What a weekend!

Hi, every buddy! It's me, Patches! Look at this ginormous tree that fell on our house! Once again, our mom can't remember in what order she loaded the pictures so we don't know which one you are seeing first.


Anyhoo, this tree used to be a beautimous Bradford Pear, but more than half of it came down, in a storm, we had on Saturday night. Our mom thinks she heard it creaking as it came down, but it was so dark outside that she couldn't see. She thinks it came down about 8 p.m. Either that, or there were unexplained noises coming from our kitchen! (Which is always a pawsibility!)


Ya know, the law states that if your neighbor's tree falls on YOUR house, YOUR insurance has to cover it. That is, unless the tree is dead and you have notified the owner to remove it and he/she has not done so. Well, this is the second time this has happened in a few months, but the first one missed the house by about 2 feet. This one hit the house with branches to spare! It scraped the siding, but didn't tear any of it off. Sorry, I got off track! The tree belongs to our neighbors (the Puggy dog people) and as soon as the man saw it, he came right over and told our mom not to mess with it. He said he would take care of it on Monday. Well, I'll be darned! He actually showed up, when he said, along with a chain saw!


Mom called the neighbor on the other side of us and asked if he wanted some free firewood. He said yes, but he won't be able to get it out of our yard until the weekend. He has some kind of a policy of not doing any physical labor on weekdays! I think he might be joking, but I'm not sure. Anyway, this morning, our mom threw some of the smaller pieces into our wheelbarrow. If the neighbor doesn't show up to haul it away this weekend, our mom will take the wheel barrow over there and dump it down his driveway! Do you think I'm kidding? Well, I'm not! She's done it before when he asked if he could have a couple of downed trees. After what seemed like months and he still hadn't taken the wood away, our mom and dad loaded it up in our wheel barrow and Mom took it over and dumped it down his driveway. (His driveway is all down hill!) Hahahahahaha!!!!!!! We sure hope that taught him not to mess with our mom!


One of these pictures is Penny again. Our mom had her beautimous face all lined up, but thanks to the stoopid delay, on the camera, all she got was Penny's tail as she was running away. I think the last one is me with my smiley face on! Mom and I are playing a new game, these days. Ya know, I HAVE to go into the bathroom everytime Mom goes in there, but now I have learned to sit as soon as I get through the door (as opposed to giving Mom the big pawslaps on her arms and legs). Now, as soon as I sit, Mom whispers to me and I talk back with a very low, quiet growly noise. Mom is trying to get me to say, "I love you, Mom", but so far my words don't actually make sense.

When our mom still lived with her mom and dad, they had a Miniature Schnauzer named Chipper and our mom taught him how to talk. He could say, "I love you", "it's a frog" and "I don't know". So far, she hasn't had much luck teaching ME how to talk. It usually ends with me getting so excited that I start barking and then the game is over!

Well, every buddy, my personal secretary is starting to make too many mistakes, so I'm letting her off for right now. She has been pitch forking and blowing pine straw most of the day, so she's very tired! See you all next time!

Our mom just did the post and then looked at it! Stoopid blogger put the pictures in backwards from how our mom loaded them! Anyway, obviously the last picture is NOT my smiling face! We think you can figure out which one is which!

Aire-hugs,
Patches (and the back end of Penny)

We're still here! Our secretary has just been too busy to post for us!

Hey, everydoggie, kitty, hammie, bear and hooman! It's me, Patches. I know...it's been 2 whole weeks and a day since we got our personal secretary to sit down at the 'puter and type what we're barkin'! We think she's lazy, but she says she's busy. Whatever!


About a week ago, Aunt Wendy's house was stinky because some painters were using an oil based paint, so she loaded up both doggies and came to see US! We had a blast! First Ezzy Rider and Jagger chased us, then we chased them! Then they chased us! You get the idea! We were pooped pups when they went home! We think Penny was trying to turn into a cougar 'cause she kept following Jagger around! He's about 8 years younger than you, ya big dummy! Sorry there are no pictures of our great adventure. Our mom talked about getting the camera, but talking about it doesn't get it done! She gave us some kind of lame excuse like the camera was in the 'puter room and that meant she had to climb over a doggie gate and she would have to figure out a way to keep us all outside while she got the camera. Yeah, yeah, yeah...we've heard all those excuses before!


Our weather has finally cooled off a little, so Mom has been raking and leaf blowing in our woods! Yep, it only took her a week to make lots of big piles of pine straw and leaves! Today, she washed our Aire-mobile AND pitched 3 piles of pine straw over the fence! Woohoo! She keeps saying she's too old for this s**t! Whatever THAT means! Our dad always wanted her to leave the woods alone, but she says she wants to see it, if there are any snakes back there! She says you can't see snakes if the ground is all covered in pine straw and leaves! Besides THAT, it took her almost 2 years to clear it all out and she's not going to let it get like that again!

I guess that's all our big news, for now! We wish all our A Merry Can pals and their peeps a happy Labor Day! Oh, and a safe one too! We're hoping for no fireworks!

Aire-hugs,
Penny & Patches

We got a new ramp for the Aire-mobile! Woohoo!

Hey, everydoggie! It's me, Patches! Wait till you see what our mom bought for us, today! It's a doggie ramp for our Aire-mobile! Last week, when our mom took Penny to the groomer's, she had an awful time getting Penny to step up and down on the upside down mail tub. It isn't the most stable thing for an Aire-pup to step on! And our mom knows that it will only get worse as Penny gets older. She's already 11 1/2 and I just turned 7, so I'm not that far away from being a senior citizen too!


For some unknown reason, last night, Mom started thinking of how she could get us (especially Penny) into and out of the Tahoe without having to help us. There was the possibility of trading in the Tahoe on something lower to the ground, but our mom nixed that option so fast it wasn't even funny! She LOVES our Tahoe! She started researching doggie ramps and found like 8,984,900 different models! She measured how long and how wide it needed to be and today, she set out for the pet stores in our area. She wanted to actually SEE them in person before she bought one! Sometimes she's just funny that way!


Okay, so her first stop was a place where she used to buy our foodables, but they only had doggie steps...no ramps. On her second stop, she found exactly what she was looking for, but the price was waaaaaaay too high! After she looked at what they had, she was walking around the store looking for some other kind and maybe looking a little confused. A nice man asked if he could help her and she asked if those were the only ramps they had. He told her they were the only ones, but they are really good ramps. Yeah, well our mom was feeling cheap and didn't really want to invest $140 in a dog ramp!


She told the nice man that she was very concerned about the weight of a ramp because she has to be able to use it with just one hand, while holding a wild child by the leash in the other hand! He took that ramp out to her Tahoe and showed her how easy it is to use and how easy it is to put away. He almost HAD her until she heard the price. Now, this ramp has obviously been demonstrated once or twice since it had doggie toenail prints on it, so Mom asked if he could come down any on the price. Guess what! He gave her a $50 discount! They didn't even take the ramp back into the store for Mom to pay! They just took the box and left the ramp right in the middle of the back of our Aire-mobile!

And guess what else! Mom CAN actually pull it out and put it back with just one hand! Woohoo for you, Mom! This is going to relieve a lot of stress, on our mom, whenever one of us has to go to the v-e-t or the groomer! She always starts worrying about it the night before! Well, NO MORE, Mom! You will have to find something ELSE to worry about from now on! (And she WILL)! I'm sure she is the world's biggest worrier (is that a word?)! After all this typing, we had to make our mom come back and tell you that the ramp is telescoping! The top slides back to make the whole thing only take up 39 inches from front to back! That still leaves lots of room for the stuffs that our mom buys to re-sell! Woohoo again!

Have a great weekend, everydoggie!

Aire-hugs,
Patches & Penny (who won't be stepping on mail containers anymore!)

We are both beautimous at the same time!

Hi every buddy! It's me, Patches! Well, our spa days are over with for now. Penny had hers last Tuesday and I had mine on Thursday. It rarely happens that we are both clean and smelling good at the same time, but somehow, our mom managed to pull it off this time!


There isn't much going on at Airedale Heaven these days. It's just too hot to do much of anything! Our mom is still trying to figure out what is "normal" for her after losing our dad and Poppy. Last week, it was 6 months since we lost Dad and this Saturday, it will be 6 months for Poppy. Mom is doing okay, but sometimes she wishes she could turn the clock back a few years! She just can't believe how fast time goes by! Last week, our mom's youngest aunt died after a 3 year battle with cancer. Mom has been on the phone with her uncle telling him what he can expect in the next 6 months. I guess she thinks these last 6 months have made her an expert or something!


One of these pictures is Penny from the back. You have to click on the picture to biggify it and you can see her tail with the arrow in the center of it. We don't know how the arrow got there. We think maybe she was in a fight with her littermates when she was a puppy.

If it EVER cools off, here, our mom is thinking about having a fundraiser for the Airedale Rescue Group. Yep, right here at OUR house! Of course, Aunt Wendy will help her. We're thinking about maybe some time in November. We have lots of room for the pups to run around in our fenced backyard and all the peeps can be in the kitchen or on the deck.

I still haven't named my new best friend and believe it or not, he has only lost about a 1 inch piece of stuffing! I'm pretty sure he is a life-sized Border Collie 'cause he keeps trying to herd me around the living room!

Well, every buddy, I have to go bark at the mailman now!

Aire-hugs,
Patches and Penny too!

My new best friend...by Patches

Hey, everydoggie, everykitty, bear, hamsterrier and hooman! It's me, Patches! Since I have not yet destroyed my weiner doggie, Mom brought me home ANOTHER doggie.


He's pretty big, so I can perform my secret ritual on him without any fear of falling on my fuzzy face!


My mom brought him home last Friday, but she just gave him to me this morning. That's because Penny is at the spa today so I won't have to try to keep her away from my new best friend. Woohoo!


Some of you have asked if our mom has given up on the idea of grooming us herself. Well, sort of! She can't do it alone and it's hard to find someone to help her whenever she feels like working on one of us. She hasn't sold the clippers yet, so there's still a chance that she will try it again.

I get my spa day on Thursday, so we will both be beautimous at the same time! That doesn't happen too often. Our mom can't handle taking both of us at the same time. What a wimp! She freaks out when I get all cracker dog, on her, while she's trying to hold me still and help Penny to get out of the Aire-mobile. It's better for her blood pressure if we go on separate days.

Well, everybuddy, I'm off to find an aire-conditioning vent again. It's still really hot, here right now. I feel sorry for all the hooman pups who went back to school yesterday. The buses are not aire-conditioned and they sit outside, in the sun, all day! What is wrong with these people that think it's okay to put kids back in school in AUGUST? Okay, don't get our mom started on this! When she went to school (like 24,343 years ago), they didn't go back to school until after Labor Day in SEPTEMBER! Of course, she didn't live in the SOUTH!

Aire-hugs,
Patches (and Penny the spa girl)

Too sad to blog...almost!

Hi, every buddy! It's me, Patches We are very sad today because of what happened to Doctor Dre! We still don't know all the details, but we think it never should have happened! We're also sad that Kodiak went to the bridge, yesterday, but we are glad he had such a wonderful life. Once again, we're sorry, stoopid Vista won't let us put in links! We are crossing our paws for all their peeps!


I heard our mom, on the phone, yesterday, making an appointment for somedoggie to get groomed! I was relieved when I heard her say Penny's name, but then she informed me that Penny goes on Tuesday and I go on Thursday! That just sucks! I was pretty sure I was going to escape it this time, but NO! She actually made MY appointment a long time ago!


Well, I guess I AM getting kind of woolie and I would like to cool off a little. It is soooooo hot that our mom keeps our garage door up about a foot or two during the day. She says there are cans of gas in there, gas in two mowers and gas in the Aire-mobile and a pressure washer. We haven't heard any reports of peoples garages blowing up, but she's not taking any chances!


She's also only doing laundry once a week and very early in the morning. Our washer and dryer are in the garage and it's just too hot to be out there for very long! She doesn't know what she was thinking when she had the washer and dryer moved to the garage! It seemed like a good idea, at the time, but in the summer and winter...not such a great idea!

Well, everydoggie, I need to go outside now...just for a second! You wouldn't believe how fast two Aire-girls can run down the steps, do our bidness and get back into the Aire-conditioning!

Aire-hugs,
Patches (and Penny too)

We had very impawtant visitors!

Hey, every buddy! It's me, Patches! As some of you may know, we had some very impawtant visitors on Saturday! The two special wires (aka Jake and Fergi) were traveling through Georgia with their moma and their girl, Nina. They stopped to spend some time with us! We were so excited that we also invited Sally Ann and her mommy (Lisa) and Ezzy Rider with his mom and dad (aka Aunt Wendy and Unkle Bill). This first picture (above) was supposed to be last, but as usual, Vista screwed it up. Anyway, it is some of the cool stuffs they brought for us! Our mom also got a gorgeous tote bag that is handmade by the moma of the two special wires. She is guarding it with her life to make sure nodoggie gets their teefies on it!


This is Sally Ann sitting on her mommy's lap while Jake takes in the view from our big box window in the kitchen.


This is them again with Nina girl on the left. We were all eating foodables that our mom cheated on. It was so hot that she didn't want to start up the oven, so she bought frozen raviolis and garlic bread and a Pepperidge Farm frozen cake for desert. Sally Ann brought a Key Lime Mango pie, so some of the peeps ate that too. Sally Ann and Lisa also brought a flatsie toy for everydoggie! Thanks, Sally Ann! Penny has been squeeking hers a LOT!


Here's Miss Fergie running around the kitchen. We thought she was going to play with that toy, but it was just being dragged around by her leash. She is such a sweetie pie! Maybe, someday, she'll figure out how much fun the toys are!


Here's me getting some lovin' from Jake and Fergie's moma. I think she wanted to dognap me, but my mom wouldn't let her have me. (At least not THAT day...SOME days, she might consider it!



This is Ezzy Rider! As usual, he was right in the middle of everything that went on. He and I had quite a few play sessions! And he was very nice to the LITTLE doggies, just like we were.

As each new doggie arrived, Penny and I were penned in the living room so we could meet everydoggie snooter to snooter with a gate between us. Once we all got settled down, our mom let us loose and boy did we have fun! Jake was kind of sticking close to Penny when he wasn't in the window. Maybe he thought it was good to stick close to a more mature doggie. Fergie explored the whole house even though she is still kind of shy. Unfortunately, just as everyone arrived, we were having major thunder boomers! They didn't last toooo long and once they were over, we all went outside for a potty break. We didn't stay out too long because of all the fresh mud.

What a great time we had! We just love meeting and spending time with Dogs with Blogs peeps and pups!

Aire-hugs,
Patches & Penny (who managed to not show up in any of our pictures)