DOT - part 2

Gratuitous pictures of Spunky the cat showing the puppehs just who's boss around here....














we've also been gardening around here. As you can tell, Wilbur takes gardening quite seriously....he has however left my hydrangea alone (so far so good as he has eaten every other one i've ever planted). Charlotte loves the outdoors but generally refrains from digging, although with her 'georgia clay' colored coat you really wouldn't much be able to tell if she did. Wilburs stunt caused him to get a shower...yes a shower. I didn't have time to fill the tub and fool with him so I put him in the stand alone shower, shut the glass door and pummelled him with the shower wand all standing on the highest rung of step ladder. All in all he seemed to take it pretty well and I even let Charlotte go in the bathroom with him while he dried off....wet puppeh smell is Charlottes very favorite smell :) I won't however show you pics of the bathroom after they were finished cavorting in it...another mess another time.....

DOT - while Doug's away.....

Doug and Douglas left last Thursday to go camping for the weekend. Whenever Doug is gone, the puppies sleep in bed with their momma (me) and live it up for the time he's gone. When he's home they are not allowed on the bed at all :( This makes the momma sad and the puppies too but what are we to do?? Spunky gets to sleep on the bed whenever he's of a mind to except when Doug is gone and the puppies take over. The puppies don't mind sharing the bed with Spunky and Charlotte would love nothing better than to snuggle up and cuddle with the kitteh but Spunky will have none of it! No, he would prefer to sleep on the floor, the sofa or anywhere but on the bed with the puppehs who he deems far beneath him (he is a cat now). Here are pics of Spunky after Doug has come back home and he has once again taken over possession of the master bed.

Wilbur is just busy being his cute self and I just love the pic of his tongue...he's such a ham isn't he?












































Charlotte snuggling down in the coverlette on the bed before being once again dethroned by Prince Spunky heir apparent to the throne of the bed.....

WoW/DOT - Valentines Day - the puppies help cook

The pups and I have been busy this last week. We have 2 different cooking adventures as well as Valentines Day highlights to show you. Our first cooking adventure was making pretzel hotdogs. My daughter introduced me to Auntie Ann's pretzel dogs in Delaware when we went to the Walmart. I was having withdrawals and wanted to try and find a recipe for them to make at home. I found a recipe here but mine turned out no where near as fine as Auntie Ann's. However they were really really good and were finished off by lunchtime the next day. The pups as always were a big help in the kitchen....


























And because it was Valentine's Day and because the pups had had no special treats in a while, they received their treats the day before. All different specialty cookies from the cookie bar at Petsmart and different flavored bones from the rawhide bar too. Charlotte takes them one at a time and hides them to eat later. She's so funny. Wilbur prefers to tempt Charlotte with them (or should I say tease) but that usually does not go well for him in the end. Charlotte has a perfect bite and his is well...overbite city so like I said she wins in the end when he decides to go down that road. Fortunately this time he quit while he was ahead and ate his own rawhide after all.













Spunky got a playtoy too which is hanging on my bathroom door knob and he plays with religiously. Although he's not good about playing with it when I have the camera out...it's as if he doesn't want proof that he likes to play. He also played stalker kitty with Charlotte...he must be going through spring fever because he even goes after Wilbur sometimes, swatting at the dogs and then running. It sounds like a herd of elephants around here when they really get going.





























When Saturday rolled around the guys were all gone out to camp to work moving fences or some such a thing. The pups and I made collard cheese pinwheels with homemade not so thin filo dough. They turned out well (which means Doug ate them) but I would like them better with the thinner dough. It would have helped had I made the dough up a day ahead of time (like the directions suggested) but when I get into the mood to cook I'm into instant gratification. The dough I made would have been better for pockets or turnovers and filled with the cheesy concoction instead...it was just a little bready for me in the pinwheel form.





We also made fried rice which turned out divine and a 'wing it' spicy thai shrimp and veggie sauce to go with it.













I also made a bundt cake which came out of the pan in sections *ARGH* and a homemade buttery cream cheese icing to go overtop. It still looked a little lumpy but must have been good since I only got one slice of it before it was completely devoured.

The puppies got to lick the beaters and as you can see were very enthusiastic about it too.














Hope you all had a happy Valentines Day and have a happy Dogs on Thursday!! See you next week!!

Late Whiskers on Wednesday

Here is Spunky doing what he does best! He's so sweet when he's sleeping :)

DOT - hanging out at home

me and my boy, knitting and watching tv












whycome Wilbur gets to sleep in my spot of the couch next to mom...not fair...*sniff sniff*...poor Charlotte











Spunky hanging out

Whiskers on Wednesday

This is my kitteh Spunky. He was born 8 days before my hubby Doug and I were married making his birthday August 20, 1998. He is officially an ole man kitteh. He is also a bit psychotic which started after we moved to Georgia and returned to Maryland for Christmas vacation. He stood at the top of the stairs and hissed and spit at my neighbor who was trying to feed him while I was away. He has never been the same since. He has been declawed so he hits now and is very strong. He also bites. After reading the Spotlight on Ace I feel much better about my boy. Spunky has had that 'habit' of taking our clothes and dragging them through the house whenever we would go somewhere (even if that somewhere was to the mailbox at the end of the driveway). My parents laughed when they came to visit because every time we returned from going out touristing we would come home to some article of mine (often unmentionables) laying in the hallway downstairs (my room is upstairs). Since we have gotten the puppies (they are 5 yrs old now) Spunky tends to limit his pining to the master bathroom. He also goes on kitteh vacation to the vets with the dogs when we go away and seems to do much better when we get back home. :)

DOT - Cookie Baking

The pups and I (with supervision from one annoyed cat) made Breath Bustin' doggie cookies. It gave me some practice for Christmas cookie baking too although the dough is a little more elastic like bread. I pulled out the angel, gingerbread man and star cookie cutters and we went to work.






Here they are ready to bake.















Finished cookies cooling on the plate.














Puppies anxiously waiting for a treat.














Nom, nom, nom...














Cannot believe she's making cookies for those stoopid puppies.



















Fine, I'll just lay on the table and annoy her.














The cookie jar is filled once again and all is right in the world *sigh*

The Magical Drawer

Okay maybe the drawer isn't magical but it truly is a wonder how Spunky can get himself in the drawer when it's full of stuff. The dresser is full of envelopes, etc and I left it open much to Spunky's delight. He loves drawers. He helped himself into the drawer, turned around and hung out for awhile acting as if this was his special place and he belonged there. He can even hide in the back so no one even knows he's in there at all. Silly kitty. Where does your kitteh hang out???