Ahhh!

Ahh! I am pooped!
It sure does feel nice to lie down!
Thank goodness it's the weekend! Maybe this pug can finally rest!
Have a nice weekend everyone! Lay on the couch as much as you can!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Grandma Andrea's Garden

Hi! Everyone!
Jemima Jones Beck here.
On Sunday Mom and I went over to Grandma Andrea's house to visit her kitty, Flo, while Grandma Andrea was out of town for one evening.
Mom and I thought that we would take some pictures of some of the beautiful things that are growing in Grandma Andrea's garden while we were there, so that we could show them to you.
I love hanging out in Grandam Andrea's garden, don't you?
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Oops! You weren't supposed to see this one! Grandma Andrea I promise I only ate ONE of your peas!

What Mom Did on Her Birthday

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here. As you all already know, Mom was sick on her birthday, so she and Dad weren't able to do any of the fun things that the had planned (on Mom's actual birthday, or for the entire weekend afterwards). So, what did Mom do with all of that "sick time"?
She scrapbooked!
Now, Mom isn't the best scrapbooker out there, but she is persistent and she gets her stuff done quickly which, is a good thing considering the mess that she usually makes.
Below are pictures of some of her recent pages. All you other scrapbookers out there let us know what you think!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Posted from Our IPad

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
As you know, today is Mom's birthday. Unfortunately, she is really sick, so she and Dad aren't going to be able to go to dinner tonight.
But, the present that Dad got her totally makes up for it - an IPad!!
This is our first post using the IPad, so we aren't sure how it is going to turn out (you have to buy a special application to use blogger with and IPad).
Let us know what you think!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Happy Birthday Mom!

Hello! Everyone!
Today is my Mom, Rachele Beck's, 26th birthday!
That makes here 182 in dog years - wow! She is getting so old.
Mom started celebrating last Saturday when Grandma Andrea took Mom to the Tall Grass Spa in Evergreen, Colorado for a mani/pedi. And tonight (after Mom "celebrates" by going to work) Dad is taking her to her favorite restaurant in Denver, Bistro Vendome.
I hope that Mom has a great dinner (and that she remebers the hungry pug at home, eager for leftovers).
Happy Birthday Mom!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Maxwell Falls Hike (aka The Mushroom Hike) in Evergreen, Colorado

Hi! Everyone!
Jemima Jones Beck here. This weekend Mom and Dad and I went on the Maxwell Falls Trail hike in Evergreen, Colorado.
The falls themselves were actually really disappointing, (in fact, we didn't even take any pictures of them), but along the way we saw LOTS of really cool mushrooms and one really weird caterpillar.
Apparently, the red mushrooms (scroll down) are super toxic to dogs. Some guy stopped us on the trail to warn Mom and Dad not to let me lick them (as if! Eww!).
We had lots of fun, lack luster waterfalls and poisonous mushrooms aside!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Getting Wild with Grandma Andrea

Hi! Everyone!
Jemima Jones Beck here with some pictures from my mini vacay with Grandma Andrea.
On Wednesday afternoon, she picked me up and we drove up into the mountains to Frisco, Colorado where one of Grandma Andrea's good friends lives.

Once we got there we had dinner and went to sleep (and I slept in a bed other than my own without Mom and Dad!).
In the morning we went for a hike in the Eagles Nest Wilderness, in White River National Forest.
















First, we hiked to this lake.
And then we continued on further and I met some local flora and fauna...















I almost caught that darn squirrel! If only my shoulders weren't so broad!















we ended up at lilly pad lake. It's covered in lilly pads! It was wild!

It sure was a beautiful hike! Thanks for letting me share your vacation with you Grandma Andrea. And thanks for the pictures!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

A Vacation for the Pug

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
I have some really exciting news.
You know how Mom and Dad are always going places (Las Vegas, Alaska, Jamaica, etc) and leaving me at home?
Well, today, I am going somewhere and leaving them at home!
That's right, this afternoon Grandma Andrea is picking me up and taking me to Frisco where we will hike and hang out and do other stuff (I am not exactly sure what other stuff - this is my first vacation without Mom and Dad - maybe Grandma Andrea has something really wild planned)!
It's not that I don't love Mom and Dad, I do, and a lot of times, they take me on vacations with them, but after years of getting ditched I finally get to ditch them! Mwahahaha-snort! (that's an evil pug laugh, if you were wondering).
See you when I get back!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Tour de Mushroom

On our two block walk this morning Mom and I discovered seven different kinds of mushrooms. That's a LOT of fungus! And it is an increase from previous years when only one kind (that we could find) grew around our apartment complex.
Mom wonders why there has been a mushroom boom in our area, but I don't - mushrooms stink and they taste really bad. So,I was just glad that Mom didn't pick any and offer them to me as a snack!
Here are some pictures of what we found:
This first picture is of me with what Mom calls "Rotten Chicken Cutlet Mushrooms" because the first time that she saw one she thought that someone had dropped a chicken cutlet, which had then rotted, on the ground.
Picture two is a close up of the rotten chicken cutlet mushroom.
Next is a picture of the "Smells Like a Dead Human Body Mushroom". Which Mom so named because she touched it and then her hand smelled like it did after her forensic anthropology classes in college (like a dead human body, in other words).
And here is a picture of the "Ring of Poo Mushrooms". So named because they grow in a circle and from a few feet away they look like some dog pooed little piles in a perfect circle (not me! I swear!).


A close up of the ring of poo mushrooms. Up close they look more like potatoes, I think, except that potatoes taste delicious and these do not.

"Flying Saucer Mushrooms". I think that you can probably figure out why Mom named these that without my help.

Side view of the flying saucer mushroom.
The "Army Helmet Mushroom". This mushroom is teeny tiny. It's hard to tell because there is no scale in this picture, but this mushroom is so small that Mom had to get the camera about three inches away from it to even take a decent picture.

And the "White Mushroom". Mom thinks that these may be just your everyday average white mushroom that you can buy in the grocery store. But, who knows, they could be freaky, green-on-the-inside because of poisonious puss mushrooms instead.

















And, last but not least, the "Flat and Dirty White Mushroom". Definitely a different species from the regular White Mushroom, as these ones have a VERY strong (and nasty) odor that the regular whites do not.
So, that's it. That concludes my Tour de Mushroom.
Hopefully Mom can get the dead body smell off of her hands (and the camera) and I can go back to sleeping on my blanky instead of standing around watching Mom lie on her stomach in front of our apartment complex to photograph fungus. Embarrassing I tell you, down right embarrassing.
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck