This is my life

RonE · 08-08-2008, 11:00 PM

The grunts you hear would be me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL4i3YP9XHo&feature=user

alphadoginthehouse · 08-08-2008, 11:20 PM

sounds like they were gittin you purty good there pardner! Looks like they were havig fun too...nothin better than a lolling tongue out of the mouth after a good run with dad.

sillylilykitty · 08-08-2008, 11:53 PM

Thats great

I love your backyard Ron

It's so spacious. I didnt realize Esther was so big, and Molly has grown too it looks like (from the last time I saw her). I think the chuck it is a great idea, Im gonna want one of those for my future dog.

Curbside Prophet · 08-09-2008, 12:07 AM

I don't know why but watching the chuck-it slowly grab the ball had me giggling. Is Esther the only retriever in the family? It looked as though Molly enjoyed chasing Esther more than retrieving.

RBark · 08-09-2008, 12:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Curbside Prophet

I don't know why but watching the chuck-it slowly grab the ball had me giggling. Is Esther the only retriever in the family? It looked as though Molly enjoyed chasing Esther more than retrieving.

I'm glad i wasn't the only one. I burst out laughing at those parts.

ChrissyBz · 08-09-2008, 12:16 AM

That's a good life.

chul3l3ies1126 · 08-09-2008, 01:42 AM

Oh too fun... they never want to stop huh? lol
and OMG is that an old fashioned push lawn mower?! Does it still work great?! I love it haha too cool!

Nessa

winniec777 · 08-09-2008, 02:07 AM

And what a fine life it is!

RonE · 08-09-2008, 07:49 AM

Yes, Esther is the only retriever.

Molly is the anti retriever. Esther brings the ball back and drops it. If Molly gets it before I do, she runs to the opposite end of the yard and drops it in the bushes. Eventually, Esther will gather them all up, two-at-a-time, and bring them back.

That IS a push mower, but it's only a couple of years old. We have a Toro rider, but I use the push mower for places the rider can't reach. I was doing that one day when a young woman stopped and gawked and finally asked, "You mowed this whole lawn with that thing?"

I said, "Yeh, it takes a week, and then I start over."

Once I brought them in and tucked them in last night, I didn't hear a peep out of any of them.

Edit: On further review, what you saw was not the push mower but a trailer dolley. The push mower didn't make it into the video.

meg&bernie · 08-09-2008, 10:25 AM

Now the question is who had more fun, you or the dogs?? Looks like a good life to me!

digits mama · 08-09-2008, 11:27 AM

You need football pads on those knees Ron...If you plan to make it to Great grandpahood upright..you must heed this advice!

Mudra · 08-09-2008, 12:03 PM

I must say "the slowly picking up of the tennis ball" adds a little bit of dramatic effect to the whole video.. =) LOL!

RonE · 08-09-2008, 12:40 PM

I'm glad you liked it, but it wasn't for dramatic effect.

It was the result of having both knees repeatedly bent in the wrong direction by a couple hundred pounds of running dogs.

4dogs3cats · 08-09-2008, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Curbside Prophet

I don't know why but watching the chuck-it slowly grab the ball had me giggling. Is Esther the only retriever in the family? It looked as though Molly enjoyed chasing Esther more than retrieving.

Me too! It made me think that maybe Ron has one actual arm/hand, and the doctors replaced his other with a chuck-it. Or maybe Ron is a chuck-it robot....hmm. Although a permenant chuck it... my dogs would be thrilled!

alphadoginthehouse · 08-09-2008, 01:28 PM

If it wasn't for the fact that the dogs were running fast I would thought that Ron was showing the video in slow-mo!

It was fun to watch Ron...even if you were being body slammed repeatedly!