Who needs thumbs??!!

My regular readers will remember that I have often lamented my lack of thumbs... they seem so terribly useful for things like, opening doors, peeling bananas, typing, reading and of course eventual world domination (which is my ultimate goal)

Today, I took a huge step toward fulfilling that goal, I learned how to use a zipper!!!  This was the ultimate result...

M & C were clueless about the fact that I've been working on this for awhile (although M claims that she noticed last night that the pillow was about 1/2 way unzipped... thank goodness she got distracted and never zipped it up, that would have undone a weeks worth of work!)  I delicately unzipped the pillow and then enthusiastically removed the stuffing (which was great fun) until I was caught red pawed!!  Notice how I'm trying to blend the perfect amount of "who me?" innocence and "yes I'm that smart" smug-ness into this picture!

So one small step closer to not needing those stupid thumb things, they aren't so special anyway!!  I do admit though that stuffing although it appeared marshmallow like, was not all that tasty... and it's still stuck in my teeth!

Shhhhhh....

Can you keep a secret?  I LOVE to read.  As I do spend the majority of my days alone I have cultivated quite the taste for literature...both figuratively and literally, I have on occasion been known to express my anger via the eating of a good book or two.  Ironically one of those books was Marley and Me  about a rather mischievous lab fellow who sounds like quite a lot of fun.  I ate the book before I got to the end though ... I think that was probably a good thing, M read it all the way through and she got all red and runny faced before it was over.  Anyway luckily my mom wants to be a librarian so there are lots of books ... yes, most of them are upstairs behind the baby gate.  If I want to read one of those I have to hop the gate scamper up the stairs, leap over the stuff in the spare room climb up to the shelf I want and knock off a book.... it's quite a process without thumbs, so I don't do that often, especially since I have to put the darn thing back before you know who gets home so I don't get caught.  So mostly I stick with whatever M leaves laying around.  So what does the well rounded beagle read??  I'm quite fond of historical fiction, anything featuring dogs (Thunder Dog was amazing), and F. Scott Fitzgerald.  But quite honestly, anything will do and sometimes in the summer there is nothing better then a quick easy read... the Stephanie Plum novels are perfect for that!!  And lucky M and Grandma B read a lot of those!!  Of course, I can't get caught reading so I often have to pretend just to be napping in the vicinity of a book...

It's demeaning but otherwise people would be lining up to see the world famous reading beagle and I can't have that... I really like to keep quite a low profile!

Happy 4th of July

Today as we celebrate our nation's birthday Beagles everywhere recommend finding a comfy spot to cool off and stay out of the heat.  I also strongly recommend finding a snuggle buddy for later tonight when the scary fireworks start... it's best to plan ahead.