home again, home again!

well everyone is FINALLY back home now and i am so relieved! i wish mom would take me and dad with her on her fabric shopping trips to amish country and new york city sometime because i like it best when our family is together no matter where we are. maybe one day...

anyway, this week is gonna be fun because mom brought back her friend's daughter, madeline, to stay with us. today i got to watch mom dye madeline's hair pink. i love it!

more later!

toodles,
b.

homework assignment

Today's entry, compliments of Robin's sweet daughter. Thanks, Madwilly, for taking Baxter's picture and choosing him as the subject of your poem assignment! :)


Baxter is a little like a cat.
He sleeps for hours in the sun like a cat.
But he is still playful like a dog.

He chases bunnies whenever he hunts outside.
He is always tummy tanning when he gets the chance.
Baxter is a little like a cat.

Baxter loves to play with his toys.
He also likes to sleep in the fresh warm laundry from the dryer.
But he is still playful like a dog.

Baxter loves his walks.
He will cuddle with you for hours straight.
Baxter is a little like a cat.

Baxter can do lots of cool tricks.
He can be a man and shake hands.
But he is still playful like a dog.

Baxter is the most lovable dachshund in the whole world.
No dog is like him.
Baxter is a little like a cat.
But he is still playful like a dog.

~Madeline, 13.9 years old, written on her visit to Baxter's house.

best day ever!

dear diary,
today i'm recovering from yesterday because it seems like i ran a jillion and one miles yesterday. but don't feel sorry for me because it was totally like the best day ever! first in the morning, mom let me hunt in the backyard and - YES - i found a rabbit to chase!! mom thought the rabbit was kinda young and inexperienced because it kept running and running around didn't seem to know how to squeeze escape through the fence. all the better for me because i must have lapped the yard like 5 times trying to catch that thing. super cool, i know. i would have been happy with just that, but guess what, when he had to water the garden, dad let me go hunting, too, and the second time i actually found a baby bunny!! something inside me told me to take it in my mouth and make it squeak. oh what a wonderful warm and wiggly squeak it was!!! baby bunnies are like the best toys ever!! i'm not sure why dad reacted like he did but he came rushing over and made me drop it and put me inside the house. it must have scurried away because he couldn't find it when he went back to look for it. i overheard something about being banned from hunting in the backyard for a few weeks til the bunnies are grown but i don't understand what that means. all i know is, it took like forever for me to calm back down from all my excitement, and even after eating rawhide, i still sat right by the back door, begging everybody who walked by to open it just enough so i could go back outside and look for my new bunny toy.

So okay, like that wasn't enough, later i chased my friend madeline all over the house like five times and got so tuckered out again i stayed in my kitchen bed while dinner was being prepared without anybody reminding me. then just when things were looking down on my evening walk because i barked my head off at these big dogs that i wanted to keep their their distance, two puppy mini wiener dogs join the gathering and life was super again! i LOVE being the big kielbasa of the wiener pack!! so i played with little nine month old sasha and her teeny tiny brother, four month old jasper, til almost dark. Then on our way home, i chased one last rabbit back into the woods. I am lovin life!! :)

toodles,
b.

me likey dat: my snackie plate

hey, what's that?

is that what i think it is?

santa forgot to eat the snackie i left for him.

how awful that he missed out on such a delicious snackie.
u don't think he didn't want to eat it cuz i took a tiny nibbleypoo, do u?
i had to make sure it tasted good.

hmm, maybe i should mail it to him.

but maybe he didn't really want it
and he lives so far away.

and my tumbly is feeling a little rumbly...

nommy nom nom.
oh santa won't miss just this one little snackie, will he?
next christmas i promise to leave out a whole plate full.

(tee hee, thank u madeline for making me my very own personalized snackie plate for christmas! luv, b.)