It's all mine!

I found it.

I killed it.
I dragged it all the way from the kitchen to my chair.
I shall now TEAR IT TO BITS!!

My work here is done!!

Hot, lazy Sunday

Davoo

Baby
Georgia
Hootie & Sasha
Belle

Bailey

Me

Good night!

July 4th progressive blog

12:00 noon
Hope everyone is happy and comfortable today. This is going to be a very lazy day for us. My mom is spending the day at home and she thought she would update this blog entry as the day goes on.

When my mom sleeps in she really sleeps in. We didn't get up until 11 am! It's sunny right now, in the 80s, low humidity. Some of us are running around outside. Mom is drinking coffee and watching MUSIC MAN (it takes place on July 4th). Pretty soon, knowing her, she will get up and jump around singing all the songs. She is a nut. There she goes--76 trombooooones...!! Did she say BONES???

Beagle trivia: did you know that the white tip on our tails is called a FLAG?? We wave our FLAGS everyday!
Georgia & I have our butts to the camera. The others are Davoo, Baby, Perry, Beau & Bitey. Mom threw some food out for us like we were a bunch of chickens! Still waiting on the hot dogs.

1:30pm Wallymelon for ME!! Yuuuuuh---uuum!

4:00pm -- Sun is brilliant and hot!
Mom finally got the grill put together. Don't worry things are further away than they look!
My mom has YANKEE DOODLE DANDY on now. She turned off our air-conditioning because it's acting funny. Probably froze during those cool nights last week. Nice breeze though.

Belle is comfortable lying in the sun.
Baby is enjoying a good roaching in the grass that needs cutting again.

6:30 pm
Sky is getting cloudy. It's probably going to rain soon.
Meat is grilling now. Hickory is smoking.

But WAIT!! There's MORE!!

And MORE!! We need doggie friends to come help us eat all this!

And, at LAST! I get my hotdog. I'm a hot Yankee Doodle Dandy Dog!

Oh, YUM!Thunder is starting now. We'll stay in and watch the Boston Pops like my mom does every year.

It was a good day. Thank you for visiting with us!

Happy 4th! May everyone enjoy the blessing of freedom

Notice the beautiful clock on my page. Click on the doggies sitting underneath it--they change! Oorvi in India has created a playground for all of us with toys we can take away with us. Soon it will be filled with even more cool stuff! Her human will create one with our own likeness, too. I will see if she can do a River Oodget--her playground has Oodgets (for Oorvi and Widget). Thanks, Oorvi! The clocks are beeeyuutiful.

Wordless Wednesday

I was bad today.

No biscuits for me.

!!!

{Mom note: It's okay. It's why I buy cheap shoes... }

I hate flies!!!

The cows came back today. Mousse is always the first to let us know. He runs out the door shrieking--then we charge out of the house like a thundering herd, all howling even though we have NO idea what's causing the excitement. I think we need some cattle dogs around here!! There is the TN Valley Cattle Dog Rescue nearby--my mom helps transport them sometimes. Maybe she could just keep one... Or some of our heeler friends could come visit...
It was a mama cow and 2 big babies. The baby is staring at us.

Same scene, my mom tried an ISO whatever setting. She's not very good with a camera so she's experimenting all the time.

Which brings me to my biggest PET PEEVE: FLIES. I think the cows bring them around. See here--there's a fly on the wall already.

It's moving.

It flew around the computer.

It's up there now.

Now it's down there.

Going toward the window.

Almost caught it!

It's gone. Dang!

You wanna what?

What does it mean: "Give me your FOOT?"

Oh, I get it.

You wanna hold my PAW.

Don't I deserve a treat?

A terrible day--Rufus has crossed the Bridge too

I had just started reading his blog and loved his creativity and bassetness. And, suddenly, along comes blastomycosis. It's a virus that hits hard and fast and does terrible damage--mostly it blinds. I have personally seen it. A friend of my mom has a dog that has lost his eyes--they had to be removed which is often the case with this disease. No one knows where it comes from--maybe hides in mulch so beware of mulch around your hounds. My mom and I are crying for him and for Baby Love today. We are howling in sadness. Please visit his blog and comfort his person: Rufus

Baby Love has gone to the Bridge

We're so sad to hear that Baby Love has passed away. People from all over the world helped contribute to her surgery. We fell in love with her quirky antics like jumping around in the grass like a grasshopper. She will be missed. All the angel critters in the slideshow above will be at the Bridge to greet her. She will have lots of fun with them.