Monday Mischief and Christmas Ornament #17

I had a busy weekend doing Christmas baking and cursing at the internet. I had to stop long enough to fit in some play time for the hounds as I've been limiting Freddie's romping to just once on the weekends.

"Are ya done yet?"

"Maybe someday Momma will stop long enough to take us outside Gloria. Until then we can dream. sigh"

They finally made me feel guilty enough to stop what I was doing and take them out for their walk and some backyard play afterwards.

Not the most graceful looking. hehehehe

They had about 15 minutes of glory and then........

Yes! Peace and quiet for awhile!  But by supper time Fred was looking for trouble again,

and gathered quite a little stash under the coffee table. I guess it's just his way of letting me know that I should be focusing on him and not Christmas goodies!

But I did get a lot done.  Just look at these.

Cherry Chocolate Kisses (I got this recipe off of Pinterest and they turned out great!)

And salted caramels. (another great Pinterest find)  This is my first time making caramels and they turned out awesome!  These two new additions are going to look great on my Christmas goodie trays!

I know this has been a long post but finally on to the Christmas Ornament #17.

This is the ornament that my 5 year old grandson Cameron made me this year.

Monday Mischief and Christmas Ornament #10

Fred had a very, very busy weekend full of mischief. It was just one thing after the other. I think he just has a lot of pent up energy and it sometimes gets the better of him.  After playing with Gloria last week he had a few really bad days with his legs. Actually the worst we have seen him.  I think part of this is because of this darn weather.  We have gone from cold and snowy to warm and rainy, then cold and freezing rain and now it is rainy and warm again!  After being on some pain medication and no activity for a couple of days it was getting impossible to stop him from attacking Gloria trying to get her to play.

Exhibit "A"

So we decided that a few short walks would be better then him wrestling around.  Well, that just seemed to get him all fired up and he has been a bugger all weekend!

It started with a basket of clothes I had put on our bed to put away. Freddie did a good job acting innocent.

"Go finish your housework Momma.  I'll make sure Gloria doesn't get into these clean clothes......hehehe"

Of course when I peeked back in he was trying to steal a sheet.

 Then it was the vacuum cleaner.

 A cardboard box.

A paper bag.

And finally........

A tag and bow off of a present.  Not just any present.  One my husband wrapped and put under the tree for me.  He replaced the tag three times and finally gave up.  It now has no tag.  I don't know why Freddie picked this one present to keep taking the tag off of as he hasn't touched any other presents. So we have one present under the tree with no tag on it. So as you can see his walks really got rid of that pent up energy. Ya right!

Christmas Ornament # 10

Herbie from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. When you turn it on it lights up!

This has always been my husbands favorite Christmas show so I have bought him a few things over the years like the Herbie ornament, a Yukon Cornelius snow globe and a Bumble!

Monday Mischief - PLEASE DON'T GO!!!!!

Things were going fine when my daughter came to visit the other day.  Both hounds were being good after an initial good petting session.

Yep, even Freddie was behaving himself. I don't know what it is, maybe because he's such a little bugger that I feel especially proud of him when he's being good; and good he was being........until...........

.....he heard Brandi say it was time to leave.  Then he did the only thing he could to try and stop her.

Tried removing her socks!

Since Brandi is in today's post, Christmas ornament #3 is the one she made in kindergarten.

Awwwww!!!

P.S. - If you haven't read Freddie and Gloria's letters to Santa yet, head over to Rumpydog's and check them out.  Just click here. to read them.  They're pretty good for a chuckle!

Other breaking news........Snoopy's Mischief Master Class ebook is out and Freddie's in it!  Yep, he's under Rule # 1 - Look Cute. hehehe  Lots of our other bloggie friends are in it to like Sugar, Jet, Nola and Dakota just to name a few.  It's available from Amazon, the link is here.  We just downloaded Amazon's free Kindle app so we could buy the ebook for our PC.  We just love it and the paperback should be out in time for Christmas to get for our Grandkids!

Now, last but not least we are a little behind in offering our thanks to Bo-Bo, Mi-Mi and their Momma over at Kitty Tales for awarding us the Super Sweet Blogger Award. 

We are truly honored.  Thank you!

Monday Mischief - We're Mischief Free!

There wasn't a whole lot of mischief around here on the weekend. The most important thing of the weekend.........

IT SNOWED! YAY!!!

I spent a lot of time reading Freddie's Christmas card from Wally to him over and over AND OVER!

"Read it again Momma!"

Then we got our tree up.  No decorations yet, that will come this week.

We watched the National Dog Show, well....most of it.  

We missed the ending as we just got so busy.

Doing this!

Monday Mischief - Santa Came to Town

Fred spent most of the past weekend just laying around mad at me. He heard us talking about Santa coming to town Saturday night and how we were going to go and watch the parade with the grandkids, but he had to stay home with Gloria.

So he just spent the night depressed and mad.

Gloria, being the good girl she is was just happy to have the cushy spot on the couch.

The grandkids were so excited that they were going to see Santa that they didn't even mind the couple of hours sitting out in the cold.

I didn't get really great pictures because first off I took my small camera and second off I forgot to put a flash card in it!

I got a couple of pictures.  I think it only allowed me eight.  Eight!  I'm used to shooting 100 just to get one good one! All in all it was a great night and everyone had fun.

And I did get a picture of the big guy himself!

I don't know what Santa is going to think of Freddie after this weekend. He chewed all of the buttons off of my black sweater though. Then while we had company, he dragged an afghan out into the living room.  We told our company just to ignore him.  That worked well, as then he stole a tea towel, got into my knitting basket and chewed up one of my patterns.  He was in this mode all weekend.  Just looking for trouble.  I think he was rebelling because we were gone so much.  

I don't think Santa is going to like this at all!  What do you think?

Monday Mischief - Jail Time

Somebody spent yesterday afternoon in jail.

After attacking his Daddy's favorite pair of gloves. You know, the pair that fit just right after years of breaking them in, that we'll probably never be able to replace.

This did not go over well!

Monday Mischief - Turd Rules

I don't know what's worse.  Gloria actually eating the poo, at least it's gone right? Or Gloria rolling in the poo.

Oh yes, Saturday she managed to sniff out one small turd.

 Then proceeded to have a regular roll fest in it.

She was having so much fun there was just no stopping her.

She had a regular ole turd dance going on!

Yea, go ahead and try to shake it off.  That's right poo sticks to fur like glue so guess who had a bath!

"Why does Gloria get the Monday Mischief spot?  Look at me, I knocked over the air cleaner!"

"Sorry Freddie but turd rules."

"Ooooooh, look at me! I'm rolling in turd!"

"Give it up Freddie. It's not going to work."

You'll notice Freddie isn't wearing a collar.  You see the rust color on his neck? He also has it (but darker, almost black) in his arm pits and the same on his back inner thighs. I have taken him off of the glucosamine as that is when it seemed to start. Of course it is itchy too!  It almost looks like a yeast infection and I wondered if it was an allergic reaction to the glucosamine.  Has anybody else had this issue?  For right now we have him just on the wild salmon oil until he sees the vet next Saturday when he goes to get his nail trimmed.