She loves me...

You know that thing you do with flowers?  "She loves me... she loves me not.  She loves me... she loves me not..."  I am a lucky one.  "She loves me!"

Hello!  This is your good friend Lisi!  I was just on a walk and while I was plodding along in the sub-zero temps for the second day I realized for sure... "she loves me!"

You see I gave her this look yesterday:

Never mind the fact that it was -16 with windchill to the -40's.  I wanted to walk.  You see I'm the sturdy kind.  I don't mind the cold.  I still love to go and sniff and see what I've been missing.  And I think it is important to get the Big Lady that yells but loves me anyway out there.  She's older you know and it is good for stiff limbs and fragile minds.

So she went and put on lots of clothes and we were off!  It was a good thing we didn't run into any people on our walk because she looked kinda scary.

I'm so glad the Big Lady loves me.  She walks me each and every day.  She feeds me good food.  She brushes out all my burrs.  She gets down on her knees every night before bed and rubs my face in all the right places.  She bought me this awesome new bed that is just like sleeping on clouds.  She even has de-skunked me three times.  Now don't be saying nice things about the Big Lady being such a wonderful dog owner because quite frankly, I'm doing this for her.  She really doesn't have a lot of hobbies.  She needs someone to get her big rear out the door even on cold days.  She needs a distraction so she doesn't micromanage the smaller people or the Big Guy.  If it weren't for me, what real joy would she have?  Well... don't answer that.  But since I'm a dog I will take full credit right now.

I just hope if you are a dog reading this that you have someone that loves you too.  If you're not sure, just go give your people that "I want a walk" look.  Or better still, find a daisy!

To show my appreciation for our walk today,  I lavished kisses on her.  Because... she loves me!