i am predacon

Yippee, some new vintage treasures are now in the little kielbasa's dukdukdoxie etsy store today, photographed just yesterday morning in the garage before things got nice n steamy toasty in the afternoon.

Tiny chumley, of course, was there to help like he always does, curiously sniffing about behind the scenes til something just beyond his reach piqued his interest. And then Baxter proved that even a dog as long as a doxie can still make himself even longer when necessary.

oooh just a couple more inches! come on now. what was it i learned on the cartoons yesterday? oh yeah - mecha-giraffabot, transform!!

ps - to celebrate memorial day use coupon code REMEMBER10 at checkout and get 10% off all items in the dukdukdoxie shop! Good now thru Memorial day! :)

medium rare

Whoever came up with the expression about letting sleeping dogs lie never had the pleasure of living with a happy little snoozing wiener dog roasting in the sun - who as we all know needs a little squeeze now and then to be checked for doneness.


moooooom, that was funny like, never ago. can i please go back to sleep now??

no extra charge

It's hard to believe that with all the things the little kielbasa and i have played fetch with, sticks have not been one of them. But that was easily remedied yesterday during training outside, when tiny chumley fetched stick after stick that I threw, all for the bargain price of his lunchtime admission.

i bring u stick, u give me snackie.  
i bring u stick, u give me snackie. 
and the happy happy jaunty jaunty in my step? no extra charge!   :)

get crafty: the big little

Today, a peekypoo at a project that the little kielbasa and I have been messing with all week long,  Not that it took a lot of time to do, so much as it took some time to shop (at Home Goods - yippee!) , and shop some more (at the art supply store - second yippee!), and well, of course if I am going to be out and about, shop at the nearby thrift stores (third yippee's a charm!). 

The result of all this shopping and ten minutes of effort?  A very giant kielbasa boy, all done on a tiny budget! :)


ooooh, sniffed the little kielbasa when he examined the finished product, finally a me as big as i think i am!

cornered

dear diary,
so mom tells me i was a naughty boy yesterday, cuz when she asked me to come help her take sumptin to the mailbox, i totally ignored her and darted off into the street to bark at the fixit guy across the way. and that is how i ended up here, in the naughty corner. where i had to do my schoolwork for the day all by myself and think about what i had done. without a wii or duk duk or anythin. because i was naughty.

mom says i was so naughty that we are going to spend an extra ten minutes every day just training. outside.  no matter if it is raining or sunny or hot or cold.  because i did not listen to her and we were very lucky this time that i did not get hurt. and mom says she never wants anything to happen to me that would cause us to be apart. and she is right.

so if u see duk duk in school today before i do, please tell him that i will be late to recess.  cuz mom and i will be training. outside.  no matter if it raining or sunny or hot or cold. 

toodley-doo,
b. :)

desperately seeking bunny

dear diary,
so as u may know, not many of my bunny friends have visited my yard this spring to play a game of chase with me, so i asked mom yesterday morning if we could go looking for them, cuz i was a little worried.

so we went for a walkie in the neigborhood next to mine, cuz everyone calls it bunnyville for a reason, u know?  but can u believe no matter how hard i looked,  i did not see or smell a single bunny? and nobody left a message saying they saw one either?? in fact the only thing i did see was a skink and he wasn't too crazy about being chased.  but he did tell me something interesting.  that foxes have probably moved into the area.  and boo hoo u know what that means right?  the bunnies have made friends with the foxes who can stay out later than i can and that means the bunnies are too tired to visit, much less play chase with me.

oh to be a fox without a curfew.  that would be so cool, wouldn't it? if i were a fox, i would name myself fonzie, cuz i would be that cool.  and duk duk could be pinky tuscadero.  because he would be cool too but there is only one fonzie and i just dibbed that. and the bunnies would be, like, the cunninghams and all the people that hang out at al's diner.  and those would be happy days.

anyhoo, on account of my not being able to find any bunnies outside, yippee, at least mom is letting me n duk duk watch bugs bunny cartoon all day today.  and we can stay in our pajamas all day. but if u happen to see the bunnies tomorrow can u please tell them that i miss them and that i hope they visit soon?

toodley-doo,
b :) 

 

eye spy

my little brown eyes

looking for bunnies to chase.

o where did they go??

- baxter, 4.4 years old, on having spent his sunny Monday afternoon with one eye open, patiently waiting for a bunny sighting in his yard.

school picture

mom, my tummy is a little rumbly and me so bored. 
is there anything i can do to earn a snackie?

Why, yes, my little friend, in fact I just finished setting up this display so we can take your picture for the school yearbook. What do you think?

meh, it's okay i guess.  do i have to pose with this stuff? i'm four years old now.

Hmmm... well, baby dog, no I guess you don't have to.
And you are old enough to dress yourself now. How bout
you pick out some things from your closet and come back
when you are ready?

yippee! i will be right back.

And if you see duk duk tell him his turn will be next.

yeah yeah sure mom. tee hee hee, okay are u ready?

ta-dah!

hee hee hee, best school picture ever! i can't wait til everybuddy gets a load of me in the yearbook! :)b

rained out

dear diary,
so this was what it looked like last saturday, u know, when it was all sunny n nice out? cuz this weekend? stormy n unpredictable.  which is the pits cuz i so wanted to work on my botany badge for pup scouts.  but do not feel too sorry for me diary, cuz at least with the rain and stuff mom let me and duk duk fill the bathtub all the way to the brim with water and that was swell cuz then duk duk got to swim. and me, well, let's just say i made bubbles.  as best i could from keepin all four of my paws on the edge of the tub cuz u know i have never swum before, which made it sorta bad for duk duk cuz it was kinda hard balancing and with me teetering around so much it wasn't like all my bubbles got made underwater, if u know what i mean. but then he tried pullin me in and lucky for me i saw him out of the corner of my eye so i jumped off but it made a big sploosh anyway then mom came in and that was the end of that. except that she made duk duk wipe up the bath water and i had to spray air freshener all around.

anyhoo, if the weather is still bad today mom said me n duk duk can play with the wii and then help her do laundry.  yeah, i know that sounds not so fun til u remember that at the end of every laundry load is a hot fresh steaming pile of goodness.  i cannot wait to bake!

toodley-doo!
b. :)

paper goodies packaging

If only the little kielbasa did have thumbs, he could have helped out as much as he wanted to for all of yesterday's doings.  But as it was, mostly, all tiny chumley could do was watch as I unpacked my yippee skippee package of paper goodie packaging, and as I pulled out new potential wall art from my paper drawers.  And as I shifted about one thing or another in the family room, making nail holes in the walls and never exactly convinced if the changes I made were the changes I wanted.


don't u have anything i can do for u today, mom?  baxter asked as he bulldozed his way into my lap while I was contemplating a swap out of the mirror over our fireplace for either a reasonably sized or a generously sized poster of the little kielbasa that I had ordered eons ago.  cuz if u got nothin for me to do,  i think we should totally go to the grocery store and get the fixins for homemade snackies and then make them and eat them!

Sorry baby dog, not today.  But soon, because I am just as ready as you are to get back to making things! :)

fishy fishy joy joy

oooh salmon and herring dog food for me? somebuddy tie me down before i float away with glee!! :)

- baxter, 4.4 years old, on his special little meal treat to celebrate the completion of his family room's new hardwood floor.

front window

So yeah with the house all discombobluated we've been kinda of missing our evening ritual of watching tv all spread out on the sofa, but then times like this are perfect for reminding myself that all the entertainment we ever need is right down by our ankles, especially when a certain little someone is sitting on his tuffet, barking at his birds and prey :)

jour d'hier

dear diaree,
i am writeeng to you today eeen zee frencsh accent  because you see my day might sound a leetle more, how u say, interesting. because realleee, most of zee day i tried to bark at zee mister tastee ankles and heez elper but zey did not leesten and so zere vas not much to do except be sneakeee and zen zee lunch time rolled ah-round and i did not care ah-nee zee-more about anzeetheengk except zee nap and tummy tanning.

eet eez a shame zat zee duk duk vas not ere becauze togezer we might ave impressed zem with some mime like we learned on ze you tube and maybee zen zey would give us delicious snackees.  ah vell, zere eez always tomorrow. until zen, i suppose i vill study ze frencsh language more becauze i do not believe zees frensch cheat sheat duk duk gave me eez veree accurate.

auf wiedervoir!
b. :)

little dog big room

Little mister helpful was rather disappointed that he was told to stay in his bed while his mom and dad moved the big stuff out of the family room in preparation for today's floor work, but his sunshiny bright rainbow vision quickly resumed once the hubbub died down and it was apparent that we were done for the day. 

oooh, such a large play space you made for me! and such wonderful smells from the floor. are u sure we need to replace it? cuz it smells perfectly stinky fine 2 me! :)

distraction

Sometimes the best shot of the day doesn't capture what's going on in front of the camera, but rather what's going on around it. Tiny chumley dutifully worked for his snackie and sat where I asked him to after our picnic at the park, but he quickly decided that my request only applied to his tushie. Which left his head very much free to do as it pleased, which of course meant it had to look at the very noisy little bird big bird festoosh happening over yonder.

see, mom? it's not just little ol me bein barky at all the big dogs. just look at that sparrow wailin on that crow! now may my tushie and i please go so we can watch up closer? cuz duk duk's so gonna want to know all about it and i need to take notes so i can get better at scaring off big dogs too.

reading is fundamental

dear diary,
sometimes when duk duk and i get too rambunctious chasin each other or doin something interestin like seein who can make the loudest tushie burp (yeah u know what i really mean but mom won't let me type that), mom makes us settle down and do a little reading, which actually is really fun in a quiet sort of way. and it just so happened i needed to find out the meaning of a word i heard in school the other day, so duk duk and i decided to take a look at the swell dictionary mom got us at the thrift store. and do u know what? we had so much fun that before we knew it, we almost missed watching our scooby doo cartoons. luckily we did not though duk duk said he had set up the dvr to record it just in case. phew!

anyhow, besides havin a fun time reading i also got to take off my reading glasses and play and dig outside for what also seemed like forever cuz mom was cleaning off the deck and planting stuff. that was fun too but i might not have dug so many holes had i realized i had to take a bath after. duk duk said he was glad he stayed inside and played with the wii and i do not blame him cuz right now i smell like lavender and oatmeal and both those smells either belong on a girl or the dinner table.

well that was my saturday, and today me n duk duk are going to make mom a mother's day card. whatchoo doin, diary?

toodley-doo!
b. :)

double posties: etsy fresh goodies

Yippee! New paper goodies came in the mail yesterday and I couldn't wait to post them to kalyxcraftopia, and share a peekypoo here.  Cuz, it's all about the shake, howdy-do, and hello, isn't it?

And, in case u were ever wondering, I've finally figured out the best way to maintain visibility on Etsy is to not post a large quantity all at once for any given item, so worry not if you wanted one of these fine little chumley gems and find they're all gone in the store.  Chances are, especially this early on, that I unglued myself from the laptop to play and someone bought something and I just need to renew a listing.  And I had hoped to make a folded version of the new shake howdydo card but I haven't found a reasonable source that makes the shape I need to maintain the entire image, but the flat is still super swell and just as perfect for framing!  Yeah, these are the things they don't teach you in school.  Or maybe I missed it that day I skipped thermodynamics....Hope everyone is having a super Saturday!! :)

merit badge

dear diary,
i was so confused by the weather yesterday that could not tell whether to bring my rain jacket or my sun umbrella for my walkies to the park and ended up bringing neither. which was the pits as a pup scout i should know better cuz even though it was not raining, it had rained earlier and i was getting dripped on by the raindrops that had collected on the leaves.  and then the sun would come out and it would shine on my wet head and then as the water steamed off i would start smellin all doggy which normally i would totally be all yippee about but not when i am on my walkies cuz then the squirrels can smell me coming and then they will stop what they are doing and scram. which should be because i'm chasin them, not cuz they're smellin me, right? so anyway  just when my head would get dry i would get dripped on again and boo hoo everything would start all over again.  so lucky for me we ran across a redbud tree with very large leaves and as u can see my pup scout training came in very handy.

well today diary i think i am helping mom and dad clear the family room so mister tasty ankles can come and install our new floor on monday.  mom says it might be a pretty big job on account of all the stuff we have everywhere but i say if it ain't snackies or toys or my beds, why do we even have it? 

toodley-doo!
b :)

one last carpet song

Glorious sunlight bath the little kielbasa while he contentedly snoozed on what soon will be our nonexistent old carpet in the family room. 

hardwood floors u say? starting monday? the man with the tasty ankles that i licked for like forever last time he was here?  why yes i better rest up after i finish loading up duk duk and my etsy store with vintage goodies cuz i see i will be very busy next week - especially when i pretend not to remember him so i get snackies again!

bottle shark

With so many smells and sounds gently breezing in through all the windows we had opened in our house yesterday, tiny chumley was very very busy, analyzing from his kitty perch every curious noise and unusual scent to determine its threat level and deciding when to multi-bark or merely brip.  Yet although his day was so primarily composed,  the little kielbasa still made time to transform himself from vigilant defender wolf to sneaky bottle shark.  Demonstrating Baxter's philosophy,  I think,  that even in the busiest of times, we must always make time for play. :)