Morning Coffee

My favorite part of the day is having my morning coffee.  There's nothing better than the smell of coffee brewing while I get the hounds their breakfast and morning treats, take them outside to do their business and then settle in with a nice hot cup of coffee. It's quiet and the day hasn't started to escalate yet.  In the summer it's even better because you can take your coffee outside and enjoy the gardens and birds at the same time.

This is my morning coffee sanctuary.

Yes, that is Fred in the backgrounmd who has already found a piece of crud from the garden to chew on.
Here..... let me get closer.

nom, nom, nom......
Whatever, I'm in my peaceful place.

Above is my view from where I sit.  I don't know what it is about the pink floozy but Freddie won't touch her.  She still lays there guarding that darn antler while Fred eats garden crud! I'd take the antler, but if Freddie's that scared of her, I don't know what she'd do to me.  I say just let sleeping floozies lay!

This is my little set up while I have my coffee.  Laptop, phone, and my half crocheted dishcloth that I only started yesterday with encouragement from Dip-Dip and the Bridge. Check out her post today and see all the dishcloths/potholders that were crocheted by the Blogsville Ladies Crochet Society.  I will be finishing mine today and I can't thank her enough for the tutorial on her blog. I don't have that one on one help since my Mom passed away. I would always just call her when I got stuck.  This helped me so much!

Back to my morning coffee.  Below of course is Good Gloria which by the way my husband has started calling her Eva LongGloria.  (sigh)

That's her outdoor bed from when we first got her last year and it's still her favorite spot to lay when she's not in the lounge chair or loveseat with me.

And this is Fred after I put him back in the house so I could enjoy my morning coffee this morning!

I won't be out here too long this morning though as we are having another heat wave that started yesterday and it's already 22 C and I can feel the humidity starting to build once again.  But hey, I'm not complaining.  It's Friday and the start to our long weekend as Monday is Canada Day.  So hubby has a three day weekend! Yay!

I know the U.S. holiday is July the 4th so you may like this recipe from Theresa's Mixed Nuts . They are Patriotic Pops!  I am going to make red and white ones for our Canada Day barbecue.

Have a great weekend everyone!  I will be spending part of mine trying to catch up on everyone's blogging news!

Important Update -

I finished my dish cloth!  Yay!!

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!"

Monday Mischief - Great Weekend

We just had a terrific weekend!  Yes, it did turn cold and rainy again but after all that heat we had, the spring flowers and plants really needed the rain.  Saturday morning was great.  I love getting up early and having my morning coffee on the weekends.  Yes there's lots to be done, but there's no pressure.  I have learned the older that I get not to stress if things don't get done.  As my Mom used to say, "the world isn't going to end".   Some how having this attitude seems to get things done quicker.  Whatever.  I was having my coffee trying to get some commenting done, hubby was sleeping in and the hounds had gone potty, been fed and were now back to sleeping.

Gloria went back to bed with her Dad.
And Freddie chilled in his chair.  Yes, I said his chair.  The first step is accepting it.

Ah....I love these moments.
This is my quiet time.

Until of course Freddie Spaghetti realized he was being ignored.

First he took my sweater off of the office chair and a rag out of the hamper.  He does know how to get the lid off of it to get to the clothes inside.  I now know that if I ignore this behavior, he just lays on his "treasures" and whines and does not chew them.  After a while he tries to find something else that he thinks will get my goat.

"Yuh, huh!"  "How's this working for ya Momma?"  "Look a big bath towel!" "My bad now or what?"

Normally this would start to peeve me off, but Saturday morning I was just too excited. When I was reading through the blogs I follow leaving comments, I had a real surprise when I got to our friend Bailey Be Good's blog.  Apparently his Momma had been up to some mischief too!  Just look what his Momma drew!!

                                       

It's my Freddie Spaghetti!  Bailey's Momma is soooo talented and did an amazing job!  Just look at Freddie's eyes.  That is him to a T!! I was so happy and was busy contacting Bailey's Momma to thank her and tell her we just had to have this wonderful picture!  You have got to go over to Bailey Be Good and check out some of her other pictures.  She can draw lots of things, but I love her doggie pictures.  They are so life like and the cost is reasonable for all the work she puts into her drawings.  You can just click Pet Portraits, DrawingMom.com or scroll down my sidebar and click on her button. While your there you can see what Bailey and her sister Nala have been up to.  Maybe you'll even see Bubba!
Thanks again to Bailey's Momma!  It made my whole weekend!

White Happiness

Our white fluffy stuff has brought about contagious happiness in our family.  We have always been a snow loving family.  It's just fun to play in, walk in and yes even to shovel.  Friday after I walked the hounds and let them play in the backyard, I put them in the house to warm up and I headed out front to shovel the driveway.  Really, I don't mind it.  While I was shoveling this is what I saw in the front window.

I like this next picture.  It's a picture of me taking a picture of Freddie.

Saturday my hubby got to get out his snow blower. His way of playing in the snow.  It's a man thing, ya gotta have a piece of machinery!

This was after he ran in to the corner of the front step.  He was so busy trying to look at me and smile while I was taking his picture, that he ran in to the step. Thankfully he had let off on the throttle!  I laughed so hard I thought I'd pee my pants.  It's still making me laugh!

The grandbabies even got out and helped their Mom shovel their driveway.

Awwwe!  How cute is that!

Then this morning Freaky Freddie had some more fun in the snow.

These two pictures are in sequence.  Skin all pulled back and then all pulled forward as he runs straight at me.

That's what I see as I'm knelt on the ground with camera in hand.  I've learned to move pretty quick!
Freddie wasn't out for long today though as it's -19 degrees celsius today.  Gloria, she just said screw it and stayed inside and called dibs on the bench in the front window!

That has been our winter wonderland weekend!

Snow Day! Yay!

Friday the 13th turned out to be pretty lucky for us.  It didn't start out that way. To start off with in the wee hours of the morning, I had to pee.  Every night I wake up either from a hot flash or I have to pee.  Sometimes I don't know how I have any water left in my body!  Okay, I got side tracked with the whole menopause thing.

Carrying on.......so I thought I'd take a glass of water back to bed with me and set it on the night table.  Of course through all of this Gloria has followed me, because she panics if she looks up and can't see me.  Fine.  I get back into bed.  Gloria can't make it back on the bed.  She has her front paws up but she's needs a boost.  It's so dark in our room so I decide to turn the light on beside the bed to help her.  Aaaaand....yep....you guessed it.....I knocked the glass of water off the night table!  Well, it shattered all over the floor, my husband just about had a heart attack (it was 4:00 a.m.) Gloria was traumatized and Freddie thought that must be the alarm to get up!   So the hounds went out to pee, my husband went back to sleep and I cleaned up the mess and decided I may as well stay up now and have a tea.

So when did it turn lucky?

When I looked out the window and saw that we got SNOW!!
Once it got light outside, Fred, Gloria and I got to go out and play in it. Okay they played, I took pictures. So here's the latest pics.

Fred's proportions look all out of whack there. He looks all buff in the front with a scrawny butt!

Gloria's just praying that Fred doesn't run into her at full speed!

Gloria trying her best at greyhound mode.

Freddies dark side coming out.  Gloria almost looks like she's panicking.

The flying nun.

And finally, you just can't have a snow day without eating some snow!

To think that this next picture was taken the day before, goes to show what a crazy winter it's been so far!

Ya, sorry about the butt thing, but (hee, hee) I just like the way all of their paws are off the ground in this shot!

Happy Weekend!

Weekend Fun

We had a great weekend.  Yesterday we woke up to snow!!

So I told Fred and Gloria to get out and enjoy it while they could.  'Cause by Wednesday it will be rain. :(

After trying to eat all the snow, AGAIN. 

Fred finally enticed Gloria to play.

Then, when Fred started getting a little too rough (typical boy) and Gloria had enough........


"OUCH!"  "I'm telling!"



........ she headed downstairs to watch the Seahawks WIN (what up with dat!) with her Dad.

Okay, maybe she slept through it.  It's the thought that counts.

Then Fred came down to watch the Lions win with me.

Okay, he pretty much chewed his bone through the whole game.  But once it came down to the wire that last couple of minutes of the game and tensions were high........

....he kicked me out of my chair.

I didn't care.  The Lions won and I know it's because I remembered to hang my Lions' flag in the window at halftime!!

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