Home Sweet Home

Daddy said we're like a bunch of gypsies. As he was loading up Lulu (our van) he kept shaking his head.

Mommy told him to KIO (knock it off) as there was plenty of room for more stuff. Men!!

Muffin said that if she had to listen to this the whole way home, she was just gonna suck on some gas from the tail pipe and get a little Doxie "high" going on.

We pulled out early on Wednesday morning and was very sad to say goodbye to Florida living.

We hit quite a bit of fog along the way when were we in the mountains of West Virginia.

Have I mentioned just how much I hate being in my crate?

Maybe I too should have sucked on that exhaust pipe a little bit. Even tho Mommy gives me a doggie downer pill, I fight right through it. Muffin, that little sh*t sleeps the entire way.

We stopped along the way for some human fuel. Trust me, Mommy and Daddy don't often pay $87,000,000.00 for a mocha latte, and they do prefer Dunkin D's butt sometimes you just gotta do it when that's all there is.

Daddy decided to stop for the night after driving for over 10 hours. Mommy found us a pawsome place to say. Why was it so pawsome you ask? Check this out....

 

They gave us baggies of cookies just for Muffin and me.

And.... right over by our room, was this great fenced in area just for us four leggers. In the far right corner of the picture, do you see that red thing? That's a fire hydrant for those who lift their legs. And they had doodie bags right outside the gate too. We love the Best Western in Wytheville!

Their rooms were nice and clean. The beds were a little too high for us, but we were good and didn't jump off of them. Here I am reading the emergency fire instructions on the door. One must always know where the fire exits are.

We ate a good dinner of filet of beef. (We prefer NOT to call it kibble.)

We relaxed and watched some TV.

I think we all then passed out to get our beauty sleep. Before we could say Rip Van Winkle, we were all on the road once again.

All in all, it was a very uneventful ride which was great!

Now.... when we got home, oh boy, Mommy said a few choice HBO words and was NOT happy. This is what our back yard looked like...

The grass in our dog pen is almost up to Mommy's knees! That's a lot of tall grass back there. You can hardly see me in the picture above.

This picture is from our view. Muffin and I felt like explorers back there.

Mommy got right on the phone and called the Mower Man and had a long, long bitch session talk with him. This is our new Mower Man bcuz Mommy fired the old one. Not off to a good start.

Mower Man promises to come over today to rectify shut Mommy up the problem. Butt, there's one BIG problem. This morning it's 39 degrees and raining here. Better get out your whacker buddy cuz there is NO excuse for this!

We also have a tree down in the back yard that will need to be looked at. We were too tired last night to check it out.

Mommy is just walking around the house this morning saying I love NY!

After the lawn problem is resolved, Mommy will go and pick up Grandpa Bob. He's been having a grand ol'e time with the "stinky fish." They have gone out to dinner every night since he arrived! Can you say Cha-Ching?? Oh, just don't get us started.....

It's early here so I'm going to take a little nap now. Mommy is doing laundry, going thru the mail, dusting, unpacking and all that good stuff. Muffin and Daddy are still sleeping. Let sleeping dog's lie!

Hugs,
Lily Belle

Hitting the Road

The time has come for us to say goodbye to Florida. It's hotter than the hinges here so we're packing up and heading outta Dodge early tomorrow morning.

Don't worry, Grandpa Bob flew home yesterday and is staying with "the stinky fish.".

Getting the "Jail" ready for the ride

 

The jail all clean and ready to torture me!

 

Can you see how unhappy I am riding for 2 whole days in a jail cell?

Don't look at Muffin, that girl can sleep anywhere!

 

 

This is where our food and treats for the road are packed!

 

This is the box that contain the rest of our treats for when we get home.

 

Mommy is getting everything packed up. This is one of her staging areas.

 

We're all gonna miss our house here and the fun things we do....

Riding in Fred, our golf cart

Lounging in the sun

Watching beautiful sunsets (that's really Mommy on the right in this photo)

 

Ordering Munchkins from Dunkin D's (OK, we do that in NY too)

 

Swimming

 

Beautiful scenery

 

BIG flowers

 

We miss ya already little Bunting (They flew North 2 weeks ago)

 

Those are just some of the highlights of living in Florida for the winter.

 

Now we gotta go North and pick the 87 million weeds that I'm sure await us. This is a funky picture of our back yard that Mommy took last year. Looks like it is hilly, butt it's not. Flat as a board I tell ya. Lot's of places for the weeds to grow...

 

 

Home is where the heart is...

 

See you soon Mr. House!

 

 

New York or bust!

 

We'll see you all on the flip side.....

 

Hugs,

Lily Belle & Muffin

 

 



 

 

Happy Mother's Day

 

We hug and squeeze our Mommy tight each and every day and night  bcuz we really, really love her! So for Mommy, every day is Mother's Day!

 

Happy Mother's Day to all our friends in Blogville.

 

And for those Mom's who have gone before us, we send you up gentle kisses and remember you with love today (and always).

 

 

 

 

Menopause

It doesn't happen often around our house, but last night I did something really, really bad.

Don't you find it hard to believe that someone as cute as me could get into lot's and lot's of trouble?

 

Mommy said it's definitely NOT the terrible 2's because I'm 9. So she's blaming it all on Doxie Menopause.

 

So let me tell you what happened....

 

Mommy gave Muffin and I some really yummy bones last night. Now that's not unusual because every night around 8pm we get a special little treat. Now, when I'm at our house in New York I will take my bone and walk around for 87 hours with the bone in my mouth crying while I find the perfect place to stash it. I just never end up finding that perfect spot, so I end up eating it. But I always have to try.

 

I have NEVER and let me repeat again, NEVER tried to do that here in Florida. I ALWAYS eat it right away. Don't ask me why bcuz I don't know. I just ALWAYS have to munch on it immediately.

 

Well NOT last night!

 

Mommy and Daddy were watching TV and Mommy heard this funny noise coming from the bathroom. Mommy giggled and said I can't believe Lily is trying to hide her bone! She's NEVER done that here.

 

Well Mommy I guess you should have gotten up off your ass butt and checked it out as soon as you heard the noise butt NOOOOOO! You kept on watching TV with Daddy. Didn't you think you should have checked on me when the noise didn't stop? Guess that was YOUR mistake.

 

After the "oh so important show" was over, Mommy got up to take a look.

 

 

OK Mommy, so what's your point! Yes, I knocked over the garbage pail. No harm there! Then I rummaged thru the dirty clothes against the wall. For goodness sakes Mommy, why were they NOT in the laundry hamper? Like that's MY fault? Then I admit, I took all the towels off the bottom rack of the wooden towel holder/shelf thingy. Get over it girlfriend!

 

When Mommy went to put the towels back on the rack, guess what she saw?

 

 

 

 

Holy Guacamole, am I busted or what? After I moved the towels off the bottom shelf because I wanted to hide my bone back there, I dropped my bone between the slats and just had to find a way to get it out. My bone was in prison under there. I panicked and didn't know what to do. So I started to dig at the carpet on the back wall and started tearing it to shreds. Well, that didn't work.  The only way I could figure was to chew it out. So I started biting and biting and biting and chewing and chewing and chewing. Whew, that was a lot of hard work but I finally got it! Just look at all those teeth marks ~ Yup, pretty damn proud.  I'm a HERO and saved my bone!

 

Mommy just about pee'd her pants seeing this. Daddy was yelling at me and I think I even heard Grandma saying a few choice words from the great beyond.

 

The moral to the story is even HERO'S get in trouble every now and then.

 

Doxie menopause go figure.....

 

You may not see me blog for a while because I think I'm gonna be in the dog house for a long time.

 

Hugs,

Lily Belle

Thursday's Update

The past week or so, we've had some really bad internut's problems here. We could only connect for about 87 seconds before getting booted off. We had the repairman here yesterday and he didn't like us barking at him so much. He had the ball's nerve to ask Mommy to put us away in another room. So  we had to sit with Daddy in the TV room while he was in the house. Of course, we still voiced our opinion about it through closed doors.

He finally replaced the modem for us. It was only 7 years old and still good (according to him!) Then the knucklehead didn't even hook it up correctly. It worked momentarily while he was here so he left. As soon as he pulled out of the driveway, it broke again. Daddy saved the day and finally got us up and running once again. He said because we've had so many power surges here the past week it fried the modem.

The big cloud on the top left is a bad storm cloud

We tried our best to keep up with everyone from Mommy's smart phone. Butt she said it's very hard to leave comments bcuz her fingers are so BIG and the keys so small. But we've been reading everyone's blogs.

Later last night we had some excitement around here. We had a strange man walking around our back yard and he didn't belong there.

We have a very large back yard that goes for like 87 miles

Mommy watched him for quite a while and even took a picture of him walking around just in case we had to ID him. (Sarge, you would be proud of Mom!) He was wearing a hoodie, black shorts and really bright orange boxers. Yes, his shorts were hanging down about as far as China. I see London, I see France, I see your underpants Buddy!!

After a good long while the stranger walked away. Then he came back again so Mommy called 911 and gave a good description of the guy. The Police Officer called and talked to Mommy and said he would check it out. We never did hear the outcome so will assume the stranger left or the Police took care of him. We live in a private, gated community so we're always on watch dog patrol. Butt you can believe that ALL our door's and window's were locked tight all night long!

I'm watching you Orange Underwear Dude!

The weather here in Florida has been quite stormy with many thunder boomers. That means we've once again become indoor dog's or as in Muffin's case, under the bed dog's. That is where she runs and hides when she is scared.

Do I look concerned? You betcha!! I'm a woosie.

On a lighter note, we had something really cool happen right in our back yard the other day! On the back of MY lounge chair someone built/spun a Chrysalis. That's the tiny little thing that a butterfly emerges from. We've been watching it for a little over a week and when we went to check on him between storms he was emerging from his sleep.

Here he is holding on for dear life. We told him the big world isn't so scary after all.

 

 

Muffin told him that if by chance he does get frightened, to just close his eyes and all will be good!

This is sunrise in our back yard. Or should I say, the calm before the storm...

 

 

This is a pretty weed in the grass that Mommy picked. She disagrees and said weeds are NOT pretty!

This here is Eco Geco and he's a frequent visitor to our screen. We love to bark talk to him when he stops by for a visit.

And so you know, while we were away from blogging for a little bit, the hooman's have been taking in some nourishment. Now THAT'S a rack of ribs! (Don't worry, there were plenty of left over's LO'S.

OK, Mommy said that showing you dinner is really grasping at straws now. So I'll say see you later alligator.

Hope you enjoyed our little catch-up session.

Hugs,
Lily Belle

Some days truly SUCK!

My love will fly to you each night on Angels wings...

 

My beautiful Mom!

 

March 26, 1922 ~ April 18, 2008

 

 

 

What's Up?

Hi furends!

The weather here in Florida has been hotter than hot. With near 90 temp's all week, all of us have been melting! Mommy REALLY hates it and doesn't know how she will survive until the end of May here. She claims it's like one BIG hot flash 24/7. She's such a drama queen!





The pollen count (yeah, like we know what THAT is) is through the roof. The little yellow pollen particles fall from the sky like snowflakes.





They get all over our furs, the human's clothes, the grill cover and even eye glasses. Sniffle, sniffle, sneeze, sneeze, sneeze. All of us have the sneezels from it.

Dang, don't I look good!

Muffin and I are getting very little outdoor time because as soon as we get out there, find our comfy spot to lay in, we're panting like crazy. So instead, we choose to seek out the sun puddles that peek into our windows.

The other day we said goodbye to Lulu, our Van. It had to go north for the summer. So this really nice man named Jim stopped by and took Lulu for a long ride. This will be the Van that Grandpa Bob will drive in NY and we will sell his older one. We will travel home to NY in Mommy's newest Van. (Yes, we have 3 of them.)

Lulu was a little nervous about leaving us, but we told her it would be OK. That is as long as Mr. Jim didn't dump her off the side of his BIG truck. (I actually think that Mommy was more nervous about this part.)

 

 Mr. Jim is a doggie lover and even has his beloved girl on his truck. He said she was very special.

 



We're still getting our golf cart rides at night which we love. We see so many people while we're out and also many big birds too. We bark very loudly when we see other dog's, just to say hello.

Mommy and Daddy's good friends Jack and Debbie are heading back home to Canada tomorrow. They have also been here in Florida since November. It will be sad to see them go. They bring us lot's of treats when they come over.

Grandpa Bob is doing OK. His cancer surgery on his cheek went very well.

He will have the other two skin cancer's removed when we get back to NY.

Muffin and I have been doing a lot of rough-housing together since we're inside most of the time. I usually win!

Don't let the innocent look on Muffin's face fool ya!

Muffin and I are 100% healthy now and we plan on staying that way.

So that's what we've been up to. Hope you have a totally pawsome day!

Hugs,
Lily Belle