TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013 -- WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE CALL THE ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE!

OMG—AM I IN TROUBLE! I thought for sure Mamaw had forgotten bout that time I went off chasin the deer—guess not! Dallas came to the basement sliding glass doors and I sneaked out afore she managed to hook me up. I love that too—all of that freedom to just go do as I please. And while I got long ears; when I getta chance to be free, I just shut those ears off! Need I say more?

Dallas did his thing—whatever that was. I did too, all the time I was free. I got my nose down to the grindstone and enjoyed every single one of those smells. I coulda cared less that Mamaw was tryin to come and get me. I just darted here and there and confused the hell outta her. It got dark too, and she didn’t have a light. After all, I was just supposed to go out in our backyard and play with Dallas for 5 minutes or so, pee and come right back to the house.

Well…since I didn’t do that I’m in the slammer! She came back to the house and tattled to my Poppy and along they both come, him carrying a flashlight and Mamaw with our little bittie broom she gets after me with sometimes. I knew then it was “curtains for me.”

I was comin their way and I saw the broom. Oh crap—she is royally pi**ed. I tried to just saunter up to them but Mamaw had that loud, harsh voice and she said, “Scarlett, go home.” Poppy’s voice was louder than it usually is and he said, “Scarlett, go home.” I went home alright—but didn’t get anywhere near them for fear I was gonna get hit with that damned broom.

Lickity split I got to the door—AND IT WAS CLOSED. Ya know what that means don’t ya? I probably got to come in contact with one of em. Poppy opened the door for me (and that’s probably a good thing cause Mamaw had already chased me a long time) and I slipped in, up the steps and into the living room. Well, what else could I do, she’s yellin “In the living room”! At that point, I knew better than to argue with her.

She came up and tole me “to stay” on the couch. I could tell she was furious with me. I just layed right there and tried to look as small as I could. She headed back down to her office where she wouldn’t have to look at me.

Poppy got my kennel from the basement and made me get in it! I knew it would be for all night; then I was kinda sorry I’d made Mamaw work so hard.

She had just done an afternoon of water therapy and I would have to be an idiot not to know she was feeling it.

If somebody out there has the guts to stand up against Mamaw, would you call the Animal Rescue League and see if they will come to my rescue?

APRIL 18, 2013 - WHAT IN THE WORLD IS GOING ON HERE?

What a mess we got goin on here anyway…stuff is all goofy and it makes my tummy hurt!

Mamaw’s been plantin flowers—she was so anxious for spring—and now most of the basement is full of plants she can’t put outside with all of this rain! Weatherman says we’ve had more than 5 inches…I wait just as long as I can to go outside to do my business. I gotta get some smells under my belt before I go and I get all wet! Mamaw drives a hard bargain, she won’t undo my leash until I wait for her to dry my feet. Then she rubs that darned towel back and forth over my back till I can barely stand it! If anybody can get this rain to stop, I’d sure appreciate it a whole bunch.

We saw a wren coming and going from one of Mamaw’s hanging artificial planter, so she looked…AND LOOKED AGAIN…then she took the planter down and brought it in the house. You will never believe what we found in there! The wren was a MAMA and she made a really swell nest in there. She found 2 eggs in there! Mamaw said she had to take a couple of photos; which she did, and then she took it right back outside and hung the planter back up on the house.

Then she said, “Mama wren—I just can’t be a part of aborting your children, so you can have them here and teach them to fly from the nest but one thing I’m not going to do is put a bird bath up for you.”

The storms the last couple of days was a scary thing for me. I stayed as close to Mamaw as possible so she would be of comfort to me. And when Mamaw and Poppy go to bed, I jump up with them and insist on getting between em so I feel protected. The thunder and lightning has been really bad. Last night she closed both of the blinds in the bedroom so I could relax.

Did I tell ya Mamaw is taking a class? It's the college for old people and it's only 1 day a week, but she's enjoyin it. The class is France at a Glance, and her instructor asked her to give a little talk on Monday so she's been givin lots of attention to gettin that ready to go.

Nough said for now…happy high-five day!

April 1, 2013 -- MAMAW GAVE HERSELF A APRIL FOOL'S DAY!!

This morning Mamaw rolled outta bed at 7:00 a.m.—I couldn’t believe it! Usually when I kiss her, she just ignores me and goes back to sleep. Not today—she tells Poppy today is the first day of her new class, France from a Glance.”

Nothing was really different this mornin before she left…she just did everything earlier. And only 1 cup of hot tea today, she tole Poppy she hoped she could handle the day cause her quota is 2 a day.

She’s got this bag sittin on the kitchen table and she’s puttin everythin in there but her aqua therapy stuff. She tells us she is leaving class and getting the two errands taken care of; then she’d come home and change into her swimsuit. (She bought 2 new swimsuits, ya know.) The chlorine is really hard on the colors.

She waved goodbye to me and tole me to mind Poppy and off she went. It was a long morning—I waited a long time for her. Then about noon Poppy’s cell phone rings and I can tell it is our Mamaw. Well, don’t tell anyone, but she locked the keys in Lil Red…She was beggin him to take me for a ride (which I gladly accepted) and bring the extra key so we could “recue her.”

On the drive Poppy just tole me we gotta love Mamaw the way she is. She forgets lots and doesn’t get near as much done as she’d like to so let’s just give her a break today and not mention anythin about it. Poppy drives a long ways and unlocks her car. Then he goes into the library in Johnston and tells her she can get into her car now. I was tryin to see what was goin on when she came out but as hard as I stretched my neck, I just couldn’t get a glimpse of her. We left…post haste.

She comes along behind but Poppy never did see her in the rearview mirror. Just so happens though, that she got home bout the same time we did. She came in the house and said, “I wasn’t quite ready for this kind of day.” Poppy and me—we kept our mouths closed. I waited patiently for my nummy numbs cause it was time—and she got it around for me.

Then into the bedroom she goes and for heaven’s sakes—now she thinks it’s time to try on those new swimsuits! She was complainin about one bein the wrong size and the bottoms not coming all the way up to the waist and on and on. Poppy played it right and just kept workin at his computer—me on the other hand; I was right in the middle of it. Finally she said, I’m just gonna wear my old one today—if it falls apart—well, there ya go. So off she went again with a warning that she had the two errands to run when she was done with her water exercises cause she was locked outta her car. Silence prevailed.

She’s gone—Poppy and me are thinkin it’s so quiet we kinda like it that way for a while. But we don’t dare tell Mamaw.

See ya all around…

Sunday, March 24, 2013 – Did I Hear Somebody Said Spring Is Here?

It’s always a little amazing to me what goes on in this house throughout a week. I can see why Mamaw is so tired…she moves constantly. I like to follow her around cause I never know what she’s gonna do next—but I NEED TO KNOW. She eventually gets irritated with that and makes my lay down.

This spring thing really has me buffaloed. We’ve had snow for 2 days now! When I go outside to “do my thing” I have to wait and have my feet dried off. I am so tired of it! I want the sunshine, the walks on the trail, chasin the birds, eatin the deer droppings…oh, I should not have tole you about that! Mamaw is ashamed of me for that. Now when she lets me out, she holds my leash tight so I can’t get to that part of the yard.

We had Dallas in to play for a while. Now—I really like the guy; but not when he’s tryin to ride me. And on top of that, he got hold of Big Red and managed to pull some of his hair out. I can’t leave that boy unattended for a moment but he’s into trouble. It was fun to play with him for a little while though…I get lonely. We don’t have people runnin in and out of here every day so when somebody comes it’s a real treat.

I’m layin in front of the big sliding doors in the basement and I saw a big, fat red robin. I started to make my little sounds and Mamaw turned to look at me and said, “Miss Scarlett, where is that tail runnin off to”?

The basement is full of plants Mamaw had to bring in in the fall and this week Poppy and me took her down to Ted Lare Nursery and she bought a whole bunch of pots at 75% off. We could hardly get all 3 of us in Lil Red along with all the pots. She’s happy now—waitin for the weather to break so we can start plantin stuff. Soon as we’re past frost, she’ll put em all outside on the under-deck she loves so much.

I was delighted I got to go on this little drive too! In the winter I don’t get a lots of them either. The minute “car” or “ride” passes somebody’s mouth, I’m started to get excited. Mamaw promised we’ll get Lil Red out more when the weather gets really nice and we’ll open that big bonnet and ride, ride, ride.

Can’t wait…

Sunday, March 17, 2013 – Happy St. Patrick’s Day

I tole you I’d be back tonight with some pictures. It’s been a pretty good day cept Mamaw is havin some trouble getting up and down them stairs enough times for Senator Weiner to do his jobs. My gosh he pees a lot! Mamaw just didn’t know how lucky she was with me only going outside four times a day till she took The Senator for the weekend. She tole Poppy she thought she had been up, down and out those big doors at least 30 times each day. I feel sorry for her cause she’s still got that awful cough…says shes callin the Dr. tomorrow…we’ll see.

The Senator was very well pleased when his Mama and Frank showed up around 4:00. Poppy got home from work and they sat around the table a long time talkin. Seemed like they was havin a good time. Mamaw kept getting The Senator out for his piddles too. Then Poppy said he thought we needed to move downstairs to play some pool.

I let em go by themselves. I personally don’t like the fast movement of the people and the loud sound of the balls. Of course Senator Weiner didn’t feel that way about it—he was there pesterin everybody down there. I could hear laughs and ohs and aws comin up from down there but I kept myself busy chewin on that new hoof Mamaw gave me on Friday.

We got some pictures of this pool game—I’ll see if we can get em posted for ya tonight. Oh...and yeah...look at all of my stuff HE PLAYS WITH WHEN HE COMES DOWN HERE!

And MY BALL from Ozzie

This is my hoof--
look whose got it!

My Poppy,

My Dodi



But Max's Frank

 

Saturday, March 16, 2013 – I Don’t Think Threats Are Working!

It’s much more of the same with Mamaw…she’s so darned busy there just doesn’t seem to be enough time for my blog. I got company this weekend—it’s Senator Weiner. Mamaw named him that last year cause the story broke the weekend she was dog sittin him. His real name is Maxi (a big long German name) and he loves to come stay with us. He has to be in the kennel all day while his mommy works but Mamaw lets him stay out—just like me.

Now, he’s okay—don’t get me wrong. I find myself spendin my evenings more with Poppy but why not; he’s always there for me. And Mamaw feels that she needs to give him some lovin too with his mommy gone so we’ve worked it out.

We wanted to invite Dallas over to play but when Mamaw took Senator Weiner out last evening, he was gonna bite Dallas! So, course that didn’t turn out but she’s really good at hookin us both up to our leashes and takin us both out at the same time. She even stays outside for quite a little while afore we have ta come back in.

Mamaw is always wantin to play ball with me and I’m simply not interested. I think it is a stupid game that just wears me out runnin back and forth while she just stands there and waits for me. Now—that’s not the way it works for the “weiner man.” He will run and get the ball and bring it back to her and she says, “Good boy, good boy.” I think that’s how she thinks she’ll get me roped into playin ball with her but I wouldn’t hold my breath if it’s up to me.

There’s two chairs in our livin room that NO DOGS are supposed to sit in. Mamaw says that’s because the people who visit and don’t like dogs shouldn’t have to sit in their hair. Well, today by golly, Senator Weiner just jumped right up into her lap while she was sittin in the chair. And she didn’t even make him get down…so I did it tonight just to see if she was gonna be fair…she was J.

Mamaw seems to be more content stayin at home more now. Well, she’s real busy with all of that writin, editin and stuff! But on top of that, she goes to do her aqua therapy two times a week. She’s tryin real hard to stay healthy…and I help her all I can, if ya know what I mean?

Tomorrow I’ll have some pictures of Senator Weiner so you can see what a weird little guy he is. He is a WEINER DOG ya know, and we get along famously!

Talk to ya tomorrow—ya hear me?

 

Wednesday, March 6, 2013--THIS HAS GOT TO STOP--NOW

Is there anybody out there that wonders whether I died or even worse--stopped posting to my blog? Mamaw hasn't taken the time to do that since Christmas Eve for heaven's sake! So I had a decision to make.

Let me set up the story for you...Poppy had to go to Atlanta, GA for 4 days--without use. Oh, we wanted to go, but they don't have "dog friendly" hotels. Personally I thought that was kind of rude. I am a good guest. I don't bark or make a mess in the room...I just want to be where Mamaw and Poppy are. Okay, so off he went.

Mamaw shared that she was going to do some soul searching those 4 days. She know she has way too much on her plate to be very effective with anything. So, it was pretty quiet around here...3 days later she called her bestie, Lin, and had a "come to Jesus" meeting...She feels better now. So she and Lin worked a whole day on putting together a BELLA VINO Facebook page that will interact with the website. She tole Lin she's too old to learn html and wouldn't possibly live long enough...so with their heads together--this was the solution. I stayed out of things until after Sunday night when we went to the airport to pick him up.

It was raining--freezing on our windshield. Mamaw wasn't in any big hurry cause she wanted me to be safe too! She pulls up outside the luggage return and we waited. I kept my eyes and ears on those great big doors for a long time...and then suddenly, I saw this little gray haired guy lugging a huge black suitcase and I looked right at Mamaw I was so excited. She said, "Yes Scarlett, there's our Poppy." I couldn't wait for him to get in the car, cause I'm sittin on his lap all the way home!
It was a real love fest...Mamaw drove.

Okay--now there's Mamaw doin her own thing and Poppy doing his own thing, but what about my own thing. Monday morning I had my own "come to Jesus" meeting with Mamaw and we had it out!!! She apologized and said it wouldn't happen again...we'll see.

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