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!!

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