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The past couple months I  had been so busy with a lot of stuffs. But that doesn’t mean I stop trying to take photos to attempt or plan to post them. A lot had happened in Spring season, so let’s get to them!

So far everybody has seen Oreo with his long hair, which was appropriate in the Winter. As the weather got warmer, I requested the groomer to trim his hair short. She did a great job and gave Oreo a complete makeover!

Oreo’s new short hair cut actually brought out one of his character: Terrier!

Short hair Oreo looks more serious and alert, like a mean dog.

Looking away from the camera, he no long look goofy or silly, but young and handsome!

While the lawn started to green up, the daffodils won the race and poke out of the ground all over the place. It appear that the daffodils had duplicate themselves from last year as the bush was dense.

The big bright standard yellow daffodil flowers just scream Spring!!!!

I was surprise there are actually some multi-color stripe design among my daffodil bush.

The white petal with bright yellow center cup version is my favorite, they’re just so elegant and classy to look at.

The daffodils has their nature’s schedule, in the sense that they all bloom around the same week. The blend of different design really bring life to the curb appeal of my yard.

The tree in front of my house also has clumps of white flowers, I think they’re some sort of pear tree that doesn’t bear fruit.

The cousin of daffodils, Tulips bloomed shortly after daffodils.

As weather got warmer, and my south facing front yard get so much sun, it didn’t take long for the tulip flower buds to open up.

The tulip photos were taken with my Sanyo VPC-HD2000A HD camcorder camera combo. Compare to my dSLR, the color seems to be a bit wash out. I guess I need to do some tweaking with the Sanyo toy.

While flowers were blooming outside the house, vegetable seeds also germinated in my basement.

I did what I had been doing in the past, made some paper pots, put a few seeds in each paper pots that were filled with potting soil, keep them moist for weeks and before you knew it, they were ready to go outside!

This year I started quite a few chili plants as I knew the bird peak chili is very hard to grow, so I did more of them just in case some do not germinate. But turned out most of them had no problem germinate.

Tomato and basil are pretty much standard in a lot of home gardens. This year, I started some dwarf tomato that should grow no more than 5 feet tall, which I think will be manageable.

This year I let go a bit of my obsession having an organized salad pot. Instead of sow the arugula seeds in evenly spaced rows, I decided to just sprinkle them on the pot, didn’t care if they’re too close, to space out, just whatever. I figure with so many seeds that get sowed, some of them are sure to grow. Well, the method worked, let nature take course and judging from the density of the germinated arugula, I should end up with a pretty healthy pot of spicy arugula that will add more zing to my salad in late Spring!

My two years old dwarf fig made it through the harsh winter while hang out in my basement. Tiny fig started to appear around the main branch. If I remember correctly, last year I only had like 4 figs out of my plant, it looks like I should get more this year as the fig plant got more established and mature.

Over the past few weeks, things have been so crazy busy, I didn’t have time to keep up with my blog! As things slow down a bit in my garden, it’s time to get back on track about my blog.

Oreo not only look cute, but what makes him special is his personality, words can’t describe it, and thank goodness I capture a lot of Oreo’s life in video. This is one of the reason I’m so behind to update my blog. Going through lots and lots of video clips just take time, choosing the best clips to show is even harder! Once I decided on the clips, then I need to spend time to process them…. long story short, there are still a lot more to come.

For now, I just finished process all Oreo’s video from Winter time, which is just a couple months after he move into my home and became my family.

Most moms would say: “Don’t play with your food!”. Well, when come to pet, I encourage them to keep themselves as occupied as possible, and look what I got?

Sometimes I think Oreo has identity crisis, is he a dog, a cat, a panda or a human baby?

Watching Oreo glide on the hardwood floor is like watching people on ice skating ring, you never know what pose they will find themselves in. Adding a laser pointer just kick up the fun to next level!

Trying to find interesting things to multitask in front of TV could be challenging, especially I can’t reach for a bag of potato chips. Oreo eventually became my TV commercial break distraction tool. As I play with him during those break, I start to learn what he’s capable of.

I wonder what Oreo do at home when I go to work, would he get bored from sleeping too much and then can’t sleep any more? So I try to play with him a bit in the morning, hopefully he can get some stimulation and exercise, and could sleep well during the day.

In the winter when the ground was too cold for me to do any gardening work, weekend TV time mean sit in front of TV and play with Oreo. That’s the only time I could be really patient to focus on Oreo and be his playmate.

With some encouragement, Oreo learned his signature trick that I don’t find any of my friends’ dogs would do!

Practice make perfect, but you have to add some treats to sweeten up the pot and make it more fun!

I didn’t know dog sleep “acting”?!

Oreo’s personality is really unpredictable, in a good way!

A wet dog is not a calm dog, for Oreo, you better not stand  in his way!

I always like to see dog first got out of shower as they do the very unusual stuff! I think Oreo try to protest for me making him wet, I can guess from the way he looked at me.

Over time, Oreo has familiarized himself with the sit up routine, and the key is to put my arm around his neck area.

I don’t always get down the floor to play with Oreo, but that doesn’t stop him from being close to me.

Oreo really learn by routine, he has his own way of learning, as long as I’m being consistent, he follow along quite easily.

I begin to think that I have spoiled Oreo by giving him too much attention, because if I start to ignore him, he gets fuzzy, kind of remind me of a baby!

Oreo’s nail could be sharp and hurt when play rough. Since I had my winter gear around the house, I can play with Oreo with proper protection, and looks like he enjoys it too! I don’t know who burn the most calories, him or me?