Kishimen きしめん

Mom & Dad had something called "Kishimen" today. Mom said it reminded her of a kind of noodle she used to love in Singapore. I wonder how that tastes like. I sometimes steal food from the kitchen sink, so Mom gets very angry with me if she sees me sneaking into the kitchen. Mugi can't reach the top of the kitchen sink, but if she could, I'm sure she would steal food too. --- Hop

Hop's latest passion is fetching. He never used to like to fetch, but these days we're so bored we'll try anything to get Mom's attention. That blue ball in the video? That's his latest best friend. Frankly, I think this whole "fetch" business is entirely overrated, but Mom makes such a fuss over Hop that I get quite jealous sometimes. --- Mugi

We speak English! Woof!

From the time we were just puppies, Mommy and Daddy have been speaking to us in English. Most of the time we don't really understand, but I think we've got a handle on some of the words they say. We both know "sit", "down", "wait" and "house", most importantly, "NO!" (Mommy likes that word A LOT. Daddy just uses a broom on us, or grabs our neck and throws us out of the house.)

We're planning to take the TOEIC test in the future, but I'm not sure we'll pass...
Gotta get back to studying/ eating/ fighting/ sleeeping!
I'm a busy dog. Woof! --- Hop

(Mugi practicing "down" and Hop in a cute little "sit".)

Happy Birthday to US!

Woof! It's out birthday today! We're officially one year old. Does that make us grown-up dogs? I don't know and frankly, I don't think either of us care. We celebrated not today, but on Sunday.

On Sunday afternoon Daddy and Mommy took us out for a long walk and a little picnic. First we walked in the direction of the nearby shrine, but when we got there we didn't go in. I think there must have been a sign that said "No dogs allowed in the grounds of the shrine". So we turned back and just went to the nearby dog-friendly park as usual. There we had a little picnic; Daddy had light beer and Mommy had a frozen sherbet. Hop got too excited and started digging up the earth in the park until Daddy got mad and yelled at him. I just ran and ran around the park, nipping Hop occasionally on the hind legs when he's not looking. Ha! My brother is so clueless sometimes... 「バカホップ」 is his nickname.

Then Dad took out a packet of dog food!! yaay!!!! We ate and ate and ran and ran.

We were out for about 2 hours before heading home where we had another mini wine-and-cheese picnic while reading in the garden. We got all excited when we smelled the cheese but they tied us up where we couldn't reach it. Dang!

Today too Mum gave us our food with a special treat: pork gravy and rice!
Happy birthday to us!!♪ ---- Mugi

Warm days ahead

It's Saturday. Daddy woke up really early but didn't take us out until about 7am. It was already nice and warm then. We recently noticed that all our favourite peeing and pooing spots in the snow have melted and we've been busy looking for suitable other places to go. Hop likes to go in the middle of the road but sometimes those big cars come and honk at him. We don't really care, but Daddy and Mommy look kinda embarrassed. I like to go at the side of a wall of something; I think it's safer that way.

It was really warm yesterday and today. We had to play by ourselves --- fighting mostly --- while Mommy worked on the PC until after afternoon walk. It was so hot we couldn't stop panting and Mommy kinda looked silly in her jacket. After that we were all peaked out and didn't really mind it when Mommy left us in our pen to go out to work. She came back pretty soon after anyways, with the smell of another dog on her! That woman is unbelievable! But she gave us a little snack so we forgave her straightaway. :-)


(From Mugi)

Our First Post

Woof! This will be our first post on our first blog!
(As I'm the older brother, I will write the first post. --- Hop)

Today we spent a mundane morning fighting with each other as usual. Mugi found the frisbee that Mommy bought for us and started chewing away, but I soon showed her who's boss. She went crying to Mommy after I took the frisbee away from her, that tattletale.

But then Mugi found this big box of cardboard and an old "Hot Pepper" magazine and oh boy did we have fun with that! My sister really knows how to show a dog a good time...

I thought I did pretty good job of tearing the cardboard boxes up but Mommy seemed a little displeased and put us in our corner while she was having her Skype lesson. We usually get to see who she's skyping with but not today. No matter; after all that hard work with the cardboard, I'm ready for a long nap. --- Hop


(Wonder why Mommy seemed a little grouchy today...)