Wordless Wednesday - Can You Spot All Seven Hounds?

                                                            





Ode to the Hounds

This is a poem that I had wrote after we got Gloria in April of 2011.  I had called it "Basset Hound Momma x2"   Enjoy! :)

I spend all my days now cleaning up mud,
From Freddie Spaghetti and Gloria, his bud.
Then there's the drool on the cupboards and floor,
Everywhere I turn, there's a little bit more!

It's on all our furniture, even our t.v.
'Cause when these two hounds shake,(thank God there's not three)
The drool it does fly and sticks just like muck,
So if you're within range, you'd better just duck!

Then there's the fur all over our bed.
Not to mention that bassets love to curl by your head!
Our couch and our chair we no longer own,
They haven't figured out yet, how to use the home phone.

Then there's the smell when two bassets have gas,
Nobody ever said that this breeds got class!
They puke and they drool, they fart and they snore,
But who could ever ask for anything more?

For a nice clean house and room on my bed,
Would I ever give up Gloria and Fred?
Not on your life, I would never trade places
Or give up the love from these precious faces!

Whoopin' It Up In The Sun

Yesterday the hounds enjoyed lots of time outside soaking up the rays.  However we all know Freddie Spaghetti can't sit still for too long and he finally goes on the attack and tries to entice Gobble Guts Gloria to play!

"Come on Gloria! I'll even keep my eyes closed!"

"Look, I can fit your whole head in my mouth!" "hehe!"

"You'll never find me down here!"

"Body slam!"

"And finally my vampire move!"

Yes, everyone was enjoying the sun yesterday including one of the city workers who was whoopin' it up in the park in front of our house by opening up the fire hydrant.

Meanwhile, we had to pay for the water to water our lawn last night!  I felt like running over there with buckets!

Another Prize!

As you can see by the next couple of pictures......

The hound slug fest continued well into Monday morning.

Until the mail came and it was for them.  That got them off their lazy basset butts!

We got an e-mail from Carrie over at All Things Dog Blog last week saying we won an "Unbreakoball".  I was so excited as I thought this would be perfect for Fred.  Maybe, just maybe we would have a ball that he couldn't destroy!

Fred liked it right away and took it to show Gloria.

"Okay, that's enough Gloria! You saw it now back off!"
Then he took it outside and ran around the yard with it.

He even brought it back to me when I threw it! I felt so proud of him and I thought "this must be how Storm, Thunder and Freighters Momma must feel over at 2 Brown Dawgs or Hawks Momma over at Brown Dog CBR."  Then Fred just growled at me as he ran past with the ball! Oh well, maybe one day.

Then he brought it back in the house with him.......

.....and guarded it with his life fell asleep with it.

So the "Unbreakoball" has survived day one with Fred! Thanks again to Carrie over at All Things Dog Blog.  So far so good!

Monday Mischief......Not

The weekend here was hot and sunny.  The perfect weather for hound napping.  That's pretty much what Fred and Gloria did all weekend. They were so wore out from laying in the sun on Saturday, that they couldn't snap out of it Sunday.

Gloria just kind of flowed out of the chair onto the hassock while she slept.

She looked like a slug.

And Fred....well.....

........he was just being Fred.

I do have to say, I enjoyed our nice quiet weekend with no mischief!

"Don't worry Momma, I'm starting to snap out of it!  Bwaahhahahaha!"

Somethings Going On In The Hood

The other day the city came and pulled up alongside our little park in front of our crescent....

....and left this bad boy in the park.

Then yesterday morning after his morning pee, Fred came threw himself against the back door screaming  and said,

"Momma! There's something going down in the hood!"

We all went to the front door to see what they were doing. What was all that steam?

Fred and Gloria were mesmerized by this big machine.  Okay, I was a little too!

They're repaving our crescent!  That machine heats up the old asphalt and grinds it up. Oh it was noisy,  I tried shutting the front door to drown out some of the noise but,

Fred would have no part of it.  He needed all of his viewing options left open.

The whole process took most of the day.  I don't know if your dog has ever done this, but when Fred sees something out the front he'll run to the back door and want outside.  Once he's out there he realizes that he can't see what he was looking at anymore and scratches to get back in.  Once in, the process starts all over again.

Fred watched the grader go by for the last time......

....and then he crashed.

Rest up Freddie 'cause that was just day one!!

Quiet Week

It's been a quiet week with the hounds.  They seem very lazy the past couple of days.  I don't know if it's because we've had such warm temperatures that came on so fast or what.  But Fred hasn't even been doing his daily ritual zoomies.  He just seems too tired.  I tried to get him and Gloria to run around yesterday afternoon when the sun came out after it rained all morning.

Fred took one run at me with the camera and then just laid down.  Gloria just watched from afar. Then he just wanted back in the house to lay around.

"What?"  "I'm tired!"

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz......."

When he was up, he'd just lay with his head on the window ledge looking outside.

Just watching his neighborhood.

Poor little guy couldn't even hold his own head up.
Yep, until he saw a Mr. Squirrel.



Then all h#ll broke loose!

Rain to Snow and Back Again!

First up I'd like to thank Remington for alerting us to the Full Worm Moon last night and explaining that as the temperatures start to rise and the ground starts to thaw, earthworm casts appear heralding the return of the robins.  I for one did not know this.  So I went out last night to see if I could get a picture of this moon and possibly hear Remington howling.  At first the clouds covered up the moon, but then they shifted enough for me to see this Full Worm Moon and get a picture.  I however did not hear our buddy Remington howling.  This could have been muffled by the clouds.....or maybe it's just the fact that we are in Ontario and he is in Minnesota! hee! hee!

My picture is a little blurry, but if you check out Remington's RRC, (Remington Research Center), his human Mike got a nice clear picture!

Now I don't know about this Moon bringing the robins, but it sure brought something our way. After it being 15 C (59F) yesterday and raining all day, we woke up to this!

The only thing I can say is maybe the nice white snow............

.....will help clean up the mud that the hounds dragged in from yesterday! Option number two.....I could wash my floor. heh,heh!

"Gosh Momma, enough already with the "mud", geesh!!"

Now the weekend is supposed to be 16C (60F) and rain again!  Come on Mother Nature, make up your mind!  Enjoy your weekend and don't forget to "spring ahead" your clocks an hour and change the batteries in your smoke detectors before you go to bed Saturday night!

On a sadder note my thoughts are with the gang over at Urban Hounds who lost one of their furbabies, Dr. Zira, yesterday to congestive heart failure.  She was  9 years old when they adopted her and gave her a loving  home to live out her senior years.  R.I.P.  Dr. Zira.  If you get a minute maybe you can pop over to Urban Hounds and offer your condolences.

Fred and Gloria

You'd swear these two hounds have always been together.


Okay, right there they're both looking guilty of something!

Fred won't do anything without Gloria now. They love being together and I love taking pictures of them. Their so happy together. Gloria likes her quiet time a little more than Freddie, but after having all those babies you can't blame her. All Moms need their "quiet" time.

This is how she tries to block Freddie out.

It didn't take long to fall in love with Gloria. She is the perfect addition to our family. It's just what ole Freddie needed too. A playmate, buddy, pal, confidont and fellow mischief maker.

Even the grandbabies love her.

They like that they can actually pet her and she just sits there.




Ya, Fred's still not there yet! But it will come.

Yes, and when they want to they can even be stubborn together too! This is them ignoring me when I call them.

"Did you hear anything?" "I didn't hear anything." "Don't look at her Gloria and maybe she'll go away!"

They each have their own unique personalities and subtle differences. For instance......... This is how Gloria sleeps....


...aaaand this is how Freddie sleeps.

Oh, the differences between girls and boys!