The trip aka how to pack a ton into a day!

The morning started out with a texted photo from Stewie's foster mom....she wrote "hurry up, I'm ready". Seriously is he NOT the cutest!!!!We left home around 9 a.m. The ETA for the pickup had been moved to about 7 p.m., but we wanted to make an adventure out of the drive. We stopped in Erie PA to get lunch. P had seen recently that a QuakerSteak&Lube had opened in our area and really wanted to stop there. If you haven't been there it is fashioned after auto repair type place. There was a lot to look at! This car was hanging over my head during lunch, which was delicious!!!! I had the BEST salad I have ever eatten! The service was excellent and included "coffee to go". Certainly the way to my heart! From there we left STUFFED for the drive to Pittsburgh PA and TraderJoes! Oh, how I love TJs!!!! It was a much smaller TJs than I have visiting in other areas, but we still managed to buy several bags of stuff!

Here is where I should have several photos of us LOST, CONFUSED, and ready to throw the GPS out the damn window....but, we ended up having a pretty good laugh about it ONCE we escaped the area and made it to the highway! Where we headed to Wheeling WV and Cabelas. Imagine our surprise when we got there and DockDogs were there. Wow, those dogs can jump and swim. I did not see any Pugs in the lineup. Hmmm, wonder why?

Okay the inside of this place...insane. I never saw so many STUFFED animals in my entire life. First stop was the African Exhibit. I think at this point I was still pretending that these animals were plastic or FAKE. P played along with my little game.
where the deer and the Antelope play.......
HOLY CRAP! Lions and Tigers and BEARS!!!! OH MY!!

P found a new hat, tshirt and some fishing lures. I pretty much felt I was lucky to get out of there with only those purchases. We headed over to Target to purchase a new car charger and then to Sheetz for a cup of coffee for me. It was now 7:30 p.m. and the new ETA for Stewie was 8:15 or so. We got to the meeting place and parked. It was HOT. We chatted and anxiously awaited his arrival. At 8:30 we got a call they were 18 minutes away!

They pulled in and there was our little guy. I picked him up and handed him over to his daddy.His wonderful transport peeps!!!! They have a car that advertises SEPRA!! We so appreciated them giving Stewie a "lift" from St. Louis MI!!!!We hung around and chatted for about an hour. Funny thing, some guy came over to take a photo of the race car....he thought it was SO amazing that we had never met and were into rescue! You just never know when your going to make an impact on someone!At 10:00 p.m. we left for home!!!

and I showed him his new collar, harness and leash! Doesn't he look dashing?

Stay tuned for the meet and greet at 3:30 a.m.!!!

Stewie's Story...

Oh Stewie!!! We love him to pieces!!!!

Stewie is from SEPRA. Harry's Pugalicious' mom and I were chatting on fb and I "mentioned" P saying number 6 could happen for me. She mentioned SEPRA had taken in some Pugs from a hoarder and I popped on the website to see them. In the process I saw Pogo. I sent her a note and asked if she knew if he was available...yeppers. I asked his story. Stray, demodetic , around 2, was adopted...and returned for being "active". Well, you all know Kiki and know ACTIVE IS KIKI. I mean ACTIVE after NAUGHTY. Anyhow, we put in application and even though many questioned our sanity...were approved! One little detail...he was being fostered in Missouri. Thankfully a WONDERFUL member of SEPRA just happened to be vacationing in Nebraska this past week and offered to let him hitch a ride from Missouri to Washington, PA. P and I decided to make a fun day out of the road trip to meet up with them.

Tomarrow our trip......

1, 2, 3, 4, 5......

SIX!!!!! Meet our new little guy...Stewie (formerly know as Pogo)! He is our SEPRA rescue from Missouri! We had a tri-state adventure Saturday and got home at 3:23 a.m. today. P and I had a great time, got home safely, made introductions and things are going great! Now....for a nap!

September.....

Hard to believe how fast time flies. Seems we were just wishing for Summer and now here it is Labor Day Weekend! I do so love Fall! Lots of fun stuff happening for us this Fall, starting with a road trip tomarrow! Stay tuned........

Who is this mystery Pug?

longggg windy weekend

This was probably our last long weekend at camp for the season. Saturday morning P went out fishing VERY early. He was VERY happy to have caught his biggest Salmon of the season. 30 pounds...wow. Too bad I refuse to eat it. Refuse. The end.Around noon P's little sister and her husband arrived with their dog, Flash. Flash is around 12 years old and a rescue. They got her when she was around a year old. She was attacked when she was young, so she is NOT thrilled about other dogs approaching. She did okay with our group for the most part, but we made sure to be very careful. After dinner we took a walk to the water with Flash, Rosie and Kiki....Rosie looking worried...as always. Around dusk they left and we had a campfire with camp friends. We went inside around 10pm. A bit later our phone rang telling us that everyone with boats were removing them from the docks due to the bad weather expected Sunday. We didn't have our truck, but everyone was helpful and some young men and the owner took out most of the boats with the campground equipment. When we got up Sunday morning the wind was pretty brisk. Although they told us to expect 25 mph winds we had wind gusts of 50 mph. Nowhere near what others were getting, but bad enough for us.Our little bay's entrance got filled in and will most likely remained closed off from Lake Ontario for the rest of the season. The dock usually goes straight out.....not so straight anymore.The lake side was pretty rough.....

Amazing how far we were from the hurricane itself......

It was a good day to stay inside and sew! Today the lake and bay were both calm as could be. P put our boat back into the water and spent some time bay fishing. Afterwards we cleaned and packed up for home. The Pugs....the Pugs did what they do best....relax......

Oh that rainbow bridge......

Many moons ago I was surfing the internet looking for all things Pug. I came across a blog...All Up in the Koolaide aka Alfreds' Mom, a blog. This blog lead me to Ragus Pugs. We followed each others blogs and emailed. Finally we and a bunch of other bloggers met. I survived a 14 hours drive, met some bloggers and lived! Time passed, more blogged, some stopped, babies were born, sweet Pugs passed and Alfred's mom followed her husband to Korea for the Army. Sadly her Pugs Alfred and Holly could not go due to health and age, but Sandy stepped up and they moved in with her. Anyone who knows Sandy knows she has a BIG BIG heart and a real love for the Seniors.

Today Alfred passed. Alfred the first little Pug blog I ever read. God Bless Sandy and her hubby and Chalica who is now mourning Alfred for a second time. Hug your Pugs and each other and remember what a wonderful world we live in and how even with the bad we see and hear about, there are good and wonderful people out there. I consider myself blessed to have had the opportunity to meet many of you and hope to meet many more....

Love to all,
Punchy

National Dog Day

Heh mom...did you hear it's National Dog Day? Think maybe I could have a small bite of that burger?

A study in Pugs

Wordless Wednesday

No wonder internet time is hard......

they hog the bench and my heart~

Time Travel

August 2010
August 2011

Our pal Vinny

Vinny's mama bought him a Vinny-sized chair! That Vinny is adorable, isn't he?

kOOkoY kIKi!

I guess being tall makes life different?

Sweet mama.....

Our Chloe is one sweet faced mama! Don't you agree?

Rainy Sunday Night.....

Pug style....

a long time ago, before marriage, children, and Pugs....

there was college and friends and me..... where have the years gone?

I have been thinking about old friends lately and my friend L (flowered shirt). We went to college together and were great friends. She lived outside Syracuse NY and I lived outside Rochester NY. We visited during vacations and were in each other's weddings. We wrote (anyone remember letters?) and exchanged Christmas cards. Then silence. So today on *facebk* I get a friend request...from her. Strange how life works. It seems my friend has battled Cancer (06) and Leukemia (08).

That sure explains the silence.....

Huh? Dad's pants? We didn't pull them off the table.....

honest!

Summer Meetup....

Saturday was Pug Meetup. We loaded up into the car and drove from camp. When we arrived Miss Dixie was showing off the tutu I made her. Here everyone was greeting a little girl who was attending. Kiki REALLY liked her.

Of course they all come running for the "treat" handout.

Miss Rosie is always at my feet. Worrying she's going to be left behind. Get out there and play Rosie!!! Miss Kiki was the absolute hit of the meetup. She ran and played from our arrival at 9:45 a.m. until 1:15 p.m. when we headed back to camp.

Pugboat - keepin' it real party on!

On Sunday, our buddies came to camp for the day and we all headed out for the beach. Boy, Aunt L looks a little worried.P decided to give Vinny a turn at the wheel. He did pretty good. He must have been using the GPS, cuz ya' know, he's blind, right?

He took his job very serious! Heh, how's everybody doing back there?

Hmmm, Rosie seems a tad worried, but then again Rosie is always worried.We got to the beach and P jumped in with Chloe. She is the original Pugboat Mama! She's been sailing the blue waters for 9 Summers now!

Kiki wanted to be close to the fish finder, snack bag and the "drinks". FYI, that drink was HORRIBLE.

Some of us relaxed on the back of the boat....and after all that hard work driving Vinny took a nap.....and P took to the front and got some sun with Dixie.....

Zoey decided to put a call out to other boaters...."heh, this here is the Pugboat, what's yer 10-4 good buddy?", "what dad? that's trucker talk and I'm on a boat?".....After everyone took a dip they did some sunbathing.....and then took to chillaxin, Pug style!

Everyone had a great day and can't wait to have more Pugboat days this Summer!

and then there were 10

L visited with her crew and our camp population (or should I saw Pugulation?) doubled. P had not met Vinnie yet.....

Ha, neither had anyone else in our crew, but Kiki. Zoey is giving him the "look" here! Kiki and Vinny set right back into their wrestling.

and wore themselves out.... Stay tuned for tomarrow for our adventures on the Pugboat! (we let Vinnie drive!)

Sunny Summer Sunday

P and our sweet C getting ready to go boating!

Another wedding....

Last Saturday I got an etsy order for a wedding gown and veil. Only problem, the wedding is 8/6 and in the United Kingdom! I got to work and was able to ship on Monday. Now we're all crossing our paws here that it arrives in time!