Showing posts with label doxie doings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doxie doings. Show all posts

Friday, March 4, 2011

pretty in pink

It seems there are many days in Baxter's happy go lucky life where things take a sudden and interesting turn. Like yesterday, when he spent most of the morning staring at me.  Wishing, I think, that I would be more interesting. Or at least, way more susceptible to his telepathic powers of cuteness. Which I am most certain were trying to convince me to leave my sewing machine in order to serve him up a nice big tasty rawhide bone. Or, as he would later try to convince me with his twinkly eyes, at least perhaps a tiny little smackerel of something tasty?

By early afternoon, the little kielbasa had given up all hope of extra snackie love, and retired to his kitty perch to warm his sausagey body and his rumbly little tummy.

Seeing that this little wiener dog was sound asleep by the time I finished sewing, I figured I would quietly go upstairs with my freshly made purse to take a few simple pics to submit with an upcoming show application.

But no sooner had I gotten to our bedroom did I hear the the thunder of little paws. Baxter skidded into my feet, and a tiny trailing wind caught up shortly thereafter, stirring up dust that glinted in the afternoon sun.

u weren't gonna take pictures without me, were u, mom?? he seemed to happily inquire as he sniffed about the things I brought upstairs.

And just like that, things took an interesting turn for the both of us. :)

Thursday, March 3, 2011

i will bend like a reed in the wind










dear diary,
boy, hidin from duk duk all day took some serious effort! i am so glad i earned my camo for canines badge in pup scouts cuz those skills totally came in handy.

whoops! i think i hear duk duk coming so i best get back to hiding.  hope u have a swell thursday! later today i guess i will need to face the music with duk duk but i am thinking maybe before that i should go dig up some worms from the backyard for him, just to help smooth things over.

toodley-doo!
b.   :)




ps - mom says a day without a picture of me is like a day without sunshine, and even though it is really me under here and it was sunny out, i guess to make mom happy, here is another picture of me. taken when the coast was clear and after i took tinky outside.  cuz i know u would want to know that. :)

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

messin with duk duk





dear diary,
boy was i totally wrong about that spycam mom got me.  it's the best thing in the whole world, even if u can't eat it.  cuz looky, what do u get when u mix one doxie,  a best friend duk that embarrassed u in front of all the backyard squirrels by tellin them i still sleep with my mom n dad, and spycam u hid in the bathroom?  hee, hee, hee, see for yourself!! 







i cannot wait to post this on facebook and tag him in it!  well i better hide my toothbrush and make myself scarce for a while.   let me know if u see a one winged duk with a spycam, will ya?


toodley-doo!
b.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

return to sender

A little package came in the mail for tiny chumley yesterday, but not really the kind he could fully appreciate.

r u sure this thing is for me? cuz i'm not really gettin anywhere with it.  maybe u can send it back and exchange it for some delicious snackies instead?



Sorry baby dog, not this time. But soon you and duk duk can play with your very own secret spy cam!

Monday, February 28, 2011

d is for daffodil


dear diary,
guess what! mom n dad took me for rideys yesterday and we ended up at this restaurant and i didn't even have to wait in the car cuz they took me with them! yep, that's right. my first official dining al fresco parisian moment. at a place where they bring u water and menus and napkins and everything. well, for the humans anyway. me, i just got a bowl of water. which was okay, cuz really, i was all about finding scraps on the floor. after i made sure that the four big dogs at the table across the way knew that i was on to them. but can u believe they all barked back at me??

all in all it was a fine time, though let's not talk about the time out that i had to spend in mom's lap for stirring up that barkfest. how embarrassing. duk duk says i really should rethink my whole bark philosophy, on account of the fact that i'm so small, if i stayed quiet, those big dogs might never have noticed me and nobody would have got in trouble. but i say i'm gonna bring him and his feathery tushie next time we go to the dog park and then we'll see who barks or quacks first at the sight of all those big scary dogs.

anyways, with it feeling so nice out now, i thought i would share a picture of the daffodils that i helped mom bring in from the yard. they're really swell, though i wish they were edible. u can't eat them, right? just thought i should check.

toodley-doo!
b.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

i chased a squirrel


























i chased a squirrel
on my way home from the park.
barkety bark bark!

- baxter, 4.2 years old, on his 
Saturday walkies from the park

Saturday, February 26, 2011

lunch lady

So yesterday I made lemon poppy egg bread. With a real lemon pulled from what was once a full bag of lemons.  And then the mail came.  And somehow by now, homies that we are, I think you can understand how one thing led to another, that led to this.



Friday, February 25, 2011

happy feet friday

Almost always near the end of Baxter's meal time training (and sometimes even from the beginning), the little kielbasa gets ahead of himself and completely ignores the things I ask him to do.  Executing random act after random act, in hopes that something, anything,  might merit the shower of snackies he desires.

Some days, I'll wait til he settles down and we can start his training properly anew. And other days, his cuteness wins out, and I just watch him twirl and jazz and jump and whatever else he might come up with, all to the music playing in his own tiny little head.


hee hee, hope u have a happy twirly Friday!! :)

(ps - got a pair of headphones in that tiny cubicle? plug it in, turn up the volume, and rock out to a special extended version of happy feet video here  on baxter's facebook fan page - no facebook id required.  :)  )

(update 2/25: well i'll be. today the viddy is unmuted on youtube. so enjoy it while you can here. :))



Thursday, February 24, 2011

i know what doxies want






i know what dogs like
















i know what dogs want













dogs like, dogs want snackies!














(yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, find new cards on etsy!)

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

tail talkin

Sometimes I wonder why the little kielbasa feels the need to bark at all, considering his tail already has so much to say.  Especially when I leave the front door open so Baxter can surveil the innocent and not so innocent passers by in our neighborhood.

hey, you.  yeah u. i see u walkin by like u don't see me but i see u,  hey, don't pee on my mail box. that's my mailbox.  what?  i am so barkin at you for that.  yeah, that's right, put your leg down and keep walkin. oh who da man now? me.  dats right. me. oh yeah....anybody else wanna piece of my tail?



Watch out world, this little boy and his tail are talkin to you.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

867-5309


Okay, let's be clear. Big Boyfriend and I are not early adopters of technology. Cell phones? We bought our first ones ever in 2002, after a car headed in the opposite direction crossed the center line and introduced me to a world in which immediate access to 911 might indeed be a good thing. Emergencies only, that's all we need these things for when we got our first pair of phones. Except maybe for also dialing long distance family and friends, since we were paying for the minutes anyway.

We soldiered on with our little black and white screened flip phones for the next seven years, ignoring the lure of colored screens, and texting, and taking tiny pictures, and playing music on our phones, and watching tiny television shows.  Cuz geez, a phone's a phone. Where exactly other than home am I going to be that I need to listen to music? And who wants to spend their time squinting at video on a tiny Barbie sized screen anyway?

We probably would have held on to our first phones even longer, but the promise of better quality calls and the practical application of hands free bluetooth technology finally won us over in 2009. Yeah baby, we were gonna be set for maybe a decade this time, what with our voice + 300 texts a month plan and me with my cool querty keypad flip phone that would let me text to the only three people I knew who actually knew how to text back.  Poo on you, Apple and all you smartphone makers out there. I don't need a drink from your hipster doogan kool-aid. App schmapp.

And yeah, as you might imagine, I should have known better, and I blame it all on the little kielbasa. Because now here I sit, enthralled with the thought of being able to peek in on tiny chumley when I am away from the house, just like Kona's mom does to her little one. I am excited about the thought of unchaining Big Boyfriend from his laptop so that he can enjoy some time out in the fresh air as part of our pack, yet still be the responsible bacon bringer that he is whenever he is called upon to be so. And I like that I can stay connected with Baxter's little world and even update it if necessary, all from the palm of my 4G fueled hand, wherever I am, without worry of lugging around a laptop in places I'd rather not take it.  Today, I am proud to say that I am willing to be dragged into the 21st century, and I blame it all on my tiny furry beast, my four year old dachshund who spends most of his days sleeping and digging and playing with duks. My little boy Baxter, the light of our lives, and now, bringer of technology.

Home alone? Never fear, baby dog. Mom & Dad will always be watching over you. :)

Monday, February 21, 2011

these paws were made for digging




Tiny bob barker's fantastic adventures for Sunday started in delicious Indiana Jones floor corn treasure seeking fashion, but ended on a relatively quiet note, busy and happy as he was by himself in his backyard, moving mounds of earth with his short little paws and nose pushed deep into the freshly disturbed soil.  Digging furiously, til I finished my chores and called him to come up for a paw wash.



 Tiny chumley trotted up the stairs, and looked longingly back at the hole he had started to dig.

hey mom, thanks for taking me on delicious walkies n all but may i please stay out here a little longer? cuz i totally want to finish this!

This little dachshund's paws? Most definitely made for digging. And that's just what they did. :)

Sunday, February 20, 2011

bark at the park

dear diary,
yippee! so mom n dad took me to the dog park yesterday and mom says i am lucky to have a head at all, considering how much i barked at the other big dogs that invaded our play space yesterday.  but i say, those big dogs were lucky i didn't do anythin more.  u know, like get all wolfy on them or somethin.  which i would have, if mom didn't keep embarrassin me by coming over and telling me how naughty i was being.  like how productive is that really?  i had a job to do and it wasn't helping at all that those big dogs weren't listening to me. so i had to bark harder and u know what that got me? nuttin.  they just looked down at me like i was a noisy brown barking wind up toy. some doxies like me get no respect, i tell ya, no respect at all.

anyhoo, mom says she was spending so much time making sure i wasn't a naughty boy that she didn't get very many pictures, but here are a few. me, with  my new buddies rocky and wiener, and the always lovely schatze! and i got to meet trotter and sookie and ziggy and i'd show u pictures but um, u know already about the whole picture taking thing or lack thereof. and let's not even talk about the bath i had to suffer afterward.

so anyways, that was my saturday.  how was yours?


toodley-doo,
b. 


 

Saturday, February 19, 2011

doggie in the window

The temperature difference between the inside and outside of our house can be so different at times that we really don't know how cold or warm it is outside til we're actually outside.  Or, in tiny chumley's case, when he's stuck his little head out from the nearest open window.


yes,  it is warm enough for me to play outside today, don't u think?


Friday, February 18, 2011

etsy fresh: new paper goodies



Yippee! More little kielbasa paper goodies came in the mail this week, and so tiny chumley and I took a little time yesterday to prepare our cards and take pictures for Etsy

oooo, the little kielbasa did declare upon seeing one of the goodies.  who knew leprechauns look just like me! so.... what's a leprechaun and do they get snackies?


why yes, baby dog, they most certainly do. so hand me your paw, and you'll get yours, too! :)
 

Thursday, February 17, 2011

sewing 101
























A simple sign yesterday that spring might be around the corner, with the little kielbasa opting to quietly snooze in the warming sunlight of the morning rather than stay huddled by his winter friend George.  Keeping us company in true dachshund fashion, while I held a mini refresher course with his Uncle Dana on how to sew on buttons.

hey this sun is nice but wake me up when you see some bunnies that need chasing, okay?

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

dog and duk self entertainment

dear diary,
u know how you sometimes wake up and think it's going to be a just another normal day waiting hours on end for walkies and so you go hang with your best friend duk duk and then u both just happen to see that your mom's scanner is on and nobody is around to tell u you not to play with it? well, let's just say yesterday was one of those days and hee hee hee hee hee o what fun we had! everything was goin swell til duk duk smudged the scanner then i tried to clean it off with my nose and that left an even bigger mess that mom couldn't miss and then when she found out she made us clean the scanner and my toybox and make our beds, which u know, was kind of a big deal now that i like my beds all nice n slobby.

but still it was all totally worth it cuz looky! i only wish i could've scanned my tushie too but dang if it was hard enough tryin to balance myself on duk duk's shoulders all the while he was tryin to hit the scan button. maybe next time we can get the other duks to help out. which i hope is really soon!



well today i am going to help mom and uncle dana rake and clean the garage today so i best finish my breakfast and get going.


toodley-doo!
b.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

color blind












o blue ballie,
you're still the best,
but this here yellow one
is fuzzy and fun,
plus i can defur it,
unlike the rest.

so blue or yellow,
it doesn't matter.
i love my ballies,
even more than jello. :)


- baxter, 4.2 years old.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Sunday, February 13, 2011

me likey dat: for mom and dad










pssst, can u keep a secret?


















checky checky what duk duk and  i got my mom n dad for valentine's day!! yep, fresh from old navy - some super cute jammie bottoms and  a super swell water bottle!

we only had enough money to get one of each so i hope they don't mind sharing. duk duk thinks maybe dad can wear the bottoms to work in the daytime then mom can wear them to bed at night. that would work, right? and the water bottle, well, we'll all be sharing it when we go on walkies!
















well, i should probably go now so duk duk i can start wrapping our gifts. cuz bein without thumbs n all makes cutting the paper and tape a total dog and duk team effort.

toodley-doo, and i hope u got some super goodies for your valentine too! :)