Absent ~ Vacation

 Petcretary is going on vacation...

Vacationing...where in the world?

First she'll drive about 325 miles, to her sister in Canada.

She wishes....BOL!

Then they both will fly to the west coast:

And take a load of baggage...if the airline will allow for the extra poundage...BOL!!

Will this pass the Luggage allowance size test?

Fasten your seatbelts!

Where they'll rent a car...

BOL!!!

They likely will not go on one of these...

But they likely will see lots of these:

Those two ladies will likely use this type of thing a lot, though:

They sure do not want to see any of this:

Or encounter too much of this kind of thing:

The highlight of this trip will be a family gathering for a wedding.

Here is a toast to the happy couple:

And here they are!!

We'll be back to our regular type of blogging soon, but first we have to have petcretary back home, and us too of course, as we are right now in the home away from home, aka doggy jail...at least that is what we call it...petcretary says it is a doggy hotel!

We are very wordy today...but we wanted you all to know why we are absent. Any mementos that need making will happen later...we hope you understand...See ya'll!

Garden,Yard and a Guest!

Petcretary is working this weekend, so we allowed her to dig in her photo library...so some are flashbacks, some are sort of fails, and a couple are of a sweet pup who came regularly to see his mommy until she went home after learning to walk on her broken legs again...hooray for her!

Summer is fast fading, so here are some pics from our yard and garden from August and mid September.

Three 'volunteer' oak trees that have been there for about 30 years now, thanks to the squirrel 'gardeners'! They are now big enough to provide some shade to the patio in late afternoon. A huge catalpa tree in the background which is very messy, and old and beginning to drop large limbs...and will soon be removed...makes nice shade but no one wants a tree to fall over unexpectedly in the storms we get here; and it would likely take down one or two of those oak trees if it did crash....

Another view of the many trees in our wooded area.

Ghost pipes, a plant that grows on fungus that is growing on tree roots...which means it is parasitic! Who knew!! I used to think it was a type of fungus itself, but nope, it is a flower, has pollen and makes seeds!! Who knew???

A volunteer sunflower, growing in a patio pot! When it made seeds the chickadees and goldfinches were swarming on it...and there were others in different pots on the patio, but the squirrels decided to eat them before any bird could enjoy them!!

Closeup ot the same sunflower!

This is Hank, he's a young hound mix, a bit skeptical of me at first, but then he decided I was OK and made a nice selfie while resting on his mommy's bed.

What big noses we have!!

Hey, Benji! I'm going to get you!! After this picture, Dalton body slammed Benji, and Benji who was tired from all the fence games with the neighbor pup, got up, seemingly disgusted and trotted to somewhere else, BOL!! Sorry for the poor light and bad focus...it was a cute moment to have 'recorded'!

We have joined up with the Sunday Selfies A fun blog hop hosted weekly by The Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head. Thanks, Kitties Blue!!

An Ussie For Our Selfie

Wow, the week went by so fast, and now its time for the next Selfie Sunday.

Petcretary was quite busy this past week, so we said, just help us take one with both of us...but then somehow we didn't want to get close! BOL!

We did go for an overnight at the pet hotel we mentioned last week. While its very basic, the peeps there are friendly and seem to have fun doing their work with all the doggies...and there were lots of them!! Anyways we did eat our food, so that was a good sign, right? When we got home we just sort of plopped down on our nests and took a very LONG nap!

The pet shop didn't have the rescue remedy that Grannie (Peachy and Stippie) had mentioned, so petcretary went to the huge store called Amazon, and it just came today. Along with some other similar remedies, we shall start them ASAP and hope they will mitigate the stress for Dalton when they go back there for their 'long' stay. (And he'll stay on the CBD as well...)

OK here we are...politely giving eachother personal space. BOL!

At least we were looking at *her*!!

Yesterday was World Rabies Day...and yes we both got our new rabies vaccine about a month ago...which meant that we are now legal with our licenses for three years. Phew!

Tuesday Oct first is Black Dog Day...Benji: 'Hooray, I am a [mostly] black pup!!'  Dalton: 'Well I always have my black tuxedo on...'

Its also Fire Dog Day.

Well, we are not dalmations, nor do we help the fire brigade in our village, but we do have to snoopervise petcretary when she burns up our wood piles. She's been doing a lot of that lately...comes back inside smelling like smoked sausage, BOL! But she jumps in the shower and comes back to where we are, and  smelling like...well...like Petcretary!

What a huge pile of brush and logs, from fallen limbs and general cleanup...

Got weiners???

All that's left is a huge ash pile...till the next load of fallen limbs and so on. 

OK, Time to say toodle-oo till next time!

We have joined up with The Kitties Blue who are our hosts of The Sunday Selfies. Thanks so much!

It's Dalton's Gotcha Day!

 Happy Gotcha Day, Dalton! You've been with us seven years, now!! Wow, how time does fly!

Here is a picture of Dalton the day after he came to live with us, after coming all the way from Texas, during the time of Hurricane Harvey...we almost named him Harvey, but since he had his name as given by the shelter and then the rescue, we left it. He'd had enough confusion and turmoil in his life.

And since yesterday was Remember Me Thursday, well, Dalton and Benji are both shelter pups, rescued and then given a forever home. Adopt shelter pets, you might meet your new best friend!!

It's also National Dog week! Woof Woof, we are woofies!!

And we wish that everyone in the path of Helene will be safe, we  are keeping you in our thoughts and prayers. Hurricanes are so scary, Dalton knows too well....

We're joining the flashback Friday bloghop, since we showed you Dalton from 2017!

FlashbackFriday is HERE.

Another Sunday Of Selfies

 We're here again for selfies! What a week its been here...phew, we are glad it's behind us...

Earlier in the week, there were intruders who stomped around in our cellar...we thought maybe to evict any mice that might be lurking there...but pawppy told us that they were here to give our HVAC a 'checkup';  Then a delivery truck driver trespassed our driveway to leave a big box...but it was for petcretary and not us....sheesh! 

Then on Thursday, petcretary took us for a ride...to a pet hotel! And abandoned us...OMD, we thought were never going to see her again. And we let the lady there know it...Dalton dashed out into the play yard and would not come back, and neither of us ate anything for the whole time we were there according to the lady who owns that place. Then suddenly another lady who works there put us on our leashes and harnesses and brought us out of the jail, and into the front yard...where wonder of wonders, there was Petcretary! Aroo and hallelujah!

Then instead of going home sweethome, *she* drove way out of town...and we were at a different dog hotel...WTD????

The set up there is different and there are individual doggy runs with doggy doors similar to what we are used to. We heard her talking to a nice lady who came to talk to us, too, and she even petted us...a much nicer lady that the other one at the failed doggy hotel...apparently she will abandon us there for a 'trial' night in a few days...so they and us can get used to each other, cause in a few more weeks we need to stay in a doggy hotel for about a week, while petcretary goes to her niece's wedding way far away...so far that she needs to get in an airplane! Yikes, we sure hope she comes back. It also means that during that time frame there won't be any posts from us, nor visiting...so we won't even be able to beg some of you to rescue us...aroo! BOL! But we'll give you a heads up just before we are going to be abandoned....so you can do POTP for us to survive!! BOL!

(Note from Petcretary: Benji didn't eat anything there...but since he'd never been away from home without a family peep with him...well, he was a bit unsettled. But his behavior was OK...Dalton however was petrified, and would not eat, did not cooperate when out in the big play yard and would not come back...the owner of that place thought he might even make escape attempts. When she tried to get his leash on, he cowered in great fear...even having Benji with him was not helping, nor the CBD, I had given and left with the owner.

The lady, while not unfriendly,  was rather brusque and seemed more into her business than the dogs...so while Benji might have been OK there, it was entirely a bad fit for Dalton, my poor little dude with such a ton of baggage that he cannot/will not dump ffom his former life in Texas...

Maybe it's just as well. At the second place, while quite a bit further away, that lady was very friendly and pleasant and came out to see the pups and even interacted with them. She has a whole crowd of young people with her to help her with all the 'clients'. We shall see how B & D do on their trial sleepover there. I have signed them up for the week in October when I will be gone. Maybe the vet can prescribe some sort of pharmaceutical to help Dalton over that time...)

Enough of that...here are our selfies for this week:

Petcretary was up early on Tuesday to get to Teddy's Tuesday Teaser Class, and she was first to take her seat, along with one other. (It was a pirate themed class, due to soon it was going to be talk like a pirate day, LOL)

There were two of us up at dawn on the Good Ship Teaser in time to be FIRST COMMENTERS on the post of September 17, 2024!

Then she guessed the place too, quickly enough to be the 'first right' guesser!

I was the FIRST Pirate to Guess Correctly on the Teaser Post of September 17, 2024! YO HO HO FOR ME!

Today is the first day of Fall...so here are a couple of fall pictures, showing our Angels form days gone by....
First are Pipo & Minko, ca2013

This is Angel MrJackFreckles, ca2015

We are happy to see the end of summer, though we are not too sure we like that winter follows the nice season of fall....but we do like that the seasons change, so we'll not get bored with the same weather all the year long. Our Oma said when she was living in the West Indies for a couple of years that she really missed the seasons, because it was always HOT where she was.

We are in the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop! Thanks for hosting Kitties Blue!!

Ahoy! We Be Pirates On This Scurvy Day!

 Avast! Its Talk Like A Pirate Day! Yarghhhh!

We think we be scurvy scalliwags for pirates, but beware...ya just don't know what we  kin do...like plunder your booty of noms and other delectables...Hah!

                                Got rum???

We be full o'thanks that dis pirate day is only once a year...yarghhh!

Note from the not pirate petcretary:

These images were a sort of experiment in changing how the original looked...The real backgrounds were very cluttered...and they had garden junk coming out of their heads and other places...ugly! So with background removed she went to Canva and another place...and then made some other adjustments in Gimp...not my best work...argghhhh! Maybe I need some Rum! Yargghhhh!!!