This just cracks me up...

but, I am not allowed to taunt, tease, or....IN ANY WAY POKE FUN.


Mom decided that we could leave Maisie out of her crate overnight now, and not worry about her hurting herself or getting in trouble. Except, she's too darn little to get on the bed by herself, so mom had to get her pet steps!
Blaaaaaah! BOL!



ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!

Off to the Park!

That snow finally melted. It was fun until it swallowed us and kept us home bound. Then it got all rainy and muddy outside, and finally, we started having nice days. So we got to go to the park.
Please pardon all the butt shots. There were just too many good smells.





I had to check everything out.



Other dogs had the same idea and were there too. We met this guy. He liked Maisie.






Mom gets all nervous and puts us on our leashes when we get to this part. She's afraid we're gonna start fooling around and play bitey face or something, and fall over the ledge.








We noticed lots of trees had fallen down, and others were being cut down!




Then we saw why... They are sick! Some disease called Oak Wilt Disease!





If you look down the path you can see lots of trees with pink strings on them. Some of them have pink paint sprayed on them, and some have signs. We think maybe all of them are to be removed. We are gonna miss these big oak trees..





On a happier note, when we got to this open field we found a big pile of sticks to play with, which is good, because we got so excited about going to the park that we forgot to bring any toys!














We hope you all have a HAPPY EASTER!

Johann's Howl-a-day Giveaway, and Miss Kylie's 25 days of Christmas

You guys might remember, we won third place in Johann's big Christmas contest. Well, did we ever get a boat load of stuff! It all came in these two big boxes. This is the first box. It was loaded with all sorts of good smelling stuff. As you can see, we were chewing at the corner before mom even got a chance to open it up for us!

There were treats, DVD's, suppliments to make our fur nice, vitamins,


stuff to clean our teeth and make our breath smell nice, shampoo,


antlers, a book about doggie health, a leash, more treats!,


some dehydrated raw food, and even some grass seed to fix the places in the yard that turn yellow when we pee! We also got coupons for food, a name tag, and a gift from Gollygear!
We were as tickled pink as our harnesses!







The other box had toys from PetSmart! Exclusive ToyShoppe toys!





Here we are with all the loot, (minus one box of Honest Kitchen treats that I ripped to shreds).


A BIG THANK-YOU to Johann and his mum. This is really swell stuff!


AND THEN....another package came!




We were one of the weekly winners in Miss Kylie's 25 days of Christmas. And we won one of Kylie's Bed & Biscuits Blankets to donate to a shelter. We decided to let Miss Kylie give it to a shelter near her house, and were totally not expecting to recieve these two nice squeaky toys from Miss Kylie!



Here is a picture of the nice card we got, telling us about the gift!



Thank you very much Miss Kylie,and your mum, Ali. We love squeaky toys!

It looked just like this..

except it had pepper jack cheese instead of cheddar, and lots more onions surrounding all those olives, and mushrooms, and tomatoes. And the horseradish sauce was nice and hot and tasty.
Mom brought it home from work. She had it all wrapped up and in her tote bag which was sitting on a dining room chair. I don't know where she was - bathroom or something, anyhow, within 5 minutes Maisie and I had it on the floor and gone! Foil wrapper and all! Just a few crumbs and pieces of lettuce left.
Mom wasn't too pleased with us though. It turns out that onions are toxic to us dogs, and I heard her say to somebody on the phone that Maisie and I had really bad onion breath. Also, I heard her say she really didn't want to try to make us drink peroxide.?!? Pretty soon we were in the car going to that emergency vet place.
We got there about 1 AM. Nice ride, windows down - something about us being "stinky".
Then they rushed us right in to see the doctor, and we got quick physicals, I heard pancreatitis being mentioned, and onion toxicity, poopies for a couple of days, and mom said "just get it out of them", so then they gave us something and we puked up our delicious hoagie. We weren't sick for too long, it could of gone faster, except Maisie didn't want to give it up, but pretty soon she puked too, and then they gave us something so we didn't feel sick anymore, and then we got to come home.
I wanted to stop at the park on the way back, but mom said it was 5:30 AM, and we weren't stopping anywhere to do anything. She kept muttering about the $250.00 sandwich, but as far as I am concerned, it was worth every penny!

DWB'ers To The Rescue!

So, mom gets home from work last Sunday night, and there was a phone message from the neighbors that said a "huge piece of rain gutter" had fallen off of our house. We went and looked, and sure enough, gone! Brought down by the weight of the melting snow and ice. Anyone who heard it said it came down with a really loud rumble and crash.

Most of our house is 2 stories, and in the back it goes 3 stories high, so mom really didn't know what is behind/under gutters. It was supposed to rain the next day, did she need to call those 24 hour roofers that advertise in the Yellow Pages? Were there now giant holes in the house? Is this an emergency or what?
So, she's googling "gutters, what do they do" and sees Suzy's dad is on line on Facebook! Thank doG! He said he used to live in Alaska, and convinced her it could wait till morning, which is good, because I have heard that some of those roofers are really gypsies, and Maisie and me could of been dognapped and wearing little clown suits and workin' the carnival circuit by now if Suzy's dad hadn't gotten mom settled down!
After that was settled, she decided to go to plan "B", as soon as she could figure out what it was. Our roofer had retired, and she heard on the news that it was nearly impossible to hire a roofer these days because of the snow and all the damage people were having.. Then,she remembers reading that Cosmos & Juneau had blogged about their daddy being a construction guy, or something like that. We have never met them, but knew they lived in the neighborhood, so mom sends their mom an e-mail. Thank doG again! At 8 AM we had their daddy's cp number, and a message to call him. He said somebody would be here WITHIN THE HOUR!!!!
They fixed up the place where the gutter came off, and noticed all of our gutters were "torn or bulging" because of the snow, so then they went to work putting salt in all the downspouts, so the whole mess would melt. When the weather gets better, and mom gets the insurance claim filed, their daddy is gonna get us all fixed up with new gutters all around the house.

We had to have them back again today. (click to bigify)

After the rain, 2 days of warmer weather, and then ANOTHER SNOWSTORM, we had another ice build-up on the other side of the house.



Look at those chunks of ice they hammered and shoveled off! Sure had us barking!

So, big thanks to Suzy, Cosmos, & Juneau's daddy's. We are very grateful.

On a happier note - look what came from Amazon!

A new shovel, since ours broke during the first storm, and a car ice scraper, 'cause ours got lost in the snow someplace. So no more shoveling with the dust pan, which, by the way, held up pretty darn good. And still works best for the porch steps.
And, our play yard melted down to where it is actually fun again!



Still snowing though..