A PILE OF PUPPIES!!!
Last night we went to bed at 12:30 am, and by 6:30 this morn,
Freckles had a pile of puppies! Our son took one look and said, "Wow! she had a pile of puppies!" So this pile of
puppies is doing great and Freckles, a real champ, is doing great. So, we didn't lose any sleep and now we will keep a
close eye on them all and give lots of treats to Freckles. Aug. 3rd. 2005
GOATS!
Things have been pretty busy around here, but fun. We have 3 litters of beautiful
puppies to care for along with the usual chores. Freckles's pups are running around now and playing. We've moved them
to the pen outside, which sits up on deck flooring. They sleep in a large dog house with a heat lamp. They loved the room
we gave them to run and tackle each other. Daisy's and Boo's babies are still down stairs and in the lazy, just lay
around and nurse mode. We went to a church picnic yesterday, and some people brought some baby goats. They were selling them.
Out of all those people there, there were only 2 stupid people who bought 2 of them. That's right, us. Well, we could
use them to eat some of the grass and weeds that grow around here. Any way , as if we don't have enough to do, they sure
are cute! And the bassets don't even mind them. They just stare at them over in their pen and then they look up at me
and say, " You've got to be (kid)ding." Sept. 5th, 2005
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Today we are giving thanks
to our Lord, for how He has blessed us throughout the year. Another year, He has chosen to pour out His blessings on us. We
thank Him for all the provisions and puppies that have passed our way this year! We woke up to a white Thanksgiving and chilling
winds. Right now, in between the cooking of the turkey and sweet potatoes, I take a minute to thank all of you for either
buying a basset and showing it much love, or for just enjoying looking at our site. As the cold is coming to the Blue Ridge
Mts. we are beginning to prepare our dogs' houses with heat lamps and fresh hay, which they love and get so excited to
roll in after we stuff it in their houses. Minnie Mae had 2 pups, one of which we lost during birth, but the one pup is doing
well and so is Minnie Mae. So, may God bless all of you out there in cyber world, and know , that even the next breath that
we breath, is a blessing from the Lord!
11/24/2005
A TURTLE
Yesterday was Sunday and as Dan had to take our son to church early, he came across a baby turtle crossing
our road. He and our son stopped, picked up the turtle, and because our son couldn't be late, there was no time to place
the turtle in a safer environment until Dan came back home. So, Dan let the turtle go for a ride with them to church. Did
Dan have a box to put him in? No. Did Dan put the turtle in anything? No. He let him roam free in the van, without a seat
belt even. By the time he dropped our son off and headed back home, we needed to be back at church within the the hour. So
Dan came in and proceeded to get ready for church. About 30 min. later, with shaving cream all over his face, he comes running
out of the bathroom calling our younger son,"Joe, Oh, I forgot, go outside and look for a turtle crawling around in the
van!" I got up from the table with my coffee and looked around the corner and down the hallway and said, "What!
Oh honey, you didn't." As Dan explained, Joe went running out to the van, he searched and searched and could not
find the turtle. "Bring Fanny Mae over to the van and let her sniff him out." I said. So Fanny Mae, our youngest
basset, plods over and we strive to drag her clumsy, limp, body up to the van. Unsuccessful with the lazy basset, we begin
crawling around ourselves. We were already headed towards being late for church and I had to help with baptism. "We'll
have to find him as we drive." I said. So the rest of us pile in and there under a little vent, Joe found him. Now, he
was riding back to church with us again. Only this time, we did stop at the creek down the road and placed him safely near
the creek well off the road. Church? We were late. 06/05/2006
A Bee
Today is July 18th, 2007. We just purchased
a new dog, champion sired, Juju a couple of days ago. Dan and I spent a day driving to pick her up and driving back
home. We got home just before dark. When we got home, I was getting Juju settled in. I temporarily put her
in a kennel that we had not been using all summer, while I proceeded to get things ready for her. As I put her in the
kennel, I walked in first with her following me. Once inside the run, I latched the gate with me inside. Reaching
down to pick up a water dish, I suddenly felt a stinging pain, and then another stinging pain. All of a sudden there
were hornets buzzing all around me. I couldn't knock the ones stinging me off, they were to embedded in my skin.
I was trying to get the latch up so that I could get out, don't worry, Juju was on the other end of this large kennel
and did not get stung at all. However, her new owner was getting injected with bee stings repeatly. I was
so in pain and scared that I could not get the latch to lift. Finially, I told myself, "if you don't calm down,
you will get more bees on you. Yes, you are being stung, but calm down, get this latch up and get out!"
So, I had to recompose myself, I had bees on my chin, my arm and in my hair, but I managed to calm myself, think about the
latch and lift it. Out I ran flinging my hands through my hair. The bees on my chin and arm left on their own,
they had stung me enough and flew off. Juju was out sniffing around, staring at me like , "what am I in for?"
Dan came a'running and trying to save me. We looked over at the kennel run and there was a hornet's nest the
size of a scoccer ball!
That evening, with a swollen chin,
and swollen arm, I laid in bed, in a dark room, watching Dan's silhouette on the wall, as he was outside in the
kennel run, fighting BEES! The flash light would light up my wall and I'd see his shawdow run across it, jump back,
and then run across again, as he was attacking the bee hive with degreaser and a hose. I would pop up now and
then and look out the window to make sure he was still alive. After about an hour, the light on the wall and the Dan
silhouette disappeared. Poor Dan, fighting bees at midnight. He had to wait for them to all go to sleep in order
to attack the KILLER BEES. 7/18/2007
A Cool Hose
Well, as most of you know, we have
been under a heat wave for some time now. Our bassets are in kennels that are surrounded by a fenced in acre of woods. Today
and every day since this heat, we have been letting them all out in the fenced in wooded area, which we do anyway everyday.
But we've been throwing in a hose down each day. At first they don't like being dragged over to the hose, but once
they feel that cool water, they just sit down and enjoy their cool off time. Then they run off in sheer, cool delight, all
excited with a return back to us as if to say "Thank you!" The cool off time then turns into a hose fight between
me and Dan. July 26, 2005
SPRING IS HERE!!
But it's still cold. It's been awhile since I last was on this page. We are still waiting for Ellie to birth
her new babies. We are always so excited when new puppies are coming. We are also waiting on the warmer weather like most
of you all out there. But it will be here soon. All the puppies we have here now, are mostly all sold and will be leaving
us over the next 2 weeks. It's sad to see them leave after you've put all your time, energy, and effort into helping
them get a good start in life. But we are pretty confident that they are all going to loving homes and will have great adventures
for themselves.
March 23rd, 2006
ANYONE WANT A GOAT?
They're eating everything!!! except the grass and weeds!
No, we're not getting rid of them,
our daughter would disown us. But, we have had to barracade them from everything. They are eating all our flowers, peach trees,
lilac trees, even my porch swing. Now, they rule over the bassets. And if a basset chases them, it's a real joke. The
poor basset flies with all his or her might, hits a small dip in the ground, steps on his ear and it's down hill all the
way. The goats stop, watch, and go back to eating, my flowers. May 12, 2006
SNAKES!!!
What a beautiful
day it was yesterday! Finally, the first real nice, warm day in May. So, I joyfully put on my shoes to go out and visit with
all my basset babies. As I make my way to the kennel area I abruptly stop, look down, and SCREAM! (I didn't scream real
loud). But to my amazement, there was a snake visiting our kennel area. He was not in the kennels with the bassets though,
he was in the fenced in area where they run. Well, now over my shock of almost stepping on him, I decide to study him. Small,
about 12 inches long, gray maybe, brown? Look at all those diamonds going down his back! Aren't they different. Doesn't
look like a garder snake. I don't think I've ever seen this kinda snake before. Oh!! Do rattle snakes have diamonds?
I ask myself. There's no rattle. Maybe babies don't have rattles, at least not baby snakes anyway. Then I watch him
slither away. So I come in and look up rattle snakes. Yep, it's a baby rattle snake. Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!
So.......now
poor Dan, is the rattle snake exterminator. I'll be back with more snake news. 5/21/2006
IS IT WINTER YET?
Well........I
know you all out there in many locations are probably wondering the same thing? Is it winter yet? However, in the
Mid West, they have no doubt of winter. Here in the Blue Ridge, the weather has been gorgeous. We've been
missing the ice and snow storms, they seem to skip us as they go by. It has been a very easy winter here. The
bassets don't know if they want their heat lamps on or off. One night it's a must , then the next day, they're
all like, " hey, uh, it's hot out here, could you please pull the plug on the heat?" Anyway, we have enjoyed
the warm winter, but in an eerie sort of way. We know it's suppose to be winter, but where is it and why?
It's another year though, and we look forward to it with great joy and hope. As I sit here and drink my coffee, I recall
what someone once wrote, "Life is the coffee. If we had a whole bunch of different coffee cups before us to
choose from, which one would we choose? Would we choose the best looking cup or the older chipped one? What if
someone chooses a better cup than mine? What we really want is just a cup of coffee. When we strive for the better cup,
and compare our cup with what others chose, and feel that they may have chose a better looking cup, we forget about
the coffee and are not content." So, I look at my coffee and the cup in comes in. Jan. 17, 2007
IT'S WINTER NOW!
Yes,
it is winter here now. The wind is blowing hard today and it is cold outside. Bassets are in their heated houses and
Dan's chessies are in their element. Speaking of Dan's chessies, his boy Gus, loves to retrieve things back
to our home. The other day he brought back a very nice frozen pumkin pie still in the box. It looked tasty and Dan was
tempted to cook it, but decided, "no". Then he came home with the back of a deer, a very nice toy truck with
chewed wheels and as you can see here in the picture, he loves to bring boxes up to the house that the UPS man leaves at the
bottom of our steep drive way. Hey!! It's snowing! Jan. 28, 2007
: ( SAD STORY
Juju has puppies, and we have her here in the house with us. Her water and food dish are just
outside the door. Last night, through the glass doors, I watched a little mouse run over to Juju's food dish, hop
into it, grab a bit of food that Juju left over, and hop out of the dish and run away. A few seconds later, the
little mouse returned, hopped into the dish stole another bit of food, hopped out and ran away. Well, I didn't want
this to go on all night, and dogs can get coccidia from mice, so I opened the door and brought the dish in along with cleaning
it. The following morning, I went to let Juju out, and there was that poor old mouse, drowned in Juju's water dish.
: ( Oct. 26th, 2007
