A Letter, An Award and a Visitor (Shudders)

Woot!! Miss Nola gaves us the bestest award ever! :)  She is one of the most fantastically talented girls ever.  We love reading her blog each day! Her momma is a great photographer and Miss Nola is definitely a fantastic model.

If you aren't friends, please go visit and become friends LIKE NOW! :) No need to thank us.. We know.... We rock... We loves you, too! :)




The rules of this award are:

1. Thank the blogger who gave you the award and link back to them.
2. Tell you how I started my blog and why I blog.
3. Nominate 10 other bloggers.

We originally started the blog to chronicle the things going on in the Life of the Pennington Family... cool recipes, neat crafts, etc.  Then Mom figured out that we, Milo, Dixie and now Newby, are definitely better subjects than boring old popsicle stick crafts.

I nominate the following blogs for the Addictive Blogger Award:

• We 3 Doxies
• The Legacy Chronicles
• Brian's Home
• Stella and Rory from Down Under
• Dachsies with Moxie
• Shasha
• Corbin
• Higgins
• Nora B. Webster
• Misaki at themisadventuresofmisaki

 

We gots the sweetest card from Reuben! :) He had a chip-in program to help with some Dawg-tor expenses.  We sold a few bones and some toys.  When we didn't have enough we logged into Mom's Paypal account and sent a little bit of her money.

Don't tell her we know the password cause we got our eyes on some wayy cool stuff on Etsy.




We had a visitor recently. He isn't the largest we've had, but... still... he was rather... uhm... large.

I would like to think that he appreciated my spraying of him so he could go on a rafting trip, less the raft, down the kitchen drain and out into the river, pond, ocean or wherever woe-begotten spiders travel.

I believe he is sitting on a beach towel in Florida right now... waiting to scare some early arriving snowbird.

:D

This was what our weekend looked like... Sunny, gorgeous...
If you've never been to Kentucky, well the central part of the state, this is what you see down every country road.... Miles and miles of fences surrounding the beautiful bluegrass.  We didn't see any horses close enough to picture for you. Perhaps another time.

A New Award!

Back at the beginning of July, Miss Nola the Magnificent, gave me a great award.

Here are the rules of this award:

*Include the awards logo in a post or on your blog

*Share the love and link the person who awarded you

*Tell us 7 facts about yourself

*Nominate 7 other fabulous bloggers

*Link your nominees to your post and leave them a comment on their blog, letting them know they've won! 

As this is kinda a 'girly' award as Milo said, Dixie has agreed to give facts about herself!

1. I never will walk in front of you. Mom believes I was abused by kickings and stuff like that so, I always walk behind my owners.
2. I LOVE veggies and fruits.  I don't beg for beef or pork, but if you have an apple I will be all up in your grill to get some!
3. I am a groomer. I love grooming anyone who will let me groom them. I especially love grooming faces. :)
4. I am sneaky. I will bark and cause a fuss so I can steal the boys food or bones when they run off to see what I'm barking about.
5. I love the outside.  I would prefer to stay outside all day long... mommy won't let me though. :(
6. I don't like to be picked up. In order to do so you have to put your arm down and pat on the forearm to let me know you want to pick me up.  I will then crawl up and put my front paws on your forearm so you can scoop me up.
7. I sleep four paws up! I take up more space than you can imagine for such a little girl.

 I pass this award on to:

Miss Lily Belle 

Bicontinental Dachshund

Nora B. Webster

Life as the MilShelb

El Diario de Lorenza  

Mayzie

Shasha 

 

The Very Inspiring Blogger Award!!!

Jock, Lucy and Dusty from Life with My Dogs, and our a great favorite of ours, Posie,  gave us the coolest award ever!!! :) They all gave us the "Very Inspiring Blogger Award"!!  Isn't that the most wonderful thing ever?  We want to say a big ole' Thank you! Thank you so much for thinking of us!  We are very blessed with our great furiends!!

Here are the rules we have to follow upon receiving this award:
1. Thank the person who nominated you and link back to them in your post. – Check out Life with My Dogs' blog and Life froo Posie Dorg's Eyez.  They are so much fun!!

2. Say 7 things about yourself. - Ok, that's below.
3. Pass it on to 15 bloggers you admire. - That's also below.

Seven things about myself?? Just like Jock, Lucy and Dusty's AND Posie's moms, we'll just do seven things about Milo, Dixie and Newby, because really, this blog is all about them!

1. Milo:  Mom kisses my front paws every single day cause she sees them turning all white furred and she wants me to know she loves me no matter if I am a puppy or senior.
2. Dixie:  It took me over a year and a half to even sit with mom cause of what happened before I got rescued.  I'm not very fond of females, but have figured out that my mom is pretty cool.
3. Newby:  I can bark, sit and lie down... so it's true that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks!!
4. Milo:  I don't like sweet things.  I will beg like crazy for a bit of cheese but won't even come near you if you have cake or cookies.
5. Dixie: I'm pretty sneaky.  If the boys are getting into my stuff or in a prime sitting location I will bark, sending them to the door to see what is up, so I can take whatever they want.
6. Newby:  I don't like people singing high tones.. If mom starts singing the real high stuff I start singing with her!  (at least that is what she thinks... I hate to tell her that I just don't like her singing!)
7. Milo, Dixie and Newby: We love all of our furiends and furiends' families.  :)  You all are the best!  We are very thankful to Frankie and Ernie for introducing us to you all!!

 Here are the 15 bloggers I admire:

Puddles, Whitney and Albert at We 3 Doxies

All our Boxer family at The Legacy Chronicles (go see the new puppy pictures!!)
Mayor Frankie and Young Master Ernie at Frankly and Ernestly Speaking 
Brian (one of our very newest furiends... we loves him bunches) at Brian's Home

Stella and Rory from Down Under... Yup, from THAT Down Under. :)  
Lorenza at El Diario de Lorenza
Pretty Mayzie who could use a bit of prayer as she and her family lives out in the west where all the wild fires are located :)
Some of the nicest dachshunds and peeps around, at Dachsies with Moxie

Shasha (who just recently did a post about the Pedigree DogsRule program... go check it out and post like us!!)
Corbin who is changing the world's opinion of Pitbulls! 

Higgins (he is a super funny dog, even though he is still on a bit of jail time out)

Nora B. Webster (We love Nora B.  Her and hers family is so cool)

Milly and Shelby over at Life as the MilShelb

Misaki at themisadventuresofmisaki
and cause everyone needs a little Schnauzer in their Day, Oskar at the Daily Oskar

Sunshine Award

We gots an AWARD!!!  Misses Lily Belle and Muffin sent us the Sunshine Award!!  We are beyond honored.. I mean of all the people in blogville we gots picked!!!  Does that mean she thinks we are sunshiney? I mean… we don’t really glow, but we are hot!  But we are honored, nonetheless.   In fact, Newby went cracker dog crazy then passed out from the honor... or from the ginormous foofy Milo let out while watching Newby dancing around the office. 

The award comes with Rules that I must follow:

    - Answer the 7 questions

    - Pass the award on to 10 furends

    - Let them know they received the award (I know that we're all busy these days getting ready for the Blogville Olympics so if I give you this award and you don't have time right now to accept it, we'll all understand.)

Here are the Q&A all Blogville wants to know:

1. Favorite number?:  #32 or #5 (which the digits of 32 add up to be).  Long story short, I like(d) Kevin McHale from the Celtics… That was his jersey, so it became our favorite number.  But we you have to pick a number 1-10, 32 can’t be picked, so we go with 5.  J

2. Favorite non-alcoholic beverage?:  Why waste your time on non-alcoholic beverages???  Sigh… Well, I guess water bottles place in the freezer until they are slushy consistency. 

3. Facebook or Twitter?:  I like them both, but I use Hootsuite so it takes care of posting to both mediums. 

4. Your Passion?:  Uh… uhm… Bradley Cooper?  I mean, I dreams of him sitting in that chair, hooked up to iv’s, in A-Team.. you know… shirtless…  is that a passion?  I know it makes my mom have to shower a lot after watching the video!

5. Favorite Pattern?:  Houndstooth, is there any other pattern that comes close???

6. Favorite Day of the Week?:  Uh… Wednesdays are my ‘day off’ so that means the whole gang gets to snuggle… you know when mom isn’t doing laundry, cleaning, cooking, shopping, putting food away, doing errands… actually Wednesdays suck, so let’s go with any day that the whole pack is home and can snuggle.

7. Favorite Flower?: Mom’s weird.  Never buy her roses, flower arrangements or something like that… she’d rather have something from newegg.com or tigerdirect.com.  If she had to pick a flower that is her favorite to look at and enjoy she’d pick the following two, the poppy and the daisy. 

My 10 Furends... You all are tagged like a bad chain letter!!!:

Puddles, Whitney and Albert at We 3 Doxies

Mayor Frankie and Young Master Ernie at Frankly and Ernestly Speaking

Lorenda at El Diario de Lorenza (who with Puddles, Frankie and Ernie were my first 3 friends... and they have been the very best of friends EVER!!  When no one noticed our little blog, they were the ones who always came by with a nice sentence or two... making us laugh or just smile... they were the first beams of sunshine... and they helped us find the rest of you beams...)

Groucho the Wonder Westie (who is so very nice even if his name sounds like grouchy-o)

Shasha (we loves her furs... we want to snuggle with her)

Higgins (who needs a little loves right now as he is in crate jail for a while)

Molly the Wally (has the greatest sense of humor, you'll bark out loud!!) 

Nora B. Webster (-sigh- what a loverly lady, those eyes!!!! -sigh-.. and so smart!)

Milly and Shelby (who has the coolest full names ever, check their full names out on their blog) over at Life as the MilShelb

Misaki (a new friend we met through Pet Bloggers United) over at themisadventuresofmisaki

My VERY FIRST AWARD!!!!!

Mr. Jasper, my friend here in my own state, honored me with my very first blog award!! We were so excited we had to go outside to bark it to all the neighborhood dogs!

Yay for us!! I couldn't wait to post about my award and award a few of my favorite blogs of my own!! A couple I'm not sure if they are 'under 200' people, but even if they are, perhaps one of you are not following them, so I think that would be ok! :)

Thank you so very much for thinking of us, Jasper!

Liebster Award

These are the rules for the Liebster Award:
1. Thank the giver and link back to them.
2. Reveal your top five picks {with less than 200 followers} and let them know by leaving a comment on their blog.
3. Copy and paste the award on your blog.
4. Hope that the people you’ve sent the award to forward it to their five favorite up-and-coming bloggers and keep it going!

Here are our picks:

1. Doxies with Moxie: Not only are these the nicest dachshunds around, they have one of the most generous and talented families ever! We hope to have Mrs. Agnes make us something really soon!
2. Tales from the Dach Side: Not only do these dachsy owned people have a keen eye for Etsy stuff, they have a great love for our little long dogs! I live for their Friday night Dachshund Videos!! You will BOL!!
3. Minna Krebs - Blogville, Texas: Not only can you read all about the life of a very pretty wire-haired dachshund, but you can pick up Avon from Lucy the Dachshund. This blog is a 'spew tea all over your desktop' good read.
4. Bicontinental Dachshund: I know that Milo, Dixie and I are jealous of the adventures of Miss Tootsie! Imagine! She is an American AND Swiss citizen! The pictures of her hikes are swoon worthy!
5. Hot Dog in the City: Ollie is one of the most handsome dachshunds ever, in our humble opinion. ;) You will love hearing about Mr. Ollie's life and if you take the time to follow Corrin's blog and twitter (Ollie's too) you'll find a laugh a minute!

We might not be the most vocal of posters and commentators, but we stalk your blogs every single post!! Keep them coming... dachshund love is the best kinda love!!