jiffy pup pupcave

Cold and rainy Mondays are hardly a welcoming way to start the week, but with a little help from a happy-go-lucky sausage boy now thrilled to have made his own little heat cave, at least Mondays can be a little cuter. :)

come bake here :)

Even though tiny chumley's little miss neighbor friends are busy with their new puppy, I've noticed the little misses have also been visiting tiny chumley more frequently lately.  Mostly I'd gather because sharing isn't always easy when there is only one leash to hold, and because sometimes a puppy needs to take a well deserved nap.  Ipso facto hello Baxter.

I used to be apprehensive about visits from the little misses, concerned that my crafty wonderland held its share of dangerous but very tempting things to touch like razor edged scissors and drills and torches and bits of metal and glass, and feeling after they had left that our house had been infiltrated by cute but very cunning candy pocketing gremlins.  I couldn't have been more wrong of course.  It was me, mostly.  Acting under the false impression that our little guests were meant to be obliged in their every desire and whim, when in fact they are children who need guidance and boundaries, as much as little four legged boys do.

So nowadays, when someone or sometwo come over, besides visiting with tiny chumley, there are things for them to do, some of them helpful work related things like stamping my etsy return address envelopes upside down topsy turvy, and others to bide the time in peaceful fashion, like drawing as little miss julia did on a makeshift table while I worked away on other things in the garage, while tiny chumley baked in my car in the driveway, all of us soaking in the sun that warmed our afternoon to a pleasant shorts wearing kind of Sunday.

This coming weekend, hopefully the little kielbasa and his new puppy friend will get a chance to play together now that she has gotten all her shots. 

 

But until then, all a little boy patiently sit by the front window and wait. :)

life, imitating art :)

hee hee hee - wait, it's still not right is it?  

no really, mom, i got this. i just need to be more serious and maybe u can help me with my nose cuz i think..yup, just a little over...

ooh i think that's it!!  hurry up and take the picture mom and then when etsy gets back up we can send it to the lady who made your lovely necklace and then we can have lunchy lunch!! :) :)

lovely ceramic dachshund pendant, made by twointhebush on Etsy. #wooty

itty bitty

hee hee, will work for teeny tiny itty bitty snackie! :)  #only5calorieseach

o christmas we, o christmas we

wow, this is like the coolest christmas ornament ever, dontchoo think, duk duk?

i mean, it's totally me, and it's totally u - two friends playing just like we always do!

 

(sniff) what a beautiful piece of work.

mom, thank you for finding such a wonderful ornament and letting us hang it on our new tree.

it is the poop de resistance! :)

liberty meadows christmas ornament

hmmmm...

hmmmmm...hmmmmm...o i know!








 mom, these are really cool and all, but, do u think maybe, well, to make them more useful, instead of salt n pepper, can me and duk duk fill them with powered sugar and pack them in our lunchy lunch boxes? :) :)

(hee hee, super cute doxie salt n pepper shakers by Threshold (item# 200022933), eight bucks at  Target. #score  :))

me likey dat: my new toyfriend box

Some little messy boy got a bigger toyfriend box yesterday, and although it's fine for rooting around in, sometimes asking him to put back his toys properly requires a bit of a warm up. :)

little scholars

boy, duk duk,  it really stinks we got an f on our walrus report...

we even used our best paper clip and everything!

now we have to read this entire book.  sheesh!

page two,  "many narwhal tusks, washed shore and - blah blah blah blah blah" sheesh, doesn't teacher know we only have seven hundred and thirty one more levels on the wii to go before we reach princess prettypup's purple pile of poopiesnakes? reading all three pages of this book is going to take forever!

 are u thinking what i am thinking, duk duk? 

hee hee, okay, just lemme take my glasses off and find the scissors and...

(snip snip snip) (clip clip)

voila! ladeeez and gentlemen, i proudly present you our new and improved walrus report! now with two clippies!! :)

u say ikea, i say i pee-a

Even though tiny chumley and his dad had to wait outside in the shade while I did a little storage shopping at IKEA, there was still plenty inside to remind me that a certain little somebuddy needed a few little goodies of his own.











ooh, thanks for the super cool puppy pup containers, mom! they will come in so handy for packing kibble for our trip! didjoo buy like a zillion of these i hope?? :) :)

the day before

hee hee, what do you think my friends?  i cannot wait til father's day morning tomorrow when we suprise dad with the super cool bookends we got him at the flea market today from mister randy! it was totally worth trading in the trebuchet for this -  dad has so many books and now he can display them as one super super super long doxie if he wants to!

what's that, oh yeah u r right duk duk, it is only three o'clock now and father's day is not for another eighteen hours.  if he sees us here with our gift then it would spoil the surprise. maybe we should hide it in the backyard behind the poop mushie stand.  nobuddy ever goes there..hee hee, or should, without wearing a gas mask at least.


anyhoo, these bookends are so heavy, i think we are all going to need to help push it out there, especially since it is still a little muddy outside and if we get stuck, well there will be no way we can bring it back in for father's day...

so i will get in front and pull but everybuddy else needs to get behind the wagon and push, okay? and remember, do not stop or we will get stuck!   

time for a birthday party :)

 birthday present wrapped - check!   card signed and put in bag -  check! party hat on - check! 
okay, mom, let's go to little miss julia's birthday party!! :) :)

me likey dat: wally world doxie scrubby

A happy little find in the bath section at Walmart, the irony of which was not lost on a certain little kielbasa.

mom , if it is really true that our new dachshund friend likes to take a bath, a) are u sure he is really a doxie, and b)can he totally take my place when it is time for mine next time??

me likey dat: welcome squirrels!

Ever since tiny chumley has come into our lives, we seem to go through a lot of door mats.  Part of it, I think, can be blamed on the extremes of cold and heat in recent years given to us by Mother Nature, but part of it I am sure is due to the comings and goings of a four legged dirty pawed little kielbasa who likes keep tabs on his poopie snake collection and dig holes whenever and wherever possible in his backyard.  And, now that spring is here, chase squirrels and bunnies.

This year the shopping gods seems to have answered not only my usual pleas for a super cute budgety welcome mat that doesn't say welcome on it, but also the pleas from the little hunter himself.

hee hee, mom, r u sure we cannot leave the door cracked open just enough for me to pounce on the squirrels who will see our new mat and think they are welcome to just walk right in?? :)

me likey dat: my new parachubrella

 



dear diary,

yesterday's snow turned into rain  by the afternoon and although this was a great disappointment, i was very glad at least to try out the new umbrella my mom scored at Tuesday Morning earlier this week.  And I am super relieved that she only paid five bucks for it because today me and duk duk hope to saw off the handle stick and turn the rest into a parachute. u know, the kind that explodes out the back of your nitrous foofxide super duper pedal car dragster  to slow it down after it crosses the finish line in first place at the races u planned for this afternoon.  because as u might have guessed by now, that is totally what we are planning to do today. and me and duk duk are so creaming chocobot n lil pink puppy's glam glam glitter go-mobile, let me tell u.

well diary, i must get back to helping duk duk put the flame stickers on our dragster because the race is in one hour.   i hope u have a wonderful sunday too!

toodley-doo,
b. :)

co-presidential inauguration day

...and that concludes the second inauguration of me and duk duk as co-presidents of toyfriend club!

now for the fun we've all been waiting for - the unveiling of our official co-president portrait, soon to be hung in the toyfriend club foyer hall of fame but temporarily hung here now so we could, u know, all see it.

ready?  everybuddy foofie roll please!



(pfweet! foo! blap blap blap blap! ssssssss! squeeek! bup bup bup! pfwooo!)

whoops, looks like chocobot forget his gas mask but he can see it later so okay, everybuddy r u ready? cuz here drops the curtain! 

oooOOOOooOOOOOooooOOooooooo!

(hee hee, u did a wonderful job with our commissioned portrait,  miss amy of amy's portaits on etsy . thank u very much ! :) :)

meet me at gumption junction

"..place balloon on nozzle and pump, taking care to hold balloon tightly in place with hands to ensure proper inflation."   hands?!?!  sheesh, no wonder this is not working. 

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....

o i know! 

maybe mister pumpy just needs a little encouragement so he can do it by himelf - u can do it, mister pumpy !

pump, mister pumpy! 

 pump! pump! pump!  :) :)

shiny new blankie love

Though he hardly needed another one, this super soft and shiny shitake brown blankie I scored on clearance from Marshalls seemed a wonderful birthday present for the little kielbasa, and judging from how he has taken to it, I think he agrees. :)

my doxie treasures: vintage doxies

 

Well hello boys and girls, it's me, Baxter, your roving rover reporter reporting to you today to show you a few more of the doxie treasures here at my house.  Now, I really don't have much to say about them other than, well, here they are and I guess they are pretty cool but no, apparently you and your dukfriend cannot pack them to trade with on your piratey adventures nor should you try unless you want your wii taken away from you for the rest of the day.  Which is why I am reporting to you today, if you know what I mean.

Anyhoo, seeings how we have plenty of time on our hands today, me n duk duk n chocobot n lil pink puppy all thought it would be a great idea to add to the doxie treasures treasure chest by carving a statue of me, out of soap! Which would also be a bonus because once we finish, there would be one less bar to take a bath with.



Anyanyhoo, I have been working on my pose and think this might be a good one, but if you have any ideas, please feel free to let me know. This is Baxter your roving rover reporter wishing you the star shiniest of Sundays! :)

yippee yippee ya ya ya-ya!

Hee hee, okay,  I hardly know how to explain myself,  except to say that sometimes, a person needs a break from researching herniated cervical discs and wading thru the murky stew of risk and uncertainty.  And sometimes, when those breaks happen and say a person's internet research time is spent in seemingly less productive ways? The end result is the happy arrival of a sporty little something for a certain special little someone.

 wooty woOT! mom, it's the ibibyaya s980 petzip happy trailer!! the ibibyaya s980 petzip happy trailer!! only eleven more days to go and then we can yippee yippee ya ya ya-ya! yippee yippee ya ya ya-ya!

hee hee,  voulez-vous promener avec moi? :)

me likey dat: fun for a duk and a dog

hee hee hee, if u see sasquack can u please tell him to hurry up with his costume bcuz bax austin the six million kibble pup is waiting 2 wrestle him in the time tunnel and thru no fault of his own it is quickly filling up with noxious green foofie gas and soon it will not be very habitable for secret agents or sasquacks!

- baxter, 5 years old, anxiously waiting for duk duk so they can play in their new  BUSA tunnel toy :).