bax tzu's art of more

okay, mom, my tummy says the complimentary period of our fun fun frisbee fetch session is now over.  please deposit ten snackies if you would like to continue playing :) :)

home alone

Tiny chumley never really likes being left home alone, especially when it's too hot out to take him with us on errands. His little ears press back on his head in protest while he wanders off to find a quiet hiding spot, hoping that we will have a hard time finding him even though the best of his hiding spaces are two times too small for his extra long little body.  And when we find him and pick him up to say goodbye, it is obvious that the lucky charms and twinkly stars and rainbow clovers that normally occupy his happy cartoon thought bubble have been replaced by big black scribble balls.

no mom, i am very sorry, cannot look you in the eyes or give you a kiss at this time.   please try again later.  beeeeep - this is a recording.











Thankfully, just as was the case yesterday, by the time we return home all is forgiven, and life is exactly as it should be.
  

yippee! welcome home mom n dad! i barked at three squirrels and two walkers by and the phone rang but i did not pick it up like you made me promise to on account of that time i signed us up for the mega multichannel entertainment cable tv package even though duk duk and me thought it was a great deal and you should really consider it and ooh, do i smell flea market?? didjoo say hello to mister randy for me? and wooty - u brought me some floorcorn!! thank u mom n dad! next time u have to go out, please take me, okay?  :) :)

the hungry games: wet food vs watermelon best 2 of 3results

Why hello friends, it's me, Baxter your roving reporter reporting to you today on the results of my very difficult test, wet food versus watermelon.  And ta-da - can you believe there was the upset of the century in round one because - did u guess it? - watermelon beat wet food!!  I could not believe it either, which is why my tummy wanted to do best 2 out of 3.  And how yep, wet food finally won the day no matter what side it was on.  Although the watermelon appetizer was very nice, I must say.


 

Anyhoo,  I hope you enjoyed finding out the results from today's hungry game and hope that u might try it too.  Who knows, maybe you might just pick a watermelon appetizer too!


This is Baxter your roving rover reporter wishing you a super Saturday!! :)

the hungry games: wet food vs watermelon

Well hello everybuddy, it's me, Baxter, your roving rover reporter reporting to you today cuz my mom spent practically all day shopping for dud fabrics yesterday and so she left it up to me to write today's post.  So I thought, what an excellent time to break out the hardest but yummiest hungry games test yet, canned wet food vs watermelon! I know, it's a super toughie, right?  Like Michael Phelps vs Ryan Lochte tough.  Or even, Scooby Doo vs Benji tough.

Oh, and, to make it more statistically relevant, and way more tummy fulfilling, we are going to do this test not once, not twice, but three whole times!

So place your bets my friends and let me know what u think will happen with each and every test - will I choose the pinky sweet delightful goodness of watermelon like I did when I tested with cherry tomato? Or will I choose palate pleasing poultry goodness?  Or will I even choose the same thing every time?  Oooh the possibilities are endless!

This is Baxter your roving rover reporter wishing you good luck and may the guessing force be with you! :)

brought 2 u by baxter n duk duk: a dj scratch munky & skillit hedd video production featuring maus in dahaus and ottopiLot

What's a little dog and his toyfriends to do when it's cloudy and thundery outside and their plans for the day are spoiled?  Why, adopt electro-house dj personas and write a song about it and make their own music video of course. :)

just chuck it

aw come on mom, just chuck it! ahhhhghhhhhhhhhhhgghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

the hungry games: cherry tomato vs watermelon results

and the answer is....watermelon! :) :)

 

hee hee, thank you for playing with me! now i must go hide bcuz i hear i am overdue for getting my nails done. :)

the hungry games: cherry tomato vs watermelon

Well hello everybuddy, it's me, Baxter, your roving rover reporter, reporting to you today from the Hungry Games where we're just about to start test number 5.  Now, during the commerical break you may have missed a quickie but to some very astonishing upset in the impromptu test, mini vs megasaurus rawhide.  Would I go for the small piece of rawhide first on my right and have it all to myself, or would my very opportunistic tummy choose megasaurus rawhide on my left and only have a few minutes with it?  The results might amaze you...

Now, we're on to today's test, watermelon vs cherry tomato and it's a toughie.  Will my tummy tell me to first go for the cute slices of delicious cherry tomato on my right/your left or the yummy cubes of watermelon on my left/your right? They smell very yummy and are very tempting and I can tell you already the waiting is making me want to bark bark bark! But I will try not to and just put my ears back a little and make my eyes do just like so...

  

Okay my friends, it is time to write in your guess and tomorrow I will tell you the results! This is Baxter your roving rover reporter wishing you a very happy hungry games! :)

little duk sunday

come, play with me-ee-eeeee, and my beau-ti-full, my beau-ti-full duk-keeeeeee!  :)

 

tartar barter

okay mom, u can check my teeth for tartar but today can we please go to the swimming store so me and duk duk can get our matching swim caps and nose clips?  we only have a week to train before the synchronized swimming event starts and i really want to medal in duets. :)

the other white meat

Tiny chumley was thoroughly enjoying his late afternoon nap yesterday, roasting nicely and blissfully unaware of the descending sun's efforts to make him comically look like a trussed up little piggy, ten times more sausagey and humpy than he really is.

whatchoo laughing at mom? did i miss sumptin? hey, do u smell bacon? i smell bacon. mmmm, bacon. :)

felted recollections

Although I am not exactly sure how the presence of little doxie can help add visual explanation to the felted pincushions I soon will be putting on Etsy,  a certain little somepuppy most definitely thought his presence in my pictures was required, and he trundled up to crash my photo shoot accordingly.

mom, you're taking pictures of stuff for etsy? why didntchoo call me?? you know i'm always up for a... hey, i know you made them for the bucktown show, but aren't these the same kinds of things that you -

Um, okay my little friend, howzabout we get you that snackie you earned and you can sit beside me while I finish taking pictures?

okay and yippee! :)

ps - i'll be loading Etsy today and tomorrow so stay tuned if you'd like one! :)

sharko!

 hee hee, sharko polo jumps out of the water and sinks his shiny white teeth into his prize!!

uhm..mahm, canshooh pleesh let go now?

life is..

Tiny Sausage Avenger took a break from barking at everything surrounding the perimeter of his backyard yesterday evening.  The little neighbor misses Sarah and Julia, moms to Mario Snoopy Obi Wan Kenobi, dropped by to say hello and play a what seemed to be sweet game of name repetition and free flowing snackies, with an occasional tap toe and paw shake thrown in for good measure. 

There were totally non-bonuses about being outside in that mosquitoey moist heat, watching Baxter's waistline grow snackie by snackie larger and larger, and yet I hope, as I am sure the little kielbasa and his tummy does, that his little friends will visit again.  Life is a bowl of snackies, and we all should take a bite. :)

dapper doxie dud: secret robo dog!

 

so mom my idea was we would do something like this.  wait- let me clear -  a-a-a-hem - okay.

(en voce meccanica artificiale)
 

meep meep boop beep beep! 

this is robo-baxter from the planet poopiter. 

please take me to your snackie jar now or i will use my super duper foofie rays to..

 












what? no mom i would not actually foofie up jasper's super swell new everyday playdud made from space blue 420 denier pack cloth with robot charm and secret super cute robot fabric inside bcuz u would make stunt dud and that way when it comes to the next scene where robo-baxter and mechatron fight over who has ultimate control of the snackie jar that determines the fate of all the snackie jars of planet earth, we will not have to worry about, u know, getting jasper's new dud all messed up from the molten lava and nuclear fallout snow that we will have made from the gallons of  honey and ketchup and mashed potatoes and stuff that we would need to buy. and then...oh what?  he wants his dud before the summer is over?  sigh. well, okay, we can model it your way...this time.

hee hee hee, i hope u likey likey your new robo-dud, my friend jasper!! and please say hello to your visitor harley for me :) :)

i bark, u bark, we all bark for gelato!

dear diary,
hooray! both our guests here at the motel park n bark decided to stay for an extra night so to celebrate, yesterday mom n dad too me n lulu to get k9 krunchy peanut butter gelato while mario hung out at home with duk duk and chocobot and lil pink puppy to play twenty thousand foofies under the sea.  and i have to say, even though i had to share my snoozer with a girl, i think i totally got the better end of the deal bcuz not only did i get peanut butter gelato, but i actually got to eat the whole thing! and me and lulu each got our own cups so there was no chance for, u know, that lady n the tramp spaghetti kissing stuff to happen (although our cups did touch once or twice but if u tell duk duk that i will so pound u, diary, so please, let's just keep that between u and me, okay?)

anyhoo, today i am not sure what we will be doing to entertain our guests but hopefully it will involve snackies and foofies and yes, at least a poopie snake or five or twelve or infinity so!

toodley-doo!
b. :)

baxter n duk duk's motel park n bark: friday night's alright for foofieing

dear diary,
yippeee! well wouldn'tchoo know it, me n duk duk's  friday night dj disco party for our motel park n bark guests mario and lulu was a success - even though me n and duk duk never did settle on who was dj scratch munkey and who was dj skillit head (yeah, aren't our dj names even more rapsta doogan when u spell them that way? i just thought of that :) ). 

so mom finally shut down our party on account of all the foofie wafting upstairs which actually was good bcuz we were all really tired and so everybuddy slept on the sofa (except mario who slept on his own sofa in his bowl) til it was time to go upstairs at which point i showed lulu to her to the park n bark luxury guest chair bcuz she says with all her long hair she likes to sleep by herself without any covers or anything and then we all said goodnight. luckily, with no kissing involved. well, on me at least.  from lulu. but mom kissed everybuddy goodnight which i guess was okay.

anyhoo, i am sorry to say i think lulu and mario's stays will be ending sometime today but hopefully before they leave and if it is not too hot out, we can all go for peanut butter gelato, so although i am sad to see our guests leave,  i am very excited about that. :)

toodley-doo!
b. :)

the air out there

I love tiny chumley's humble little ways and make do spirit. How he patiently waits when his humans are busy and how he grooms his little toes every night after he gets in bed with us.  And how little things, like the seemingly crazy act of opening the window on a super hot day, can mean the world to him.

mmmmmmm! i smell tomatoes, and i smell bunnies, and ooo - can you feel that wonderful warm air whooshing between your whiskers? :)

dapper doxie duds: fun with pearls and snackies

but mom, it's for penny from stuff on my wiener.  i want to wear it like this so everone will...okay, i will put it on right..

(hwuuuuuuuuup!)

 

Why hello my friends, it's me, Baxter, your roving rover reporter reporting to you today about the pretty dud my mom made for Penny, who you guess by now might be the same Penny from Stuff on My Wiener, because, well, she is!  I'm modeling her super new summer dud.  Let me take a turn around here so we look at it, shall we?








So here we have a pretty pink gingham cotton fabric bound in turquoisey aqua and white polka dot binding and not only is there really cool ribbon and rick rack on it, but there is also a vintage turquoise colored button flower on the snackie pocket! And to make the dud even more special, there is a sterling silver and pretty pink freshwater pearl dangle drop! Do not tell duk duk but  I really like this dud,  because it is so fun and sweet and it reminds me of something u might see in that book we finished in school this past year - you know, Fun with Dick and Jane?  Only you know, fresh and modern. Just like Penny.

So anyhoo, that is my report for today because mom says we might be having another guest tonight. And here at the Baxter and Duk Duk Park N Bark Motel, it is my job to make sure all our guest spots are clean and tidy and foofie free.  Which means I have a lot of work to do considering what me n mario were doing during monkey chow munchies megamusic happy hour yesterday.

This is Baxter your roving rover reporter, wishing you a totally terrific Thursday!! :)

my friend mario: bubble trouble

hey everybuddy, whatchoo lookin at? is mario doing that cool thing again where he stares atchoo and puffs his cheeks up? i really hope he can come visit again when the circus bears come to town again cuz that would be such a cool thing to add to our sideshow.

uh-oh!

so many bubbles! and they were not here just a couple of days ago.

 lil pink puppy, u did not put any bubble bath in mario something something something obi wan kenobi's bowl, didjoo?


and duk duk, u did not...u know, make bubbles in there either, right?

and chocobot was with me playing thunderpoops n ladders all day so hmmmmmm.....


 maybe mario ate too much monkey chow munchies and foofied up his own water!!

 

(blink..blink...blink)

well....o, i know what we can do!

 

do not worry, mario something something obi wan kenobi, the scene is safe! i am going getchoo some of my emergency pepcid and soon your tummy will be as good as new. 

come on duk duk, chocobot, n lil pink puppy, i am going to need all your help to open the drawer under the washer where mom keeps my medicine because even though it is very low it is very heavy. 

we'll be right back mar-

 

why no, mom.  everything is fine.  we are just going to mario some medicine to help with his foofie tummy because as you can see he is bubbling up his bowl and considering his water is like our air i bet that really stinks -- what? oh?? really? 

well i'll be. mario made a bubble nest!   i had no idea fishies were part duk, didjoo?   

godzilla vs goretex

It was all in the name of crafty science that I set up my experiment with the water resistant fabric samples I had received in the mail yesterday.  Taking the time to organize them by color and type then get my glass of water,  and lay them out carefully on the floor in the only spot of sunlight immediately available, right on tiny chumley's vacant bed.  Unusually vacant for this tummy tanning time of day, because the little kielbasa had chosen to sit beside me instead, hoping as he always did that there was something yet inside the envelope especially for him and his rumbly little tummy. 

Drip drip drip. While tiny chumley sat in rapt attention, I made sure every swatch got a hefty few drops of water.  And we saw the drops miraculously beaded on each surface, creating little orbs of glistening goodness. 

"Oooo yes! Well baby dog, to complete our experiment,  we'll need to let the water sit for a few min-- heyyyy" I fell back as Baxter left our tiny tuffet, jaunty trundling away from me with a proverbial lightbulb floating high above his tiny noggin.  "Where are you going little friend? Oh no, waiiit!"

There wasn't much I could do besides grab my camera and watch as my new hatched micro godzilla traipsed and trodded through my experiment like a tiny model town of Tokyo.

rawrrr! rawrrr! (tromp tromp)  take that you - eew, my paw just got wet  (shakey shake) rawrrrr! rawrrrr!

okay mom, i think that's good. is your experiment done now? :)

why yes baby dog, i think it is.

my friend: mario something something something obi wan kenobi

(okay, dad. his name is what again?...wow, really? are you sure?... okay. okay. no, do not worry, we got dis. me n duk duk promised the next door little misses sarah and julia we would take care of their pet fish while they were away at summer camp and a promise is a promise.  plus we can earn our inches in ichthyology and homies in hospitality chipscout badges all at the same time! okay lemme go greet our guest...)

why hello, mario something something something obi wan kenobi! my what a pretty tail you have. me and duk duk will be taking care of you all week long while your moms are away, so please, relax and enjoy your stay and let me know if there is anything me or duk duk can get you to help make you comfortable in our home.  which, really, probably doesn't feel much different than your home because well technically you are still in your home but your home is located in our home for now so yes, if there is anything me or duk duk can do for you, mario something something something obi wan kenobi, just let me or duk duk know. and, don't forget - we will be offering complimentary monkey chow munchies during our megamusic happy hours here in the kitchen every day from 5pm to 6pm, and continental poopie snake snackfasts in the mornings from 9am to 10 am, with additional delicious tomato snackies available on the deck outside anytime.  i hope you enjoy your stay with us and if you need anything, mario something something something obi wan kenobi, my name is baxter! :) :)

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! :)

tomorrow we can always harvest more

Tempted by the rumblies in his tummy, tiny chumley teetered on naughtydom when we finally came back inside to oooh and ahh over the tomato bounty that was yesterday's harvest, certain that he deserved more than the four tomatoes that he already had while we were outside harvesting and anxious to increase that number to 

...five or six or seven or eight or...well, why not the whole bowl, mom?? tomorrow we can always harvest more :):)

 

the usual suspects

okay, duk duk, be very quiet and just lie still like we have been sleeping here for a very long time and when mom comes by to ask about who did u know what u know where, just blink your eyes and thump your tail and not only might she think it was not us, but we might even get a snackie, dontchoo think? :):)

twenty three

Tiny chumley decided he was feeling a little wolfy yesterday, playing quietly by my side in the morning and carefully nibbling away at his headless chipmunk toyfriend's extremities before ptooing them all aside in search of it crunchy squeaky center, which he also ptooed eventually, with tail wagging sated delight.

twenty three, mom! it takes twenty three bites to get to the crunchy center of mister chipmunk!! :)

the yippee skippee dance

hooray, mom says i have been so good with taking pictures of our new happy hound hats  for etsy that i am going to get a special treat today. i hope this means i will be getting a snackie  or two or three or...oooo i know what i want! and, i finally have a chance to prove to duk duk that all those afternoons of us watching aquaman instead of scooby doo was worth it. okay, lemme try to...

buh-buh-buh-buh-buh. buh-buh-buh-buh-buh. oh please mom give me some rawhide..buh-buh-buh-buh-buh...please gimme some rawhide...buh-buh-buh-buh...rawwwwhiiiiidddde....

hee hee hee, yippee skippee it worked!! :) :)  

u say tomato, i say yummy!

With weather this past weekend even in the early morning and late evening still too hot for walkies, sometimes all one can do to help a little kielbasa enjoy his summer is to harvest the Big Tomato outside his window,  and let him gnaw away to his tummy's content...

oooo so yummy! thanks mom -  u have no idea how long i have wanted a piece o dat!!! :)

  

etsy fresh: happy hound party & pirate hats

Yippee! A few weeks ago while browsing on Etsy, I realized there was a big little something missing from the crafty world.  Happy little hats, made especially to fit a variety of sizes of our stubby legged sausage dog friends, even wiggly ones like Baxter's little friend Lulu.

And so, after a few weeks of toiling away behind the scenes developing and making making making,  happy little handmade hats are finally starting to find their way the etsy shop.  The kind of happy little hats that every waggy tailed dachshund needs to blow out the candles on their very own birthday cake, party with their toyfriends, and sail away on special happy go lucky summer adventures.










The little kielbasa and I will be taking a break from blogging this weekend so we can finish our etsy work, but we'll be back on Tuesday with more happy go lucky adventures. 

Have a wonderful weekend, friends! :)

baxter and duk duk's proper policies for polite pirates: interacting with girls

if a girl licks u, always wait until she turns away before kaacking off the cooties.

my visit with lulu & happy 4th of july!

dear diary,
hooray! yesterday my friend lulu came to visit for the day and i got to show her all the favorite things i like to do in the summer, like sniff the morning air from my open window and eat my daily tomato and why, yes,  we even did a little pirate training.  well, okay it started off as pirate training but somehow it turned into a garden tea party.  which lil pink puppy n chocobot were all excited about but for me n duk duk, not so much if u know what i mean. but lulu was our guest so you know, instead of there being a lot of arrrrr mateys like i was hopin,  the conversation was all, wouldjoo like one lump or two, and, fiddle dee dee, weren't the monkey chow scones with clotted cream just deee-lightful? (okay, don't tell duk duk but yes they were and boy i hope lulu makes them again sometime. and no i do not need a sister or a girlfriend.)

anyhoo, diary, i am really glad i got to spend time with my friend lulu and i am also glad that today is the 4th of july because u know what that means - it's grillin time! and it means i must run and help my dad by licking stuff off the deck so sadly, i must now bid you a fond...

toodleydoo!
b. :)

p

dapper doxie duds: Bucky Badger Bucky Jumpers

Buck-a-buck-a-roooooooooo!  It's Bucky Badger time, it's Bucky Badger time! Hee hee hee, hello my friends, it is me, Baxter, your roving rover reporter reporting to you today about the swell Bucky Badger dud my mom finished for my friend Linus.

Now, I have never really heard of this Bucky Badger fella, and I don't really know what badgers sound like, but he looks like he might sound like the kind of guy u do not want to cross, even if he buckadoodleroos if you know what I mean.  So, I think this Bucky guy probably has a lot of enemies and if a Bucky Badger friend does not live under Bucky's protection close to home in the faraway Land of W, well, then Bucky Badger friend like Linus might need to be subtle about showing his support for Bucky Badger.  Which is why mom says Linus's dud on the outside is a subdued, refined statement of Bucky affection while the inside is all I LOVE BUCKY BADGER!  And I don't know about you, but I LOVE HIS SNACKIE POCKET! Whoops, sorry, that was just my tummy talking, and even though I have a few more pounds to lose..boy is it telling me to..so hard to resist...okay okay...

(ssssnnnnnnniiiiifffffffffff!)

Oh salmon crunchiezzz. They smell so terriffic!  Um, this is (crunchy crunch) Baxter, your roving (crunch) rover reporter, wishing you (crunchy crunch crunch) a fond - whoops, didn't mean to spit crumbs on you - (crunch crunch gulp) bucka buckaroo!  :)

ps - Linus I hope you love your new dud and please say hi to Ike and send my best healing regards to  Otto :) :) <3