Pee-mail Fire Hydrant !!!

We received our Fire Hydrant in the mail!  Thank you so much to the Cowspot Dogs!!!  We entered Reilly & Denny's Pee-mail Competition a couple of weeks ago (remember when we sniffed baby bunny peemail in those 2 clover flower patches in the yard), and we won first prize in the contest. 

We opened up the package (with a little help from Mommy's oldest niece) and it was like it was snowing in our living room.  The little white pellets from the packing Styrofoam were snowing all over the carpet - it was so exciting!

The first thing I (Lassie) did when it came out of the box, was try to chew the top knob of it - try to pick it up and tell Mommy where to put our brand new Fire Hydrant.  We know we want it in the yard, butt aren't sure where to put it.  So, temporarily it is by our Tomato Garden.  It looks nice there, maybe it will stay in that spot.

In other news.... Mommy noticed Benji starting lifting his leg to pee instead of squatting.  Instead of squatting a peeing a river in one area of the lawn -- Benji is lifting his leg and squirting a little on the bush, a little on the tree, a little on the bottom step of the deck...  (Grandma said, she liked when he used to squat and just pee in one spot of the yard.)  Congratulations to Big Ben -- You are a Man now   - You are a Big Dog now, eventhough Mommy still calls you her Puppy!

Looks like that Fire Hydrant is going to get a lot of use in our yard now!  None of us have christened it yet though -- at least not that Mommy knows of.

Our Fire Hydrant just opened from the box --see the snow on the floor from the packing styrofoam

We are so happy with the Fire Hydrant!   (Mommy kept pushing the wrong buttons on the camera to turn the flash off -- she wasn't able to figure it out in time while we were in this position.)

There's our Fire Hydrant by the Tomato Garden.

Mommy pulled weeds on Father's Day and she tied up the Cucumbers to those poles.  We even noticed some little cucumbers starting to grow.  How exciting! (This picture was taken on the Friday after Father's Day - the garden was planted on Mother's Day in May.)

Thanks again Cowspot Dogs for having the PeeMail Competition!  You guys rock!

Lassiter Chase & Benjamin (Lassie & Benji)

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 - 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!