True Color Thursday - Purple and Orange

Purple and Orange is the color combo for True Color Thursday and we had 2 weeks to come up with photos for this color combo.  We decided to post our pictures a week early.

A new Walmart store opened near us.  Mommy went looking to find something purple and orange to photograph for the challenge!!!     They had a special kind of opening celebration over the weekend at the new store, and Mommy and Grandma met so many characters there!

Mommy wasn't sure who this was, but then figured it out once she saw the potato chip bag.

This was that happiest cookie Mommy ever saw.  He was so bouncy, so the picture is very blurry!

This is probably the biggest chipmunk ever!!!! Us dogs need to be on alert -- never saw a giant chipmunk like this before!

Even though he's in the cat family; we still think this Cheetos guy is cool!

Goldfish!!! We love those crackers, especially when Mommy's nieces and nephews drop them when they are eating - and we help clean up!

Can you believe all the balls they sell at this store.  The display reaches the ceiling!  Mommy was hoping a purple ball would be next to an orange one in this display, she took a picture and decided to look closer at the picture later.   Aha!  There was a purple and orange ball next to each other.  (It's the 2 balls on the bottom right.)

OK!  Mommy cheated!  Since there weren't any kids in the line for the balloon animals at the time;  Mommy asked the nice lady in the clown costume could she make Mommy something with a Purple and Orange Balloon.  Mommy told her that she is a big kid at heart!  The nice clown lady made Mommy a perfect heart balloon wand using purple and orange balloons! That was so nice of the nice clown lady to make a balloon for Mommy, even-though Mommy isn't a kid!  

Mommy came straight home and showed us her balloon. Here we are rushing at Mommy!  We were so excited to see her Purple and Orange Heart Balloon Wand.

We even chased Mommy around the grass trying to see the Balloon Wand up close!

We almost popped the wand -- but we didn't!

Thanks for reading this post!  Mommy had a great time at Walmart!


Lassiter Chase & Benjamin the Shelties (Lassie & Benji)

True Color Thursday - Red Hearts

The color for True Color Thursday is Red Hearts.  Mommy went with her nephew to "Sesame Place" in PA on his class trip (and she brought along our picture too).  Mommy's nephew was the one who spotted that Telly  has a "red heart" tongue on the sign in the parking lot.

No red hearts in this picture, butt we liked it and took a picture of it.  Big Bird is the yellow one up front (on the right), the big one is Snuffy, Elmo is in red, and Cookie Monster is on the left in this photo.

Mommy took a picture of us at the "Sunny Day Carousel".  That's Big Bird at the top with the Sesame Street sign.  He spun around in a circle.  It was so dizzy watching Big Bird spin and the Carousel spin too!   The green monster  is Oscar the Grouch and you can kinda see Bert behind us.

Mommy zoomed too close for this picture -- there were a lot of flags on this sign at the "Grover's World Twirl" ride.

We looked so hard at this sign in the park for Red Hearts.  Unfortunately we couldn't find any, but we kept on searching this area.

Hooray!  We found a red heart on Oscar the Grouch's tongue at the "Grover's World Twirl" ride. For this ride, you sit in the teacup and you can spin it around as fast as you can, if you want.   We tried to spin fast -- but Mommy is a wimp!

OK we cheated for this photo.  We added a "red heart" to block someone's face who was standing by Grover.

We actually got to meet Cookie Monster!  He tried to eat our hot dog and chicken nuggets when he walked by our table.  But he didn't eat them.  Cookie Monster is pawsome!!!!    Mommy's nephew was a little scared of Cookie Monster - so we couldn't focus too much on red hearts after this point-- butt we are sure there were more red hearts in the park somewhere!  We went on tons of rides, just no photos of us to show you.  You'll just have to believe us.

We saw a pink heart balloon at the very end of the day at the Parade where all the "Sesame Street" characters sing and dance.  The heart balloon wasn't red, butt we took a picture of it anyway.   We had fun looking for red hearts!   Mommy's nephew says he wants to go back to Sesame Place -- he had fun on the rides!!!

True Color Thursday - Green / Nature

True Color Thursday is all about the color Green.  It could be something that is the color Green or it could be something that was nature related.  The Challenge wasn't too specific. First, we wanted to show you our Tomato Garden pictures from Week 3 and Week 4.  So, here it is at Week 3.

Garden at Week 3 -- the Fence Weave is finished.  Mommy still has to clip in some of the bottom.  She got tired of weaving so she isn't going to do a checkerboard the other way.  (Maybe next year.)

Mommy made this sign out of duct tape for the garden.  She used a green duct tape on the bottom.  Not sure how the sign will hold up in the weather -- but it looks nice for now. (That's a butterfly on the right.)

Mommy's nephew threw our frisbee with the green border on the roof of the house.  (He did it by accident -- he was so upset and was apologizing like crazy for it.)  Don't worry Mommy's brother-in-law got it down with the ladder and a stick.

Look what Mommy came across in front of our house, hanging on the side of our deck.  A frog.  It was brown, not green.  Benji and I were in the house, butt we heard Mommy talking to Grandma all about the Frog.  Guess what Mommy said...?

Mommy said -- maybe it's my Prince Charming .  Then she said to Grandma -- should I kiss it? Maybe he will turn into a Prince.   Grandma didn't know what to say.  Then all we heard was Mommy making kissing noises (very loudly) outside.   Ben and I barked like crazy.  We were saying... DON'T DO IT MOMMY!    Then Mommy said, don't worry I didn't kiss it.   (Thank goodness -- we love having Mommy's undivided attention, so a boyfriend would just get in our way!)

Here is a picture of our Tomato Garden at week 4  (June 6th).  She took the pictures after 8pm so they are dark.  Besides -- you can't see all of our GREEN WEEDS growing in the garden in this lighting!  :)    Mommy forgot all about the New Jersey Tomatoes box she got.  So she took a picture of it in front of our Tomato Garden (since we live in NJ.)

Mommy got the box when she bought a few plants from the little business that sells stuff on the side of the highway.  She doesn't mind paying a little extra money at the little business, since it's a local place and she tries to support them every once in a while.  (It's only at those bigger Home Improvement Stores, where she looks for bargains.)

This is one of the plants that Mommy bought at the local place that gave the NJ Tomatoes box to carry it home in.  It's not a Black-eyed Susan plant -- but it's similar.  Not sure the name -- butt, I'm sure you bloggers know it.  It's supposed to come up every year -- I think.

Now this is the picture of the 50 cents plant that I told you about that time when Mommy got all mad and was having a bad day - on Rainbow color Thursday.  This was from the big Home Improvement Store and they honored the sticker price that they put on the plant by mistake at 50 cents.

Can't wait to see if it blooms next year.

Lassiter Chase & Benjamin the Shelties


PS  Benji has Allergies.  Mommy noticed on Memorial Day Weekend that Benji was scratching his nose  and ears.  Benji had so much wax in his ears.  She cleaned them.  And the next day there was just as much wax in them again.  She took Benji to a new vet that has longer hours since the vet we usually go to was booked up.   The new vet is so nice!   We loved seeing a statue of St. Francis in the lobby of the new vet.   Anyway, the vet gave medicine and ear drops and Benji is feeling better now.    (There was a lot of pollen coming down over Memorial Day weekend.  Everything was yellow outside.  So, it wasn't too surprising when the vet said it's allergies.)  We will keep looking out for Benji -- the vet said if Benji is having Allergies in January or something like that -- then it might be a food allergy.  But the vet thinks it was because we had a warm winter and allergies are bad now.

True Color Thursday - The Raven!!!

The color for True Color Thursday was Black.  The twist for the photo was that it had to be something dark and unusual.  This challenge had Mommy immediately think of The RAVEN statue at the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia.  All you poetry fans probably heard of Edgar Allan Poe.  One of his famous poems is "The Raven." 

So, on Mommy's lunch break she walked over to the Edgar Allan Poe House to snap a couple of pictures.  She thought walking there would be better than driving there -- both have it's pro's and con's.  It's not the safest neighborhood so, Mommy only took her cell phone to take the picture instead of a regular camera and walked there.  Talk about a Power-Walking kind of experience for Mommy!!! 

Here we are with the side view of The Raven statue.  Looks like the Raven statue is laughing, just like how we are laughing in our picture.

This was the closest picture Mommy could take of The Raven statue.  Mommy saw something move in The Raven's mouth.  Mommy didn't know what to expect.  She thought there was a speaker in there -- she knows The Raven spoke in the poem.  She thought -- maybe they rigged up the statue to talk and say "Nevermore" like it did in the Poem.  She stared at it, and stared at it!!!!! Finally she saw what the thing  in The Raven's mouth was as it moved closer and closer to the front of the beak!!!

(Boy did Mommy wish she had her better camera for the picture!  She zoomed in on the picture above.)  There was a bird in The Raven's mouth!  It had it's mouth open just like the beak of The Raven Statue.  It was one of those black birds.  Not a crow.  Not sure what the name of those black birds are -- but Mommy was scared speechless seeing this black bird in The Raven's mouth and how it's mouth was open just like the statue.   The bird ended up flying away to the roof of the building next door.  (Talk about an unusual experience.  A bird flying out of a bird's mouth.  It really freaked Mommy out big time. Creepy!)

Here is a picture of Edgar Allan Poe painted on the building next door to the Site.  Mommy didn't get the bottom part of painting in the picture because there was a police car parked right there on the street.   She didn't know if it was a good or bad thing that a cop car was parked there.  So, she snapped a quick picture - and off she went power-walking back to work.

All in all, being that it's not the safest neighborhood, do you think Mommy will walk there EVER AGAIN on her lunch break?

Quoth the Raven, "NEVERMORE."



If you want to read more about the Edgar Allan Poe House I found some information on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe_National_Historic_Site

Have a great day!  Don't be too scared from this blog post!

Lassiter Chase & Benjamin the Shelties (Lassie & Benji)

P.S.  In case you aren't familiar with the poem, The Raven, here is a YouTube video we found on the internet with a Halloween Light display set to the poem The Raven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfzBH6KVC5o&feature=related

True Color Thursday - Rainbow Colors

This weeks True Color Thursday is Rainbow Colored Day.  Mommy bought these colorful Tomato Cages.  She's wanted these Colored Tomato Cages MY ENTIRE LIFE!   (Doesn't is sound like a really long time when I word it that way.) Anyway, she's wanted them a little over 2 years, she sees them in the home improvement store, looks at the price tag and usually walks away and just uses the rusted old cages we have that are falling apart.  This time was different.  Mommy was mad at stuff ( stuff at work, water problems at home, and some really bad sunburn that is blistering on the back of her neck) -- and decided to go shopping to blow off some steam!  -- and threw not 1 tomato cage in the basket -- butt 8 of them - and 2 squiggly red poles too - just for the fun of it.  (Yikes -- there goes our budget!)

 

Mommy planted the tomato garden on Mother's Day for Grandma.  This picture was taken on May 16th (week 1).  Mommy got so disgusted with the weeds/trees that grow in between our fence and the neighbor's fence.  She tries to cut them, but she can't reach them. She ends up bruising the back of her upper arms trying to get a shovel or clippers down between the 2 fences.  And this time she scraped up her knuckle on her finger bad against the fence.  Mommy said -- that's it, I'm going to buy a fence weave to try to hide these weeds! So, instead of just buying Fence Weave, she got the tomato cages, the weave, and lucked out and got a rhododendron plant that was marked 50 cents.  (The humans at the store marked the plant wrong -- butt Mommy argued with them -- until they honored the price on the sticker..  It was supposed to be $7.50.)

This picture was taken almost a week later on May 22 (week 2).  She put in the colorful cages here and there, and mixed our old rusted tomato cages in between too.  Of course we wouldn't cooperate for this picture, so Mommy was like -- if you want everyone in the blog world to see a picture of your butts - then fine!  And snap -- she took a picture of our butts.

We wised up for the 2nd picture and stood straight facing the camera!  No messing with Mommy this time!  (You can see she only got half way with weaving the fence, she hopes to keep working on it this weekend.  She might weave it like a checkerboard pattern by  weaving  it the opposite way too if you can still see too many weeds.  Not sure yet.)   Thanks for reading this blog post and listening to Mommy's complaints!

Have a great day! Lassie & Benji

 

P.S.  Mommy says.... I never have luck with my tomato garden.  So, we will see if the garden even makes it to week 3.   LOL !!!   

Mommy's sense of humor is back -- Hooray, she's her good old crazy self again!    

True Color Thursday - Super Sheltie vs Alien

This week's True Color Thursday Challenge was to take a photo of something silver.  The twist for the challenge was -- it has to be something silver and miniature and you have to tell the story behind that item.

We picked our Aluminum Foil Sheltie that Mommy made from the left over Aluminum Foil  from her sandwich one day last year in October.    There isn't a big story behind that item -- it is basically trash that Mommy turned into art -- so, we decided to create an exciting story featuring the Aluminum Foil Sheltie as the Hero in the Film --- Super Sheltie vs. Alien!!!!



http://youtu.be/Piy24cgo29s



Here are the photos in case you didn't want to (suffer thru) watch the (Worst Movie of the Year) Adventure of the Aluminum Foil Sheltie Movie!

Alien who destroys household items when humans leave the house.

Benji is watching the Alien destroy the table.

The Alien destroyed the table in an attempt to make us dogs look bad!

See, Ben and I are INNOCENT! The Alien chewed up that table!

Super Sheltie (made from aluminum foil) to the rescue. (The red cape is made from a chocolate wrapper.)

Alien Leader in Outer Space

Super Sheltie saved the day!  Now the Aliens will not chew up stuff and try to frame us doggies anymore!

More aliens appear after Alien Leader is defeated!

Bonus photo - "Let's be friends" Alien Dance Party

Note: No actual Aliens were harmed in this blog post!

Have a Great Day and don't worry -- Mommy isn't crazy, yet!

Lassiter Chase & Benjamin the Shelties (Lassie & Benji)


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BEHIND THE SCENES - BONUS VIDEO

In case you were curious how we filmed this video, here are the "Bloopers" so to speak.

http://youtu.be/9fQfQ-gNHZk