Awoo!
Loonies, they call us, who howl at the moon.
Our song starts at dusk, and we’ll howl until noon.
We like best to sing no particular tune.
You may as well join us; we’re starting up soon!
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Join my boys as they explore the Museum of the Imagination in Dream Our World. It is a fun adventure in art as seen through a pup’s eyes.
Today it was Toby’s turn to escape and run free through the clover. I guess he saw what the little neighbor dog did and thought it seemed like fun.
True to his terrier nature, Toby absolutely refused to acknowledge me when I called him. He had a grand time running all over the yard, peeing on plants and hunting chipmunks.
I finally caught the little stinker by opening the garden gate. Toby can’t pass up a chance to eat dirt in the garden, so he streaked past me to get to his prize. I was thinking of making him wear a harness with a leash around the house like I did when he was little. Instead, though, I may mix iron filings with his kibble and keep a giant horse shoe magnet by the door. I find the idea more attractive.
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Come visit my two attractive puppies at the MOTI as they visit the museum of their dreams in Dream Our World!
As you can see, Toby is very proud of his hunting skills.
I could have used Toby’s killing skills in the garden. That stinky garden bunny left me only half beans to try to pick for dinner. Then, he pooped out his half of the beans all over the pumpkin patch. Perhaps I should be grateful for the fertilizer, but I used a very eco-friendly time-released one at planting and did not appreciate his ground raisins.
Next year, Toby, you are on bunny patrol.
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Catch up on the boys’ latest adventure with Dream Our World. In it, the boys visit the museum of their dreams.
I didn’t realize this was even an option!
So, is there, like, a dispenser on the side or something? What if your phone is old? Would the bacon be stale? Do you have to rub the phone like a magic lamp? Inquiring dogs want to know!
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Come join Bitey and Toby on a magical adventure in Dream Our World. In it, Geordie and Toby visit the museum of their dreams.
Dream Our World is available at Amazon.
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Bitey’s blogs are likely to be a bit sparse for a while. After the last painting, I decided to start another. I had definite plans about what I wanted to do with this one, but the painting had something different in mind. I don’t know which one of us is going to win, but it promises to be a messy fight.
In the meantime, Toby is bored watching me work, so he has been trashing the house. I spend as much time picking up little bits of paper off of the floor as I do painting.
…but this time he failed thanks to my bad knee. I couldn’t move fast enough, and Toby wasn’t able to catch the toad.
Two summers ago we weren’t so lucky, and Toby did manage to lick a toad. At first I thought he had eaten a dandelion gone to seed and was shaking the white fluff off his tongue. Nope. We had several hours of rinsing his mouth while watching to see if he needed to be rushed to the emergency vet.
So, do puppies learn from their mistakes? Not my boy!
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Yes, most likely.
Long ago, in the Before Times, I used to store things under the bed. A.D. (After Dogs), I can only put things there that I don’t mind being chewed to bits. Since that is pretty much nothing, I can’t imagine what Toby was doing. Whatever it was, it was probably not good.
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Last week I had two jobs come in. My boys absolutely hate when I have to work and my attention is taken away from them. Toby, I mean Blue Puppy, had a bit of a meltdown over this.
As you can see, Blue Puppy tipped over the trash can and ripped up all the papers while Toby innocently looked on. At least this was slightly better than when Toby got into the laundry and paraded around the house with dirty undies.
Humpty Kitty also fell victim to the carnage. All of that stuffing used to be her brains. I guess now she is Zombie Humpty Kitty.
How did Humpty Kitty get her name? I dunno. Maybe we should ask Englebert Humpamint.
Given how miserable today was, I am going to hurry and sign off so I can get some work done while the boys are sleeping. It’s funny, they are my muses, yet they keep me from getting absolutely anything done.
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What might Virtual Toby and Geordie do as they nap in front of the TV?
They go to the museum, of course!
To read more of their adventures, pick up a copy of Dream Our World.
They are available at Amazon.
Has anyone seen my red shirt?
Not that Geordie is always trying to get rid of Toby or anything…..
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To see what my fellas were up to before they headed to the museum, pick up a copy of Poopiter. Poopiter is an illustrated chronicle of my boys’ first year together.
As you can see, the stories and ideas inside my books often come from real life – including the moon.
We got really lucky this year in that three different types of cicadae are all hatching at the same time. If you live in town, it isn’t so bad, but the further out in the country you are the more likely you are to lose your sanity having to listen to millions of these things serenading each other with their songs of courtship. (A local newspaper told us that we were to expect locusts, but these are obviously not locusts.)
We had a bumper crop of cicadae when Geordie was a puppy, and he loved crunching on the shells. Thankfully Toby doesn’t seem to be interested in them. I don’t think I could hold down my lunch if I had to listen to that again.
Other than sounding like Hollywood UFOs, these oversized insects are doing something terrible which is distracting the local birds away from a very important job…eating the ants that are taking over my garden! The robins are so fat and lazy after gorging on cicadae that they lie around on their backs with their wings on their stomachs whining for Tums.
By the time the cicadae are back underground, I think the ants will have taken over like one of those 1970’s TV disaster movies. (Starring Linda Day George, of course.)
What? You would rather I eat the cicadae?
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Come to a world with no ants and no cicadae! Join Bitey and Toby in Dream Our World as the visit the museum of their dreams.
Inside, the boys imagine themselves into the famous works of art – they have no interest in the lesser known ones – as they explore all that the museum has to offer.
(Honest. It’s really cute. I have found that everyone from little kids to great grandmas enjoy it.)
Despite my best efforts to keep him away from it, Toby picked this little azalea as his favorite peeing spot over the Winter. I can only imagine what his daily waterings did to the plant. As you can see it doesn’t look quite like the other Spring flowers. I am not positive, but I think it heard it murmuring something that sounded like “electric fence“.
I don’t know what you are complaining about. It looks fine to me.
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There is still time to order Poopiter before reading Bitey and Toby’s next book. It will introduce the characters and help to better explain the picture “Peppermint Girl”.
I will be posting a link to the new book later this week!
The Adventures of Bitey Dog 