Dog days of summer

As the last couple of weeks of summer wind down, only one thing is for certain:

NOTHING is certain.

It all started last Thursday....

:::Scooby-Doo flash back:::

My mom and dad come by the house to pick up their dog, Tinkerbell. She stayed with us while they had escaped to Ft. Walton. (Lucky ducks)

While they are here, I ask them if they'd watch the boys Friday night while Big Daddy and I attend a wedding. No problem, they will even pick them up early because they have something else to do while they are in Nashville. Mom gets a call and it is announced they are getting a new dog, a Chihuahua/Yorkie mix.

Fast forward three hours....

I go with my mom to meet the lady who now has two dogs; the one intended for her and the one I am supposed to "look at."

(I think you can see where that was going to go.)


Turns out, my mom was really disappointed, her dog wasn't what she wanted. But we took them to keep them from going to the pound. The boys fell in love:

Meet Brownie (Darrin's AKA Mommy's dog):




and Charlie (Nicholas' AKA also Mommy's dog):





Monroe would like everyone to know that he is NOT pleased. Not at all. However, he did accept the offerings from PetSmart today.

From Thursday night on, no day has went as I had planned.

And just this once, I am okay with that.


P.S The pictures are not good--I know. I was lucky I got those two shots. The vet said the likelihood of either dog being part Yorkie is somewhere around 0%. There is a Maury Povich episode for you....

A small, overweight Chihuahua sits on the stage with a low cut top and blue eyeshadow, "I am 130% sure this time Maury. One of these five studs is totally my puppies' daddy." On stage is a Doberman, a German Shepard, a Dalmatian, a bulldog, and a Collie.

Wednesday Rocks

My favorite day of the week quickly became Wednesday just a few months ago when I discovered Shannon's blog. Never in all the years that I have been online have I found such a wealth of information than on her weekly series, Works for Me Wednesday.

Being that this week is the Backwards Edition, maybe we should call it, Wednesday Works for Me?

Here is my dilemma:

My cat has two behaviors that are no longer acceptable.

1) He will flop down on the floor at your feet or even in the walkway. If you try to scoot him away, or even walk OVER him, he will grab your foot/ankle and bite. Not hard enough to leave a mark, but enough that it seems to be more than playing. One of these days he is going to do this going down the steps, which I am sure is his ultimate goal, and take one of us down.

2) We just bought a new dining room set. The chairs are upholstered on the seats and have a bit of a texture to them. Two things, he believes, are meant for him. I don't want him on the chairs so I placed aluminum foil on the seats. Besides the fact that we are lookin' so good as you come into the house, it doesn't seem to bother him, and I have caught him trying to go underneath the foil. We've tried dryer sheets on other things as a deterrent, but he actually likes them. I don't want to keep spraying him because: a) the seats will be wet and get soured, b) without any covering, the chairs will have cat hair and that is nasty [to me]. Of course, I should question my sanity in purchasing this set, but I'll save that for another WFMW.

Any suggestions will be most appreciated!

Now, grab a beverage, and enjoy the rest of Wednesday at Shannon's place!

P.s I also seem to be having html problems. If anyone would be willing to take me under their wing, I'd be most grateful.