Sunday, October 12, 2008

Fashion Forward

Here we have Henry wearing his tough guy, West Coast Chompers tank.  Henry really prefers tanks over t-shirts because he isn’t very fond of sleeves.  He was quite content to sit up on the rock and sun himself while I snapped some pictures.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Flashback

This week’s flashback: A Day at the Lake

The one bad thing about living in Florida is there is no Fall here.  To help cure my fall color withdraw, this week’s flashback was from a trip to Lake Needwood, MD back in December of 2004.  Lake Needwood was one of my absolute favorite places to take the boys when we lived in MD.  And I can’t believe how young the boys look in the photos!

Friday, October 10, 2008

Calendar Update

I have been getting emails wondering about the 2009 Calendar.  Here is the scoop.  The calendar is currently at the printer.  It went to print in the early morning hours of September 27th.  The target completion date from the printer is October 13th.  Add on shipping time from California and the calendars are tentatively scheduled to arrive on October 16th.  Which means they will most likely go on sale the evening of October 16th or October 17th barring there are no issues with printing or shipping.  I was thinking about doing a pre-sale when the calendars shipped so that I could get a head start on getting things ready to ship on my end.  What do you think about that?  Would you be interested in a pre-sale?

On an unrelated note, here are just a few pics of the pugs doing their thing.

Have a great weekend everyone!  Enjoy all the colors of Fall this weekend.  That is the one thing I really do miss living in Florida.  There is no Fall here!

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Watering Hole

Benjamin loves to chew and when he chews for hours on end in the evenings he naturally gets thirsty.  During a normal chewing session, he makes a couple of trips to the water bowl and it isn’t uncommon for him to come close to emptying the pugs’ huge water bowl.  But while he empties the water bowl, I would be surprised if he actually drinks more than a few tablespoons of water.  We have labeled him the most inefficient canine drinker because he somehow always ends up soaking his chin and that cute little bit of extra skin under his neck with water.

I always thought he just dipped his chin in the water while he was drinking, but this super slow motion video of a dog drinking may shed a little bit of light on the subject.  In any case, I found this video of how a dog drinks very fascinating.

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Sweet Spot

These knucklebones must be pretty yummy for Henry to give up part of his bed so that the bone may rest comfortably.  This particular bone is one of the rejects.  Meaning, on the night the knucklebones were given out, this was not the one bone chosen by the pugs that they all wanted to chew.  So, it will sit, untouched for days until someone starts chewing on it and makes it interesting enough for all the pugs.  In the meantime, Henry is being a hospitable host.  Yesterday, when I walked by the bone was in the center of the pillow and Henry was sleeping between the wall and the pillow!  Which of course made me shake my head because Henry will give up his bed for a bone, but won’t budge for me when I need him to scoot over a bit so I can get my whole body on the bed at night.  The boy obviously doesn’t know where his pumpkin bread is buttered.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Caption This #77

Just call him cranky in the morning.

Looking forward to your captions in the comments.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Sold Out

This is the scene on most Saturday nights.  Heck, who am I kidding.  It is pretty much like this every night.  The only thing that makes this picture less realistic is that the cat is not perched on the back of the couch.  The sofa has three cushions and each one of the pugs has claimed a cushion for themselves.  Good thing the pugs are lap dogs or else the humans of the house would be left seeking comfortable seating elsewhere.