Celebwate Life!

To all My pupfwiends..this is a moment to wemembew all those who lost their lives on 9/11..this is a sad amivewsawy, and I just wanted to wemind all of us, never to fowget! ............................... befowe I tell you my silly adventoowesWe have to celebwate life fow as long as we'we lucky enough to have it!


I'm soooo behind..this is what happened sunday night, and it's aweady tuesday, but i weally have to tell you about all this stuff,cause it's supew coolNew Yowk is alive and well! and we won't give in to those who want to destwoy us..just look at what I did on Sunday night..this is vewy close to the site of the towews that were destwoyed.
This was the last night of the Rivew to Rivew Festival, outdoow dance pewfowmances held fow free in Battery Pawk in the Summer....this last night, my unkel Tony and Tap City Downtown were pewfowming, so we took a picnic, and sat down to enjoy the last of the summew in NY
This is way downtown looking in one of the diwections fwom the pawk where the pewfowmance was held
and in the othew diwection.....you can see the statue of Libewty fwom where we're sitting..isn't that the coolest?
It was a bootiful night..that's the Staten Island Fewwy leaving the hawbow fwom next to us
Unkel Tony is talking to a gweat old Tap Dancew Harold Cwomer..(he's known as the Captain.)...befowe the pewwfowmance...he wowked with people like Ethel Mewman and othew gweats on Bwoadway and in films all ovew,Now he choweogwaphs, and he pewfowmed "Mr Bojangles" this night..WOW!
This was the end of the pewfowmance...they always do the shimsham with the whole cast at the end..it's a hoot! My unkel Tony is the cutie in the dawk suit in the fwont, and you can heaw my silly Mommi yelling back to him,hehehe

End of Summew NYC Weekend

So it was anothew typical New Yowk weekend..too much to do and not enough time...I went to the wun evewy mowning,snoozed in the aftewnoon, and pawtied evewy night
Ummm, excoose me Mommi, awe you going to finish all that pad thai????
This is absolutely gooberlicious
You have to use chopsticks to eat this
I got my aftew dinner tummy wubs from auntie Kawen...this is the life
I gave auntie Kawen a thank you kiss and then it was time fow me to go to bed
My pawents went to one of their bestest fwiends birfday pawties..it was one all you doggies would have loved
Aside fwom all the wegulaw food, they had a diffewent cake evewy half houw
This is my unkel Tony, I love him..he's a gweat tapdancew and vewy funny too..we call him a ham
it was his 50th birfday and evewybody was thewe..some weal famous people too and my pawents
Pawty pawty..thewe were about 60 hoomans on unkel Tony and Mawk's deck and inside the apt....and lots of food and dwinkies...and Jolson the cat who hid fwom it all
Happy guests
Hoomans at the pawty on the deck ...ahhhhh summer nights in the city!!
This is my cutie Daddi at the pawty
so this is what I did while my pawents pawtied all night...Snoozing is the bestI hope all you doggies had as good a weekend too...I loved chatting with some of my fwiends this mowning too..I'm cwossig my paws fow all the doggies going thwough tewwible vet things this week..pleez all of you stay well

Gifts

So Mr. Vinnie the mail man bwought me a couple of envelopes again..it's pwetty cool..Mommi and Daddi only get bills oosooally,which is not cool at all...
OK , I have to see what's in hewe
It was a pwesent fwom my vewy good fwiends Scwuffy and Lacie...
Lacie undewstands that giwls like accesowies..don't I look fabulous..I think Lacie has one too so we can match and go out to lunch and a pedicuwe...
This was Scwuffys's bone ,that Lacie had pwechewed a tiny bit, which made it extwa special i love it!
Can you see the beads awound my necks???it's also fwom Lacie as and added accesowie..it glows!!!!! I'm not kidding, it glows!!!! Swuffy and Lacie also sent me a magnet pictoowe of themselves which I put on my fwigiwatow so I can always see them. they awe vewy bootiful and supew handsome!
Look at this most wondewful collection of stuff! THE BESTEST PAWT...
A DONATION TO SCRUFFY'S PLACE!!!!(not ouw scwuffy..this was a little sweetie abandoned by some howwible hoomans and wescood,but found to have tewwible heawt pwoblems,so she couldn't be adopted..the Bwadfowd Hills people gave hew a home till she died 6 momfs latew, and then they established a twust in hew name and memowy to heal and re-home abandoned dogs and cats. I am sooo vewy gwateful that you did this fow me!!!!!
********************************************************************Then I opened the second cawd!
All the way fwom Malaysa!! fwom my golden fwiend Rossi!
I got this most bootifullest handmade cawd fwom Pwince Rossi!!!! it 's pawsome, thewe is a pictoowe of me with fantabulous heawts all ovew in thfee dimensions and happy Bwithday with a wiwe sculptoowe of a heawt and bow and flowers made of heawts and a pictoowe of me ,Asta
its a twue wowk of awt!!! This fabulous cawd that was made by Rossi's Mom just fow me!
its vewy bootiful, and thewe is a pledge to give a Donation to those pups and doggies who awe less fowtunate..that is so vewy sweet and special..
I weally thank you!!!! You awe a twuly wondewful fwiend and I'm sooo happy to be one of youw fwiends!
Thank you soo much fow thinking of me and especially fow thinking of all the doggies who don't have our fantabulous lives...i feel vewy vewy lucky to have such cawing and supew doopew fwiends..You have no idea how gwateful I am!!


smoochie kisses to all of you!!!!!!!!!!!! your fwiend fowevew ASTA

INVITATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi all my fwiends! all doggies and GirlooberGirl and Moosie and NOMSSF......you'we all invited to help celebwate the combined birfdays of me ,Asta and my fwiend Bailey of Twipple Bs on the 24th of September

We'we all dwessing up..it's a cowboy pawty..Oscaw angel will look ovew us,and we will be playing westling,chase,bitey face, two handed boxing and wacing awound like mad..but if you just want to come eat BBQ and hang out, that's OK too...we'we hoping fow a bootiful fall day with lots of fun..so pweez wun over, ow dwive ,ow fly ..just come and join the fun...smoochie kisses
ASTA
pee ess
Go to Bailey,Baxter,and Brody the Tripple Bs to see their invitation too!!!!

Picking up paintings/Last caw Twip of the Summew

I can see we'we almost thewe..I'm getting kind of sick of all these caw wides




A quick pizza fow lunch befowe getting the paintings



This nice little hooman pup came ovew at the pizza place to moosh me and give me some of his samich..I asked him to pose with me hehehe

We got to the Bawn to pick up the paintings..and guess what! Mommi sold another one while she wasn't even thewe that's pwetty cool! I must have left good tewwier vibes behind




Goodbye Gawden,goodbye gwass..I suwe loved you










A last sniff awound..maybe I'll be back next yeaw




Now it's back to my city and then I can welax
This is the last time I'll see any fast food.so we got a ninilla shake,if you keep moving the stwaw up and down,just enough ice cweam comes out to lick without making a big mess in the caw



This is the cowwect method fow eating a vanililla shake in the caw, without possibility of spilling.....happy end of summew evewypup!

Lay Bowe Day

OK ,so yestewday we went out to visit my auntie Julie and cousin Cawina fow Lay Boow day..this is what happened:
It's hot and boowing, just like Tanner said..this is Lay Boowe Day...we lay awound,we'we boowed,and I'm twying to keep a good attitude,but this is not as much fun as wunning awoud..I hope the day gets better
The appetizew is aweady on the table but whewe is evewybody????
I'm stawving, my tongue is hanging out fwom extweme hungew
when is this pawty going to stawt??????
Sitting next to my "cousin"Cawina..I think thewe is a good chance she'll give me something
I wan into the kitchen to see what was going on..thewe wewe some pawsome smells coming fwom there
I,Asta, of couwse helped auntie Julie make the dessewt..you have to spead the dough just wight
This was the main couwse..it's Hungawian,yummmmm!
Daddi and Mommi digging in..I always stay vewy close in case they can't eat the food,hehehe
TahDah!!!! dessewt
and to finish off the pawfect Lay awound day..."LET THEM EAT CAKE!"


Today....I had to go back to Long Island to pick up Mommi's paintings....I'll tell you about that tomowwow...I suwe hope all my fwiends had a pawfect holiday weekendXOXOXOXO ASTA

BarnArt Opening Day

Satuwday we dwove out to Long Island again fow the opening of the Bawn Show that Mommi was pawticipating in..I had to weally watch the woad, it''s along twip and a lot of hoomans were going out to the Hamptons and other ritzy places.We stopped on the way to look at a bunch of anti-Q places
We found a nice place to have lunch, called the Old Mill..I had to check out the locals befowe we sat down..they were not tooo fwiendly ..snap,snap,snapMommi and auntie Kawen stawred talking to the owners of the westauwant,and intwoducing me to their doggie,whos sister plays with me in NYC as it tuwns out...smalll wowld hehehe
I got to have some fwench fwies, while I waited fow my shawe of the Lobstew woll
This was the little hawbow that we saw fwom the westauwant..thewe were all kind of intewesting biwds..hewons, ospwey, ducks, and the nasty swans who wanted to eat me up
After lunch we finally awwived at the place where the Bawn Show was being held..

This was Mommi stawting to talk to some hoomans who came to the show(Mommi's in the white blouse)I was weady to gweet the public and pewfowm my dooties as official schmoozer...isn't it the most bootiful day????


After all the guests left, we were able to close the gate, and I was allowed to wun fwee again...I wan and wan and then my Mommi played fetch with me..it doesn't get any better than this!!


The nice hoomans who own the place invited us fow dinner aftew the show in the gawden..just look at that, I didn't need to be asked twice



Mommi had to twick me with atweat, to get me to come put my leash back on..I was having toooo much fun wunning fwee



I said goodbye to Stella and Desi who live there, and thanked them fow their hospitality

It was a vewy long day...I got weally tiwed

I'm knocking on the doow..I'm weady to go home now Mommi


pee ess..Mommi sold two paintings( I didn't bwing any of my wowk, cause they discwiminated against puppies)