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!!

Love Your Pet Pawrty!

 Last Feb 9th was Nutmeg's second birthday, and she had a pawrty at her blog...and a kissing booth, too! Her Mom made pics of all who attended that party, including us. Link to the pawrty, Here. Link to the kissing booth images, HERE.

Last week we had a fail of a Valentine party at one of the local pet shops...yesterday our favorite and closer to us pet shop had a pawrty for 'Love Your Pet Day'...it was that and a bit of a belated VD party as well, since everything on the display table was heart related. Good thing us pups wore our newest Valentine's Day bandanas!

And we made pawprints, though that didn't work out that well...BOL!

There were some free samples, including new cleaning supply ones...what?? We don't make messes, do we?? Everything got put in a Valentine's Day bag to carry home.

And yes there were 'pup cups' too! YUM!

While we were waiting our turn, a lady came out of the grooming room, and said they were doing discounted nail trims...oh oh...

Petcretary said sure, it will save me a job, and Dalton was first to be the victim...um...customer. So the nice lady picked up his pup cup and him, and into the room they went. Petcretary could see that he 'froze'...though he didn't make any noise or growls. When he came out of there his pup cup was untouched...but he lapped it right up as soon as he was back with petcretary.

Then it was Benji's turn...along with his pup cup they went...and he too didn't touch it while getting his nails trimmed. When they came out of there, he looked anxious, which is strange for him...and he REFUSED his pup cup altogether! He seemed rather uneasy the rest of the time spent there.

Then the groomer lady said, look there is blood on the floor! OMD! It was from one of Dalton's back paws...so out came the styptic powder and it stopped bleeding. And another dude came and cleaned up the floor...then the manager came by, and seeing what had happened, he declared that there would be no fee charged for the nail trims on us pups...I think he felt bad, cause he knows us well, and he also knows how Dalton is with all his issues.

We met some other pups, but there was one girl hound dog who was barking her head off the whole time she was in there, There was another pup, a big boy, that when Benji approached at first they were OK with each other, then suddenly there were mutual snarls, so good thing every pup that comes in there is always on a leash, so Benji got yanked away. And no harm done...

Dalton had fun sniffing the shoes and pant legs of several ladies, and he received pets from them with no cowering. Sometimes he feels safer than others.

When we left the store, we were more than happy to quickly get back into the car! 'Lets go HOME, NOW, petcretary!'

We love coming here...

It's our fave pet store!

See the whipped cream on my schnooter? I'll lick it off when I m done with the rest of this yummy treat!

I love pup cups!

You tricked me...phbbbbtthh...

This is my stink eye, directed at you, Petcretary.

I don't want/need this pup cup, even though I love them...and now Dalton is stealing it. I hope I get extra treats at home to compensate.

Let's get going...

to home...where the treats are and no more nail clips on the sly.

We are joining the Sunday Selfie Blog Hop, hosted by the wonderful Kitties Blue at The Cat On my Head!

Angels To Remember

 Once again we have new angels at the Rainbow Bridge, leaving their families sad and feeling empty without them.

Recently there were two new kitty Angels, Ducky and Darth Vader.

You can visit their blogs to offer comforting words, if you haven't already done so, there are links provided in the captions of the memorial mementos.

Darth Vader from 7Cats And Counting

Ducky from Just Ducky!

Sorry that I didn't get these out sooner...I do not have any contacts for these new angels' families. If anyone does would you please let me know. Thanks. Images snagged from our blog are never as good as those received in an email or FB/IG message.

We are joining with The Thankful Thursday blog hop, since of course we are grateful tor the lives blessed by these angels while they were with us, and also because I am glad and thankful I am able to do this for those who need them.

Thankful Thursday

Mardi Gras!

 Whoopee! It's Mardi Gras! Lots of fun going on and then it will be very quiet in those places where it was an all out crazy time. Like in New Orleans, and in various places in Europe.

We didn't endure a current photo shoot for this day, this year, because Petcretary was otherwise occupied, so we are going to show you a set of images made in 2019, the first Mardi Gras for Benji who wasn't even a year old at that time. (Dalton had been with us about a year and a half.)

So here goes with the look back:

A bit of a photobomb, BOL!

Sheesh, this lady called petcretary is crazy!

I'm Dalton in disguise!

That crazy lady now tried to hide my face...

Well, we guess it isn't all that bad, if we get to lay on our nice soft doggy pillow.

But we think she's still all crazy!

 Now, this year, Petcretary took some of them over to AI, and this is what happened to make us have fun for Mardi Gras, aka Fat Tuesday! Hmmm, wonder if the peeps will have pancakes for supper...

We love what it did with our bed!

Petcretary wishes I always would smile like this...

AI got a little crazy, too, with its editing...wow what a grin!

We are going to join up with the Happy Tuesday Blog hop, HERE

Post Valentine Selfies ~ Sunday Selfie Blog Hop #600!!

We hope everyone had a fun and romantic Valentine's Day, yesterday.

In the evening, our pawrents went to a ballet concert...Swan Lake, can't get a whole lot more romantic that that!

Yesterday was Valentine's Day...and petcretary had gotten a notice that there was a 'pawrty' at one of the local pet shops...so off we went, for 87 hours; (25minutes);  and into the store we went.

There was a mobile vet clinic in there...whoa, we avoided that, BOL!

We didn't see anything remotely about Valentine's Day, except the section of seasonal attire and toys, etc. So we asked the manager who happened to be in the aisle we were in...and she said, sorry we don't have one, we were not sent the supplies to set it up, which was supposed to be a kissing booth. and other things. Booo. All they had was free dental chew samples...as if! So back to the car we went and back home, where we got treats and other stuff. Next week there is an event at our preferred local pet shop, we'll go there and have fun, cause the dude who manages that store always gives us 'pup-cups'! (Whipped cream with a doggy treat on top, Mmmm!)

So yesterday we showed you some pics of our angels Pipo & Minko, since Feb 14th was their Gotcha Day, and we do miss them a lot.

But we do have MJF, another angel known to this blog (And 4 more kitty angels, who were here long before we started blogging...)

So here is a nice Valentine's Day image of Angel MrJackFreckles

Sorry, not the best image, it was not a digital picture, so it got 'scanned' to make it work for the blog.

And here are our photoshoot (real) images for this year's Valentine's Day. A whole slew of them!!

This image made petcretary BOL!!!

AI-Dalton...

AI-Benji...

We must apologize for not doing a lot of visiting the past few days...*she* worked one evening, and there was much to be done that didn't include blogging things...we will try to catch up with everyone eventually.

This is Selfie Sunday #600!! Imagine that! Lets all hop and join the celebration! Thanks Kitties Blue for doing the Sunday Selfies for so long, just amazing!