My 1st blog of the journey

So OK.  Hi everyone.  I am just getting the hang of this typing stuff -  next time I am going to dictate it and somebody else can pound the keyboard.

 So I see all kinds of human stuff and refuse being dumped in a corner of a room the parents keep calling "the exercise room" for no reason that is apparent to me.  There is no exercise that goes on within these walls unless I decide to make a few loops around the dining room table in 2nd gear.   I can never quite rev it up much to make the corners - and sure don't have to when "my parents" are attempting to chase me.  Never have been much competition.  They should have gotten me a little buddy years ago.  We could have whipped this place and them into shape.    I digress.

So I hear talk that today is minus five days to launch.   Ha!   Could have fooled me!   From my perch here on the back of the sofa, I can see the trees leaning sideways along with the driving rain in gusts of wind up to 56 miles/hour.   The cute weathergirl on NESN was talking about 12 foot seas at noon today.  No way am I getting on that little boat even with my PFD (that's personal floatation device to all you landlubbers).    I might even get off the sofa to do a little sun dance.

I do hope that pile of stuff I see includes my needs:  leftover fillet mignon, snausages, Trader Joe gourmet dog cookies. And IF I HAVE TO HAVE IT for my vegetable needs:  Purina Fit and Trim to keep my bod svelt and pattable, and my coat soft and lustrous and my eyes like liquid pools....   but enough about me.

I expect to contribute to this blog from the dog's eye view - you know, down there with all those hairy legs, smelly human feet (which I do love) and hydrants.  Stay tuned for my not so humble perspective - I keep trying to be the alpha of my pack - and it won't take a holiday on this trip.   I figure if they can stuff me in the backseat of the Subaru 3 inches from the roof, sitting on a pile of boxes they drag back and forth to Florida a couple of times a year, I can do this with ease!   Unfortunately,  I overheard I have to go to the dreaded groomer tomorrow to have all those lovely smells I have worked so hard to acquire over the past few weeks removed.  But never fear - I know I can find some fishguts or gull dodo to roll in as we wind our way towards the Hudson and then north - so please stay tuned for more!!