the dog days of summer...

...are usually unbearably hot, but our pooches seem to be doing just fine, thank you very much.

In fact, it took Dottie (the one sitting up) about ten minutes to claim the rental house and the beach as her own.  So, she's pretty much been growling at every other person who comes within a one hundred foot radius.  Such a 'tude.

I promise I will actually take pictures of the beach today, but we didn't even make it out there yesterday because there was a brush fire nearby that made the air super smoky.  But I have a 500-something page March issue of Vogue that needs reading (yes, I'm actually that behind), so today will need to be a long one in the lounge chair.  DBJ.