Yeah, it's nearly Christmas

Sometimes I think Mum likes tormenting me.  I spied something she bought and thought I was in for a treat right there and then......but No!  She disappeared with it.

The next thing is she put a load of presents around the Christmas tree and one has my name on it.  Yep, I know it's my name cos I'm the only one in the house whose name begins with "B"

See, here it is and it's for me!

Now who do you think the big guy in the second picture is for?  Yes, it's for Mum, she just loves teddy bears.  The Bossman buys her lot's of them and they keep getting bigger and bigger.

Well everyone, I hope you all have a great Christmas, I know I will cos I know what's inside that present.......well I think I do, I know what I saw and I don't think the Bossman wants three big ole chewy bones.

Yeah, I have a blog buddy at last!

Yes, me, Boris the handsomest one has a blog buddy at long last.  His name is Bob and he has a cute sister named Echo.  They are both big white fluffy dogs although Bob does have some black spots too which make him very handsome, just like me.

We should call ourselves Boris and Bob the handsomest dogs.

If you want to visit Bob's website here is his address:-

http://howbobseesit.wordpress.com/

He lives in Canada.  I've been there too but not to where he lives but once upon a time he did live in the same province as where my Mum comes from and where my human brother Glen still lives.

I went with Mum and the Bossman to Alberta to see Glen.  I liked it there too but we went in the Spring when it wasn't too cold.

Don't think Mum is gonna get round to doing any knitting today so I guess I'll just go stare out of the window and see if any pesky squirrels come by.

The Bossman is sick

The Bossman has been really poorly and in the hospital for two weeks.  Now that is really bad for him and Mum but hey, don't forget about me, it wasn't too good for me either you know!

I had to go to the kennels!  Now, don't get me wrong, the people there are great and they like me a lot but it ain't home!

We are all back home now and the Bossman is almost back to how he was before he got sick and Mum, well Mum is just being Mum.  Fussing over the Bossman and making sure he takes his pills and things.

Another thing though is that he isn't eating as much as he used to and he doesn't hardly ever have toast any more so I don't get any crusties.

Mum learned how to give me my pill by dipping it in honey and putting it in my throat so I won't be able to dodge the pills anymore.

Mum said me and the Bossman both have the same sort of thing going on.  Auto immune thingy so we both have to have the same sort of pills.  Hope I don't get as ill as he has been!   Hm! Note to self......no more complaining about those pesky pills.

He had to be hooked up to a machine that took all his blood out and replaced the bad stuff with all the nasty antibodies in with new stuff that didn't have any.  Five times they did that to him!  I don't want any of that thank you very much.

So for now, things are good, now if we would just get some rain.......

it's hot and dry.....no fun at all!

Well, I'm still here everyone. (Everyone? guess I'm hoping there's lot's of people out there reading about me, not that I'm vain or anything)

It's been hot here for a long time.  Mum said since the beginning of June, whatever June is.  All I know is that it's no fun at all cos we don't go outside much and when we do we don't stay out for long so I don't get to run around much.

And......I don't get to go out in the van either!  Mum says it's for my own good and I have to believe her but I don't have to like it.

The Bossman and Mum haven't done much fixing lately.  The Bossman has been working on his radio station which means he plays music all day long.  Mum seems to like it cos she says it makes her cheerful and want to dance but she said she can't dance like she used to anymore.  Something to do with some one called Arthur.  She keeps saying he keeps coming to visit but I think she may be going a little loco cos I sure as heck can't see him, this Arthur guy.  Arthur Itus she says is his full name but he must be some sort of invisible man or an imaginary friend.

Yes, that must be it, Mum has an imaginary friend called Arthur.  I've got is sussed out now.  I won't upset her by telling her that usually only kids and puppies have imaginary friends, we'll keep that our secret.

Weird though, she always cusses Arthur so why would she keep him around?

I've said it before and I'll say it again......humans are funny sometimes!

As for me, I'm still taking the dreaded pills.  The Bossman doesn't stand any nonsense though, he dips them in honey and puts them down my throat.  It works for him so I guess it has to work for me too.  But, the itches have gone away and all my hair grew back so I guess I shouldn't moan too much.

The Bossman is on some new pills too.  Mum says they are similar to mine but I don't see her dipping them in honey and ramming them down his throat!  Oh, Mum is scowling at me as she is reading over my shoulder.  She says it's because he takes them on his own and doesn't try and spit them out like I used to.  Well, isn't he just a good boy!

We had one of my human brothers come to visit with my human sister in law and niece and nephew.  That was a lot of fun.  Those kids sure do have a lot of energy, they even made me feel old!

So that's about it for now folks, so stay cool and please don't tell Mum that Arthur really isn't real.

Slobbery doggie kisses coming your way.........

Guess it's not squirrel proof after all!

I can only say that 'Mum is not amused'

Personally, I think it's cute but I don't tell Mum that.

Thought I'd better do a post, it's been ages!

Well what can I say?  I just haven't felt like blogging much lately.  Must be getting old or something.  BUT, now I'm here I've got lots to tell ya.

Well the novelty of the pills soon wore off.  At first it was OK having them wrapped up in bread and butter but After I while I got wise and started eating just the good stuff and leaving the pill.  Mum and the Bossman weren't too happy about that so they tried putting them in hot dogs but I wasn't having any of that!

They tried other stuff too and that didn't work,  I just don't like the flipping things, they are too big!!!!

Mum came up with the bright idea of piercing them and letting the gooey stuff inside come out and go onto bread and butter.  That was working OK for a while but then I decided I wasn't having any of that either and besides my itches started coming back.

Mum spoke to the vet man and he said it was better that I take the darned things whole then it would get into my system more slowly.

Now they were in a pickle cos I was being my very best 'stubborn' ever!

They came up with the bright idea of covering them with honey and putting them in my food.  That wasn't too bad for a few days then I started to be sneaky and lick off all the honey and leave the pill behind.

I think by now though I had gone a bit too far.  Mum and the Bossman were not happy with me and they started cutting off my food supply unless I ate my pill.  Well, I can be a stubborn cuss myself and if they thought they were going to get the best of me they were in for a surprise.  Ha! I'd show 'em.

Well that didn't last too long cos my tummy was rumbling something bad!

So now what to do?

Well, the Bossman came up with a solution.  So this is how it goes........

Mum gets the pill out of the sealed packet.

Bossman dips it in the honey then calls me over.  I have to sit in front of him and he opens my mouth and puts the pill down my throat!  He tells me what a good boy I am, rubs my ears and then feeds me my breakfast.  Huh!  The indignation of it! but at least I get to eat straight away and they seem happy that I am getting my pill. And....the itchies have gone away and my tummy hair is growing back in.

Mum kept telling me if I didn't take the pills then they might have to give me the $45 dollar fix but that I wouldn't like that very much.  I am not sure what she means but I think I don't want to find out either. 

On the brighter side, Mum's friend Laura (and mine) came to visit a couple of weeks ago.  She's a cool lady and Mum, her and the Bossman just chatted up a storm all weekend.  She didn't stay long enough though.  Mum wanted to show her all sorts of things but they just ran out of time.

Then we got some really bad storms.  Thunder and lightening all night long and it did bad things to the electric thingies in the house.  I assume it was bad cos Mum and the Bossman did a lot of cussing and they had to send a lot of things away for repair and we had to get the TV man out and the phone man too!  Things still aren't working right cos the internet keeps going off.  Mum is making me do this in a Word doc first so it doesn't get lost in hyperspace.  I know I don't want to have to type it all over again, it's hard on a dog's paws you know!

It's the time of year here where we get the jumpy things.  They are brown and jump all over the place.  It sure isn't funny when I'm out doing my business in the yard!  Mum doesn't like them either but she says at least they don't sting!  The grass is sure looking nice though, Mum says it's all the rain we've been having.

She got a new birds feeder too that is supposed to keep the pesky squirrels from eating the food.  Seems to be working for now and Mum is very happy about that.

So that's about all I have to tell y'all.  So till next time......have a great summer.

Mum's going away for a few days....oh no!!!!

It's been quite the week!  First of all Mum dragged me off to the vets as my itches were getting really bad and I was scratching like crazy and driving her nuts.  He gave me a shot.....I hate those things!  An allergy shot or something, I've had 'em before.  Didn't like 'em then and don't like 'em now!  And he gave me some more pills.  Antibiotics cos I scratched so much I made myself sore and some new ones cos they can't keep giving me allergy shots cos they screw with my adrenal glands, or something, if I keep having them.

The vet now thinks I have atopy.  What a dumb name eh?

Anyway, it means I will have to be on these pills forever and ever!

Mum wasn't too happy cos they cost $80 for a months supply but the vet said if they work then we should be able to reduce the amount I take gradually to about 2 a week so it won't cost so much.  Phew, don't need Mum mad at me.

The Bossman and Mum then started on the sunroom floor.  What a fiasco, Mum got her finger caught in the back of the mitre saw and now she has a sore finger and a black finger nail. Neither of them are very stable so it took them a whole day to lay 5 rows of laminate floor stuff and the Bossman was totally knackered and they argue like mad when they are doing something, it's a hoot!  But, they always get it done and when it's finished it will look great. 

Then, she booked flights to go to Florida to see my human sister and nieces and nephew for a few days.  Mt sister isn't too well and has to go back to England so she can get some treatment and hopefully make her better.  They are very excited to be going back.  They fly away at the end of the month so Mum needed to get down there to see them before they left.  She goes in the morning.  The Bossman and me are going to take her to the airport.  He will have to drive home.  He doesn't drive much these days.  Hope he remembers how!!!

So that leaves the Bossman and me on our own till Friday.

Mum's been cooking up a storm so the Bossman has plenty to eat while she's gone.  Hope she got plenty of dogfood in for me!

He's gonna be in charge of giving me my pills.  Hope he remembers!  He told Mum to text him to remind him.  Hope she remembers!!!

Mum wraps them up in a slice of bread and butter and rolls them in a ball.  Yummy for me!

So it's been quite the week and next week will be just the same.

Hurry home Mum!

Mum has been nagging me to update my blog so here goes

I really don't think she can talk much cos she hasn't updated hers in a long time but anyway, I'm here now so here I go.....

First of all my tummy is sore again.  Flipping allergies are a big pain in the ...........ah, you thought I was gonna say butt didn't you?  But you were wrong I was going to say they are a big pain in the tummy!  The vet can give me a shot and some pills but they said that if I have too many shots and antibiotics it's not good for me.  So I'm stuck between a rock and a hard place.  I have been sunning myself today in the sunroom.  I just love lying in the sunshine and Mum thinks it helps my tummy too.

I went with Mum to the store today and she was very mean.  She bought a rack of  hot smoked ribs then left me in the van with them while she went to get coffee for the drive home.  She gave me strict instructions to not touch them and put something over the top of them. But I could still smell them and it drove me crazy.  Mum is a meanie sometimes!

A couple of days ago Mum got stuck in the bath tub.  No, not cos she's too fat.  Actually, not too sure why she got in it in the first place cos she had all her clothes on and there was no water in it.  I think I have said this before.....humans are weird sometimes!

She said something about finding a good place to put some bars on the wall to help get in and out of the bath but I don't think they would have helped.

Mum has bad knees and she couldn't get onto them to help get out of the shower.  The Bossman had to come to the rescue and help pull her out.  That made him pretty ill for the rest of the day and he went to bed and stayed there.

We're a fine lot aren't we?

Well, gotta go and catch some more sun while it's still shining.

Phew, no trips to the kennels this month!

I hope I'm not tempting fate here but the Bossman and Mum don't have to go to the hospital until the end of the month so you know what that means.  Yep, no trips to the kennels for me.....yeah!

Things have been quiet around the old homestead, they fixed the downstairs toilet walls which they had to take off when the pipe to the toilet broke and Mum got blasted with water when she was sitting on the loo.  Sorry Mum, not really snickering but it really is funny when you think about it.

Anyway, they had to take off a lot of the  cedar boards  to get to the pipes to fix the water and some of the boards got damaged and they didn't have any spare ones.  They found some though last week in Menards so now the wall doesn't have a big hole in it anymore.

Other than that, not much happening.  Mum potters around and the Bossman gets all irate about politics lol.

I'm still getting allergies on my tummy and sometimes it really itches badly.  The vet doctor told them to change my food to rice and lamb and stop giving me the toast crusties and my doggy treats.  Well I've had lamb and rice and NO treats for over a month now and I still get itchy.  I  don't mind the lamb and rice but I miss my treats and crusties!!!