Hello from Mia and Black Dog Ranch

Well another week has gone by and it's still very cold here in southeastern Missouri. We are all doing fine and Ms. Charlene has handed out extra cookies and biscuits to help keep us warm. We are going to have a lot of cool stuff going on this coming week. MS. CHARLENE (KRISTIE C. JONES) IS GOING TO BE ON CHANNEL 5 KSDK TV in St. Louis Friday, January 30th at 12:00 noon to talk to Jennifer Blome about our book "Stories From Black Dog Ranch". Then the very next day on Saturday, January 31st from 11:00a.m. to 2:00p.m. Ms. Charlene will be at the IMPERIAL SEED & FEED STORE in Imperial, Missouri to sell and sign copies of our book. We hope all of you will come out on Saturday to the book signing because Ms. Charlene (Kristie) would love to see everyone and tell you all about me and my brothers and sisters here back at the ranch. I better go for now, hope you tune in Friday for the TV show and come to the Book Signing on Saturday! Mia

Hello from Mia

Hi everyone, well it's been a very busy week. Ms. Charlene has spent a lot of time making sure everyone stays warm here at the ranch. We had our first snow of the year and Ms. Charlene was so worried about all of us getting to cold. I don't know what the big deal was because my brothers, sisters and I thought it was great fun to race around the farm in all of that snow. I rolled in it too. One of the silly Horses, Smokey, was playing in the snow too, but he got a little carried away and pulled a muscle in his leg. Ms. Charlene had the horse doctor come out and look at him. Now Smokey has to take some medicine for a few days, but the doctor said he would be fine. I don't think he really minds taking his medicine because Ms. Charlene hides it in Molasses. I think that stuff smells funny, but he says it taste great. Well guess I better go for now. Talk more soon! Mia

Hello From Mia and the Gang

Well it's been a week or so since I have up-dated you on stuff going on here at the ranch. We have been pretty busy around here. Ms. Charlene went up to the big city (St. Louis) yesterday and they put her on TV to talk about me, my brothers and sisters and our book "Stories From Black Dog Ranch". Ms. Charlene said it was a great opportunity to let people know about our book. She said they wanted me to be on TV too, but I didn't go. I can't seem to get use to riding in the truck. Of course I would have loved giving all those wonderful people at Fox 2 TV a big slobbery kiss right in the nostril or eye or something, but I'm scared of the "truck monster". Ms. Charlene said it was o.k., I'm just a little farm dog and we are going to work on the whole scary truck thing, a little at a time.......(I hope it's just to the end of the driveway for now). Talk more soon, Mia

Greetings From the Gang at Black Dog Ranch!

Well we are starting a brand new year at Black Dog Ranch and Mia has decided that she would like to share some of her stories of day to day life here at the ranch. She said that everyone would rather hear from her than Ms. Charlene (Kristie) so I guess that's the way it should be.... Hi, it's me Mia It is the second day of a new year here at the ranch. It is nice outside today and my brothers and sisters and I have been very busy all morning trying to convince the horses that they would rather run around in the pasture while we chase after them than eat their hay that was delivered earlier this week. Ms. Charlene does not allow us to actually chase them in the pasture, (because somebody could get stepped on), so we run up and down the fence and bark and bark and bark. They don't seem to pay any attention to us after a couple of hundred barks. Teddie went with Ms. Charlene this morning to the end of our driveway to replace our mailbox. Someone keeps knocking it down??? I think Teddie felt kind of bad because he didn't bark and scare the person who did it. Ms. Charlene told Teddie it was ok, she still loved him very much and told him he was still special. Well I better go for now, this sunny day is making me sleepy. Talk to ya soon, Mia