Sofie can just about see over the kitchen window on her tippy toes, to watch me get in the car. BOL!
Got a good caption anyone?
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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤ 
Today is Follow-up Friday hosted by Jodi from Heart Like A Dog. This is where we review the week behind so that we can launch into the week ahead (or something like that).
As Indian Winter (see last week’s FUF if you want explanation) continues this summer, here in the Mid-Atlantic, we are having some wonderful fall weather. We have had the windows open almost every day this week (except when it was raining). I even had a sweatshirt on this morning out with the dogs. But, it is August. This is unheard of. I am not complaining, but are we going to have summer in October?
Last Caturday, no one told me I had the wrong date on my post (it said 8.3.13 instead of 8.10.13). You most have all thought I was a week behind. Hahahahha. Nine had his tail in the planter’s hands. It was a purrffect tail aid.
Black and White Sunday was a fuzzy focused walk in the park with the girls, Louise and Sofie. I liked the fuzzy effect (actually I did not even realize I did that), but some people didn’t like it. Oh well. Here is a picture from the same series but in color.
Louise & Sofie
Park Aug 2013
Mischief Monday found us down at the docks checking to see what was in the crab pots. Nothing.
On Tuesday’s Tails, we featured a beautiful green-eyed senior kitty named Betty. Everyone loved her eyes, her sour expression, and wished her a speedy new home.
Louise showed you her new pink flying thingie on Wordless Wednesday. She keeps wanted to play tug with it, instead of toss (tug being her favorite game). Sofie steals it and takes it under a tree, and then you know the rest….
Gimme that! No, you gimme that!
It’s MINE! MMMMMOOOOOMMM!
And, Thankful Thursday, I grabbed a great old shot of Muffin laying on tomatoes from our garden. The first crop is in, and I just love that picture. Really miss that Muffin Man.
The Muffin Man
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This thing is so cool.
Look what I can do with it!
Thanks, Mom!
I love it!
Happy Wednesday.
This is a Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop. Thanks to BlogPaws for the hop. Head over there and see what they are blogging about.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Today is Follow-up Friday hosted by Jodi from Heart Like A Dog. This is where we review the week behind so that we can launch into the week ahead (or something like that).
The weather broke beautiful this week from that terrible heat we have been having. They call the warm weather of late autumn, Indian Summer, so I am going to call this, Indian Winter. (reference: Deedler, William (Fall 1996). “Just What Is Indian Summer And Did Indians Really Have Anything To Do With It?”. National Weather Service Detroit office.)) I am not complaining, it is marvelous. Actually Indian WInter supposedly happens in the spring when you think winter is over but then it snows, but I think all this cool weather in summer deserves a name too.
On Caturday, the 3 cats were on the bed for their late night snack. These 3 only come together for eating. It was easier to take a picture when there were 5 then it is for 3, I guess Noel really wants nothing to do with the young ones. I can understand, because Nine is a bully. Here were the 5 in bed with me before we lost Muffy and Cuddles.
Black & White Sunday was a cool shot of the dogs in the sports field. I think the mowed grass looks like waves in the ocean. What do you think?
Of course the dogs were up to their usual Mischief Monday. We were sitting nicely on the couch watching a TV show when they had to toss and bite for a better position near me. Actually, I should say Sofie did, since she seems to always be the one to start something. BOL.
Sofie: I want to be a cat so I can snack on the bed too!
I showcased 2 new seniors on Tuesday’s Tails. It is so sad when seniors are in the shelter. I do hope it helps them find their final homes. I wish I could create a no-kill safe home for animals 7 and older. Wouldn’t that be great. Shady Acres. They could live out there lives or find final homes. Oh Dog, I don’t want to think about the amount of care that would take – I can dream though, right?
Wordless Wednesday were our constant pool guests – uninvited but always welcome. We have several pair of ducks that return year after year. I do wonder if they are generations of the previous families? How long do ducks live and do they come back to the same nesting spots year after year? We like to name them. Last year I had 7 males that hung together in the bushes all the time. Duck Gangs!
There is so much to be Thankful for and Thankful Thursday focused to the heavens and gave you a beautiful dog cloud. I love cloud formations and pride myself on seeing all kinds of things.
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Harold and Maude before the dogs saw them.
Happy Wednesday.
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Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Today is Follow-up Friday hosted by Jodi from Heart Like A Dog. This is where we review the week behind so that we can launch into the week ahead (or something like that).
With the heat of the summer, I was not surprised that on Caturday, Noel slept her usual 18+ hours. What a perfect life a house cat has. I wish I could sleep even 6 hours.
Noel sleeping in the window
As the heat continued, Louise plopped herself down on the deck in the shade, and I caught her rolling her eyes on Black and White Sunday. It really isn’t the heat but the humidity that is getting to all of us.
Ok – so maybe it was only 5 or 6 but it felt like this.
Image from Google
So I figured we would go have some fun in the field, but as you saw on Monday Mischief, we kicked up all the bugs and then the swallows decided they wanted us out of there and swooped to kill.
This week was $10 for any cat over 10 lbs at the shelter, but for Tuesday’s Tails we found a black beauty named Viola that we thought would be a great addition to any family.
The heat finally broke and we have had some nice mid-80 degrees days, but I still can’t get the dogs to go in their pool. Wordless Wednesday, featured Louise with her toes in, but Sofie snubbing her nose at the whole thing. I was actually in their pool, but not even that made them want to go. Oh well.
Thankful Thursday featured an incredible rescue of Ozzie the Osprey from a fishing line. If you haven’t seen the Osprey-Cam, you really should go check it out. Life in the nest, in real streaming video.
My Osprey nest b4
baby’s fledged
Still no job yet, but I am redoing my resume (for the 10th time) and trying to focus more on defining the best of my skills. I wish that PetBlogging was a full time gig. That would be a perfect life for me and the zoo.
Peanut leaves tomorrow for 10 months overseas for school. Sofie has already claimed her bed as her domain. It will be interesting to see how well we can all Skype and will the dogs really understand it is her. I know that we want our birds to leave the nest, but sometimes I do wish I could hold on to her just for a moment longer. I guess this weeks lesson for me comes from Tom and Audrey Osprey – tying them to the nest could have deadly consequences. FLY PEANUT FLY! (But do come home next summer to visit.)
Peanut & Sofie
** 4 Ever **
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Louise at least dipped her toes in. Sofie just laughed and walked away.
Happy Wednesday.
This is a Wordless Wednesday Blog Hop. Thanks to BlogPaws for the hop. Head over there and see what they are blogging about.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
Today is Follow-up Friday hosted by Jodi from Heart Like A Dog. This is where we review the week behind so that we can launch into the week ahead (or something like that).
We are busier now then we ever were when Mom was working full-time. How can that be? So many things going on. Caturday we were thinking about Cuddles. She only liked V and was a real one person cat. But, for V she was a cuddler. We don’t have any cuddle cats now. 😦
Black and White Sunday was a sad sight of the dogs wishing for a swim in the pool. So I went and bought them one, which they snubbed immediately. No! They only want to swim in the big pool with the humans. They can’t come in for multiple reasons, but the biggest being that we have a liner that would tear from their claws. Liner pools are delicate that way. Plus, I really don’t want all that hair in the filter.
On left – dog pool; On right – my pool
Monday’s Mischief was a gazillion butterflies on our Butterfly bushes. We love to watch them dance and play. Luckily I had already scheduled that post because we got hit with a lightning strike on Sunday night which knocked out the TV, phone, and internet. We were out of service until Tuesday afternoon, which is why I missed the usual Tuesday’s Tail Blog Hop. But Noel did manage to post a notice from my Smartphone (that social cat). All the kids, and me, were freaking because we have become so dependent on our electronics. Humbling to have to do something else besides social media or TV for a few evenings.
Baby Stella was hiding in K8’s window on Wordless Wednesday. She just loves K8 and windows and hiding. MOL.
And then finally on Thankful Thursday, I was jubalant in finding out that Sofie’s rash was not scabbies, as I feared, but a skin bacteria, due to chubby skin folds staying wet too long and growing bad stuff. I can deal with that! Now I am going to collapse by the pool until further notice (and get those dogs swimming).
Happy Sofie home from vet with her favorite toy
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Happ
Today is Follow-up Friday hosted by Jodi from Heart Like A Dog. This is where we review the week behind so that we can launch into the week ahead (or something like that).
We finally arrived home after an 8 1/2 hr drive from the Carolina’s in torrential rain. It wasn’t fun.
We started our blog week back with a picture K8 took of the alligator behind our rental on our last morning in Sunset Beach, North Carolina. He was perfect for Mischief Monday, don’t you think?
By Tuesday we were settling back into the home and blog routine and we featured a lovely senior, named Steven, on Tuesday’s Tail Adoption Blog Hop
Louise was so excited to see me when I returned home (they were on vacation at Sonya’s) that she scratched the heck out of my leg. Ouch! She did not mean it, but those lab talons are wicked sharp.
Before we left I had noticed that Louise was licking herself a lot. Sonya, the most wonderful dog sitter in the world, called me while we were away to let me know that Louise had a cut in a very uncomfortable spot. Well, when I got home, it did not look good, so… off we went to Dr. Kate. Louise was not happy. Now she is on antibotics and is suppose to wear the cone of shame, but, I am keeping her with me and monitoring her licking, so that she does not have to go through the same humiliation that her silly little sister, Sofie, just finished going through last month. Sofie, of course, would not stop licking, Louise, is a good listener.
On Wordless Wednesday, Noel was wondering what special presents I brought from the beach. I did give her a shell, but she just ignored it. At least she did not scratch me. Nine is terrorizing her and even Stella seems to be getting into the act. What I don’t understand is why she doesn’t just sit on both those little cats and crush them, but she doesn’t. Ah, the life of an Alpha.
Finally on Thankful Thursday, I was able to thank Magdalena Vandenberg for giving me the wonderful Very Inspiring Blogger Award. I received it when I was away. What a nice return present.
It has been hotter than an oven since we returned so I am going out today to get the dogs a baby pool. We all need to cool off in the DOG DAZ (days) of summer.
That’s it for the week. Thanks for playing along with us. Check out the hop below and you can go play with others.
Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤
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