Begging Selfies

 Nothing too exciting here this past week, other than petcretary was doing a lot of not doggy things...She's not let us visit too many of our friends either...she says the days would need to be 48 hours long to visit everyone! So we didn't forget you, we are just way behind keeping up. 

One of the things she did was to put up a 'mobile' mailbox until we can get the permanent one installed. It was called 'mailbox to go', BOL! Yup, it looks 'jenky', but the mail peeps are using it. Sheesh, we have not had a mailbox for home delivery for almost a year...ever since the original one was bashed down.

Pawppy is/was pulling his hair out, figuratively speaking, doing the taxes, he said the tax program he has used for many years used to fairly easy, but the interface has been changed and he had to spend a ton of time to figure it all out. But he thinks he'll beat the deadline...phew!

Petcretary got new glasses, and she is glad, because the old ones were causing pressure sores on her nose or behind her ears, no matter what adjustments were made, and the new ones are a lot lighter too. They don't slide down nearly as much. And NO more pressure issues!

And she continues to yank out all kinds of weeds! She says every time she leaves an area for a day or two, there are a million more to deal with...at least she says it feels like that! If she would use weed killer the job would be a once and done, but she refuses to use chemicals, because of us, and for the sake of the other wildlife back there; not to mention that she would possibly be harming some of the native plants.

We have had lovely weather, a bit cool, but it is warming up. Soon we may see the blossoms on our cherry tree and the redbuds.

We have a very strange variety of daffodil blooming...they never fully open, they seem to be a double bloom and they are not the bright yellow of 'normal' ones, they have a greenish tinge to them.

We never get to see a 'cup and saucer' on these daffs.

Anyways, we were feeling a wee bit left out the other day, so we went to 'her' lap and were begging for pets and attention...like we never get any, BOL!!

Petcretary, I am so starved for attention...

Oh, dear, now you can all see the evidence of my digging hobby...

We are hopping in the Sunday Selfies Blog hop! Our hosts are the Kitties Blue at The Cat On My Head. Thanks ya'll!

Happy Easter, 2026!

 Yes, it is Easter Sunday, a day of great rejoicing! 

Also a day of fun times...

So we went to see the Easter Bunny, though what a big rabbit delivering baskets full of eggs has to do with Easter, who knows, BOL!

Even petcretary sat on his lap, teehee!!

We put on our Easter bonnets...um hats!

And of course we had to pretend we were bunnies too...at least we didn't have to put the bunny costumes back on as in the pictures with the BIG bunny!

We hope everyone has a Happy Easter!

We are hopping, just like the Easter Bunny, to the Sunday Selfie Blog hop at The Cat On My Head who are the hosts of this weekly fun hop. Thanks Kitties Blue!

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