30 Days of Thanks - Day 5

Giving thanks for toys....











Meet Marty...












Chloe thinks he's fine, Rosie is afraid of him, and Zoey.....well.....this could take some time. She's fine until I pick him up or when I was on the sofa and he came to sit by me. Hopefully she will settle down and Marty can stay. He's a really sweet boy! He had a nice bath tonight and is now howling downstairs in his crate...could be a long night!

30 Days of Thanks - Day 4

We're thankful for Pug parties.......

One Year Blogging Anniversary

Today besides being day three of 30 days of thanks, mark's my one year anniversary of blogging! Woohoo! When I first started blogging I was worried about spam and murderers and stalkers. The first blog I read was alfredsmom, I quickly added ragus, and pugley and now the list goes on and on. I love our little community of bloggers! Keep Blogging!!!!

30 days of thanks, Day 3

We're thankful for a fridge full of food!

30 days of thanks, day two

Giving thanks for babies to kiss!


Carlos Update #2 - Unfortunately the adoption fell through...but...someone else may be getting Carlos, can you guess who???????????

30 days of giving thanks

As found at Elvispug this month is National Blog Posting Month, blogging everyday, no matter how little a post. I decided to take a little different spin on the theme and am doing 30days of giving thanks...Pug style.

Day 1 - Giving thanks for a comfortable lap to rest on after a fun day.











Zoey & her daddy


Pug rescue updates

Carlos turned out to be quite a gentleman. He is hopefully going to his new forever home on Friday. I told her if it falls through I want him back!

Otis went for his curve today. Everything went very well and I met with the vet and current owner to discuss the shots, etc. I had offer of a foster parent for him for 6 months, but the owner didn't want him moved around a lot. I agreed with her, but told her we have to be honest that it may be more difficult with his diabetes to find him a new home. She decided to try the shots for a week (he goes for his re-check next Wed). We parted ways in the parking lot and when I got home, she called to thank me for my support and help and we discussed the reality of the situation being she just can NOT afford to keep him...as we were talking on the phone, my puggy friend called (Rosie's grama) and told me she has someone who wants him! She's a nurse and his illness and costs are not a problem for her! God does work in mysterious ways!

Happy Halloween

Happy Howling to all our friends!!!!!

Howl-O-Ween

Sunday was Howl-O-Ween party for Pug Meetup/Rochester Small Dog Meetup. Seemed to be a "howling" good time.


























































Last night my son stayed overnight so he could finish up his room. He took FOUR large garbage bags of clothes out of his closet for Goodwill - No wonder he didn't have any room to put his clothes away if all those were in there! I guess that's what happens when you have the same room from the time your 4! Anyhow, it is 99% empty and looks very bleak. I can't wait to get in there and paint and change the look so I won't be sad everytime I go in there...just seems strange, my family has owned this house since 1919 and the only ones who have had that bedroom are my grandparents, my hubby and I, and then my son!

Candy corn dreams to you all!
Punchy

Saturday - Dark - Rainy, but an extra hour of sleep!

Busy today. Hubby won another motorcycle for parting out...so the deal was if he took me to Home Depot for paint, I'd ride with him to pick up the motorcycle. So off we went...$202 later, I got the paint for my son's room, my dad's room and the office. I also got some really strong coverage primer for my son's room...being black! We stopped home, dropped off the paint and hooked up the trailor. Off we went, as we traveled west we left the rainy weather behind and it became sunny...yeah! Took care of the pick up business and went back home to see my son and his gf on our sofa watching tv. His comment to us....well, I see your all prepared for my room....hmmm....do I sense a little sadness???? Anyhow, he has been in town since Thursday and has only entered his room once. It could be a long time until I use that paint! So my daughter is working, son and gf are at yet another party and hubby and I went to Uno's for dinner and are now going to watch tv. I need to find something Halloween themed, which he won't watch! lol

Halloween Festivities

Seems the Halloween celebration is starting!










My son came into town for the weekend and a couple of parties....here he is portraying "toxic waste" - this is his own creation using glow in the dark paint...which REALLY SMELLED TOXIC - They may ask him to leave the party!











My daughter is off to a party too...a cat in a house full of Pugs!
Her costume is actually very cat-like, but this pic turned out very dark and doesn't show her cute little kitty ears, and I'm not showing the full length version of this cat! Phew!!!

Clean and tired

Last night we finished up with the photographer from RIT College with his project photos. The girls are part of his photo journalism project. Last time he took a lot of candids, this week he took photos of me cutting and sewing a dress for Rosie and giving all three girls baths, one at a time. 2 hours worth of photos. The girls were tired and clean after he left and I had to work oh hubby's ebay listings. Here's what the girls did while I posted...

First Rosie pushes the back of the lounge chair over and she and Zoey mash down the pillows








I think she's got it flattened to her liking








Yep, she's pretty proud of herself








and very tired








yep, very tired









Meantime Chloe keeps an eye on me









and guess what???? I was so tired I went to bed at 11pm and woke up at 2:30am, stayed up until 5am and then went back to bed until 7:30 am, and I am happy to report....no crying today!

Monday, Monday...can't trust that day...

Part One -

Okay, so I got up this morning promising myself...NO MORE TEARS.

Hubby...."so honey, do you miss R?".......
Me...."sob, sob, sob"
Hubby...."he'll be back, don't worry"
Me...."I'm not crying because he's 23 and moved out, I'm crying because he's not 6 anymore, sob, sob, sob"
Hubby..."oh, well, um, well, I, um"

Later today...after R called me twice and hubby once...

Hubby..."I talked to R"
Me...."yeah, me too, and I'm not crying anymore!"
Hubby..."well, I told him about you this morning, then I told him after you left for work I went into the bathroom and cried too!"
Me.."guess it's not just PMS"

Part Two -

Meantime, I had the telephone call yesterday afternoon about someone wanting help placing (yeah, right...getting rid of) their 7 1/2 year old Pug. Seems he has nipped/bitten their 3 year old son. After much discussion I found out...they are his 4th home, previously he was fostered due to owner relocating (guess he wasn't good enough to go along),they have 3 sons, 3, 5, and 7, he's vocal, likes other dogs, loving to humans, growled once at another dog when that dog tried to steal his ice cream. So...here I go again. I know I need to get him out of there asap. I call Central NY Pug Rescue (friends of our Pug group) and holler help....I mean if he's a biter I need a home with NO small children. I spend a lot of time on the phone and emails arranging how it will all happen...and so I leave work at 4:30 pm, meet the woman halfway between her work and my office....15 miles away. I discover he is a beautiful black male Pug. He gets into my car and when we drive away...frantically looks at their car leaving, my heart breaks for him. He noses around my car and sits in the passenger seat like it was made for him. He is a wonderful car companion. Not a sound out of him...just a few little soft Puggy noises. About 20 minutes into the drive, he decides maybe he'd like my lap. I have a serious talk with myself about saying forget the rescue drop I'm taking him HOME WITH ME. One of my Puggy friends calls, maybe she has a home for him and he won't have to go to a foster home, no luck there, I continue my drive, he comes over and settles into my lap...oh darn. He looks at me, I cry again, yep I actually have some tears left...imagine that. I drive on my daughter calls..."what are you doing?", I respond driving a Pug..."WHAT MOM WE CAN'T HAVE ANOTHER DOG!!!!" "Relax, I'm taking him to Central NY Pug Rescue"...then I add, when everyone has moved from MY house, I'm going to have TEN PUGS and NO ONE is going to be able to tell me NO!!!! Her response "are they going to use my room?" I drive on. I am practically in love with this little man....I talk to another friend, I press on. Did I mention it was a long drive? I arrive at our meeting point and we are early. I give him a couple of treats and walk him around to do potty. We settle back in the car and wait. They arrive and he is NOT happy. He barks at the husband (wow first time he has barked), he moves back off my lap into passenger seat and DOES NOT WANT TO GET OUT! Great....I'm crying again. The wife gets back into their van and I get out with him. I have to force him into her lap, she offers a treat, he won't take it. She tells me not to worry she'll be able to place him just fine. I surrender his bed, blankets and toy. I give a quick hug them and jump in my car and drive off. I decide I am NOT GOOD at rescues. I get home at 9:00 pm. I have driven 184 miles and have given myself a big headache. I come into the house and my 3 crazy girls greet me!

PS - If that little guy doesn't have a home in a week, I'm going to drive back and get him! Shhhh, don't tell my family!

What happened to the weekend?

Is it really 11:20pm on Sunday night????? Wow! Friday, my son did not leave with his fully packed car - his ex-boss was holding his pay hostage...people are strange! He ended up sleeping in the den, since his futon was in his car! Saturday he hung around and went to my nephew's engagement party, then drove to Buffalo to finally unpack the car. Hubby and I went to my co-workers wedding! We had a fun time, but were home by midnight, as my hubby says our Durango turns into a pumpkin then! This morning my son came back into town for the next load. We were going to drive the Durango all packed up and he was going to drive his car. Hubby decided we were taking WAY too long with the packing/throwing/sorting so it was decided that I would drive the Durango. My son didn't want me driving "alone" so he said he would ride with me and then come back and return later with his own car. When it got to be 1pm we decided it would be better that I follow him. We stuffed both vehicles to the brim, then went to Target to get him some supplies. I ended up buying him a coffee maker, coffee table, coffee, filters, creamer (see a theme here????) we topped off the purchase with soup, spaghetti o's, ramen noodles and pudding. So off we went, if I ever need to find their place in the future I am in trouble. I had myself all backwards. It was pouring rain, so I brought a few things in and he put the coffee table together. When his fiance' got home - there was DEEP discussion over the placement of his dresser and 100 gallon fish tank. Finally at 8pm the truck was empty, I wished them luck, my son walked me to my car and I managed to hold it all together...until I got in the truck. I cried...got a little lost...cried some more. Funny, I am not crying because my fully capable 23 year old son is moving....I'm crying for that little 6 year old boy who said he was going to live with me forever. I blinked my eyes and he is gone.

Rooms for rent Part II

Still no sign of packing in my dad's room. My son took his futon apart today and it is stuffed in his car. There have been many loads of wash done and folded. There still seems to be alot of stuff in that room. He was going to take this car load to Buffalo, but his (ex)boss seems to be holding his paycheck hostage. That will hopefully all work out without me "handling" him. Since my son was stuck here in town, I told him it was a good night to sort, throw, and pack....his answer "too depressing to think I'll never sleep in that room again"...what could I say to that? He has had the same room for almost 19 years....it's gone from Dinosaurs, to the Sea, to Snowboarding/Skateboarding. At one point an entire wall was done in clippings of Snowboarding and the opposite wall was Skateboarding. I have to admit...it looked very cool. Now it looks like a really messy room that needs cleaning, spackling, and painting.

Wow, it feels empty already.

Rooms for rent

I think I've mentioned in the past that my hubby and I had a houseful, with my dad (71), son (23) and daughter (20). Well, 3 weeks ago my dad basically moved in with his sweetie. They have been dating for about 5 months, but have known each other for years. Today, my son called to say he had gotten the job in Buffalo (did I know he had applied for a job?) and was planning on moving there with his fiance'......next week. So, now 2 rooms available. My daughter and I decided that we would move the office from upstairs to downstairs in my dad's old room, then we would turn my son's room into a sewing/scrapbooking/guest room. The office upstairs is right next to my daughter's bedroom, so we decided she could make that her personal "get-away" room. That way when she has friends over they can watch tv, or hang out and not have to be in her bedroom. But first....my dad and son need to actually CLEAN their rooms and REMOVE their belongings. Hmmmm, this could be a problem. My son took a load of stuff in his car today, now we can at least see his floor, but wow there is a lot more to go. He thinks he needs a Uhaul truck, I think he needs a dumpster. My dad's room looks like he could still be in there, he doesn't seem to be taking anything in there, he needs a dumpster too! Opps, almost forgot to mention that my daughter hopes to attend Cortland College in the Fall of '07. She told me tonight that she's only going to school and she hopes her room(s) can stay the same and I don't turn them into something else on her...I can't think of another use for her room(s) except maybe a playroom for the Pugs!

Otis needs a home - UPDATE - OTIS HAS A HOME

OTIS HAS A HOME
Here is a little Puggy I know. His name is Otis. His mom is ill and has been thinking of finding him a new home for the past year. She calls me and we talk and I have know in the past that she was not ready to give him up. Last week she called to say she was going to go through with it and took him to the vet to get a "certificate of health" for whomever took him. Unfortunately, when the blood work was done it turns out he has diabetes! He is only 2 1/2 and she is devastated. She does not have the extra money to take care of him and now is panicing about finding him a home. She has been to my house and met my girls and knows my work with my Pug groups and Pug rescue. So far I have not had anyone jumping out of the woodwork to want this little guy! Anyone out there interested?

Here are his stats..

Neutered male
2 1/2 years old
Shots current
Trained for outside, but when they leave him in they put down papers too
25 pounds
Sweet guy!

He has not been regulated for his insulin yet. If I don't place him in the next week, I (and friends) are going to pay his vet bill to get his dosage determined. My heart is torn, but 4 would be a lot for us and the whole needle business - YIKES...I'm not much good at that.

Holding it all together

Seems my hubby collects tape!

37 is ours!

Well, we drove to the new camp and #37 was the site that we liked before. The story behind getting this site sounds like "a series of unfortuante events"! Quite honestly, the waiting list, empty sites and all the unmade phone calls all turned out okay! Hubby loves that we will be in a wooded area....and it's time for a change.

Here hubby looks from front area out towards the lake. Yes, it is freezing and drizzling rain! UGH!!!!












Here he is looking at the deck that was left behind, we'll probably work off this deck with the deck we have now. He promises that he will rail the deck so the girls can safely enjoy it outside - and I can relax about it! At our present campground they would not allow any new decks with rails.


Here's a side view of the deck...I like the hostas along it!












The lake was fairly rough. I love the sound the waves hitting the shore!












I keep forgetting to take photos of the bay side. The bay is beautiful and calm, even when the lake is rough. Now hubby can fish ALL THE TIME!!!!

After we signed our contract we headed up to camp to close. We stopped and ate and got in around 10pm. Hubby got the propane tank hooked up and it was warm and cozy before we knew it. I packed a lot of the photos and stuff I had about the place. Our friends were up closing too and hubby stopped over for a quick hello. He told them we were moving and NJ sister was very upset. She said she was NOT telling PA sister and her hubby yet. We went over this am for a visit before really getting into the closing part. She told me she was very sad about us leaving, but she understands we need to leave. It is very hard for me seeing my dad's place gone..not just vacant gone! I have been traveling and staying there for almost 24 years. I just would rather start fresh and make some new memories! It was pouring when we finished up...we went over for our goodbyes...and she cried. We'll be going to NJ for her son's wedding in May....we have email...heck, maybe she'll move too!

So tomarrow we are going to the RV show, maybe we'll just trade our's in and really start fresh! More likely we will just look around and decide we like our's just fine!

By the way, my daughter said the girls were depressed while we were gone. They didn't want to settle down last night for bed...of which I told her exactly how she should take them to bed with her! This morning Rosie and Chloe didn't want to get up either. Her words were "your girls are pathetic"....yep, pathetic, yep, spoiled....oh, well, that's the breaks!

Off we go

Leaving at 4pm for the great, cold north! Brrrrrr. First stop the new camp...pray things work out there!!!! Second stop dinner. Dinner meaning actually going INTO the restaurant and not getting Wendy's take-out with dogs dancing for fries. Third stop - camp. Taking lots of extra blankets..but no Pugs. Boohoo. It's too confusing with them when it's close up time and since we're moving in the Spring, we need to do some real packing up! Hopefully we'll be back early tomarrow before they notice we're even gone......yeah right!

I may be loosing my mind...I'll let you know later!

FIRST - A BIG HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY TO PAISLEY!!!!!

Now, as some of you know, hubby and I have been attempting to move to a new campground. Our names got put on a waiting list back in April. In August when we went back to check the status..seems we got overlooked. There was a site that was available #37, but another family had already been called and given an opportunity to rent it. We looked at a couple of trailors for sale, but none were as big or as nice as the one we already own...so we decided to hang in there and wait and wait and wait....Well, this weekend our present campground is closing. The new campground is also closing, so I decided to give one last call today. There was no answer, but I left a voice mail message to please call me. They called me back and at first couldn't quite remember who I was...come on, how many times have I talked with them and gone there??? Anyhow, they finally found our info (back on page one) on the waiting list. They said there was only one site available, seems the gentlemen that had it has cancer and will not be able to return.....site #37???? So tomarrow right after work hubby and I will drive there, take ANOTHER look at the phantom site #37, and hopefully secure a spot to move to in April. After that we will continue the drive up to our camper to freeze our butts off, I mean spend the night! It will probably be a real "ghost" town. Rumor has it there are only 3 families (us included) left to close up! A scene from THE SHINING. Unfortunately the girls will be staying home. We can get things much faster without them underfoot!

Meantime, my son's jaw seems to be doing okay, must be all that pudding! It is snowing, REALLY snowing just west of here and our furnace is still not turned on. Looks like a 3 Pug night!

Tic Tac Toe...three in a row

I caught the girls all lined up - I can't believe they held still long enough for me to take this!

and another view!

Blogging

Funny, when I started reading blogs it seemed like a fun way to meet people and puggies and others. Read funny stuff. Look at cute photos.

Now I see more. Although we may never meet, we have all become friends. We laugh with each other, give advice, and cry with each other. Little Gizmo's passing touched each of us. We all loved him and prayed for him and Kara, Alan, and Kritter and we've never met! Our prayers continue for others who are sick and suffereing and others continue to join our circle of friends.

The world is an amazing place. I am proud to "know" you all! Keep blogging...together we make the world a better place.

Love,
Punchy!

Sadly

Thinking of you guys today.....Kara

Long weekend update

We did not end up going to camp to close this weekend. After my son's little "accident", hubby decided to rest up on Friday. On Saturday we decided to close the pool..ugh! I put up my fall decorations while we drained a couple feet of water out, then helped clean the filter, etc. I can never figure out why we don't close the pool sooner or why it seems like such a big deal. There really is nothing to closing up the pool. In the afternoon we headed off to hubby's class summer party. I really didn't want to go, but we left our house around 3pm and never came back home until 9:30pm! It's always interesting to see people "once a year". When hubby graduated his school was guys only, so all us wives have one thing in common...we didn't go to that school! Sunday we met for breakfast with my dad, his girlfriend, my sister, her boyfriend and my niece and nephew. We had an enjoyable breakfast, went back to my sister's for a bit and then took the girls to Pug Meetup. The weather was so beautiful. Chloe really enjoys meetup. She is the only one I allow off-leash!! The other two were off for a bit, but then I was so nervous I put them back on their leashes so I could socialize too! Today I had off from work. I organized my closet. I packed away summer and brought out fall/winter..ugh!!! I love fall, but winter...well....a little is okay! I washed the siding by the front door, on the landing on a ladder, thinking the whole time about falling. Trimmed my roses, washed the picture window in my kitchen (inside and out), another ladder experience. I also did several loads of wash and then took a nice long walk. I think tonight I may be tired! I have off Tuesday too, I may just snuggle and read with Pugs all day!

Accident prone family update

Well, we were supposed to leave for camp after work today and spend one last weekend (maybe forever) at camp....but since my son's little "accident" yesterday, we spent way too much time today running around and worrying, so tonight we just ordered Chinese, and as I told hubby "I did my chores"....laundry, vacumning, blogging....

So back to my son. After many telephone calls we got through to doctor (for referal) Blue Choice (for doctor update to get referal) oral surgeon, and on and on. Hubby took him to his noon appt. Yes, his jaw is fractured. Turns out the fracture was caused by yes, the fall, but more because his wisdom tooth is impacted and growing sideways into his jaw. YIKES! Anyhow, he had three choices - 1 - he could have his jaw wired -2- he could have surgery to remove the wisdom teeth and then have a plate put in with screws - 3 - he could do NOTHING for 6 weeks, no chewing, no sports, no rough housing. Now the surgeon wanted option 1. He felt the fracture was pretty severe, but guess which one my son picked????? Yep, 3rd option - nothing...that's my brave boy! He is not on pain meds, antibiotics, and a special oral mouthwash, and his diet consists of pudding, jello, yogurt, applesauce, and squash! Yep, he loves my homemade squash. I'm thinking he'll be pretty sick of it by Thanksgiving!!

So tomarrow promises to be a beautiful Fall day in upstate NY. We'll head out early with the girls to go to camp, pack stuff up, spend the night and come home on Sunday. Hubby has to work Sunday night, but I am off until Wednesday! Yippee!!! I better get out those Fall decorations! Wegmans (grocery store) already has the CHRISTMAS TREES up!!!!!

Black Cloud??? Harvest Moon????? or Full Moon?????

I have previously posted about my son's black cloud. Things just don't seem to go right for him...alot. Today's mini disaster. I work until 5pm - at 4:59 pm my son (age 23) calls me - mild hysteria, muffled....seems he went down our main staircase head first. I quickly drove home to find him icing his face, off to Urgent Care...fractured jaw, sprained finger. Head back home, stop at CVS to fill pain rx. Now he's VERY hungry, but can't chew or close his mouth. A little yogurt, some soup broth, and last night's left over squash. Back to CVS to pickup rx. Back home dispense drugs and some motherly advice to take one day at a time and go to bed....added instructions were to knock on my door before attempting stairs. Tomarrow we will be seeing our doctor and getting an oral surgeon referral.

Pug-O-Ween 2006

Pug-O-Ween provided lots of puggy fun for 100 pugs and their families! Woo hoo. Here comes Sheriff Chloe to save the day.........

















She heard things were getting a little crazy in the OK Pug Corral, so she got her deputy, Rosie to help out.















Opps, seems Indian Zoey is trying to make her escape!

















Yes, I did design and make their costumes! Who has more fun than me!!!!!!!

Barktoberfest 2006

As you have read, today was Barktoberfest. Our "team" had 14 members walking. Between us we had 15 pugs - various ages from 4 mo. to 6 yrs...fawns and blacks. Following is a list of 10 things that said or happened today - or maybe I'll call it why I am not doing this next year -

1. Parking in muddy pumpkin field with 3 Pugs...walking through muddy pumpkin field with 3 Pugs.
2. Registration - Let's meet between 9 and 9:30am - hmmmm, where is everyone????
3. 14 Pugs and owners hanging out waiting for latecomers to arrive....stranger to group..."are they all related?".
4. Let's hurry and get team photo done before walk starts....sorry 45 minute wait...okay, let's go do the walk...where did everyone go...where does the walk start..."excuse me miss, where do we go?" - response "I really don't know, back there over to the side"....thanks.
5. Okay gang, lets walk over here...nice path, flat, dry, which was actually okay.
6. Woman to me - "how old is he?" my response "she's 3".
7. Woman to me - "are these bulldogs" , my response "no german shepards"
8. Back to picture taking. Oh, sorry, you have 7 PAYING people ahead of your group, you'll have to wait.....excuse me???? We just raised over $1,500!
9. Picture time finally arrives....one shot..."oh you all looked perfect"?????????? 14 dogs, 10 people, okay we'll see.
10. Missed the contest contest...did I hear an announcement?

Add into that HUGE dogs, grumpy dogs, barking dogs, 100 people asking where did you get hose harnesses, retractable leashes. BLAH I think maybe I either need some kind of natural herbs or another vacation.

Friday - and cold brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Busy Friday...phew. Barktoberfest tomarrow and our club's PugOWeen on Sunday. The girls are home resting up for all the activities. Hopefully tomarrow will not bring rain, as we all know how much Pugs LOVE walking in the wet and rain! UGH. I am still questioning my sanity about taking these three by myself tomarrow! I am thinking of duck-taping Rosie's harness to her! Lot's of busy work to do before both these events. Special thanks to those that sponsored the girls and I for tomarrow. IF anyone is still interested - on line donations can be made until 5pm est today! See previous post for link! Thanks!!!

Phew! Car crashes and loose Pug

Not sure I mentioned, but my sister moved from her "track" house to a larger house on a main road in our town. Her house sits directly across from the end of a north south road, so I guess you'd say she's at the "t". Anyhow, we talked about how weird it is and that she hopes no one ever forgets to stop....wellllllllllllllll, this afternoon, a young man traveling at a HIGH rate of speed...did NOT stop. He went to the right of her driveway, missed her boat, barreled up the hill and over the side and totaled his car! My dad was over there tonight and said the kid is fine. WOW!

Today I went to the pet store and got one of those couplers that you can attach to two dogs and use one leash. I was showing it off to the hubby and had it connecting Chloe and Zoey. Poor Chloe was getting dragged around by Zoey, so hubby said I should put Rosie and Zoey together. I hooked them up and took them outside. After a couple of minutes I looked down and realized that I had Chloe on one leash, Zoey on the other and an empty harness! YIKES I looked around..where the heck did Rosie go. She was about 15 feet away having the time of her life. I called her and nope, not coming back. I dragged the other two back into the house, yelling "cookie", "treat", anything I could think of BLAH!! I ran into the house, past hubby and said I lost a dog. I grabbed the entire container of sugar cookies and ran back outside. That little bugger would NOT come to me. We live on a main road, a corner, a busy corner. She was about 2 steps from me on the deck and I put the box of cookies down, open and had little pieces scattered on the deck, she finally got about a foot from me and I grabbed her by her head. I am now thinking of duck taping her harness on her. I thought I was so smart with this set-up for our walk on Saturday. Now, I'm worried. I guess I may just have to hook Zoey and Chloe back and deal with Rosie ALONE.

Barktoberfest at Lollypop Farm - 9-30-06

The girls and I are putting on our sneakers and walking in the Barktoberfest fundraiser. This is our second year walking. Last year I only had Chloe and Zoey, so this year should be VERY interesting with 3! Our team has already raised over $1,000!!! Poor little me is feeling bad about not raising a lot towards our group's total. I'm not a great one for asking for money for things, I always hated it when the kids had to sell stuff for school! Yuck. Anyhow we saw that ljc fyi has been doing a little fundraising over on her site and my girls want to beat Oscar with fundraising. If you'd like to sponser Chloe, Zoey and Rosie here is our link: http://www.lollypop.org/punchy

Any amount is appreciated in support of all these animals.

Weekend recap - cleaning, sewing, Corning

Friday I set-up for my bf's mom's funeral luncheon. I met the delivery truck at the site at 9am, went to the service at 10am and afterwards finished preping the food for when they returned from the burial. I did not get home until after 2:30pm. My head was pounding! Hubby and I went to pay a bill, got an early dinner, and stopped at grocery store for a few things. When we got home hubby dropped off to sleep (that third shift - blah) and I cleaned the downstairs bathroom. I must have filled a garbage can with empty bottles, old products and stuff that just needed to be thrown out. I re-arranged all the vanity drawers and that was that.

Saturday I did laundry with yummy Tide with Febreze...love that smell. I worked on the girl's costumes....no peeking!

Sunday, hubby had a gold tournament, and my daughter and I and the girls drove to Pugs in the Park in Corning NY. It was 110 miles there...phew! We met up with my friend who has 4 Pugs. It was kind of crazy there. The person running it did not have a microphone or anything and it was hard to know what was going on and when. While there I really decided I hate those retractable leashes. Seems I always had someone's elses Pug wrapped around my legs with one of those and they were 10 or 15 feet away. Not good for a big group. We ended up leaving early for the drive home. It was a beautiful drive, if nothing else.














My daughter handles 5 - our Rosie and my friend's 4!


Phew, here's what we would look like owning 7 Pugs!!!














On top of stroller...Isabella (Rosie's mom) and Dixie (Rosie's baby 1/2 sister),
Spanky and Dakota in stroller, and of course on leashes, Chloe, Zoey and Rosie.

Lack of posting - friend in need

Things have been a little crazy lately. My best friend's mom died Monday after a lengthy illness. She was there for me during my mom's death and shortly after my gram's. Now it's my turn. Today is calling hours and tomarrow the service and luncheon. My family and I will go tonight to calling hours and then tomarrow I am taking care of the luncheon. I ordered the base foods today for morning delivery. Our local funeral parlor has a remodeled house semi attached to the parlor by a pergola. It makes it really nice to family to break away for a cup of coffee or a quiet moment and is a great place for a luncheon. It is like being in someone's house only no one had to clean first!

This photo reminds me of what being a friend is all about!

Weekend recap

Well, as you all know Friday was our anniversary. Since we were leaving for camp right after I got out of work, we knew dinner was out anyplace good..especially traveling with the girls. So first I let hubby open his gift..

Yes, he did get my idea.... and actually thought I was VERY creative. He told everyone about it all weekend.






















So off we went to camp. We got halfway and stopped at his favorite..."Wendy's". He ordered his digusting triple meat gross burger and I got a 99 cent frosty and 99 cent chicken tenders...which I shared with the girls. Now I am not sure I was actually sharing, more like they were taking. As we sat in the car attempting to eat, I looked over and said..."honey, happy anniversay" and we both broke out laughing. Saturday, the boat engine broke - the boat would only go in reverse, not forward, which can be a problem. When the hubby was putting it back on the trailor, it started to shift and he had to jump out and he FELL...fell and hurt his shoulder. After he pulled himself together we got ready and went into town for dinner. We ate outside at a restaurant called "The Boathouse". We had a nice dinner, a few laughs and hurried back to camp for celebration cake for our anniversary and a couple of birthdays. After that we went to another friends and had homemade apple pie and ice cream. (Does anyone see a pattern here?) Almost forgot to mention that my dad came up to finish cleaning out his camper. He is selling his and wanted to be all set before the end of the month. Sunday morning we went out for breakfast with him and his girlfriend (new and NICE, thank goodness), after breakfast I cleaned up our camper and packed up some loose stuff. Since we still don't know if we are getting another place closer to home we really need to be better prepared. IF the camper moves ALL the loose stuff has to be out or secured. BLAH - 8 years of stuff. I felt a little sad all weekend thinking about my dad leaving there after 25 years. I really don't think I will stay there no matter what. It has been great having him next door and I'm not sure how I'll feel with his spot empty or with someone else there. I was also sad because so many people have already closed up and gone and others will be leaving this week. We haven't told anyone we might move, so we have been saying our goodbyes wondering if these really are permanent goodbyes. Oh well, I always get a little melancholy with the Fall! Anyhow, we will not be closing up until October 15th and will probably be one of the last there for the season.

September 15th, 1979

27 years and counting.........

27 years ago....

27 years ago tonight I was anticipating my marriage. It was raining horribly that night too, just like tonight. I was so bummed out about the rain. We had a fun rehearsal dinner party at my in-laws house and then my poor mom got REALLY lost and took like 2 hours to find her way home (really a 20 minute drive). We had already bought our house and I was living in it, so one of my college friends came into town and spent the night with me. Time sure does fly.

Tonight I went to a friend to scrapbook. Didn't stay long, but got a couple of pages done and organized some stuff. I am half-way done with two of the baby afgans I am working on....blah! Tomarrow after work we are off to camp. If we get there early enough we will go out to dinner, if not we will celebrate Saturday evening. It will just be the furry ones, hubby and I, so hopefully the weather will cooperate and he can fish and fish and fish, and I can scrapbook and relax and relax and relax!

By the way, in honor of being married 27 years, I bought my husband 27 pairs of socks! He is always complaining "where are my socks", "someone took my socks", "how come my socks are missing?"...so I bought 27 pairs. You know the lady in Penney's didn't even question why I was buying so many pairs!

RIP Baby Kitty

Sadly today I had to take our "Baby Kitty" to be euthanized. A hard decision to make, but needed to be made nonetheless. We got her as a 5 week old kitten from the hockey rink my son skated at. The resident cat had kittens and they made an announcement over the loudspeaker and the rest was history. She was over 15 years old and it's hard to remember a time when she wasn't "parked" on the bench in the kitchen. She had surgery for tumors several years ago and after that surgery I told her she would never had surgery like that again...a promise is a promise. Unfortunately the tumors reappeared and sometime in the last couple of days 1 actually burst and broke through her abdomen. Certainly not a pretty site. She leaves one brother cat...Buster and the girls..whom she never quite developed a liking for!

My Pugs gave me a social life.....

I was just checking out the calendar for the rest of the month and there seems to be a real trend....
9/16/06 - Most Smooceable Dog Contest-Kibbles N'Bits - Ellison Park, Roch. NY
9/23/06 - George Eastman House unveiling of Pet photography entried (of course you know I sent in photos)
9/24/06 - Pugs in the Park - Corning, New York
9/30/06 - Barktoberfest @ Lollypop Farm, Egypt, NY (Animal Shelter)
10/01/06 - Pug-O-Ween - Brockport, NY (our group sponsers this event)
Just think that's only through October 1st! Do the girls have a busy social life or have they given me to replace the one I had raising kids?

On a different note here is a conversation I had with my daughter yesterday:

Mom - "Wow, I can't believe our anniversary is Friday and we'll be married 27 years!"
Daughter - "where do you guys want to go for your 30th anniversary?"
Mom - "maybe we should see if we make 28 first!"
Daughter - MAKES BAD FACE
Mom - hahaha

Anyhow, yes, Friday marks 27 years married to my hubby. Of course you know we married at 10 yrs. old! I am at a real loss what to give him for a gift. Do those of you married out there give each other gifts or just do a nice celebration with dinner? I'm not really into the gift thing, but the hubby REALLY likes the gift part. He always goes overboard. Any ideas?

More meetup

One of our Pug friends has a wonderful digital camera and takes really good photos. These are a few he took ~

Pug Meetup

Today was our September Pug meetup. Our organizer had it at her house and the theme was football. The first hour was Pugs only and after that our other meetup group...."Small Dogs" joined us. Would you guys consider a Bassett a small dog???? It's interesting to see all the different breeds and how different acting they all are! A photographer and writer from our city's newspaper was there and plans on featuring our groups in a special "pets" section of the newspaper. It threatened of rain, so we donated our party tent for the day. Thankfully the rain held off and everyone had a great time. We arrived at 10:30 to help set up and didn't leave until after 4pm...needless to say the girls (and their daddy) are all fast asleep!











Ready for football - Buffalo Bills style












Rosie wanted to be the photographer's assistant...not sure what Cinnamon was doing in his pocket!











Zoey hanging out with dad






Zoey and Rosie showing off their "jerseys"

Health Report/Knitting Report

Health -
The verdict is in and $71.02 later, yes Chloe does have a UTI. She is on meds for 14 days. She is terrible about pills, so I have to put them in the center of cheese...hmmmm, 14 days, twice a day. I think she will certainly be gaining some weight or end up hating cheese!

Knitting -
Baby Afgan number one is 1/3 done. I should take a pic, but I am too lazy to go back downstairs! HA

I would probably be further along, but Rosie tries to help me as much as possible with the yarn......

Labor Day Weekend

Well, as most of the east coast we had a VERY rainy weekend at camp. Even with all the rain, hubby managed to go golfing twice and fishing 3 times. I think he was on a marathon of summer fun! My daughter and I watched a dvd, napped, and went to the mall. She is fun to shop with, always willing to actually smell the candles, and try out the hand lotions...not like the hubby! He is a good shopper, but.....

In the salon where my daughter works 3 women are having babies. She is being invited to all their showers, so I told her I would crochet baby afgans for her to give. We know one is a girl, so she picked out a pretty blue/pink/white varigated. I also bought yellow for my new tenant's baby due in October. That should keep me out of the cookie jar at night!

So, Chloe wanted me to let everyone know that she has recovered from her ear infection and now has some type of bladder/kidney infection. Poor thing! Off to vet with her again tomarrow morning.