Mum:
So this month's photo vote is for Anything Easter.
And all my stuff seems to involve mud at this time of year... so why fight it? lol
Tara:
Don't see why we have to do this. I already trampled on daffs during our walk.
Nope. don't wanna.
Oh. alright then. Maybe I will sniff it.
Ewww! It tickles!!!
Cato:
Remind me why we are doing this again, Mum?
Mum:
Treats all round! (including
Cato:
Mum had her fur trimmed this morning. She left us on patrol while she was out. It was quite exciting. She is waiting to see if any of the neighbours complain about Tara barking.
once she got home, she decided to trim our foots and faces and my tail!!! Lots of treats, but i still didn't like it.
No pics, cos she wants to go over my tail again before you see it.
but these are her iris pics, from the garden, in case you are interested.
Tara:
Mum:
we took the whole Pack; Dad, myself, Cato, Tara and Jasmine, off to Costa Coffee yesterday after work.
It is approx a 1/4 mile walk each way, with an outside seating area. That is about as far as I like walking Cato on tarmac, but they all had a lovely park scamper before breakfast, with Dad, so no one was missing out on sniffs or off lead racing today.
No pics, sorry. Juggling excited Jasmine doesn’t leave much time for cameras. Lol
Only one table free, and we had to
Mum:
Such a long time since Cato, Tara and I have blogged.
I've been busy, and last year kind of went in a blur. I had a rather unfortunate stomach upset that left me under the weather for months, and then... things drifted.
Then I heard about the shootings at the Garlic Festival, and immediately logged on here to see how Marlene was, and suddenly I am missing you all, and your news, terribly!
We have some news at this end too. A new pup. Jasmine.
This is the photo we wer
Cato::
It was really peaceful this morning. Cos we slept all the time. Cos we were tired after Auntie Kim. But Tara woke up before I did.
Mum says sorry for the awful pic, but she was trying to take it around the corner of the desk so as not to wake us up, and she couldn't hold it still. If that makes sense to you. It doesn't make sense to me.
And then we had a non-green and non-sniffy walk, too. Something about not wanting to move the car cos we had a good parking spac
Cato:
aunties, my back hurts. ?
it was a bit hurty before, and my ankles were a bit wobbly, and Mum was thinking that I should go see Mrs Vet (once Tara’s bobble was gone).
but then she got better after the op, and she Bounced on me. A lot. Mum tried to protect me, but she couldn’t stop all the Bouncing. Tara does big running up and down and leaping. And woowoowooo! And mugging and stuff. And my back hurts. Mum says she is veryveryvery sorry. MrsVet says my back is soresor
Cato:
Aunties i am worried.
i heard Mum and Dad talking about it. They said the we are due those horrible stinky flea drops
and then they said they would wait til after our Spa Day! Not today. And not when we wake up. But the one after that.
isn't that AWFUL?
there will be Mum going away. And horrible wet stuff bath stinky bubbles. And hot blowy noisy air stuff. And those horrible buzzy bitey clippy things.
Tara doen't know. Cos she was chewing a pigs ea
Cato:
Mum said it was going to be horrible wet and we wouldn't get a walk today. But then, when lunchtime came, it was OK. So we all got in the car and drove to the Park with the Lake! And just as we pulled into the car park, it started to rain. So there was a big discussion. We ALL decided that since we were here, it wasn't fair to go home without scooting once round the lake. So we did.
But it was soooooo wet. And windy. That we found it difficult to walk back, with the wind
Tara:. Oh Aunties! My poor Dad is ill! I am so worried about him! He was up and down all night making stinky bathrooms and now he is just lying in bed. I have tried cheering him up with bouncing and licking and I have brought him toys, but he just wants to sleep.
Mum says I mustn't bounce any more or I will have to go downstairs. So I am trying. See?
But it is HARD. I am sure he just needs to play and bounce for a bit.
mum says that it is the stuff he got for lunch
Sidney:
Why do I have to go first? Silly dogs should go first then clever cats after. I like the shed roof improvements. I spend time on there during sunny weather, surveying my territory. They left the central heating on all night last night, by mistake. It was lovely. I shall organise some pictures for you, so that you can see my territory. I wanted to use the word 'kingdom' instead of 'territory' but Mum refused to type it. She says I need to get a sense of proportion. Which is
Tara:
Monster! Monster! I saw it! I saw it first!!! Monster!!!!
Cato:
We just found a Monster! It was very exciting. The back door was open, cos of the hotness, and we went out for a patrol, and we saw it, flapping dangerously round the garden under the table! So we barked and barked til Mum came to investigerate. We would have got it, of course, only she came too quickly.
It was a Monstrous plastic bag!!! Flap! Flap!
I have to keep going out and checking
Cato:
I can't remember when this was. But it was before we went away. It is hard to remember that far ago! I have to blog this bit, cos Tara can't remember it at all. She is asleep. She has been asleep since we got home. She is snoring.
Anyway, this is before we went away, when we did a beach walk with Mum and Dad.
It was raining when we got there. The red van is an ice cream van. No one was buying icecream in the rain, so he had his windows shut and his radio on, and he
Cato:
Hello Aunties!
It is veryveryvery hot. Dad has been taking us to the park very early for Tara and Jasmine to beat each other up, and for me to get my sniffs. But it is so hot that I don’t want to get back in the car, after. And then I have to snooze all day to rest. Tara sleeps too. Mum’s lap is hot too.
Jasmine doesn’t sleep. Well, she dozes for a bit. But not properly. Today she kept waking up, and she does stuff. Restless stuff. Today she ate a lavender bush to
Cato:
My sling still hadn't arrived, so we went to this Lichfield place without it. So I had to walk. But Mum carried me for a bit and Dad did too, and we had some nice sit downs, and I met a little girl. So it was OK.
Lichfield is a town. With a river and a bridge and another cathedral (yawn) and a muesum place to dictionaries, and a burger place and a cafe that had a sunny garden. Dad had lots of sausages, and we didn't get ANY cos it was all gluteny, and Mum wouldn't let us!
Tara:
So the next day we couldn't go for a long exciting fun scamper, on account of Cato's boring wimpy back needing a rest. Booooorrrrrriiiiiinnnnnngggggg!!!
But we did go for a Mixed Grill which woz nearly as exciting. And there were chickens too!!!
This was Mum's Mixed Grill.
There was gammon and lamb steak and beef steak and lambs liver and sausages and black pudding and gammon and yucky tomato and mushrooms and peeez and an eggy. Mum saved me a bit of everything
Tara:
It's my Twooth Birthday! I am Two. That is both front paws, isn't it? While Cato is all old and is nearly all four paws. Front and Back. That is OLD isn't it?
My Dad had to go to work, so we did a nice walk without him, and it woz fun, but it wozn't my Special Birthday Walk. Mum says we can do that in a few days. I am going to get a Special Birthday PINK dinner too! I am sooooo excited!
Today we went to the beach and to the Centre of the Universe. I like that place.
Tara:
Hello Aunties! My turn today. I bet you are ready for ME now that Cato has bored you all with his hunting obsessification.
I love Grandad! not as much as Dad, of course, but I do love him. He says 'Shut up, you little attention seeking brat' and then bends down and gives me a nice deep back rub. And when I go 'woo woo wooooo' at him, he goes and finds me a toy to play with! He doesn't brush me though. Grandma does that. and she snips seeds out of my knickers with skisser
Dear Miss Missy,
Could me and Tara please beg your kind assistance in checking out for the ghost and babee ghost?
Mum finished work an hour early today and burst into a frenzy of nasty stinky cleaning and stuff. She used the stuff that smells of orange, and the sucky vacuum, and the vinegary window cleaning stuff, and it was awful. She kept moving us, and things, and wiping and fussing and making more of a mess. And every time we started to help (clearing out the paper she dropped,
Mum:
Going to show you one of the reasons why the blogging has been missing lately.
About a month ago my lovely Nikon Coolpix S33 camera died. It had been losing battery charge very rapidly, and I had changed the rechargeable battery once, to no improvement. Then it decided to not switch off, and just blink a light at me until the battery ran down. It still charged, but then it just ran the battery flat immediately afterwards.
So, new camera. Which arrived and I instantly thou
Sidney:
Good morning. Just a gentle reminder that the window is still shut. My bowl is empty. And you are still in bed an hour later than usual.
Tut tut.
Cato:
Remember AGES AGO we had to give Mum some chocs and stuff and in return she was 'contracted' to take us for a walk? Well, that was TODAY. And it was GREAT!!!
This is the board that tells you boring human stuff:
Mum says I have to explain our route. Hubbards Hills is a narrow valley wi
Cato:
We did important DIY stuff today, with both Mum and Dad.
It was VERY exciting.
The washy machine has been making very loud washy machine noises for a while. And Mum finally had The Discussion with Dad about it. Cos the engineer inside the phone said it was too expensive to be worth mending.
So new washy machine is coming tomorrow. And today we all got ready! Me and Mum and Tara did a specially careful poo pickup in the garden cos washymachines come in through the ba
Sorry - Photobucket seems to be playing up, like it did for @Summerangel yesterday. Hopefully the links to the pics work, even though I don't seem to be able to embed them.
Mum: Not unexpectedly, Little Miss Sunshine has decided that the Big Bed is far too convenient to pass up. I had to put her down into the pen 3 x last night before she actually stayed there - she just ghosted up each time, waiting til I closed my eyes, then silently appearing. Her little brain cells have obvi
Tara: We went out to meet Auntie Jane to show her all my PINK, and she loved it! She looked at me, and looked at Mum, and looked at me, and looked at Mum, then she said 'You know, you are a really BAD MUM to have deprived her of pink up until now.' and Mum hung her head and said 'I know.'
Hahahaha! But I didn't have my piggytails in today. We are saving that til they grow a bit, before I wear them in public.
This is me with a stick that Cato wants to steal!
and this is r
Tara:
i felt fine yesterday! Don't know wot the fuss woz about. But Cato was all sleepy and (Mum says I'm to use different words cos 'boring' is boring, but he WAS!) didn't want to play. We went out for a quick walk, but then he went back to sleep again! It isn't as much fun stomping on pythons and bears and stuff. They don't fight back.
Today was much better, although Mum has been upstairs a LOT.
We went down lots of roads on our walk, and i had Dad on the lead, and Cato h
