Kick Your Butt

By the time this knee heals, I am going to need a waleker. Aren't you that old already?

You are lucky I can't balance on one leg or I'd kick your butt!

Bad news, Toby. I can balance on one leg now!

Go away. I'm sleeping.

We both know you’d never kick my butt.

I can get away with anything.

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Governor Groundhog stuck his head out of his den and declared that our quarantine will continue for another three months. That means Bitey and Toby will have free rein at the museum for the whole summer!

If you would like to see what they have been up to there, pick up a copy of Dream Our World. In Dream Our World, Bitey and Toby visit the Museum of the Imagination and view the world of art from a canine perspective.

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Friends and Family Helping Out

At our age, we have to be careful about not breaking a hip.

You are healing pretty fast for someone as old as you are.

Sad woman staands alone.

Is she going to start crying like Lucy again? It's best to be prepared just in case.

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Come see what the boys have been up to at The Museum of the Imagination! They have been running loose for months, looking at artwork and having a grand time in Dream Our World (and in a real museum).

Dream Our World is available from Amazon.

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Helping Mommy Walk

Now that Mom is hurt, i tis our responsibility to help her. The best thing we can do is stand directly wherever she needs to place her foot when she is walking.

Oh my gosh, would you please go away?!?

I'm sorry! I didn't mean that. I want you with me always. Since I can't lean over and hug you, take these biscuits instead. You're right. Helping is the best!

Yes, my boys took full advantage.

Unhappy terrier wearing Christmas Santa outfit.

Now why would I ever want to trip you? Hmm…

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Inside, Geordie and Toby run unsupervised through the museum of their dreams!

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She’s Beauty and She’s Grace

Remembering last year’s Fall… Woman with injured legs struggles to walk.

Kind of reminds me of when the coyote got the boomerang glued to his butt. As graceful as a sea cow on land!

In the year since the fall I have regained the ability to walk, but there is no grace to my gait. I move like a broken wind-up toy.

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Aw, I would never make fun of your walk.

Cairn terrier stands over slain toy

Yes I would!

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My boys are still at large at the museum, unsupervised. If you would like to see what they have been up to while everyone is gone, pick up a copy of Dream Our World. Inside, the pups visit the Museum of the Imagination and view the world of art from a canine perspective.

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Catch Up On My Reading

Still remembering The Fall…

While I am injured, maybe I can catch up on my reading.

Mom, he keeps stealing my toys! This little twerp is hogging all the sunshine!

Come here so I can beat you up! Yeah, well I'm gonna go pee on your bed!

I'm hungry! When's dinner? I gotta go potty! Then again, maybe I won't.....

Go away. I'm sleeping.

How dare you portray me as anything but the angel I am!

Chewed up cover of the book Wild Land.

(Quit showing stuff like that!)

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If you would like a book for your puppy to interrupt, order a copy of Dream Our World!

Inside, Toby and Geordie visit the museum of their dreams while they enjoy a day of unsupervised fun.

Actually, I have thought of this often lately. Several copies of Dream Our World were being sold at a local museum when the world came to an end. Bitey and Toby really have been locked – unsupervised – in a museum for months. It makes me wonder what kind of adventures they have been having without my knowledge. Hmm, maybe someone should write a book…

Dream Our World is available from Amazon.

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Tubs

Still remembering the fall… I am so down. Without being able to walk, I can't sleep; my appetite is off; I can't even draw.

Why don't you take a nice relaxing bath? That will make you feel better.

My legs won't bend enough so I can't even do that! I need one of those old lady tubs with the door in the side.

Whaaaaa!!!! So, do you think she will start hawking Vitameatavegamin next or stuffing her blouse with chocolates? I am hoping for the chocolates, myself.

(It was the chocolates.)

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Remembering the Muumuu

I’m feeling nostalgic, so I am going to remember last year…

Whoa, what's with the get up? My knees are so swollen that my pants won't fit.

Plus i am so slow getting to the bathrom that I don't have time to unfasted my pants. And somewhere the Kanaka Maoli are missing a princess...

Photo of swollen and bruised legs.

There was surprisingly little discoloration

for the amount of swelling.

Pair of boots sitting on grass.

And yellow is the reason why.

I mean, these are the culprit homicidal boots.

(They look so innocent, don’t they?)

As an act of kindness and self-sacrifice – because you know that’s how my boy is – Toby decided to help me with tilling this year. He says he wants to save me wear and tear on my boots. (You can’t tell from the photos, but some of those holes are big enough to hide a 20+ pound terrier.)

Pea plant sprouting

Toby was disappointed when he found out we are growing “peas”.

Cairn terrier peeing.

That’s not the “P” word I was hoping for.

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If you know a bookstore or shop where Dream Our World might fit, please let me know! I would love to introduce Bitey and The Usurper to even more humans.

In Dream Our World, Bitey and Toby visit the Museum of the Imagination and view the world of art from a canine perspective. And how is that? – With themselves front and center, of course!

Dream Our World is available from Amazon.

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Last Spring – The Fall

Little oak tree, you can't live here. Let me take you to the woods and transplant you,

Holy crap! My right boot lace got caught on my left boot hook. My feet are tied together!

The Fall 3

Splat!

I didn't know humans could fly. Is it legal to say those words in this state?

Ew, this is so disgusting! I am soaked clear through to my underwear.

Ow! I''m not going to be able to walk for weeks! You know what this means, don't you? No supervision!

I'll go get us something from the fridge. I'll go get the toilet brush!

It has been a year now since The Fall. At the time I expected to be better in a few weeks, but it was months before I could even take the dogs for a hobble. My left knee never did recover, and still can’t fully bend it.

Toby takes advantage of my not being able to properly kick his butt. This morning – at that magical Dogging Hour of 3:00 a.m. – he decided to destroy a few things around the house.

Toby grabs and chews a package

Heh, Mom’s not looking. I’m going to steal her package.

Nah, I'm not interested

Oops. Caught. I’ll pretend that I am not interested.

Toby glances up at the package he was chewing

I just can’t help myself…

Ooh, I can't help myself. I really want it!

I really AM interested!

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Would you like even more adventures with my terrible twosome? Then order a copy of Dream Our World!

Inside, my boys visit the Museum of the Imagination and view the world of art from a canine perspective.

Dream Our World is available from Amazon.

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The Tub

I am so down. Without being able to walk, I can't sleep; my appetite is off; I can't even draw.

Why don't you take a nice relaxing bath? That will make you feel better.

My legs won't bend enough so I can't even do that! I need one of those old lady tubs with the door in the side.

Whaaaaa!!!! So, do you think she will start hawking Vitameatavegamin next or stuffing her blouse with chocolates? I am hoping for the chocolates, myself.

Yeah, I did opt for the chocolates.

Thanks to my recent injury, this is the first time I have ever given serious thought to a walk in tub. I don’t really want one, but it has been very embarrassing trying to climb in and out of the regular one.

As the song says:

Bad stuff happens in the bathroom

I’m just glad that it happens in a vacuum*

Thank heavens for vacuums or someone might – for instance – draw this unfortunate event and put it on the internet. That would be bad.

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To see what Geordie and Toby have been up to when they are not making fun of me, pick up a copy of Dream Our World. In it, the boys go to the museum of their dreams.

Dream Our World is available at Amazon.

*Thank you to the team at Bob’s Burgers!

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The Muumuu

Whoa, what's with the get up? My knees are so swollen that my pants won't fit.

Plus i am so slow getting to the bathrom that I don't have time to unfasted my pants. And somewhere the Kanaka Maoli are missing a princess...

After all of that dry, boring town meeting stuff, I needed some frivolity in my blog. Well, it wasn’t funny at the time, but maybe it is now.

For several weeks I had to head to the bathroom when I didn’t need to go because if I waited until I did, it would be too late. Aah…being injured is so much fun. No wait. No it’s not.

Three days before I fell, I had the worst headache I had had in years. It made me so sick to my stomach that I had to go to bed. My boys were very concerned for me that day. They studied my face to see what was wrong. I even noticed them stopping their fighting game to come over and take care of me. I thought this was extremely sweet.

When I fell, though, they could not have cared less. They stood in front of me when I tried to walk. They attempted to drag me around the block. They jumped on my cantaloupe-sized knees. I got no sympathy for my injuries from them at all. So, what are the parameters for dog sympathy, I wonder? It certainly isn’t falling.

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To find out how good my boys can be when they want to, pick up a copy of Dream Our World. Everyone who has read it says that they keep reading it over and over, each time catching new details. (Come on, give it a try!)

Dream Our World is available at Amazon.

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