In The Car Palm Sunday Selfies

 Well, the yoyo weather continues around here. We have had nice warm days in the mid to upper sixties, we've had plenty of rain, and we've had cold days too. Friday night we had snow! But most of it was gone by midday on Saturday...

Petcretary continues her battle with the weeds...she's focusing on one kind and when that gets under control she'll do battle with another kind. Over the years she has gotten good control of all the invasive garlic mustard that was taking over the yard at one time. It is edible, but who needs an acre of that! Besides it takes away light, moisture and crowds out other native plants. she knows what the seedlings look like, it's best to get them out of there while they are very small.

Petcretary's friend continues to have bad reactions to the chemo, and has been in the hospital twice. sometimes the chemo seems to be worse than the problem it's used for, sigh... She sure hopes that soon this ordeal will be over so that her friend can recover and be the grandma and great grandma she wants to be.

Petcretary broke a tooth...but thankfully it didn't need a crown, and it seems to be fine now after the dentist fixed it all up. She spent 2 hours there, wow!

Us pups were showing tooth issues too, esp Dalton, so for the last several weeks we have been using some specialized sprinkles over our food, (Kelp and brown seaweed), and getting a gel put on/rubbed into our teeth. By now it is looking a lot better, we are trying to avoid a dental from the vet...esp for Dalton as he ages. 

Yesterday, we got into the car, after getting fancied up a bit, to see what kind of Easter activities were at the local pet shops. We met the Easter Bunny! (Pictures saved for Easter...) When we got back in the car, petcretary took some more pictures...so they will be our Palm Sunday Selfies! Sorry we don't have any images with palm branches...well unless she uses some AI...nah...

Apparently one of the pet shops is having an Easter egg hunt for pets next Saturday! We hope we can go to that!

We have joined up with all the other Sunday Selfies at The Cat On My Head. Thanks for hosting, Kitties Blue!

Abandonment Means Flashbacks

 That's right folks, Petcretary abandoned us on Friday, and didn't get back until late on Saturday. Phooey.

She said she met up with dozens of other ladies, old and young, to hear a speaker, at a women's conference sponsored by the Church Federation she belongs to. She also met some ladies there, that she knew, so for her it was a good day and a half, refreshing and revitalizing, too. It's always good to meet up with like minded people...Since she's not  on a schedule for her work anymore, it  is a lot easier than trying to get vacation time off on a weekend. Now she just signs up and goes! (It's an annual event for the last 29 years!)

We were glad to see her on her routine, and since she came outside with us, we forgave her for the abandonment...

Anyways...we pups and also our pawrents are happy now that it is officially spring, Hooray! And the past several days have been very springlike, at least here they were, nio coat needed...and the early spring bulbs are showing good spurts of growth. Also the weeds are burgeoning...sigh...

So we will show you two older selfies from last early fall, not sure if they are repeats or not, but who cares, BOL!!

Caught with my ears up...I was not looking at petcretary...

I can't wait until our grass is nicely green and soft again, like here in this pic from Sept 2025! (And whoa, I am smiling, so often I have a serious look about me...I am anything but!)

We're joining up with the Sunday Selfies Blog Hop, hosted as always by the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head. And we thank all of you for hosting each and every week!

Happy St Patrick's Day!

I did some AI editing of an earlier ussie...this first one is OK, except for a few details...the next two I didn't like as much, but they'll have to do since no new St Patrick's photo shoot happened this year, BOL!

We hope everyone enjoys this fun day! Just don't turn green!!

Happy Tuesday!

Flashback(s) For St Patrick's Day

 Petcretary has not had time to make new St Patrick's Day pictures of us...not that we care, BOL! She's been busy in the yard a lot, pulling up bittercress which is all over our yard, like an invader.While it isn't likely that she will eradicate it, she should be able to get control of it. Some of them already have flower buds on them. If they go to seed, the battle is won for them, but not for petcretary. She has declared war on all the nonnative plants in our yard, esp the weeds. (And she has all kinds of seeds she collected last fall to try to establish some native plants for the pollinators and other creatures)

Oh well, there is always stuff to do to maintain the yard...like Friday when the winds were so hard we were under a wind warning, for gusts from 50 - 60 MPH. And it rained and it snowed too, so that the snow wasn't falling as much as it was blowing horizontally! It all melted quickly though, but the winds stuck around. There were all kinds of power outages in our state, from downed wires and fallen trees. Thankfully here, only branches were strewn all over the place and a trashbin went careening through the yard, LOL! So petcretary spent a couple hours adding all the newly downed bits and pieces into the various wood piles. 

Then later when she was back inside, and it was dark, all of a sudden us dogs went nuts, barking our heads off. *She* investigated and OMD!!! Our shelterlogic shed (Basically a frame with a shaped tarp over it), must have gotten dislodged from all the heavy wind gusts, and it was standing way far back in the yard. If it wasn't such a pain, to get it back where it belongs, it would be funny, too bad we didn't see it happen! LOL! (And of course even though her phone was in her pocket, she totally forgot to take any pics of this occurrence.)

Also, now the temp has gone down to below freezing again and there is about an inch or two of snow all over everything, including all the stuff that was in that little shed. At least the real shed which is right beside where the shelterlogic shed was, is unscathed! 

Update at time of posting...Son #1 and petcretary got the shelterlogic shed back in place and re-anchored...hopefully it will withstand the next round of high winds, forecast for later today into Monday.

As if that wasn't enough to keep the camera out of her hands, she caught a virus of some kind...she got tested, and it is not Covid, thankfully. Seems to be just a bad cold, with plenty of chills, sneezing and sniffling. Hopefully she won't have to miss her workshift tomorrow.

Here is a picture of some Bittercress; It is not toxic, and it is edible...but we certainly don't need a whole acre full of it!

At least it isn't too hard to pull out of the soil. And no, she nor us, nor anyone we know of has tasted this plant. Apparently it can serve as a sub for parsley. Update at time of posting: We took in a few of these plants, and tried some of the younger shoots. They actually taste good, and *she* added them to a tuna salad. They are akin to the taste of arugula and even can be a sub for parsley.

Now for the flashbacks:Angels Pipo & Minko & MJF, ca2011.

This Ussie and the two selfies above were taken in March of 2019, Benji's first St Patrick's Day. How time flies!!

We are linked up with many other Sunday Selfies at The Cat On My Head who are our hosts each week. Thanks, Kitties Blue!

Remembering Andrew

 Recently we all heard the awful news that one of Amy and Jeff's son's, Andrew,  had passed away from an overdose. How horrible to get a call like that, likely out of the blue and very unexpected.

Amy & Jeff are the peeps behind the blog: Xena Schnauzer Warrior Princess With Lucy and Chia.

Andrew  loved Riley, who had become an angel in May of 2024. So now those two were reunited. I sent a couple of mementos to Miss Amy, and did not post either one here, until she gave permission...

So here is the memento she gave permission to post:

Andrew reunited with his precious Riley

I am sure that if you have not already done so, you will want to leave your condolences and comforting words HERE.

Though we've woofed more that a few words here, we are joining with the Wordless Wednesday Blog 

Selfies During The Bad Weather

It's been quite a bit warmer this past week, so now our snowdrops are out and blooming.

These snowdrops were coming up, while it was still quite cold, so not flowering here as yet.

Now they are flowering, so pretty and delicate. They are always the first blooming flowers of early spring in our yard.

But all this way too warm weather for early March, brought unstable air masses and severe weather.

Yes, folks, we had terrible weather in the southwest corner of our state, on Friday evening. There were tornadoes, 4 deaths, and lots of injuries, and so many homes and businesses either destroyed or badly damaged. trees and debris everywhere. All this about 30 or so miles to the southwest of us.Too close for comfort. We had buckets of rain such that now we are under a flood watch, and there are new ponds everywhere...until the water soaks back in. Of course any ducks and the like will love the extra space! See, there is always a good side to the bad!

And we know our state was not the only one with tornadoes and wicked weather, so we pray that all affected will be able to find shelter and be able to start over after the cleanups. Our hearts and thoughts are with all affected by the wrath of all this horrible weather.

Anyways, I, Benji, was rather scared of all the noise outside, and came to beg petcretary for some loving scritches. Dalton too was not the happiest of campers either, though since he was outside in hurricane weather when he was rescued all those years ago, he seems unflapped by bad weather, if it isn't right overhead. He just mostly stayed in his bed by petcretary's desk.

Afterwards on Saturday morning, *she* perused the backwoods area and determined nothing big came down in this series of storms. Phew!

So here are our selfies for this week:

Benji, leaning on Petcretary, begging for loving, calming scritches...

Yes, this feels SO good!

Dalton, when he was trying on a new harness, hopefully one that will help against pulling, and one that he cannot slip out of...yup, he did that once with another harness when we were at the pet shop a few months ago...

And why did our peeps have to disturb our beautyrest so early this morning??? Oh, they said something about messing with the clocks happened...Phooey!

We are joined up with all the other Sunday Selfies at The Cat On My Head. Thanks, Kitties Blue for being the bestest of hosts!

An All Angles Floofball Selfie Sunday

It's March!! Wow, winter and all the woes that it brought will soon be over. We had no snow on the ground, but Saturday evening, the snow machine gave us a new layer...not a lot, but just a reminder that winter isn't over until it's over! Nonetheless, the daffs; some very old ones, that live on the south side of our house, are coming up...but it will be a while yet, before they show their cheerful cup and saucer blooms!

Petcretary was able to clear away a tree that was on our fence...it had come down in one of the fiercer storms a few weeks ago...with her new larger chain saw. It was a dead tree, so the wood was easy to get through. Now the neighbors, whose tree it was, just need to clear away their side of the mess...which includes a ton of large vines...trees are beautiful, and are homes and food for so many creatures, but they sure can cause troubles sometimes!  

Petcretary didn't make new pictures of us to show you...but she did take some of a cutie pie pup at her work. But it was so busy that she forgot to write the name down, and now she totally has forgotten! Oh well, this pup is still very cute!

I got carried in...and felt a bit anxious...but soon...

I looked to the left...

And to the right...

And to the front...

And I felt so good, so now I can show you that I can smile, too!

Last week, I found out about a dear friend of The Poupounette, that Alfie had flown away to the Rainbow Bridge, so we made this memento for his family.

Alfie

There is no blog that I am aware of, so if you wish to send comforting messages, you could add them to the post that The Poupounette did for him.

 Now it's time to join up with all the other Sunday selfies, at The Cat On my Head, who are our faithful weekly hosts of this popular and fun blog hop. Thanks, Kitties Blue!!