the hungry games: strawberry vs blueberry

Well hello again my friends, it's me, Baxter, chief yummyologist and roving rover science reporter reporting to you today with the result from our first ever trials in the Hungry Game. Shall we jump right to it? The first test was strawberry versus blueberry. And the question is, which one will I want to eat first?  My tummy says...

Hee hee, yeah that was too easy, right? But they were both very delicious, let me assure you.  Now, the second test would be a little trickier to guess if u knew that I am right pawed and therefore tend to choose the thing that is on my the right side.  Will I go for the one piece of kibble on my right, or break with tradition and choose more?  My tummy says...

 

 But wait, if I chose strawberries over blueberries and chose more over less, what will I do when faced with the difficult decision in this next test between more blueberries and less strawberries? The answer?   

 

Well my friends, that is all my diet will allow me to test for now, but do not worry, I am certain we will be playing this game again and when I do, my tummy and I will be sure to report about it to you. This is Baxter, your roving rover science reporter and chief yummyologist, wishing you a very happy and delicious Monday!! :)

introducing: the hungry games!

Why hello, it's me, Baxter, your chief yummyologist and roving rover science reporter.   I'm here today to report to you on a special new segment I like to call The Hungry Games.  And it's all about someone I know very well - me! Only here in the Hungry Games, I'm turning the tables and asking you how well you know me - or your own pup! 

To play along in the Hungry Games is really easy, because all you have to do is guess which snackie I or your pup will eat first in each test.  Today there are three tests - strawberry vs blueberry, one vs three pieces of kibble, and three blueberries vs one strawberry.  Do you think you know the answers? Did you try this with your own hungry little friend?  If so, feel free post your comment here or on my facebooky .  And tomorrow, I will let you know the answer to my tests!! :)

This is Baxter your roving rover science reporter wishing you a very cool sunday and bidding you,  dooo deee dooo dooo doooo dooo dooo!

early in the morning

Well, try as he might with muscles straining under dawn's early light, the early morning doxie doesn't always catch his bunny, but at least he gets his walkies in before the heat of day arrives. :)

happy unicorn appreciation day!! :)

 

hee hee hee, yippee the guest of honor is here!  okay okay.  is everybuddy ready? 

meee mee meee meee mee meee meeeeeeee... meee meee meee meeee mee meee meeeeeeeeee...okay everybuddy, in the key of "o christmas tree!"



"oooo chocobot, o chocobot!
we really love u yes we do.
o chocobot o chocobot!
you're really cool and stinky too.

so here's the gift, we got for you

it's really pretty, and shiny too!

o chocobot! o chocobot!

you are our unicorn and we appreciate yooooooou!"

okay everybuddy now it's time to take our unicorn appreciation day picture! don't forget to say...

 

cheeez!

happy unicorn appreciation day!! :)

weigh in

mom, i really do not like how that big dog looked at me when we came in here.  didjoo see how he looked at me? and are you sure this weigh in is really necessary? cuz even though my tummy has been very unhappy about it, i have been really good about doing this diet thing for almost a month now. and i have been doing my sit ups every day and skipping the monkey chow milkshakes when me n dad watch cartoons on saturday mornings and u know i have been chasing bunnies, like, every day.  even dad says i look thinner now.  and my orange dud is all flappy on me.  why, i betchoo that i'll be needing 25% more food after we see how much i...

noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

i still need to lose 3 pounds?  three whole pounds? that's like, the same amount i needed to lose a month ago, only now i am hungrier...so much hungrier....

mom, i know i have lost the same amount of weight before and i know it will take more time than just a month to lose it, but do you think we can call doctor tushie man and make sure he meant an ideal weight of 17 to 18 pounds on planet earth and not on the planets venus or uranus??? cuz my tummy says he would me more than happy for all of us to relocate to either planet if that would help us achieve our goals faster. :) :)

gettin piggy wit it

and this little piggy stretched out on his deck to soak in the morning sun. :)

evening walkie

Even after coolness starts to take back the evening, it's still a pretty warm walkie for all of us this time of year, but especially so for the little kielbasa,  who still wouldn't trade his walkies for anything, outside maybe an actual bonafide opportunity to get medieval on all those cwazy wabbits that we encounter just beyond his reach.

mom, i know we are back home and  my tongue is practically dragging on the ground and there are mosquitoes everywhere but can we please stay out in the front yard for a while? i smell bunnnnieeees!!

la mia panacea

dear santa,
i know i am writing u early and i know mom says i do not need one but will you please consider giving me the D9000 mega super long extendo leash like my friend iris has for christmas this year if not sooner bcuz as u can see here i am totally missing out on all the bunny chasing action with the shorty leash that mom likes to use on our walkies and well, as you might imagine, not being able to satisfactorily fulfill my instinctual hunger to chase bunnies can lead to other problems like taking out all my wolfy aggressions on my toyfriends and getting all barky with the neighbor dogs, the actions of which i am hoping you will see should totally not count against me when considering my eligibility for nice list this year bcuz if i only had the D9000 mega super long extendo leash then i could chase the bunnies like i want to so all my wolfy needs would be met and all the naughty things i have done or are am about to do or did yesterday would not have happened. including barking at my friend toby and that puppy that i thought was scary and iris's friend biscuit.

anyhoo, santa, i hope u r having a wonderful summer making things like my mom is too which i will hopefully help her put on etsy soon and i hope u will seriously consider my request for the D9000 mega super long extendo leash and or amnesty from the naughty list for actions which are sure to be was and were beyond my control as i am and may forever be instinctually unfulfilled if i do not get this leash.

thank you for your consideration and toodleydoo!
baxter

ps - duk duk, chocobot, and lil pink puppy all say hi. :) oh and if u make the D9000 mega super extendo leash in iron man or scooby doo, that would be swell.  otherwise maybe green or black, but u know, in high gloss metallic finish with contrast reflective glow in the dark pinstriping and built in snackie comparment.  :)

pssssst!

psssst! can u do me a favor and keep a secret? tell duk duk i will meet him here behind the curtains and we can work on our pirate trip bcuz i today am totally hiding from mom and mister bubbles and their stinky ol bath that i did not get last week! 
 

five

So, I've hit my Must Take Action or Risk Operational Computer Kaflooeyblooey limit oh, at least three times now. Once when I only had 30GBs of remaining free hard drive space, again when I reset my abitrary limit to 10 GBs because, well things seemed to still be working fine, and now, when I have less that 5GBs of free space left. And, well, I could easily fill that up in a week or less if I'm not careful.  I really shouldn't push my luck, should I?  So yesterday and this weekend, I will be taking a break from creating new pictures as best I can, and scrubbing my photo files before they are offloaded on an external hard drive and perhaps into cyber space (what do u use?).  Which means today, we go back into the file vaults of 2010, when there was hardly a gray hair on somepuppy's little chinny chin chin, and his bright pink tongue was as long as it ever was.

o i remember that car ridey mom! it was near the end of 2010 and u gave me a snackie and it was dee-licious!

um, mom, may i please have another snackie now? :) :)

x marks the spot

I had been struggling for hours figuring out the likes of bezier curves and messing with RGB filters and raster and vector layers yesterday.  Climbing mountains of frustration as I plodded thru unfamiliar software built with an English based vocabulary, that still could have been better understood by Martians.

"Really? You can't just use the word Menu instead of Palette?  How bout say smooth lines instead of anti-aliasing?  Why isn't there a simple slider control for zoom, especially since I don't have a Num button on my keyboard? Why caN'T I PUT TEXT ON MY OBJECT INSTEAD OF AROUND IT?  WHERE Is the thingy to...Why can't I ...how do I....I don't even know how to ask!!" Yeah, it was that kind of day, stumbling in the dark despite the sunlight all around me, gaining an inch for every mile I slid back, trying to unlock the powers of what I knew would be graphic design nirvana if only I stuck with it long enough.  Nobody bug me, please,  I'm pushing electrons.

By the time evening had rolled around yesterday, poor little tiny chumley had had enough of being ignored all day.  With the sun setting, and speckled with tiny bits of floor flotsam that he had picked up from rolling all over the carpet in hopes of tearing me away from my white whale, Baxter trundled up in the waning daylight and stared at me.

mom, if there is anything i can help u with, please let me know okay?

I moved my cursor over the X on the upper right hand of my "palette" and clicked.  Well baby dog, I think you just did.   :)

the daily tomato

For weeks now tiny chumley has patiently been watching the cherry tomato plants by his window grow, barking at the squirrels and biting at the buzzy bees as best he could from the inside of his house, all to protect his plants, all while watching his green orbs ever so slowly grow larger and redder.
























This week, his diligence has paid off, with the bottommost tomatoes of one of his plants ripening, one fruit at a time, one day at a time.

oooh mom, is that what i think it is? 

(slidey slide)

 order up please!! :) :)

Hee hee, and thus begins our summer of the daily tomato. :)

summer siesta

With temps back in the 90s, yesterday was a good day to stay inside, and for some little wiener boys at least, dream of delicious duck. :)

tastes like chicken

Little did I know how special tiny chumley's little wet food treat was going to be when I pulled the blue can from the shelf and carelessly opened it up, never bothering to look at the label. I was in a bit of a rush since we had just finished doing his nails and it was time for his rawhide reward, and well, okay, I wanted to see what he would do if given the option of abandoning rawhide prize number one for the possibly more enticing wet food reward on pedestal number two, in our own little makeshift game of Let's Make a Deal.  Which is how, by the way,  I found out my sweet little boy would be a bit of cheat if he ever met up with Monty Hall, opting as he did after some anguished deliberation to abandon his rawhide and gobble up the scoop of tasty prize number two, only to then in a flash, retake prize number one, and skip skip skippy off with it before I could even say anything.

gee thanks mom that was super tasty c u later buh bye back in a bit and may i have some more of that stuff tomorrow?? :) :)

But, my story doesn't just end there.  The blue can did come out again for Monday's lunch, and only then did I wonder why baby dog was going absolutely bonkers over the stuff.  I mean, I know the little kielbasa was hungry and it's been a while since he's had canned food, but still...baby dog's reaction was practically primeval.  My eyes settled upon the text of the can as I took out the second spoonful.  The can that used the same color blue as is on the bag of diet kibble by that same brand which is why i picked it.  The can that  I thought would read "weight management formula - chicken and turkey."  The can that actually read, "95% duck."

Wait wait -  duck?  DUCK??   Oh...duuuuck!

I was slightly embarrassed to find myself reacting as I did, wondering about the moral implications of feeding duck to a dog whose best toyfriend is a duk.  But I was pretty certain that admitting it to anybody but you would would most certainly get me admitted.

mom, it's okay.  we will only eat this one can and not tell duk duk and besides, he eats hot dogs all the time and u do not see me saying anything at all.  we have an understanding.  plus, it tastes a lot like chicken.  :) :)

nothing 2 see here

Oh Baxterrrr, where are you and what are you doOOoooinng?  You didn't snitch your new toyfriend from the bag I left on the stairs, did you?

uhhhhhmmmm...no, mom?

but as there is clearly nothing 2 see here, i will come over to where you are and help u look for it, okay? :) :)

sometimes the tummy wants what it wants, even on fathers day...

happy father's day dear daaa-aaad! happy father's day to yoooouuuu! ....and ma-nee morrrrrrre!

okay, when's lunch? :):) 

baxter & duk duk's super short silent videos: tunnel walking

Sometimes I think it would be swell if doxies came with a slow motion button, if only to capture the cuteness of things we might otherwise miss, like a happy tail, swishing along the inside walls of a play tunnel. :)

(ps - click on the gear on the lower right of the video frame to switch the resolution to HD because boo hoo, apparently one can no longer specify resolution at which a video should play. thank u for supporting my OCD)

poopwinked

 

Hey, Baxter, guess what time it is!!!! 

ooo, mom i am all ears! hmm, is it walkie time?

Nope, guess again!

maybeee..snackie time?

No, even betterrr!

oooOOOOooOOoo, dinner time?

Keeeep guessing!

oh my goodness! is it - rawhide time??

Well, baby dog....

..nope! It's time for a bath!!!

homeslice

a slice of tomato

from my very own garden,

i cannot wait for more!

- baxter, 5.5 years old, too excited to sit still for pictures with his very first homegrown tomato slice of the season

bored

no mom,  i have not run into any naughty noisy boys with nothing to do up here. didjoo..hear something.. from somewhere else...maybe? :) :)

land shark

i am a land shark

jumping out to catch his prey.

watch your fingers mom!

- baxter, 5.5 years old, and very happy that school is over so he can start his summer vacation. :)

baxter & duk duk's dangerously dubious skills for daring dogs and duks: lesson 24

(hhhhwwwwweeehhh...hhhhhbbbbpppplllttttt!)

(hhhhhhhwwwwweeehhhhh....hhhhhhhpppppppbbbbbllllllttttwweee!)

oooo! didjoo heawr dat hduk hduk? i hthink hwee almoth goth it hthat time! othkay hmohm, hmehbhee hwee need htoo tryh it wif youwr hfingerth a liddle farthurh up thith time othkay? i am hpretty hthure thoon i will bhee able htoo hail a khab hfor hyoo hin hnew york thitty!! :) :)

- baxter, 5.5 years old, on spending his lazy Sunday afternoon trying to learn how to whistle :)

i swallowed it :)

Even though tiny chumley relishes his strawberry treats, whole plump and delicious berries the size of his nose are often gone in an instant, chomp chomp gulped so quickly that I've hardly had a chance to pet him and tell him what a good boy he is and how special-..heeyy, what happened to your strawberry little boy?


well mom, i swallowed it!  may i please have another??

Which is why his meals now often looks like this.  The breakfast of tiny chomping champions. :)

dapper doxie duds: i like watermelon

dear diary, 
yippee! yesterday i got to model the dud mom finished for my new friend peyton and i am really excited bcuz it has a watermelon on it because peyton likes watermelon and hey i wonder if we still have any watermelon...nope..o well. so anyhoo my new friend peyton is a smooth black and tan whose mom said he would not be afraid to mix plaid and stripes and well certainly the same must be true about mixing dots and watermelons and bring bold happy colors, right?  and although he is not nearly as big as me, he is still big enough that i can model it. which was such a relief bcuz i was really hoping to earn my snackies yesterday,and well, i did!

so peyton, if u r reading my diary, i just wanted to say i hope u really like your new festive dud and if u get any watermelon please do tell me all about it because boo hoo we do not have any here.  o, and i hope u r having a very wonderful weekend!!

toodley-doo!
b. :)

born me

hee hee hee. keeping him alert while he searches for delicious poopie pythons, the magnificent mighty lion's senses tingle while he forages in the african forest.  silence surrounds him. too silent, he thinks. he pauses to sniff the air. something's not quite right. 

rrrrrRRRRARWwwwwrrr! 

who dares to challenge this magnificent and mighty lion's authority by interrupting him during his lunch time hunt?

(blink.)

(blink blink)


hey where did everybuddy - are the cameras still rolling?  duk duk?? is that real lunch i smell?? how come nobuddy ever tells me these things??

 o there he is! hee hee - hey, duk duk! yeah i see u.  there better be some lunch left for me by the time i get up there or i'll pound that leopard skin right off u, tarzan boy!! :)

the velvet underpaw

I am not exactly sure if there's an actual name for the soft furry patches hidden on the backs of stubby chubby little doxie paws, and for that, I adore their secret velvety goodness even more.  :)

careers in pirating

 





but mooooommmmm! i heard somebuddy was in town today and me n duk duk  were just getting ready to wrap the copper and attach the electrodes for our..um...yeah okay okay u r right and they really are super delicious...thank you jasper and miss amy for the pumpkin blueberry treats.  they are very very tasty and could not have come at a better time because if the electro magnet that we are making for no particular reason fails to work properly then maybe i can still attract a certain somebuddy by doing a super cool trick like this...for no particular reason...hey have u ever watched iron man? because mom never lets us but we know what he looks like from all the lunchboxes and notebooks that the kids at school have and well, besides being able to iron clothes what else can he do? like, maybe...row a pirate ship.....i hope??

shop shop! father's day is not this weekend but next and didjoo get your cards yet?

 

shh, please be very quiet.  i am hiding here under the table trying to give a scary big dog the stink eye so he hopefully does not come near me. which, i am not sure if it is really working because i can smell stink all around me and it is not necessarily coming from my eyes if u know what i mean.   but while we are waiting for the stink to clear, maybe i can help u choose a father's day card from my mom's etsy shop because this year i made four different styles that say different stuff in them and father's day is not this weekend but the next on June 17th so it will be here before u know it and if you do not have your cards already, you do not want to wait too long to buy them otherwise who knows what the post office might do because they still are not happy that me n duk duk tried to send his cousin poopie snakes in what we did not know at the time was a perforated container on a very hot and rainy day and needless to say that did not go over the way we planned and we had to say goodbye to our wii for a while. 

oh, and did i also mention that since me and duk duk will be pirating the seven seas this summer, that depending on we are, we might not be able to celebrate unicorn appreciation day in person this year??  if you are also in the same position then u might also want to send a unicorn appreciation day card  and lucky for you we made some of those too. because our unicorn appreciation day is set for July 29th but everybuddy knows u celebrate unicorn appreciation day every day. :)

well thank you for keeping me company and holding your breath for so long.  i will c u tomorrow! :)

weekend brunch

Tiny chumley's eyes grew ten times their size when the waiter brought my apparently oversized order of focaccia french toast to our table yesterday, and I wondered for a brief second if our little lunchtime outings were turning our tiny hound into a giant sized mooch.

But then I realized that his eyes were fixed not on my entire dish, but the delicious and very humble tiny tummy sized strawberry prize.

ooooo, mom! may i pleeze have your strawberry??

Why yes, baby dog, you most certainly can. :)
 

i've pooped everywhere man

Why hello, it's me, Baxter, your roving rover reporter.  Reporting to you today from one of my favorite places to bark at dogs and snitch floor corn, the flea market.  I'm here today not only bcuz it is such a wonderful day out, but because my friend Mister Randy is here and he is not only very interesting to visit with, but he always has such interesting things.  This is his booth, right here behind me.  Yeah, my dad is carrying me.











Now, you never know what you will find at Mister Randy's booth, butchoo can bet you will always find something.  I did.  But I cannot tell you about it just yet bcuz it is a surprise. But I can tell you that Mister Randy travels all over the backroads of our country and not only finds interesting things but interesting people and tasty food to eat, and he even posts very cool pictures about them on his blog, I've Been Everywhere Man, whichoo can also likey on Facebook as Jersey Picker.  Who knows, I might even show up on there soon bcuz as u can see in the lower left picture, he was trying to take a picture of me when I got all Barney Barko on a big dog that I spied just behind him.  Yeah I showed him. That big dog, not Mister Randy.

Anyhoo, I had a very fine time and I think you would too so if you have a flea market near you and the weather is nice, why not go for a walkie and talkie and if you are lucky, you might even get to make new friends as cool as Mister Randy.  Or at least sniff a new doxie tushie or two. 

This is Baxter your roving rover reporter wishing you a very smelly Sunday! :)