Posts by Kemba

I noticed it a long time ago.  It was this real cute photo of Matt, as a baby.  He was sitting outside our house in Vermont, on the deck, alongside a six-pack of beer that was named after him!  The brewery is in Utica, NY. — about 150 miles from the Vermont house.  I thought it was super-cool for…

I just found out that Beagle Man pays Elise and Frankie when he leaves me with them.  And I have to say, that doesn’t really make sense to me. I work for them.  Pretty much the whole time that I’m there.  Frankie even calls me his “apprentice.”  During my last stay, I helped him with his music, jam…

Here’s some stuff I found on the internet about my athletic abilities: • If you enjoy running, you’re in luck; Tollers are fast—they can reach speeds up to 45 mph! • Running Miles: Healthy Duck Tolling Retrievers may be able to run up to five miles. Hiking Miles: A full-grown Toller may enjoy spend…

I hope I don’t sound too full of myself when I tell you I have tons of admirers.  “OMG, that’s the most gorgeous dog I’ve ever seen!”  “Eight years old??!!  Look at that face!  I thought he was still a puppy.”  “What kind of dog is that?  He’s beautiful!”  That kind of thing.  I hear it a lot. But…

I’ve noticed, in the last couple of posts, that Beagle Man’s been featuring my young nephew Pickle quite prominently.  I mean, jeez — why don’t we just start calling the blog BLACK LAB MAN? Last week we were watching Pickle while Robby and Brianne were away.  The little attention-grabber and I wer…

After I’ve completed maybe a trillion fetches of my favorite stick in the surf, what I’ll do is I’ll drop my shoulder, throw myself onto my back, and roll around in the sand.  I do this not just once, but again, and again, and again.  In this way, I’m able to reach not only my back, but my sides a…

I hear from a lot of “experts” that dogs don’t experience time the way humans do.  You can leave your dog for an hour, they say, and to him, it’ll just feel like a second.  There’s probably some truth to this.  But I think they have it backwards.  Here’s how it works. Every morning, when we’re gett…

I knew it would be bad, but not this bad. You’ve been seeing a lot about Pickle, Robby and Brianne’s new puppy, in BEAGLE MAN.  I wrote about him back on February 1 (“Uh-oh.  New-Dog-in-the-Pack-Alert!”).  Remember my prophetic words in that post?  I said, “Can you imagine when little Pickle arriv…

Don’t say I didn’t warn you.  It’s right there in my last post: when Pickle arrives, it’s gonna be Kemba-Who?  Pickle this.  Pickle that.  Might as well call it The Adoration of the Puppy.  Texts, photos, phone calls to everyone in the family — all about Pickle.  Not even so much as a “How’s Kemba…

A week ago, Beagle Man showed me a family text from Robby:  “Everyone, meet Pickle!” The message was under the photo you can see, to the right.  The little whippersnapper (drop-dead adorable, I know, I know) is supposed to arrive at Robby and Brianne’s in two weeks, on February 14.  That’s right…