New Mini Album

I've been working on a mini-album to honor my grandfather's cat. We took her in last winter and last summer she got sick. Unfortunately, they couldn't do much for her and we had to put her down. It was really heartbreaking. She was such a special kitty that I felt she needed her own album. Here are the first few pages:

More Baby Pics

This is almost everyone. Mom, Dad, Aunt Susie, and General (the baby). He's so funny. One minute he's running around like a maniac - like this:


The next minute he's flaked out under Mommie's feet.

And all of a sudden, it's contagious!

Hungry Turkeys

I said the other day I would post some pictures of turkeys eating in the back yard, but forgot to do it. So, here they are:

Keep in mind, this was just off our deck, about 20 feet from the back door. Is that cool or what? I'll bet at least a few of your husbands would just LOVE to have turkeys grazing in the back yard, haha.

I'm A Grandma!!!

A horsie grandma, that is. We knew my mare would deliver any day and, bless her heart, she did it before the storms come through tomorrow. Slogging through ankle deep mud to round up my mare and a brand new baby would not have been fun.

Anyway, DD came home this afternoon to find that Baby had arrived. Once again, the pictures are by DD. Isn't the baby a sweetie? My mare is a very good Mommy. She doesn't want the other horses too close, but she never gives us any trouble giving the shots and other, um, little doctor-stuff that needs to be done.

I swear our other mare, who is like Earth Mother, was looking at me like "Do you see what I went through while you were gone? I had to deliver this baby ALL BY MYSELF!"

LaserVision

I got my eyes lasered on Fiday, so I haven't blogged in a few days. My little peepers were a bit light sensitive for a few days, so I had to be a good girl and stay off the 'puter. I did get some good pics of wild turkeys eating in our back yard that I'll post tonight.

Jumping Dogs

Okay, so we're at my Mother's house, celebrating DD's birthday. My mother has a fairly small backyard that has been totally taken over by her boyfriend's beagles. They were on the deck, looking pitifully in the back door. I should have stayed inside and taken a picture of THAT, lol.

Instead, I stupidly stepped out on the deck to take their pictures and they jumped me! So, here I am jumping around, trying to dodge muddy dog feet and flashing dog claws. I never got any decent shots of the dogs. All I got was this one dog chest and a really blurry dog nose (below). Next time, I don't care how pitiful they look, I'm not goin' out there!

Hillbilly SnowBob

We got a beautiful snow last night and this morning. I had this big plan of making all these lovely pictures. Well, guess what? I go inside, have a few cups of coffee, some breakfast, and look outside. Most of the snow has melted!!!

So, instead of a bunch of gorgeous snowy landscape pictures, the best DD and I could do was build a short snowman on the deck. So - without further ado - meet Hillbilly SnowBob.

More Doggie Layouts

Here are a couple more doggie layouts for you.

Cookie was always so limp and floppy when she was asleep, we used to joke that she was made of flubber.

Baby was really skinny when she first came to live with us. Not any more .

That's all for today!

My First Post

Okay, I finally decided to join the party and start a blog. I'm not sure if I have that much entertaining to say, but I can at least share what I'm working on. I've been scrapbooking for about a year and, like most scrappers, I've amassed an appalling stash of goodies that my DH will never see all at once.

To get us started, here are some pages from a mini-book I'm making about our sweet, lovable, spoiled-rotten dogs. Here is the title page:

My daughter's dog, who is a real sport. I would swear he liked the hat.

DH's dog, who is an ice cream maniac. He always lets her lick the empty carton.

My dog Cookie. We had to put her down a few weeks ago, but she was definitely "top dog" at our house. Our German Shepherd has been known to jump over the couch to get his toy back, rather than pass her. Haahaa!!!

Ok, I guess that's it for this post. It's getting really late and I have to take DD to school in the morning.