Beautiful Barclay is 4 years old this year (his Birthday was on Christmas Eve, when I took these pictures). To celebrate we went out and played stickball and played with the hose to cool off when we were done. Not that it was hot, it was like 50 degrees out, but the dogs love to play hard, and cool off in the trough!

Stickball is Barclay’s favorite game in the world – basically a ball on a rope on the end of a stick. He’s nuts for it!
The crazy aerobatics are the best part – watch out for flying eskimos!

Navi isn’t quite as insane for the stickball, but she’s getting better at it. She even gets it away from Barclay once in a while, but he’s the champ!

Barclay always gets the ball back in the end.







Barclay never wants to give the ball back, though he knows chasing it is the best part.

Navi took a dip in the pond and then got back in the game

Then it was time to cool off. I love Barclay’s look – that totally says he thinks she should get out of the way and let him have HIS hose!



Bark bark bark – give me MY HOSE!

Finally!

Then Navi gets good and wet…

And gives everyone a shower!

Happy Birthday Barclay!