Letty's Back by Murphy Doodle

Letty's back

 when I was a puppy letty held me on her shoulder  my nose sniffed her ear { } and she made funny noises { } and shook her body ";" 

the next year and the next year letty and jack played soccer with me. .  .   .    . toss the Frisbee and keep away with tennis balls and toys... I love those games  

last year jack began to walk with me every 
morning sometimes without letty....that made me sad so i slept in her chair 

one cold winter day letty sat down to write her stories, not my stories

i thought she forgot about me

i pawed at her and she said NO!!

Sometimes when i whine she will rub my neck

I slept on the bed behind her and she smiled and petted me.

I slept on her feet and she { giggled } so i did it again and again }{ so i could be with her  I missed letty rubbing my belly everyday

i missed letty tossing toys in the house everyday for 2 years now

one day when it was 2 hot 4 me 2 play outside she stood up from the "come peewt her" and did a funny dance step and said, " 'Murphy please dance with me' "

I jumped off the bed and ran down the hallway in my zoomie run

she laughed and chased me

back and forth and forth and back we ran

Now everyday she has rubbed my belly {}{}{}{}

i love letty and i like her front  much better than her back

i think she loves me 2

*Note from the editor--Murphy likes to use funny symbols rather than , and .  I think his spelling has improved. 

Best of all I am in the final editing stages of the latest collection of stories "Jefferson Then and Now 1894-2025, Norman, Oklahoma's landsite school." I plan to play everyday with Murphy now and begin coloring in Zen patterns with crayons and colored pencils. 

 

Murphy Versus the Rains of November

 

I  am having a long boring day, and letyty says that some days are like that, even in Australia....whatever ? that means??

lettty laughed when she said it so,',',',',',' it must be good;

 look at the new lettters i am finding on the big keys;

;;;;;; this looks like my tail with a dot; i think i will use it instead of a black dot

I have black dots on my chest and bellly and that is where they belong, not on a piece of paper;;;;;;; these letters make me think that i am waggging my tail;;;;;;;

it is raining and i am not wagiging my tail====

I cannot go outside and chase the squirrrels out of my yard and we sure have tooo many of those long tailed varmits====

i played with my toys yester night when it rained //////

 I have been playing with my chews and my bouncy ballls and my bones! then lettty said NO MORE

jack says that i look pitiful but i do not look pitiful enough or he  wood take me for a walk>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

now i am having fun on this computer and letty is laughing;;;;;;

she says that i must really be bored to play on the key bored like this][ or look i can make a box [] 

I can make <><><><><><> a doggie lease

guess what????????

letty and jack have to drive somewhere and it is not raining, so i can go with them;;;;;;;

this is so much fun;;; look at me run,;,;,;,;,;,;,;,; splash splash

Now i am home and dry and happy

maybe the sun will come out tomorrow

BLAM letty hit some keys and i watched a girl named Annie sing this song that i LOVE 

 The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow

Elvis in the Shower by Murphy Doodle

Did you say shower?????

I have to take a inside shower whenever letty says I smell like a dog,  a dirty dog,  Doesn’t she understand that I am a dog? 

I have learned to walk to the shower because there is always a treat for me before I step inside and after I step out. Before she had to drag me,  but she figured out that a treat would tease me into the shower,

She is really smart for a person

I do NOT like the first blast of water. . . When she covers me with soap I begin to shake all over and this time she laughed at me 

She said that I looked like Elvis in the shower and she laughed and laughed and laughed some more ?????

 I do NOT know what Elvis is, but I didn’t think it was funny the way she laughed at me. . . I was a wet dog and shaking all over from my black head to the tip of my white tail.

 She kept laughing and then started singing something about a hound dog  I am not a hound dog. . .... I am a cute dog   That is what people say when they see me at the park. 

I decided to shake again to show her that I am a wet dog not an Elvis dog

 After that Letty said, “Murphy. Settle.”  she took a deep breath and made a long sigh and then she  began to laugh again?

 When I dropped my head, she stopped laughing and tried to talk to me like a person.  “I am laughing because of the way you shake, rock and roll like Elvis Presley in the shower.”

what is an ELVIS???  she does not hear my question when i look at her

 After she opened the shower door for me to leave, I shook as fast as I could and then wagged my tail. 

I get the zoomies when I get out of the shower.

when i am wet all over, It is more fun out of the shower.  Now, I can shake rattle and roll inside the house. It makes me feel good all over. I guess it’s ok to be like Elvis in shower. 

I think i will act like Elvis more often now since i know it makes letty laugh.

She tried to show me this on the computer  Hound Dog  

 

 

Big Bad Ass Bald Cypress by Murphy Doodle

Letty says that it has been a long winter and she is tired of me dragging in leaves and twigs,

first of all, i do not drag anything into our house but sometimes when i shake my body, brown pieces of leaves and grass fly through the air,

even i do not like the brown twigs that stick to my tail and ears,

it is not my fault that brown needles from a tree called bad ass bald cypress sticks to my fur,

that is why i shake in the house and rub my head on the carpet

most of the time letty and jack pick the needles out of my hair, and i don't cry or act like a whimp when it pulls or bites, i am not a puppy

one night when i was scratching and itching because of the nasty needles letty told me that the bad ass cypress will grow a new set of lovely russet-red lacy needles this spring,

if that is what poet tree is then whoever said that has never slept with red lacy needles in their tail

 

the lady who gives me baths and loves on me while she dries my hair told me that i was really dirty and sticky this winter

I hung my head

i am lucky to have a lot of curly hair that keeps me warm in the winter,

when the lady who cuts my hair shaves by body i don't get cold but i do look funny and skinny, no one says I am a cute dog when my hair is not curly,

but the big bad brown needles do not stick to my short hair except on my long wagging tail,  

today is not winter where i live, so jack sits outside with me on afternoons like this and keeps me company,

when we are swinging the big ass cypress stands bald behind the swing in the gardeners yard, i think bald means no hair and maybe the same thing for a tree, that is because all of the trees hair fell in our yard and i rolled in it

jack says in a few more weeks all of the needles will be gone and he won't sit on the swing and pick at my hair, 

i hope he is write and i hope he will still swing with me

maybe when spring comes to our house letty will spend more time outside away from her computer

my favorite time is when she sits on the swing with jack and me

Murphy and the Siren Sounds

 

my name is MURPHY DOODLE and i have a big backyard, that means i have to keep four legged animals that are not dogs out of my yard

sometimes i chase away the two legged squawking animals that like to eat seeds at a feed her...letty and jack seem to like watching two legged animals

letty says she likes the teeny tiny finches and wrens best because they talk and make music...i can not tell them apart but i do hear their high pitched chit chat

there is another noise that letty calls a siren that i do not like...it hurts my ears and i howl at the noise to go away and it does, or it used to go away until that night

one night when the wind was making a lot of noise and there was no sun shining i heard the same screaming siren sound...it hurt my ears and my head and i saw letty jump up and howl at jack to do something...i did not understand what was happening

i howled again and again and letty hugged me, put the leash on my neck and pulled me to the garage but i new we were not going for a walk in the in the wet wind

she made me scared with her voice, so i sat down and would not move

it was an awful time, finally the sirens stopped

then before i could eat the sirens came on again and i howled but they would not stop

no matter how much i howled or whined the noise would not stop, 

letty tried to get me to go down in a dark hole in the garage but i would not, i sat alone and we could not find jack

i should be with jack... i tried to tell her, he needs me to protect him

the last time the sirens went off letty told jack he had to stay inside and help her carry me into the hole, i ran to the bedroom and tried to hide under the bed but they could see me

jack carried me to the hole in the ground, i watched letty go down and then jack pushed my back end while letty held my shoulders, the next thing i remember is being on the floor of a cold small room with a light shining and letty sitting nearby...she quit shaking so i closed my eyes and rested

jack went away to look for the siren

later when he came back he stood like a giant at the top of the dark hole...i wanted to bark at him

he helped me upstairs and then we all went outside to look up in the sky...jack and my garden neighbor brent pointed up in the sky and i heard letty ask DID YOU STAND IN THE BACKYARD WHEN THAT WENT OVER OUR HOUSE  ... i think she growled ... i think jack and brent laughed 

circulation see in forward cloud never touched down

tonight i learned that letty could growl, now i love her even more