Mum is in a tizzy right now!

Hi everyone,  how ya'll doing?  Me and Maggie are just fine and dandy but Mum is getting in a bit of a tizzy.

It's Christmas time again and she's the same every year.  She worries about getting prezzies for everyone and gets herself all worked up when folks don't give her ideas.

Our English human sister our human nieces and nephews did come through though so she has them all sorted.  Now she just needs to get the others sorted.

I think she needs to stop worrying about them and concentrate on us doggy kids, ya know what I mean!

It's turned really cold here and Papa Bear and Mum decided to light up my favourite fire, the log stove.  They have other sorts of  heating but I just love the log fires.

Here is me warming myself by the fire this morning.

And this is Maggie today too, she is just about as big as me now.  That ain't ribs you can see it's rolls of skin, she is quite the porker..............but please don't tell her I said that.

I have been OK but I did have another funny turn.  It frightened me and I tried to get into bed with Mum.  Now Mum was a bit surprised cos me and Maggie have our own beds in the bedroom and we don't get on their bed.  Mum let me stay on the bed though and gave me some hugs and rubs until I felt better.  Papa Bear was already up so he didn't know I was having a funny turn until it was all over cos Mum wouldn't leave me.

I am good again now.  I don't like it when I feel like that and I know it makes Mum and Papa Bear worry.

Well, it's time for a trip outside and then a nap by the fire so I will catch ya'll later.

And Mum, you had better get on with those Christmas cards, they won't write themselves ya know!!!!!!

I had a boil on me bum!

Imagine the indignity, me, Boris the handsomest dog, had a boil on me bum!  Mum said it was actually an abscess thingy but whatever the name of it, it was flipping painful I can tell ya!

It all swelled up then some nasty gooey stuff came out of it.  Yukky or what!  It hurt so bad I wouldn't let Mum or Papa Bear anywhere near it to clean it.  They got my 'don't you dare touch it' growl.

So Mum took me to the vet and I sure as heck wouldn't let him touch it either so he talked to Mum and they agreed that I would have to be knocked out.  That wasn't so bad as the vet gave me some feel good stuff first which made me feel pretty goofy.

Anyway, when I was knocked out they shaved me bum!!!!  They cleaned it all up too they said and Mum fetched me home late in the afternoon.  I just slept a lot for the rest of the day and night.

The vet gave me some pills to take, antibio something or another.  Well you know I don't like taking pills but Mum has made it easy for me, she wraps them up in a cheese slice and they just pop right down.  The pills seem to be working cos me bum don't hurt anymore and Mum says it looks much better.  Just need the hair to grow back now so I am back to my handsome old self.

Maggie is still here so I guess she is a keeper.  She is so lively compared to me and still thinks I can play like she does but I am an old guy now so she has to play on her own. Her latest thing is to run around like a loony with one of the things that came flying out the caravan when they were taking everything out of it.  It is white and Mum says it is a plumbing fitting but that Maggie thinks it's a great toy.  She throws it around and runs with it.  It's quite funny to watch her.

Papa Bear and Mum have been outside every day working on the caravan thingy.  I can tell you they have worked really hard on it and Mum says it is beginning to take shape at last.  Papa Bear painted it to look like trees and stuff, cam o flaj he calls it.  Sure that's not how you spell it but it's how they say it.  Spelling just ain't my best attribute.

So folks, that's what's been going on here, hope you are all doing great.

Have been a bit under the weather lately!

Hi everyone, Boris the handsomest dog here again.  I haven't been around much cos I ain't been feeling too good.  A couple of times I have had something funny happen and I go all wobbly and my nose loses it's pretty brown colour and I feel just yucky and just have to lay down for a long time.

I think Mum and the Bossman thought I was going to cross over to the Rainbow Bridge but hey I never, I ain't quite ready for that yet.

Right now I am feeling pretty good and have been outside with Mum and Bossman a lot and even did a little bit of running.  I will be glad when it cools off a bit though and I know Mum and Bossman will be happy too when it does. I am eating good too and I am still doing all my business outside so there's still life in the old dog yet.  Hey, that was a pretty clever comment eh? ha ha!

Maggie will be one year old in a week or so, she can still be a bit of a pest sometimes, she wants to chase me and play with me when I just wanna lay down and rest but she has turned into a pretty girl and if I was a bit younger I would be chasing her around instead.

I think Mum and Bossman ain't too worried about that though cos we are both 'fixed' they say, whatever that means!  Think I'd rather not know, ya know what I mean?

Anyway time for a nap so I'll be back another day. I hope this flipping thunder stops soon, it ain't good for an old man like me, makes me jump and wakes me up!

Here I am in my favourite place right in front of Mum's chair and yes! that is the blanket she is still working on.  Geez Mum, it's been nearly a year now since you started it.

See ya soon...............

Woof woof, I'm back and just as handsome as ever and have the photo to prove it!

Hi everyone, missed me huh?

Me and Maggie have been enjoying the nice weather and playing outside a lot more.  Of course it's that time of year when I shed and Mum has to keep brushing me but I don't mind cos I feel so much better afterwards.  That Maggie doesn't get the fluffy stuff I get so she doesn't have to be brushed as much.

So, here it is, the photo of handsome ole me..........

I still got it don't I? Not bad for an old 'un!

Now here is a not so good one of Maggie, Mum says I am mean to put this one up hee hee.

She took another one of her and said I had to put in in here too cos she's a pretty girl. Oh well, if you say so Mum!  I mean, bulldogs just ain't supposed to be pretty but I guess she ain't so bad.

So, Mum has been mowing up a storm and Papa Bear has been doing stuff in the shop so me and him have been hanging out a lot.

I know, I know, it should be Bossman but Papa Bear seems to have stuck since Maggie came along so Papa Bear it is.  Don't think he likes it much either but the girls always get their way don't they?

Mum went and got herself a treasure and Maggie thinks it's her own personal water bowl!

Bossman and Mum went shopping on Thursday and Mum was so happy, except she was moaning about all the money they spent on bug stuff!

She did get some leather things though and that always makes her happy.

Also she got a bird feeder thingy that has a little gnome snoozing at the bottom of it. She has wanted a bird feeder forever so she was all chippy and jolly.

Well she put it out yesterday when it was raining so it got some rain in it.  Well, that Maggie went straight to it and started drinking out of it.  She loves the rain water that one, she always drinks from the puddles.  Now she thinks she has her own special water dish right at eye level.

She's quite the princess, that's for sure.

Just popping in with some new photos of good old handsome me and you know who!

Mum took these yesterday so I thought I would put them on my blog for ya'all to see how handsome I still am and how big Maggie is getting.

Guess she ain't too bad looking either......for a girl!

Maggie got stung a couple of days ago by a scorpion.  She didn't half holler.  Poor baby. Mum and Bossman told her to leave it alone but no, she had to keep poking it with her paw.  We all hope she has learned her lesson cos those nasty scorpions just come a walking through our house sometimes. Mum and Bossman always kill them if they see them but they can't catch 'em all.  They hurt really bad, worse than a wasp sting but they don't do any more harm, not like the ones in Arizona. Them critters can kill ya.  

Huh!, now Maggie gets to go into the sewing room too!

Me and Mum always used to go into the sewing room together when she went up to knit or sew. When Maggie came along that all stopped.  Mum and Bossman always had to be keeping an eye on her cos she was such a pesty so Mum stopped going up to her room.

Mum had some sewing to do today which she said was easy and didn't need much concentration so she said it was a good time to see how Maggie would do in there.

So, we went upstairs and Mum shut the doors behind us so Maggie couldn't run off.

Mum sat down at her machine and Maggie was just roaming round and sniffing up a storm.  That girl sure likes to sniff things!

Then she started scratching at the carpet.  Well, that was going a bit too far cos that's what I do.  I have already made the carpet all stringy, that's my little party trick and there she was just a doing the same.

Well Mum told her off and she stopped and then she lay down like I was and Mum got her sewing done.

Guess we will be going up there more often now and that's a good thing cos I know Mum likes to do her sewing and knitting and Bossman is really doing a lot on his computer right now.  Something about finding his roots and ancestors so Mum will have plenty of time to do her own stuff......as long as that Maggie girl behaves herself.

Anyone giving odds on that?????

I'm back, bet you all thought I'd skipped town eh?

Me and Maggie are still around.  I'm still a good boy and she is still a little pesty but Mum and the Bossman, (or should I say Papa Bear) still thinks she's cute.

And cute she is I have to admit but oh so lively.  She just wants to play and play and play and an old guy like me just doesn't have it in him anymore.  Mum has to take her out without me and let her run and run like a looney tunes.  Mum throws sticks and frisbies for her to chase as well.

Me and the Bossman hang around inside, we're not daft.  It's colder than heck out there lately and especially today. Well below freezing Mum says, now I'm not sure what freezing is but I know Mum didn't stay out very long today with Maggie.

Mum says Maggie has got to go to vets and get fixed soon. Not sure what that means. Seems that I've already been fixed.  Huh!  Not sure if it's a good or a bad thing but I guess if we are both done then it can't be all bad eh?

Maggie learned how to go up and down the stairs so now we all sleep upstairs in the big bedroom with the big bed in it.  Me and Maggie have our beds up there too.  It's nice and snuggly warm up at night.

Every day we get bone shaped dog biscuits, Mum calls them a snack.  All we know is we sure do like them.  Here we are sitting like good dogs to get our morning snack.  With a bit of luck we got one in the afternoon too!