Hanukkah Hangover - by Lee

Are those latkes for me?

Last night was the first night of Haunkkah and our people's Hanukkah party.  They spent the day cooking and cleaning and putting my toys away. I didn't love that.

I was very excited when some of my favourite people came. My Aunt C and Dustin and Auntie K and Uncle Chris and Darlene and some new people I didn't know. I had to bark a lot at those new people.

Everyone but me seemed to have a good time. Phody loved most of the people because they loved him more then they loved me and he got to play fetch for like 3 hours. Everyone took turns throwing the ball and saying how good he was and how great and totally ignoring me. He wasn't perfectly behaved, he ate part of Aunt C's napkin off her lap that had brisket on it. Everyone thought that was cute. If that had been me I would have gotten in trouble.  Today Phody is very tired from all the playing. I on the other hand have a sulking hangover. Because while people said I was beautiful, they all clearly loved Phody more. This morning when I went to give my Aunt C kisses (she had a sleepover) and show her how excited I was to see her by jumping on the bed, she was not happy. She said she thought how Phody just stood there waiting for love was a nicer way to wake up. I think she was wrong.

So while everyone is full from too much brisket and latkes (which I didn't get any of) and tired from staying up to late (no one had too much to drink), I am just mad that it wasn't all about me. Maybe today I will get all the love and attention I deserve. So I am saying I have a Hanukkah Hangover.

Editors note: The dogs were amazingly well behaved last night. They barked when people came in, but it was short lived and they settled right down. It was amazing!

Happy Hanukkah!

To all our friends who celebrate Hanukkah (we celebrate both at our house - not because we are Jewish, we celebrate Christmas and we aren't Christian so why not celebrate both) 

Happy Hanukkah.

Wishing you 8 crazy nights!

The blog has switched to holiday mode. Stay tuned for letters to Santa, being dressed up etc.

A New Friend

Phod and Bar playing

The Big guy and one of his dogs came to pick up Grammie on Monday. (The Big Guy thought being alone in the car for 700 km with the 2 labs may be a little much). He brought Barley with him.

None of us had ever met Barley before. He went to live with Grammie and the Big Guy in the summer. He is a rescued Lab (he is the product of a divorce). He is 4 years old and is easy going and cool like Phod.

Phod and Bar had a great time playing.  It was very interesting to see our usually submissive dog Phod, holding his own with Bar. When Bar tried to get on the couch, he blocked him. Not so much in an aggressive way but more in a this is my house, I am above you in the pack. Really the 2 boys had no serious issues, and they played amazingly well.

Lee sulking

The cats spent the night in the laundry room as Bar is working on getting along with cats!

As for Hailey Bug, she spent the evening sulking. She was mad that another dog was in the house and that Grammie wasn't giving her all the love.

We hope Bar and the other lab Tendra can come and visit again soon! [Maybe with 4 no one will feel left out!]

Bad Blogger

Again it isn't letting us put up pictures:( Our Lady doesn't have time to fight with it this morning, she says she will try tonight. Check back for our post then!

Have a great day!

The Christmas card almost fiasco

Some of the cards

So our Lady got it in her head that she was going to make about 80 Christmas cards for the Christmas card exchange. To do this she set up a sweat shop. First she had to bring out the craft supplies and start designing. She got the idea that instead of cards to make card ornaments. She then had to stamp them, cut the paper, tape the wood piece on, punch a hole, cut a ribbon, write the back of the cards, address each card (and she doesn't have stickers or stamps for our new address yet) and seal the envelopes. This took a lot of time and she tried to get us to help. We were not big help. We did things like sit on the paper, knock things off the table, Baggy tired to eat the ribbon and he bit Lady when she tried to take it away. Grammie helped address the envelopes of the last 20 or so because our Lady had this smart idea to mail the USA ones in the USA. (This saved her about 60 cents a card).

A pile of cards

Our Man was kind enough to mail the International and Canadian ones while Lady was away. The 64 with USA addresses got packed in the Lady's suitcase. She didn't have a chance to mail them before her cruise, so those 64 cards have visited Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala! When the Lady got off the cruise ship, she, Grammie and Aunt C had 12 hours to kill, so in their rented car they went on a quest, a quest to find stamps and mail 64 cards.

In Canada you can buy stamps at the Post Office, grocery stores, Hallmark stores, corner stores, lots and lots of place. At all of these places there is always a place to mail the letters. They found the stamps at a CVS pharmacy but there was no place to mail letters there. At the CVS no one could tell her where to mail the letters. This lead to operation, need to find a mailbox.  The Lady made Grammie put the stamps on (she is a slave driver I tell you) and Aunt C had their eyes peeled while Lady drove down the streets of Tampa. Finally Aunt C spotted a box in a neighbourhood. Aunt C shoved the 64 cards in this little box (which wasn't designed to hold that much mail), while people in the neighbourhood stared.

Aunt C mailing the cards

About 2 minutes later when the Lady stopped to ask for directions at the Shell Station, she found a real mailbox, and they had a really good laugh! Perhaps next year she will either 1) not try and be cheap and mail the letters from home 2) make a fancy e-card.

At any rate, we hope that in spite of our card adventures that people get them. If they don't, we are very sorry, we tried really hard!

Wordless Wednesday - Hugging Grammie

She's back!

Our lady is back and we couldn't be happier! We had a really good week with the Man. We didn't destroy anything. We had one accident and Phody chased a deer but that was all.

Our Lady said she had a great time and is happy to be back seeing us, but maybe not so happy to have to face work again! She says it will probably take her at least a week to truly catch up on everything.

While our Lady was away we got this from our friends at: http://www.themusingsofacrazycatlady.com/.  Thanks!



1. Cookies or Cake?
When our Lady could eat gluten, she loved both as long as they were chocolate. Now she doesn't eat these things as much cause she doesn't have time for baking these things. She tends to make muffins!

2. Chocolate or Vanilla?
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. What is this Vanilla people talk about?

3. What is your favourite sweet treat?
Dark chocolate - the darker the better.

4. When do you crave sweet stuff the most?
After dinner. That is when I want to eat chocolate the most.

5. If you have a sweet nickname what would it be?
Our Lady doesn't really and she doesn't call us sweet things.

Thanks again for the award!