Nickname Game

Lots of us fur-kids have special nicknames.  And our friend, Sarge, is sponsoring a Nickname Game (click the link to see more).  I saw it on Marley's blog, so here are our nicknames:

RULES FIRST:

1. Sometime between May 11^th and end of the day on May 18^th, create a post on your own blog where you list all of the nicknames you’ve been called by your peeps.
2. Invite your furiends to comment with their own vote for his/her favorite of your nicknames.  For the following week, your peeps all have to call you ONLY BY YOUR WINNING NICKNAME!  BOL
3. Leave a comment for me so that I know you pawticipated.

 

Milo's nicknames:

1. Buddy-Feller
2. My Doh
3. Doh-cephus
4. Doh-regard
5. BF
6. Doh
7. Dohber
8. Twiddle-Dee
9. Yahootinanner
10. HB (don't ask...)

Dixie's nicknames:

1. Pumpkin
2. Doodle Bug
3. Doodly-Do
4. The Evil One
5. Dixie Lou Marie
6. The Devil's Handmaiden
7. Hardhead
8. Twiddle-Dumb
9. Yahootinanny
10. Mouthy

Snooper-vising.

Milo is a fantastic Snooper-visor. He will stay right with you, watching intently, and never stray from his job.

All this weekend, this was the look I was getting during every chore.  He was never 'under foot', but always just close enough to watch what his humans were up to and try to figure out why we were making so many noises

Everyone should have a dachshund SUPERvisor around. They make chores so much better.

Milo (and Dixie) are currently sleeping off their weekend's activities. 

Mother's Day

It's been a while since I had a mother of my own. You see mine passed away the year I was graduating college.  My dad had passed away a couple months before my high school graduation, and since his passing she just didn't "do" well.  It's hard to explain, but she was merely a ghost of herself since the love of her life was gone.

She was a fantastic mom.  Showing me love through the things she did, and didn't, do.  In fact, the whole reason I have this little white house, with it's black shutters, on 2.5 acres of land, is because my mom showed me how to live in a little white house on 3+ acres of land.  She showed me every day how to take care of my house, family and farm so that everyone who entered and exited was different.

She is the epitome of the following quote:

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."  Mother Teresa

I know she blessed everyone around her... and she blessed me.

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Milo and Dixie gave me a card for Mother's Day.  It has a dachshund on the front!!! They went together with Reed to buy me my favorite M&Ms... this was after they spent 8 hours yesterday working outside with me, which was to be my Mother's Day gift!!  *I've trained all 3 of them right!!!*   (I would show you the one Reed bought, but he forgot to sign it. :D)

Milo...

Loves a trip to Goodwill..

If There is One Thing 'Doh Hates...

There are a million things he hates... nail trimmings, baths, squirrels, people coming to our house, people driving past our house, people coming to the neighbors house... but his biggest nemesis, since the dawn of time, is the push mower.

Of all the garden instruments of torture, our little Milo desires to kill the push mower!!  The tiller? No problem... in fact, after the dirt is tilled, he is out rolling in it.  The blower or weed-eater? Not even afraid of them... mostly indifferent.  And the biggest of them all, the riding mower? OMG, the riding mower he loves like a fat kid loves cake!! 'Specially if I hook up the pull behind cart and give him and Dixie a ride around the property.  I mean, think of it, a walk without walking an inch! That is dachshund nirvana!  He will go to sleep if you drive him around long enough.

But the push mower?  Shoot! It doesn't even have to be powered on to get Milo going.  It goes down something like this video, until we have to carry him in the house and grab some Valium for him (and me).

What I Did On My Day Off (So Far)

Its just 11:30, but I've been busy!! :)

New cushions for the pallet seating built last year.

Cushions found here and there $5
Ribbon I had on hand $0
Canvas Drop Cloth $8

$13 total cost for original seating.

 I put the fire-pit in the corner and added three pots of flowers (I'm fond of asymmetry)

I have pink geraniums and inpatients in the pots.. with some weird purple leaf flower my mom used to like.... No clue on the name.

Dollar Store Wreath.

Swim noodle, taped together to make a circle
4x 50' Plastic Rope
1x wire ribbon
1x each daisies and poppies (two of my favorite flowers)

$8 total cost.




I will take pictures of the rest of the deck and porch after we clean on Saturday... and after all my Memorial Day/Patriotic stuff is out.

Attention Evfurrybody

Today is my mum's burfday!!!!