Patriotic Selfies To End This Fourth Of July Weekend

 Here we go again! We didn't hear too much noise on July fourth, but yesterday night it was in abundance, and a lot closer than the ones at the airport on the 4th. Benji is a bit clingy but not hiding, and Dalton seems to not be outwardly bothered, though he gets his usual CBD each evening.

During the week, one night they went out for a last bedtime business and OMD, What a hullabaloo they were making...so Petcretary ran outside with a flashlight, and they had a big opossum cornered under the cheery tree...actually under the shrubbery around it. However before she could corral Benji, he had that opossum by the neck and gave it a few good terrier shakes and then dropped it...sigh...to late to be rescued and released out of our yard...so Petcretary shooed us insu]ide and got the opossum picked up and gave it a funeral, all by herself, no attendees to mourn it other than herself. Sheesh, she likes those creatures, but its very hard to undo the hardwired instincts of terriers when they sense a prey...sigh...

Thankfully no more critters came into our dangerous terriertory! So now its one groundhog, one squirrel, one opossum...and who knows how many moles, voles and mice. *she* did shoo a garden snake to safer hunting grounds...(Last year they had a young racoon, and 2 possums...)We need a sign..,beware of dogs, enter at own risk. (We think these critters come in by way of the tree canopy, searching for all the yummy mulberries and other edibles; good thing we do not have a veggie garden!)

Tree cleanup continues, little by little...have not seen any poison ivy, but Petcretsry is beginnong to think she might just be over reactive to virginia creeper which is ubiquitous all over our yard, and she tries hard to keep it from climbing on all the trees in the wooded area of the yard. However the neighbors' trees are covered with them and also invasive (Non-native)-bittersweet, we think all those vines contributed to the demise of all the trees during that bad storm session in mid May.

OK, here are some more images from our patriotic photo session, thay are goind to be our selfies and ussies for this week's Sunday Selfies Blog hop!

We are hopping along with many others at The Cast On my Head who are the weekly hosts of this fun hop.Thanks for hosting, Kitties Blue!

Happy Fourth Of July!

We hope all our friends have a safe and happy holiday time.And we hope that all the fireworks won't be too terrible for all of us woofies and kitties.

We want to join the Flashback Friday Blog Hop, so here are some images of our three angels, MrJackFreckles - aka MJF; Pipo & Minko...the original characters in this blog. I still miss them so much.

Flashback Friday is HERE.

Happy Canada Day!! 2025

 

Happy Canada Day to all our fellow Canadians, and anyone who wants to help us celebrate! We live in Michigan, and are actually fully American,but Petcretary is Canadian, and so we sort of are dual in our citizenship, BOL! So we get to celebrate both important holidays both for the Canadian part of our family and for the American part too.

There will be fireworks there tonight, but we won't be able to see/hear them...we sure won't miss all that noise...we'll have enough of our own come Friday! Lets ready our earplugs and the calming treats.,..

Dalton is singing...Oh Canada...

Moose dude seems to have celebrated a bit too much...BOL!

Here's a treat to help you enjoy this special day!

We are joining the Happy Tuesday Blog Hop; cause we are happy to celebrate with Petcretary: Happy Canada Day!

There's A Dog In The Box!

We got a big box when the Chewy order came in...so even though Box day was earlier this month, we thought it would be fun to make a 'box with dog session'...well *she* did...we had to be very much coaxed into this box...and two of us?? No way, BOL!

Well, there you have it...the box-dog-stars! BOL!!

We have joined all the other selfies at The Cat On My Head. Thanks for hosting!!

New Soft Mat Selfies

 Yup, we got a BIG new soft mat...we love it! 

Even folded in half it's big enough for both of us...let's hope it lasts...and no one digs his nest into it too vigorously, or chews it...

Wow, this mat is HUGE!

Even for me, it's large!

And we can snuggle together and there is still room to stretch out! (Benji is wearing an electronic anti tick device on his collar, in case you were wondering...)

Petcretary apologizes for being remiss in letting us 'go visiting'...she gets a few in each day, but if she would try to let us see all of our friends, we'd be up for 24 hours or more! We haven't forgotten any of you, we just know *she* is busy with all that tree stuff, her work, the regualr chores and so on...

These trunks and limbs were cut away, so now petcretary and us, well we can get through back there without bonking our heads. This area is where she thinks the poison ivy 'got her'...

This was a huge wood pile, from a lot of the smaller limbs and brush...

It burned for a long time, and now it's just a small bump in the yard...all black and sooty!

 There are about 10 more of these piles to burn away, before the area will be clear enough to let the big bosses in with their large saws...way bigger than ours...(a 12 inch battery powered mini chainsaw)...and then after that we'll get the fence fixed. *She* wanted to do more burning yesterday, but firstly, it was 90+ degreesF, and secondly, it was way too windy to have a fire of that size...yikes..we don't need a forest wild fire here!

If you have any desire for a weenie roast or the ingredients for S'mores....we'll help you nosh them if you come when the next fires happen...who knows when that will be, with the long range forecast, not being too favorable for that kind of thing...

Oh, dear...Yesterday was National Selfie Day...well, we hardly ever post on that day so our Ussie will have to do for us! Petcretary didn't even do a selfie for her work. there was contest going on there and the residents were going to vote for the selfie they like the best, Well, maybe next year, BOL!

We are hopping along with many others at The Cat On My Head, the weekly hosts of this fun hop. Thanks Kitties Blue!