Doggies

Girls were out the other morning enjoying pretty much another hot sunny day, but its still early and only in the 90's. Birdies caught their eye...I knew Lady would be a bird chaser, but wasn't sure about Coco. She usually just looks...Birds were fine, girls were just watching as the birds saw them and decided to stay up in the tree and wait til the girls went in so that they could enjoy the feeder. I finally found my container with the last of the seed in it and decided to finish it up. Filled up the make-shift bird bath too..lol my upside down container pot with drain catch on top filled with fresh cool water, as long as the girls don't drink it all..lol













This is a pic of what we do when we wait in the garage for daddy to come home. (on my days off)

I pop the garage a bit, turn the swamp cooler on and the girls watch for dad, well Lady does at least...lol Coco ducks and peeks, though she is trying. I kinda wonder myself what it looks like from the other side..lol Maybe one day when someone else is home, we'll find out.
Finally Coco did it...sorry the pic is dark.
I couldn't find the other so it must still be on the camera. Mike was able to get this one and that bump on to the right of her is Lady..Lady lays first and then Coco always lays right next to her and usually their butts are touching..lol Sill girls!
That's really about it as for them, we've been busy cleaning up stuff that keep happening...lol If its not one thing, its another. Oh well..such is life I guess!
Enjoy your soon to be weekend and Happy Dogs on Thursday to you all!!

Summer

I found this beautiful Summer poem and thought you might enjoy it too.
(And it's very well written)


"Summer"

a poem by Abigail Elizabeth McIntyre










SHIT!

It's Hot !

Tough times don't last...tough people do!!!

Crafts, Cars & Animals

Wow, sure has been a while since I posted anything except doggies, but speaking of Doggies, they have been great lately, all seem to be resting at this moment. Coco wouldn't let me get a pic of her. She moved every time I tried, but I have Lady & Dyna, yea, Dyna actually laying on Mike's chair right behind me. So good to see her back to normal and joining the rest of us.

In the meantime I've been crocheting crazy again. Got quite a few things finished up and one big one in progress (but no pics on that one).

So for the Fo's I have made a child's "Muff".

This was a quick small project and worked up nicely!

Then I made a "Girlie Girl" to hold all those ribbons, clips and hairbands and decided to show it at work. I wound up giving it to Jo for her granddaughter who is a real girlie girl. Jo is going to dress it all up with new bows, hairbands, clips and barrettes and give it to Natalie for her birthday. I also gave her this Kitty purse as Natalie LOVES Hello Kitty. The purse went over fantastic, everyone commenting about it and jealous cousins...lol It really made my day when Jo told me how everyone just commented so much about it.

I thought I would show a pic of the new engine that has had us in turmoil since getting it. This was taken right after putting it in the car and before it got blasted with anti-freeze the other day..lol I have to laugh cause I really just want to cry..all the money we've been putting into this thing to have it not working correctly. This heat wave of weather hasn't helped either.

We really haven't been able to drive the car much. Its just been overheating something fierce. So Mike has been going over different things and reading quite a bit and checking out a few things too. After checking into things he found out the car had the wrong transmission mount on it which made the engine slant back more, making fan not work like it suppose to. Once we put the correct one on, the engine is now sitting more level and the fan is working better to draw the air through the radiator to keep it cool. Engine temps only got up to 221 on a short drive the other day. Yea, that's high but we're going to wind up ordering an aluminum radiator as it would cool alot faster then what we have. Besides that temps beats the 260 something it got to when the hose broke open the other day and we had to pull the car home.

So right now until we get the new radiator we'll just be taking the car on bowling nights, its not that far away and its a short drive about 6 miles. So that really about all that's been happening lately. Other than hot weather, anyone with snow or cold temps be my pleasure to take off your hands...lol Hey we did get alittle bit of rain during the night so that's good, don't get much of that too much anymore.

Well, gotta go for now...Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a great rest of the week!!

Innocence With Creativity

The look of innocence with a crafty twist is what we found yesterday when we returned home from work.
The culprits.... Lady AKA Buggers & her sidekick Coco AKA Coco-bear

Though these close up faces don't look as innocent as they could be, they are the most recent since Mom has taken a short break from blog posting. Lots going on car wise and craft wise, I guess my girls didn't want to be left out. They wanted to be crafty too!

A little background, I have a small basket sitting on the floor next to the shelf and my desk that has been untouched since it was put there (about 1 yr.) until yesterday. You wouldn't even know the basket was touched looking at it, but one very creative doggie decided she would sneak some stuff out of this basket and something off the shelf, only to leave a trail of creativity behind. Kinda hard not to laugh but I did. I know their just getting back at me and gave me a reminder that I need to get my things organized and out of their reach. They've been so good lately though the last couple weeks have been alittle crazy with not alot of doggie attention.

So here is where I show some of the creativity that my girls have and some clean up I have today.

This was Lion Brand Incredible that I had not quite full skein left with some small Christmas sweaters and mitten stockings. These are 2 that weren't savable.

This was a full bag of tiny thread spools that I've had for a long time. There were about 10-12 spools, the pic shows 5, I did find 1 more under the ribbon yarn, I haven't checked under the sofa yet...My girls sure do love there fibers!

Now here's where creativity and a first time at getting into bottles..I don't even know where these were, but I'm assuming from the basket.

I guess they wanted to decorate their doggie donuts to be more fashionable...lol, nothing like hot pink sparkley's (hope that's a word, if not it is now). Coco's donut had the most "pink" and no sequin's and this blinding one is Lady's....the blinding part is a big green sequin like disc from one of the chewed up mitten stockings.

There is alittle bit of Hot pink sparkly goop too, but pink isn't Lady's color.

Neither had any on there mouth or tongue so I believe it was just chewed up caps and then into the donuts and then ended dried up to the ribbon design. I did notice a small amount on Lady's nails, she loves to paw stuff.

So this is what was left of a Twinkle Writer that I don't even remember having.

So today while we play, mom will be washing up the doggie donuts and hope that the inner stuffing tubes aren't glued to the fabric. I'll be checking under the sofa too, plus I'll be putting my "stuff" up.

Sounds like a fun day, doesn't it...lol

Happy Dogs on Thursday to you all!!