When you start monitoring your cows' activities with drones.

Milo turned 9 yesterday...and we totally forgot to celebrate, as we always do. One year, we had a birthday party for him and people brought him catnip and Hello Kitty cards with pictures of a cute girl cat for him. This year, he spent half the day laying on our newly growing creeping fig and being chased out of it by me with a hose, and the other half doing this. Birthdays are hard as you age.

For Father's Day, we went up to the ranch to spend time with my dad. Luckily, my aunts and most of the cousins were there too, so we got to spend time with them, which is rarer than it should be. My dad loved his new drone for about 30 seconds, until it crashed into the pool. Tragedy ensued, but abated once the drone was revived a few hours later. Nolan probably thought the slow-mo version of the drone crashing was funnier than he should have :-\

You can extol your own praises as much as you want on Father's Day. Just kidding. All those things are true.

As usual, there was much game-playing and weirdness. Games as shown below, and weirdness...well. See for yourself in the video. 

 My mom was deceived by Pinterest's claim that putting a very brown banana in rice for an hour then blow drying it will turn it yellow again.

I tried to take a picture with the cows and inadvertently got Daley in it...chasing them. As he does. After he chases them though, they realize he just is being friendly, and they sniff noses with him. Pretty cute. He then spent most of the day chasing around the other dogs, swimming in the pool, and generally being annoying.

Which was a nice change, because burning off his energy recently has been a challenge. This is pretty much what he does...always. When I try to walk him. Walks take a ridiculous amount of time now due to all the coaxing. This is what happens when your dog is born in the cold and thinks that heat shouldn't exist.

This morning, I'm feeling extra grateful for friendship. I started my day with a sweaty hot yoga session and this girl...who is pretty awesome. I wish every day could start with yoga, coffee and sweet friendship because it only starts the day off on the best note possible.