School Days

 This is where my Lee went to public elementary school.

Lee could walk to elementary school.

It is a big school.  Two stories of class rooms.

 This is the back of the elementary school.  It has three wings.

When we walk by, I stop and watch the children play.

This is the bridge going into the public High School where my Lee went. 

Lee took public transportation or biked to this school which was eight miles from her home.

It is the biggest High School in Cincinnati. 

In Lee's graduating class there were over 1,700 students. 

This is the back of the High School and the track football field.

This school has three and a half floors with classes in the basement also.

This is where my Lee went University.  Scholarships and Lee working paid for her education. It is fourteen miles from her home and Lee had to take two buses to get to school.  One bus took her to downtown Cincinnati then another to the University.

The inner campus.

The beautiful library with its glass dome.

Yep it is the University of Cincinnati.

Wisdom is The Principal Thing

Therefore Get Wisdom.

That Proverb is engraved on McMicken Hall.  Lee read that every day.

Lee always wished they had finished 4:7 and with all thy getting get understanding.

Lee was always changing schools.  I don't understand why.  Maybe it is because she is a mess.

Yep Lee said she was a mensa.

Now this was my school.  I never needed to change schools.  They loved me.  I never made a mess.

Lee drove me to my school.
Lee paid for my education.

My blackboard.  Every week they put my homework in the orange slots.

My teacher, Mr. Kodiak.  Mr. Kodiak demanded respect.  No spit balls in his class!

 Lee says I have to say Kodiak was the trainer's dog, but Lee is wrong.  Mr. Kodiak instructed the class.

 

Thank You Loving Max for giving us The Versatile Blogger Award last week.

The Chronicles of Wallace and Samuel gave us the Sunshine Award also last week.  Thank You Wally and Sammy we hope we bring sunshine.

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

Will The Real DaWeenies Please Stand Up

I, Sweet William The Scot, got an e-mail last week from Amber DaWeenie.   Amber wrote that she and the brudder Max (DaOdderWeenie) and the Sissy Autumn would be hittin the road and cutting a path through my fair city on the way to the mitten state.  So I, Sweet William The Scot, being the gentleman that I am said you want to sniff butt and meet me for a picnic lunch.

Well Lee and I packed a lunch for all and drove down to the Friendship Park in the inner city to meet up.

Max and I being boys we had a serious talk about the girls in Blogville.

Then time for the photo shoot.

 Dogs they are trying to take our pictures, why are you giving them your best side? 
This Butt's For You!

Well three out of four looking the same way!

I, Sweet William The Scot, think I will take the load off my paws and lay down because we are not ever getting a picture of us all looking the same way.
Before long it was time to say good-bye.  I sure had a great, fun, wonderful time meeting the real DaWeenies!
Hope they stop by Cincinnati again.

The DeWeenies gave me the nicest tote filled with goodies.

Look at all the Florida souvenirs.
Thank you very very much Amber, Brudder Max and Sissy Autumn.

 

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot
 

Look Out!

This is a one picture post!

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.

Yep it's this picture!!!!

 Lee heard this was the best place to take a picture of my city, Cincinnati.
See my city behind me.  Look Out!
We climbed that hill behind me.
 

 We hopped in the car went over a bridge to Kentucky and parked our car.  Climbed up and up the weeds got thicker and thicker.  I, Sweet William The Scot, thought I was in a jungle.  I could see nothing but weeds.  Finally we found this little brick wall.  We took the picture, and started down the hill.  I have never seen my Lee so excited, why Lee was standing on her head, legs in the air.  Then Lee bounced up and down on her bum. Then Lee decided to roll in the weeds. Poison Ivy weeds.  Lee was going so fast I could not keep up.  I was shouting Lee let go of the leash your dragging me into the burrs.  Lee didn't let go.  I could not see Lee anymore for the tall weeds. Where did she go? When the tugging stopped and I caught up Lee was on her hands and knees looking for something.  Being the good dog I am. I jumped in right away to help.

  

We got to the car it smelled pungent.  Lee I think that is SKUNK!

Yep the car had been perfumed.

Three times through the car wash, we let them enjoy our smell.  We believe in sharing.  Lee then scrubbed her skin off with Lava Soap and then me having the burrs torn out of my furs in the tub for a scrub and Lee back in the shower for another Lava Soap down.  

Now I ask you is this picture worth a thousand words??

You want to hear Lee's HBO words? 

 

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot

Psssss ~ I told Lee I left my favorite scarf on the climb up the hill.  Lee said she left more than that and to just be grateful we got off the hill with our lives. 

How High's The Water Mama

We have these markers up and down the Ohio River, showing where the water crested in the greatest flood my city has ever seen.

The greatest volume of water ever known to pass along Ohio’s southern shores flooded all Ohio River communities during the last two weeks of January 1937.

The Ohio River crested at 80 feet at Cincinnati on January 26. This was 28 feet over flood stage.

With damage stretching from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, one million people were left homeless, with 385 dead and property losses reaching $500 million.

 January 1937 remains as the wettest month ever recorded in Ohio.

 

It has been raining here alot.  Noah is a friend, so I got two tickets for Jazzi and me on his boat.   

I told Jazzi to get here fast.  I don't see her coming.  I bet she is out shopping for a new pink dress for what she thinks is a cruise. 

A long time ago, when the Earth was green
There was more kinds of animals than you've ever seen
They'd run around free while the Earth was being born
And the loveliest of all was the unicorn

Stop staring at me you Rhinoceros. 

Green alligators and long-necked geese
Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees
Some cats and rats and elephants, but sure as you're born
Don't you forget My unicorns

 I see Bella, from Downunder Daisy swimming in.

Toss her a life ring.

Swim girl swim. We got room for you. 

 I see Goose swimming in,  Noah is a friend of his also.

  Old Noah was there to answer the call
He finished up making the ark just as the rain started to fall
He marched the animals two by two
And he called out as they came through

I just don't see no Jazzi.

 Here is another flood marker on the back of a church.  See how high the water got in 1937.  Now see me on the bench looking out at the Ohio River.

 Where the Ohio River is today.  How High's The Water Mama!

 

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine

Signing Off

 

Sweet William The Scot

Theodore M. Berry International Friendship Park

 

Finn and Gizmo are co-hosting an event ~ Park Day, April 26th.

Stop by their blogs for information.

Now on with my Park Day Post

This 22-acre Cincinnati Park Board park opened in 2003.  

An award-winning display of sculpture and flora representing five continents and also featuring a riverside bike trail and walking paths.

It serves as a lasting tribute to world unity and global understanding.

The park itself snakes along the Ohio River.

 A marvelous display of international public art, stroll the Path of Man, which intertwines with the Path of Nature, so visitors are never far from a sensory treat. Sculptures featured along the Path of Man include the Castle of Air Pavilion

I, Sweet William The Scot, am very small at the entrance.

Look how the trees reflect. 

 Every pictures is a reflected image.

 I have reflection love!!

That's my Lee with the blonde hair taking the photo and her friend who Frankie Furter calls Ms. Janet.  When my Lee has been in the hospital I stay with Ms. Janet at her Condo.

 Each side is composed of three concave mirrors.

The grand design of the park drew its inspiration in part from a child’s friendship bracelet.

Two intertwining walkways guide park visitors through gardens of the continents in a perpetual celebration of international peace and friendship.

 This area also includes a story-telling circle.

 

  The park has areas which represent each of the continents.

 Stroll the park’s Path of Nature to experience the structured beauty of a European garden, or the open freedom of an African savannah and the Australian outback. Scholar stones typical of Asian gardens inspire the imagination with their naturally fanciful shapes and beautiful markings.

 

 

 At the far end of the park stands a fifty-foot tower that has panels that sing when the wind blows.

Celebrate hope, courage and freedom’s promise.  An live a life of international peace. 

 

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine

Signing Off

Sweet William The Scot
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That Was The Week That Was

Hey come back you lost something.

Oh Dogs lookie what I got in my mouth!!!

Lee never thought it would happen.

I, Sweet William The Scot, was determined!!

  I had a three hour wait.

Yep I had a tree rat cornered up the tree.

Well he finally decided to come down and take his exit from my yard.

He zigged, I zagged, he zagged, I zigged.

Around the tree we went.

Then I out  manuevered the tree rat he zagged and I zagged.

Bonanza ~ Eureka snap I had his tail in my mouth. 

Tree rat was on me, I was shaking my body, I was rolling on the ground.
Get off me you pervert.

But I held on to the tail for dear life!
Then it happened.

The tail broke off.

Hey come back you lost something, you ready for round two?

I have a souvenior a genuine tree rat tail.

Lee can you make me a Daniel Boone cap, Please.

You know during all of this, Lee was yelling GO WILLS GO WILLS.

Lee is so proud of me, why with my deformed front legs she never thought I would be able to catch a tree rat. 

Yep I snicker when I see that tailless tree rat and he stays out of my yard!

Lee had to get a new Toro Mower last week.  Yep our home always needs something.  Home ownership isn't it great!

What do you mean, it is my job to mow the yard.

 

"That was the week that was, It's over, let it go ..."

 

Thanks for being a friend

Traveling down the road and back again

Your heart is true and your a friend of mine

Signing Off

 

Sweet William The Scot
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