Tatum Tot Spice

Today at camp me and Jet got the Mum up super early in the morning again so we could go run around a lot and play. I did all my good play moves for Jet and we ran and zoomed around on our way down to the beach. Can we live here? It would be the best!

Then the Mum and me tried this thing called carting. Or sometimes it’s called drafting. There’s lots of working dogs that do it, and sometimes collies like me, too. The Mum always wanted me to try it but didn’t have a harness or cart at home. So we got to today, and it was kinda fun! And the Mum said that I was the best of any of the dogs, even Levi and Jet! So the Mum says maybe she’ll have to buy me a cart and we can do some carting at home, that’d be kinda fun but I’ll have to get used to pulling the thing around! Maybe I can do some Room Director Jobs and boss people around and make some money to buy a cart!

Here are some other pictures from camp today.

The Mum is the coolest Mum in the world know why? She took us to camp! It’s everything she promised and more. Me and Jet got her up really early this morning so we could go out and play on the beach. We are in Lake Tahoe in Nevada, and a 4H camp with lots of other dogs. It’s so way super fun!

There lots of Goldens and Border Collies and even another collie! Her names is Georgia and she’s a rough tri and really pretty and fun to play with! Me and Jet and Levi are here. This morning we went on a fun hike around the camp, then went to play on the beach and get our pictures taken. Me and Levi know how to escape the xpen porch the Mum put up, but she’s made it trickier now for us to get out!

Here are some more pictures:

I am having so very much fun. I got so tired at the beach that I got a little nervous and stopped eating the Mum’s tuna brownies. But that’s okay because we can have lots of rest time too. Maybe some equestrian boots would be good for Mum at the beach so her feet don’t get wet, but maybe sandals will be better!

Today I went to the dog park with the Mum, Levi and Jet. It was really fun and I ran and ran and ran and ran. There was this weird pack of hoomans and mini-hoomans and I usually stay away from them, but today I got a bug and just wanted to run around them! So I did, and I tried to nip at their butts like I do with the Mum at home and the Mum said oooo Tatum people don’t understand that! But she explained to the hoomans that that is what I do and they didn’t mind so it was all good.

It’s still kinda sad around here with Lucy gone. The Mum hasn’t let me on the computer very much so I haven’t really had the time to reply to all the nice people who have sent their best wishes. The Mum is really still very sad and says she’s having a hard time with Lucy not around. But I think the Mum will be okay soon. I sure hope she is anyway. Maybe she needs to look at some bowhunting supplies so we can find another fun place to live with mountains and streams and boulders and hills. Places that would be super fun to run around!

Here is more pictures of me at the park!

So Lucy is gone and the Mum and the Dad, and all of us too, are really sad. But we are trying to get by and keep playing as much as we can. Today the Mum and the Dad took us out to the desert. Even though it was too hot, we had a really good time running around.

All five of us dogs haven’t been out together in a while. Because Lucy has been weak, and also because it is hard to get six dogs in one car. The Mum got our MiniVan as a 40th birthday gift and we’ve had it for a couple years now, and all five of us dogs, plus Mum and Dad, all fit in the minivan together. It’s really cool when the Mum gets birthday presents like that! It actually may have been her 42nd birthday gift but now we don’t remember and we just pretend anyway.

The Mum says she doesn’t like being 44 years old and that she feels really old now that Lucy is gone, too. But the Mum is still young to me and she can do lots of running around with us and so that’s a really good thing!

Here are a couple of more pictures of us in the desert having a fun time!

My sister Lucy had to leave us yesterday. The Mum and the Dad are really super sad. She was a really fun sister to have around and we will all miss her forever and ever. The Mum is crying a lot and I try to do head rubs on her and hopefully that helps her because I don’t like it when the Mum is sad. She’s sitting around on the couch a lot and watching the weird TV and drinking Rum. But I think she’ll be okay in a few days.

Mum and Me wants to thank all the wonderful people who have come and posted their love and thoughts here on my blog and on Facebook too. Wow we are so surprised and so happy about this. Lucy was in a lot of pain and she could hardly walk or stand anymore, her muscles were all giving out on her and she wasn’t having any fun anymore. So now she gets to run and play someplace really cool and do things that maybe we’ll do someday too. Hopefully she is watching over us. The Mum has been watching for her and says she can feel Lucy too sometimes even now.

Thanks everyone so much for your kind words, it’s so hard when one of the pack has to go and leave forever and we will miss them and our hearts all break in big crumbles. But our hearts heal back up again with a big chunk missing. But we never forget anyone ever.

This is my big sister Lucy, and next to me she’s the only other girl collie in our house. Lucy is the Pack Marm and she used to push me around when she was younger and stronger. But now she’s getting really old and she’s not strong anymore.

The Mum and the Dad say that Lucy has to leave us forever this Wednesday. The Mum and the Dad have been doing a lot of crying because they don’t want Lucy to go. I don’t really understand where she’s going to go or why, but they say that Levi is going to go with to say goodbye to Lucy on Wednesday.

The Mum says I’ll see her again someday, but not in this world, and not for a long time.

So no one is really happy at our house except Jet, who just doesn’t seem to understand sadness at all, and he bounces around like a goof and looks through bridal shower invitations and tries to chew them up just like he chews up everything else.

So if I don’t post for a while it’s because the Mum is crying and us dogs and Dad are trying to make her feel better.