Big Girl in a Little Bucket

My mom e-mailed some pictures that I feel compelled to share.  They cracked me up, and it's one of my personal policies that the internet benefits from adorable pet pictures.  If you're my mom's facebook friend, you may have already seen this.  If not, they seem like a nice start for a new week.

The backstory is that my mom dog-sat for my cousin's dog over the weekend (my parents' dog, Blackjack, is at top left of the first pic).  Stella is a St. Bernard who is very much still a puppy at heart.  It was another warm August weekend in middle America, and Stella was feeling the heat.  My mom filled up a big green bucket of water for her, and then Stella demonstrated her complete lack of body space awareness.

See, she makes up for being oversized by also being incredibly flexible.  I'm just not sure there could be any water left in that bucket by the time she got that much of herself in it.  I admire that kind of determination though.  Stella's obviously a girl who knows what she wants and does whatever it takes to get it.