, Turkey, Lamb & Salmon Soft Dog Treats
CANIDAE Chicken, Turkey, Lamb & Salmon TidNips are soft and tasty treats that your dog will love! Made with real chicken, turkey, lamb, and salmon, and supplemented with Vitamin E and Omega-3 fatty acids, these treats are not only fun to feed, they are good for your dog too! Vitamin E is an antioxidant that helps your dog live a happy and healthy lifestyle. Omega-3 fatty Acids support a healthy skin and coat and a strong immune system.

Key Benefits

Soft, tasty, real meat treats with wholesome rice and cranberries
Fun to feed and perfect as a reward
Vitamin E and Omega-3 Fatty Acids for healthy coat and skin
Healthy, natural and holistic
No corn, wheat, or soy

And the INGREDIENTS read like a WHOS WHO of Good Eatin'
Chicken, Turkey, Potato, Lamb, Brown Rice, Vegetable Glycerine, Oats, Salmon, Carrots, Peas, Molasses, Potato Starch, Cranberries, Salt, Natural Smoke Flavor, Garlic Powder, Sodium Bisulfate, Flax Seed, Sorbic Acid, Citric Acid, Mixed Tocopherols, Rosemary

Did you notice what is MISSING from this list? Yes, you are right. FILLERS and PRESERVATIVES.

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme. . .

But the PROOF is in the PUDDING, as we say in the biz. So we commenced the TRICKS for the treats.
And we Tricked. . . and tricked. . . and we BEGGED for MORE. . .

We agreed that these treats are FIVE-TRICK-WORTHY! That is the HIGHEST rating we can give!!! Like, they win the GOLD MEDAL, and stuff!!!

They are good for training, too, because you can break them into tiny tiny pieces. Mommy made them BIG, MEDIUM and SMALL. We still ate them. I think the word I am looking for is YUMMY.

My ADVICE to you is - Talk your human into trying Canidae Meaty-Licious treats TODAY! 

We were not paid to ENDORSE this product. We were given ONE bag of the treats to try and to offer our HONEST opinion. This we have done. The opinion belongs to Noodles and Molly ONLY.

HAPPY THING #16: Treats
I know from my point of view you can't get much HAPPIER than when you are given a treat!

(H)onoring the (H)olympics My Way

Okay. So some of you asked me "What's up with your title YESTERDAY, Noodles?" Why all the different languages just to tell everyPUGGY that it is WORDLESS Wednesday?

Well, it was just my way of highlighting the Olympics - but in a clever way. It was clever, wasn't it? Five languages and FIVE rings. . . Get it?

So with that explanation, can anyone figure out WHAT I am getting at with today's TITLE? 

 HAPPY THING #15: GAMES

I loves loves LOVES playing games. I play them with Molly all the time - she bullys me into to letting her win, though. I sometimes play games with my Mommys - like running to the opposite side of the bed AFTER begging them to put me down FROM the bed.

Games keep out minds and bodies active - and that is always a happy thing.