Surprises and Thank You's!

This past week we have received a few surprises in the mail.  Each one has brought tears to my eyes as I just  get overwhelmed at how genuinely thoughtful and caring people are.  Our first surprise came from our extended hound family at Autumn Blaze Bassets.

Becki donated half of the sale of her last puppy from her last litter to the Freddie Fund! (The puppy flew to sunny California to his new forever home.) She would not take no for an answer and said it could help with Freddie's meds.  It will help out immensely and we can't thank her enough for her thoughtfulness!

Then we got a surprise all the way from Nebraska from Gracie, Schatzie and their Momma, Val over at My Girlz Got Paws!

We were so touched by their donation that came with a cute little card and a thoughtful note with a great reminder.

Now there was one condition. If you noticed on the envelope it said , ATTENTION: Gloria.  That's because they figured since Gloria is the serious one, she should handle the funds.  Great idea Val! After all we don't want Freddie squandering it! 

So Gloria dutifully put the money into the Freddie Fund jar (just ignore the cheese stuck to it, I had to do something to get her to touch it!) and  now it's official.

  

 Gloria will be treasurer!

"Go ahead. I don't give a rat's a@*!"

Fred obviously is milking this whole hip thing to no end.

Then our mailman brought a parcel for me from Utah! It was from our good friends Goose and his Momma Michelle over at Gospel of Goose.  Fred and Gloria were quite curious so I let them help me with it.

 "I think I smell a Goose!"

They had lots of fun with the paper.  Even Gloria got right into it.

"What is it Freddie?"

"Duh, I don't know Gloria. It looks like some kind of bowl or something."

Nope!  It is the most wonderful wine holder I have ever seen!  I just can't believe that Goose's Momma parted with this for me. Look at the card, it's a Zentangle by Reilly's Momma at Cowspotdog that has Goose on it!

You can see the wine holder in Goose's taco post if you go here and in his Potential Mischief post here. But here is the very first time I saw it on their blog and fell in love with it and the way Goose is looking at it is priceless!  It does look like Freddie! I think I have commented on how much I love it every time I see it in one of their posts and I can't believe they remembered!! How sweet is that!  Thank you so much Michelle and Goose I will always cherish it!

We thank all of you from the bottom of our hearts!!

This was the best picture hubby could get of the three of us! lol

Awards x Four!

I am behind on awards again. sigh!  I don't know how it happens, but it does.  I at least want to take the time now to thank everyone for the wonderful awards we have received over the past few weeks.

The first award we received was from Daisy over at Everyday Adventures in Havachon Heaven.

                                      

Daisy is so sweet and innocent looking but don't let that fool you, she can get into mischief with the best of them! Thank you so much Daisy.

The next award we received was from Elka over at The Elka Almanac. 

                                                   

Simply put. Life with Elka a very smart and very beautiful Doberman and the ins and outs of training her. Thank you Elka.

Next up the award is from our buddy Higgin's over at The Adventures of Higgins. 

                                                  

If you don't know Mr. Mantastic, you'd better go see him.  He's a hoot! Thank you Higgins, from one Devious Clever Genius to another! BOL!

Our final award today comes from Sheba over at Shebas's life story.


Sheba is one of our friends from across the pond and hers is the story of a now 3 year old Dogue de Bordeaux x Rottweiler from her puppy tales to adulthood. Thank you Sheba.

We want to thank all of you so very much.  We are very humbled and honored!