Happy New Year to YOU and Happy Bloggaversary to US!

Hello to all our furry and not-so-furry friends! It's us, Patches and Penny! We sneaked the picture above when our mom was down in the basement in our dad's workshop! He always said he could tell when she was down there! She never has figured out HOW he knew, but he DID!


On Christmas Day, we had the first White Christmas in 125 years! Even our mom had to agree that it was beautimous! That's only because she didn't have to drive in it! In the afternoon, she went to our neighbor's with the Puggy guys and the 2 new hooman pups. (They have doubled their weight since birth). She ate dinner with them and then went across the street for dessert with our other neighbors. We thought it was really nice of all of them to invite our mom! Unfortunately, no one invited US! I guess that's okay 'cause we had loads of presents to unwrap and play with on Christmas morning! We had so much fun that we slept all afternoon!

Our other neighbors came home last night, so our mom is done taking care of their animals. They even moved the froggies back to their own home! We sniffed them, but we couldn't get near them at all!

Sunday will be our 3rd Bloggaversary! Woohoo! Three whole years since we started our blog! And we're still a loooong way from 300 posts! You can blame that on our lame personal secretary! For some strange reason, she seems to think that blogging isn't the MOST impawtant thing to do! How are we supposed to keep up with all our buddies?

Happy New Year to everyone! We know a lot of our pals have already celebrated the new year, and a lot of us will be celebrating later tonight. Let's all stay safe and don't shoot off any fireworks! I'm just sayin'....

Aire-hugs,
Penny & Patches (and Lana too)

Merry Christmas!

Hey, every buddy! It's me, Patches! I managed to get my personal secretary to sit at the computer long enough to translate what I am barking. We want to wish a very Merry Christmas to all our pals who celebrate it! Oh, and a Merry or Happy Whatever else you might celebrate!


Our mom taking care of a kitteh and a bunny rabbit that live across the street from us! She goes over there twice a day! She puts the kitteh in a crate about 6 p.m. so she can be nice and warm in the garage. Then she goes back at about 7 a.m. to let the kitteh out and feed her and the bunny. There are 2 froggies that she is feeding too, but they have moved over to OUR house! We told our mom that she could just move the kitteh and bunny to our house too, but for some strange reason, she's not going for that! Gee, I wonder WHY!

Well, I guess that's it for today! Whatever you are celebrating, we hope it's very happy and FUN!!! Thank you to everydoggie that send us Christmas cards even though we didn't sign up for the exchange. Our mom got the cards out of the closet, but that's as far as she went this year. Maybe NEXT year!

Aire-hugs,
Patches (and Penny and Lana too)

Look what WE got!

Hey, every buddy! It's me, Patches! I just couldn't wait to show you what our mom bought for us! Okay, he's not REALLY for US! His name is Digger Dog and he's very talented! When you press a button, he barks, wags his tail, kicks one back foot and then he farts up a storm! It is just tooooo funny! Sorry there's no video, but our mom's 32 bit camera won't upload to our 6 bit computer! What a rip off! It's probably a good thing she can't do a video because all you pooches out there would probably try to tear the speakers out of your pawrent's 'puters! We go absolutely nutso when she presses that white button!

Mom bought Digger from a lady at a yardsale. The lady was from Ukrain and she told Mom that she and her husband bought Digger in some other country. They actually bought 2 of them and when they brought them through customs, the customs peeps didn't want to let them go. Not because the Diggers were suspicious or anything. They were just having too much fun playin' with them! Our mom promised not to list him until Aunt Wendy gets to see him.




I sure hope the rest of you are having better weather than we are! Right now, it's up to a whopping 21 degrees with a wind chill factor of 3! Mom wants to go out for a little while, but I don't think she's gonna make it! We have snow flurries in the aire and we feel like hibernating!
And THAT'S not even the worst of it! Tonight, it is supposed to go down to 13 degrees F! I thought this was supposed to be the SOUTH!!!!!! Even those of us wearing fur coats don't want to go outside for very long! Mom is talking about buying me a coat or sweater or something. I just had my latest Aire-cut last week, so although I am very beautimous and aire-o-dynamic, I come in shivering every time we go out! I might get that coat and keep it on all the time! Due to the shock that our mom got from our last gas bill, she has dropped the thermostat down one more degree! I know it doesn't seem like much, but we have a pretty big house so she's doin' whatever she can to keep the bills lower than the national debt! Holy moly, it's only 66 degrees in here! We can't even have a fire in the fireplace 'cause our mom had the fireplace replaced by a big box window. Hey, maybe we can start a fire in the window!...or NOT!

Well, every buddy, that's it for today. I'm going to go snooze with my nose covered up!
PUPDATE: DIGGER DIDN'T SELL IN THE ONE-DAY AUCTION, SO MOM LISTED HIM IN HER EBAY STORE AND SOLD HIM ABOUT 2 HOURS AFTER HE WAS LISTED. HE'S GOING TO A NEW HOME IN CALIFORNIA!
Aire-hugs,
Patches (and Penny who has a lot more hair to keep warm!)

There's a lady looking for an Aire-girl to adopt!

Hi, every buddy! It's me, Patches. There is a lady, in Florida, who is desperately looking for a female Airedale to adopt. She is willing to travel to pick up the doggie! If anyone knows of a female 'dale around 2 to 4 years old that needs a home, please e-mail me (or leave a comment on our bloggy).

Now, back to my regularly (or NOT so regularly) scheduled posting! Yesterday, I spent the day at the spa and I think I got every treatment they offer! It poured down rain all day, especially when Mom was dropping me off and picking me up! What an ugly day! The rain is all gone now, but we are still running through mud in the back yard. Good times! Our mom doesn't think it's very funny! Today, it's really windy and the high for today is only supposed to be 43 degrees F. Tonight, it is going down into the 20's so I might have to borrow mom's winter coat!

Well, everybuddy, that's it for today! Don't forget...contact us if you know of any 2 to 4 year old Aire-girls that are looking for a home!

Aire-hugs,
Patches (and Penny too)

Happy Thanksgiving, Everydoggie and Everyhuman!

Hi, every buddy! It's me, Patches! We just wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I know, I know, it's been almost a month since our personal secretary has posted anything for us! I would have done it myself, but my extra large paws make it really difficult to find the right keys. My typing usually looks like this: hfihsfdcuijer8erj!

We just wanted to let you know that we are still here. We haven't been around to your bloggies much and we haven't even been of Facebook very much. We are having some 'puter problems, but thank doG, this morning, they seem to be okay! Yippee!

Our mom's sales on that Ebay kennel have really taken off, over the last couple of weeks, so she stays busy all day long! It's the first Christmas season that she's had to handle everything by herself, so it takes up even more time than usual. Fortunately, for us, it is making enough green papers to pay our bills and buy lots of yummy treats and foodables!

Our puggie friends next door told us, through the fence, that their pawrents are really overwhelmed with the 2 new hooman pups! So, our mom is making foodables for them whenever she can. On Monday, Mom took them some stuffed peppers and it reminded her of why she doesn't make them very often. There's a whole LOT of work involved!

We hope all of you have a really great Turkey Day! Our mom is going out to dinner with Aunt Wendy, Unkle Bill and Aunt Wendy's mom! Then she might go over to visit the puggie's pawrents and hooman pups. It will be a strange holiday, for her, but she's trying to stay positive and not feel sorry for herself!

Aire-hugs,
Patches (and Penny too)

The leaves are falling! The pine straw is falling!

Hey, everydoggie! It's me, Patches! Once again, our mom can't remember which picture is first! Geez Mom, there are only TWO of them! Anyway, one is a picture of my weiner dog right after I did surgery on him! The other one is just ME!


Our mom has been spending a lot of time selling on that Ebay kennel so she can feed us and buy us treats! Good job, Mom, now keep it up! She has also been spending a lot of time out in the yard with the leaf blower. It looks like all our trees have reached their peak of color and the leaves are falling. That isn't ALL that's falling! In Georgia, at this time of year, the pine needles turn brown and fall too...just like the leaves! Peeps around here even pay green papers for the pine straw to use as mulch. Not us, though! We NEVER have to give any green papers 'cause we get plenty of our own pine straw! The trees don't lose ALL their needles, but they lose ENOUGH!

Our mom is also dawg sitting for the little Puggie guys again! Their hooman mom had two hooman pups last week and they are in the NICU in Atlanta since they were bornded a couple weeks early. The mom and dad got a motel room right by the hospital so someone has to check on the Puggies! Mom says it's pretty easy. All she has to do is stop by the mailbox and steal their mails, then she goes to make sure the doggies have plenty of water and foodables. Of course, the puggies jump on her, so when she gets home, we have a great time sniffing her knees. Yep, they are really short doggies!

Well, everydoggie, we have to let our personal secretary get back to the Ebay kennel, now! We hope everyone has a great week!

Aire-hugs,
Patches (and Penny too)

Happy Birthday, Dad!

Today would have been our dad's birthday! Instead of celebrating with him, we are just very sad because he can't be here with us!





Our mom is doing pretty well except for days like today! It is 248 days since he went to heaven and we still miss him every single day!

Dad, we hope you and Poppy, Pockets, Wayne, Midnight and Daisy have a really great day together! Oh, and sorry about the picture! We know it was taken outside with the sun shining in your eyes and it makes your hair look red. We know your hair was really brown!

To all the peeps and pups who read our bloggy: sorry about the sad post, but it's just how we feel today!

Aire-hugs,
Penny & Patches