"Darling Companion" & Stuff

Hiya Friends,

I want to tell you about a wonderful movie we saw last weekend, called "Darling Companion." I am gonna give it 2 paws up!! 

It is a dawg movie with a terrific cast: Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Dianne Wiest, Richard Jenkins, Sam Shepard. I'm not sure what we were expecting, but actually we felt the writing was good & the movie was overall well done. We liked the themes of the movie, about the complexities of relationships, the cross-cultural themes, and of course, the themes about dawgs like me!! Plus, the setting was beautiful in the Colorado mountains. Highly recommend catching it in the theaters or at home. Here's the trailer:

I also have to send a "Happy Belated Barfday" to one of my Auntie M's! Her barfday was a coupla days ago. Happy Barfday, Auntie M!! Hope it was good & we can't waits to see you agains soon! Here are some pics of Auntie M & me. She tolerates me very much, even tho I tries to take her seat sometimes! And when I try to exercise my vocal chords and work on my 'arroooing.' I haven't got the hang of that yet; it just comes out as a series of barks so far.

Happy Mudder's Day!!

 Dear all Mudders (you know who you are!),

Today is YOUR day! Mehopes you had a very good day!

Mudders is an important job, so I want to wish all the mudders out there a:

 HAPPY MUDDERS DAY!!!

I has to send out a special wish to my Grand-Maw, who is not nearby. 

 

Remember when you took this picture of me, Grand-Maw?

 

It was last year, when we got to take a 'Family Trip' to Lake Tahoe together.

We watched bee-you-tee-ful sunsets together every night there.

Grand-Maw took me on my first hiking trip. I went rock-climbing and yeah, I wuz a little scarrred!

 

What a fun trip it was!! Anyway, Happy Special Mudder's Day, Grand-Maw!! Weloves you!!
                                                                --With love, Worm

Asparagus & Me

Well, I realized I skipped right over Easter this year on my blog, and that's not to say that I didn't have an Easter. I did, see?

OH MY!! Yes, it's that dreaded once a year I hafta wear those bunny ears, that to be honest are yummier and more fun to eat, than to wear. I had to wear them for the "Bunnies & Bonnet" Parade, which I will explain more below.

We had guests over that weekend and they were all "dawg" peeples, so they loved on me a lot during the partee and I had a good time. The best part was that they all sneaked me foods like ham, and lots of other people foods... yummers! One of my Auntie M's made a big dish of brussel sprouts, which are my favorite, and I got plenty of those to eat. I ALSO tried TWO NEW VEGETABLES at the partee!

Aspari-gus and Artee-chokes

 I tried these funny things called Artee-chokes, and the partygoers fed them to me and said I liked it! My person wasn't so convinced, but she was so bizzy eating her own Artee-choke & hosting, she didn't have time to monitor me all the time. My other Auntie M (for Melinda) made a beautiful platter of Artee-chokes, so everyone could have their own. She spent all afternoon steaming them in batches!

I also tried a new veggie called Aspari-gus. Delish! Melikes those. But they had a great debate at the time... friends, do you think it will make my pee stinky like it does for the peeples??? Please weigh in and let me knows what you think! I don't want to have all the dawgs laughing at me at the dawg park for stinking funky-smelling pee!!

Another really exciting thing I did recently was go "KYACKING." There was an R.E.I. paddling demonstration here, and they brought out 'kyacks,' 'canews,' and 'paddleboards,' for everyone to try out! Well, my person & Auntie Melinda put me in the 'kyack,' and paddled me around the lake there. It wuz fun and a little scarry! Sorry we have not pictures from it... next time. I had to wear my life jacket, and I couldn't understand why I wuz in the middle of what looks to me like a Giant Water Bowl... peeples are strange sometimes. But I understand we might be doing this 'kyacking' thing again pretty soon. I'll keep you posted.

Now, back to the "Bunnies & Bonnet" parade. Methinks it's an Easter parade or something here in Downtown Campbell, a city near where I live. The basset group goes and we have a 'mini-waddle,' and it is always so much fun to see so many bassets. We are s'ppose to dress for the occasion, and you'll see below how decked out many of the bassets were, it wuz impressive!!

Well, my person doesn't really have skillz like that, and plus I told her, if I have to wear those silly bunny earz, then I get to wear my San Francisco 49ers T-shirt, and she said 'ok fine.' So that's why I ended up wearing what I did. I shook my head at the beginning of the parade and my bunny earz fell off-- yes!! My pal Dracula started eating them, from what I heard. And we got them back at the end of the parade route.

Anyways, here are some pics from the parade. It wuz a fun time, and it seemed like the crowd got a kick out of us too.

Dracula & his bowler hat-- lookin' dapper!

Look at this beautiful & fancy Easter hat!!

Plaid newsboy cap

Pretty Penny

Pretty Penny is a senior hound, so she got to be chauffeured down the parade route. She's got a nice Mama!

 

 

 

 

Sasha & her family: Sasha & Madden have fairy wings, and Teddi is a flower.

Lovely Easter dress

Strolling down the parade route

More basset bunnies down the parade route

Workin' the crowd!

I hope you all had a good holiday this year! More catching up next time.
                                                            --Worm

Sasha's Partee

Well, I have to wish my pal Sasha a Happy Barfday!! She turned 1 year old, and she had a big partee over the weekend and it was lotsa fun!

OK, so who is Ms. Sasha? Good question... she belongs to my Auntie Gwen, who is a wunderful person who puts together all of our basset playgroups every month! I belongs to this group called "Bay Area Basset Hounds" and they have playdates on weekends several times a month. Auntie Gwen is also a wunderful photographer and took these pics of me running on the beach, which are in the background of this blog. She is very good at photographing bassets! We are lucky to have such a talented photographer in our group.

Auntie Gwen has 3 bassets and they all came to my 1st barfday partee last July, so of course I had to come to Sasha's. Here is a pic of them:

Those are Sasha's older sisters Teddi in front, and Madden in back.

Here is Sasha last July, when she was just a puppy! We used to play a lot. 

And look... now she is all grown up!!

Sasha, the Barfday Gal.

Barfday Sign

Partee Hounds... there were lotsa bassets there! and that is Sasha up in front.

I came with my pals Wilma, in front, and Fred, behind her to the right.
They are the Flintstones!
My Auntie Melinda was nice to bring them, cuz their Papa was busy that day.

I got up on the Agility A-frame (my person makes me do that every time we come here).

...and played with Sasha too...

There were lots and lotsa basset hounds there, and that made it very fun!! I met a special hound named Snoopy who has the best aroooo we ever heard! He is so good at it, and did it 25 times, I think! Maybe he will teach me how to howl. Isn't Snoopy kewl?

We got Ms. Sasha a penguin costume, cuz her Mama is Auntie "Pen-Gwen" sometimes... !

Side view of the cute penguin! Mehopes she likes it.

It was a super-fun time with a lot of basset pals. Plus we got to eat all these yummy treeeats that Auntie Gwen baked and made for us, while we were there, and she also sent us home with some! I'm still working on mine now. She also made yummy baked goods for the peeples to eat too and they all enjoyed that as well.

Happy Barfday again, Sasha!! You're only allowed to misbehave once a year on your barfday and get away with it! Remember to be good the other days of the year or else ya gets in trubble. Take it from one who knows about trubble!
                                        Your friend,
                                                            Worm

Where has I been?

Oh my gosh, cannot believe it has been more than a month since my last post on my sickie person!!

Well friends, that kept me busy for quite awhile, and then I had lots going on after that and haven't been back around to blogging. So much to catch up on. So I think I will do a blogging blitz and try to catch you up a bit... stay tuned... Worm

Cabin Fever

Hi Pals,

I got cabin fever! I got cabin fever!!

Hangin' out at home with my stuffed doggie and sick-O person.

 My person got sick-O, and that's with a capital O at the end there, as in O MY! I tries to be a good boy and realize she needs 'rest.' I even did good today and slept in an extra hour, well perhaps that had to do with this thing called the 'time change,' STILL she gave me credit for being an OH GOOD boy today!

I slepts with her all morning and most of the afternoon, till about 3pm, when I couldn't stand it anymore. She was too sick to work today. During all that time, I just bothered her twice for breakfast and potty, and I rang my bells (I have bells on the doors to let them know when I need to go out)  ever so gently to let her know, 'hey I really gotta pee now.' We went for super short walks, just long enuf for 'business.' I tried to convince her to walk me just a little longer but she said no. OK then, so I wuz a good boy and went back inside with her. Then I helped her eat her chicken noodle soup, too, cuz these peeples need all the help they can gets sometimes.

Lemme tell you, it's not easy being the dawg of a sick person!! Have you done that before? How do you deal with it? Do you have to 'take care' of your peeples like I did today? Please do share your tips with me.

So there I am being a good snuggle pet sleeping next to her when all of a sudden she lets out an "A-CHOO!!!" and scares me half to death. Or her nose is stuffed up and she tries to blow it and I never heard the sound before and it wakes me up too. Oy. And all this coughing and hacking and throat clearing. Eck. Not to mention that her nose and mouth smells funny so I been sniffing it a lot going... what's that funny smell? What's this stuff coming out of them? .... and they think I'M the DIRTY AND SMELLY ONE???? hehehe, peeples r funny sometimes.

By 3pm I had to put my paws down and say I knows you sick and everything, but I am not sick & I really need to get OUT today for some EXERCISE. Or else if I don't burn my daily energy, I will have trubble sleeping tonight and have too much energy at night, and neither you nor I want that, right?

She finally listened to my voice of reason and we went to the park so I could play with my pals. My nice Auntie Melinda watched me while I was there so my person could go to the store and get some cough medicine and foodstuffs. That was nice of her.

I don't know what the rest of the week holds, and I hear tomorrow might be like today. Hmmmm. I guess we'll just hafta see.

Sending y'all good wishes this cold season. To not catch colds or the flu, and if you do, that they not last too long. And for all the dawggie pals that have to take care of the sick peeples like this!! that is quite a job, if you ask me.
                                              --Worm, the Basset Hound

Just a regular day

Here I am working on my blog... with flash:

Now.... without flash. Hmmm... do I look bettah with flash or without? That is the question...

Just an ordinary day... reading catalogs and the mail that comes in. OK I'll confess that I eat them too, but only sometimes.

...And my favorite activity, staying cozy and chill'axin'... and catching some zzzz's.....

I have nothing to complain about. I hope everyone gets days like this, too, once in awhile.