NaBloPoMo Take 4

Wait for it – coming tomorrow, 4 years running of NaBloPoMo! To whet your appetite, here’s a photo of me and Amy as we were dressed for handing out Halloween candy tonight.

Don’t tell anyone, but I stole Maggie’s costume….

A Summer in Photos

If April Showers Bring May Flowers, Here They Are

We have more pretties in our yard:

Johnny Jump-Up
(not to be confused with the Jossi Jukin-Up)
(only you hockey fans will get that one).

More bleeding hearts, because I love them.

Purty tulip guts.

One of the new tulips this year, in the spot where the arborvitae used to live.

We’ve also got some wildlife in the yard:

There are at least 2 garter snakes – one near the veggie garden and one near the neighbor’s pool. Here is PoolSnake sunning itself. I watched VeggieSnake eat a worm the other day. Holy circle of life Batman. !!!

Speaking of circle of life, here’s Maggie chowing down on the incredibly long grass, which we’ve already mowed three times this year. Before May 18. !!!

And here’s Maggie letting us all know that the mailman is trying to violate the integrity of the yard. It’s really too bad the mailman leaves every day, because she thinks it’s because she barks at him. Alas, silly dogs won’t be reasoned with.

Have a Woofy Christmas!

Yesterday I tried to get some photos of the dogs for our Christmas card. Naturally, since I wanted them to do something, they gave me attitude. Here are some of the more successful attempts (although I don’t like any of them enough to use them):

And since it’s no fun to only look at the better photos, here are the best of the failures:

Fortunately I did manage a few good solo shots of each of them, so I’ll work a little Photoshop magic to make our cards this year. Phew!

Sixth Sense

The little dog has a sixth sense. Otherwise how would she know we are going away for Thanksgiving so that she could ignore her dinner so that Otter could eat it so that she could be sick because she was so hungry?

Silly little dog. Fortunately, through the miracle of olive oil and a really nasty smelling (but apparently incredibly tasty) dog treat crumbled up and mixed into a bowl of dog food, we’re all good now.

Of course, she’s punishing us right now by not hanging with us in the living room. Silly little dog!

P.S. Hi KP! Don’t forget: January comes before summer most years.