The Blubbers

So, its been a while since I last posted a picture of my adorable pup, so here you go... another one! I've decided that about 75% of this blog is dedicated to him anyway, so I might as well just share at least 1 picture a week while I'm at it! Some day I'll have a kid to photograph, but for now... my furrbaby will have to do, enjoy! ;)

UH OH (Part 2)

K, so my beloved ticker is back up top, front and center... whew! Now you can all go back to enjoying watching the days, hours, and minutes tick away until OOTP and DH are released!!! ;)

UH OH...

Woops... I just had to go and mess with a good thing... so I was bored and decided to look at some new templates, see if maybe I could change up the look of my blog a bit. Well, this dumb blogger thing *said* that I could always switch back to my original template... so I decided to trust it. Bad idea, I should have listened to Mr.Weasley when he said, "Never trust something that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain!" :( So now I'm stuck with a blog that looks *kinda* like my old one, but that for some reason can't be tweaked with HTML. What does this mean? Well, remember my lovely countown ticker? Yeah, where did it go?!?! Scroll down...down... alllll the way down. See it? Yeah, ok, I guess thats its new home b/c I can't place it anywhere else. Looks like its going to be a while b4 I can get this blog looking like I want it to, grrrrrrrrrrr.

Hooray!

Its finally here, the artwork for the Deathly Hallows cover!

Hmm, I know this isn't on purpose or anything, but I'm finding this strangely reminiscent of the scene in Eragon, where Arya is holding up Saphira's egg and sending it to the Spine!

Dang it!

So in preperation for this wonderful summer of HP goodiness, I've been re-reading Half-Blood Prince and now that I'm done, I'm sad to say... Dumbledore is still dead...*sigh* :(

I looked out the window and what did I see?

So, its not quite officially spring yet, but storm season has started a tad bit earlier than we'd expected. Nothing huge of course, but its coming. Good thing we are nice and prepared with our trusty new NOAA weather radio, huh? Anyway, I've been waiting for this time of year to roll around so I could share with you all my very own version of a much beloved Primary Song... (leave it to me to ruin it for ya, huh?) Ready? Please, feel free to sing along!

I looked out the window and what did I see?

Great big tornados coming to destroy me!

Spring has brought me such a bad surprise,

Great big tornados right before my eyes!

I can go and hide in my "safe" bathroom,

But if its an F5 I'll be dead soon!

I wish it weren't so, but it seems to me,

Great big tornados coming to destroy me!

Creative, huh? Interesting, the things you come up with while watching the weather channel...

WOOPS!

So for the year and 1/2 that we have had Sirius, we've always been suspicious as to whether or not he was a 100% pureblood JRT. Since we got him from someone who had gotten him from someone else etc., he came with no papers. As he grew we noticed little features here and there that just didn't quite mesh with the classic JRT standards... like his semi-pricked ears, his face shape (long and pointy, rather than short and blunt) and how much thicker his coat is compared to other JRT's we know. For a long time we just dismissed it to be little quirks that just meant he wouldn't make for much of a show dog, until a few days ago... Lucy, our little neighbor is a Rat Terrier, the breed that everyone always confused Sirius with. Time and time again we would emphatically assure the person that they were mistaken and that he was a Jack Russell, NOT a Rat. Sure they look similar, but Sirius could not possibly be a Rattie b/c his ears weren't fully pricked (meaning up all the time) so no, definitely not a Rat. Well, Lucy has been coming over to play a lot and I have recently become good pals with her and as we've been spending time playing together, I started realizing... gee, Sirius is looking more and more like a Rat to me every day. Last night we had to go to PetCo ("Where the pets go!") to get a new PooperScooper and I saw this book on Rat Terriers... Intrigued, I flipped through it and to my horror, saw picture after picture, after picture of what could have easily been mistaken to be my Sirius! What the??? So I turned to the Standards section and lo and behold... Ratties have 3 kinds of ears: button (flopped down like a JRT), pricked (100% erect all the time) and semi-pricked( 1/2 up 1/2 down)!!! We got the book and spent much of last night reading about this breed and coming to the realization that it explains all of Sirius's non-JRT excentricities!!! Finally, it makes sense! So yeah... we stand corrected... our Sirius is most definitely a Rattie.

Behold, the Rat Terrier. (Picture brought to you by Wikipedia) Spitting image of Sirius, huh? It only took us 18 months, sheesh...

Not to toot my own horn or anything...

BUT man, I made one mean batch of garbanzo beans Monday night! We had some leftovers and decided to have something else last night and then finish up the leftovers tonight. However, all I've been thinking of since Monday night was those garbanzos... yesterday it was a struggle to not go in the fridge and eat them all up. This morning I just couldn't handle it anymore... they were calling out to me! I tried to just eat cereal, but to no avail, my tummy would not be appeased... and so, I did the unthinkable... cold garbanzo beans... for breakfast.... yuuuuuuuum! ;)

She has a name

Lucy, that is. You know, the Little Temptress? I went over and met her momma the other day to make sure that it was ok that they were all playing together and digging into eachother's backyards. Here is a picture of this adorable little Rat Terrier that is keeping my pups oh so happy and active! (good thing too, b/c they are on strict orders from Dr.Mauldin to LOSE WEIGHT!!!)

The Little Temptress

We have a neighbor that owns a cute little female Rat Terrier. She is teeny tiny and probably weighs all of 5 pounds. Now that the weather is nice and we're leaving Sirius and the Minsters outside, they have taken to digging tunnels for this little neighbor dog so she can come over and play. Its actually quite cute, they've become the best of friends. Every day we come home and find her in our backyard running around, pouncing on my Sirius. Lately though, he's decided that having her over just isn't enough... He's been going to visit HER and boy do we have a heck of a time trying to get him back. Not to mention that he gets filthy crawling under the fence, ugh. Last night he got a bath because today he is going to see the Vet and oh he was so sparkling clean... then I let him outside this morning to do his business for a few minutes and when I went to get him... gone, vanished. Sure enough, The Temptress had lured him over there. Thats what I'm calling her now, because I have no idea what her name really is and because she's like crack to my dog. When we make him come in, he sits by the door moaning and groaning like he's in withdrawl and NEEDS to get back out there to her! Good thing he's neutered, otherwise we'd have some Rat/Jacks here pretty soon!

Hooray!

He did it! Ben updated his blog for the first time in weeks! And quite the harrowing tale, at that! He is my hero. ;)