My Life – Page 132 – The Dackel Princess

Another Chip Down

Before I tell you about the amazing Dackel Princess Puppies, I want to start by mentioning that my laptop memory chip has blown once again! One second all was well and then “the blue screen telling me to re-seat the memory” came on. I cannot write the words that came out of my mouth, as I would be banned for all eternity on the Internet, but it wasn’t pretty! So, once again I am banished to the office!

Okay, we had all four puppies outside today. They did well, ran around for a while and then came in and slept for two hours! I am hoping tomorrow will be a nice day so we can do it again. You see, my pictures, and my video are on my LAPTOP! (That worthless piece of garbage……) I had them all set up, sized and ready to go when I glanced over at my laptop and found a blue screen with the error message.

So I apologize for not having the promised pictures of my gang. I must begin to repeat “I always must back up my documents every day…I always must back up my documents every day” as I simply do not trust the laptop any more.

Back to the puppies. When they first got put down onto the grass, they froze. Then they each began to sniff and feel the grass. Bogey really liked it and he seemed to start moving around before the others. Soon, Baron tackled him and the two girls played by my feet. Then they were playing and rolling in the grass and Birgit (Ali) decided to be the first one to poop on the lawn! Yes, we are so proud!

After about 45 minutes I brought them all inside, gave them some water and they promptly fell asleep. Anneliese kept going in and staring at them. A few times she even barked at them. And tonight she even nursed them voluntarily! Perhaps they are growing too fast for her too.

I know it’s all going by far too fast for me.

Oh Dopey Me!

I got up today with the best of intentions as today was Weight Watchers day. I dressed, made Hubby breakfast, made a thermos of coffee for me, packed a yogurt and banana and set off.

I got down to the Cadillac,

and tossed my pocketbook, and tote into the car and I noticed how hard it was raining. So I thought I would get the newspaper in for Hubby before it got soaking wet.
So, I picked up the paper and when I came back into the garage I closed the door to the car and walked past it to the stairs where I tossed the paper up to Hubby. I turned and walked back to the car and……….it had locked all the doors, with all of the keys inside!
So we called our auto club and they sent out a nice man who came and with a little tool was able to unlock the door. Of course then the car alarm went off and I slid into the car and shut it off.
By then it was 10 o’clock and too late for me to go to Weight Watchers, so I stayed home and just felt dumb! How stupid!

Please tell me I am not alone in doing this!

Time, Keeps Flowing Like A River…

I started off early today snapping pictures. It was sunny and warm in the morning and the bees were working the trees. I grabbed my camera and got these two shots. I’m actually fairly proud of them.

Then I came in and spent a little time watching and playing with the puppies. They just get cuter and cuter!

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Three little piggies all in a row! lol! That’s Birgit, Baron and Bel.

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Little Birgit. (She will be called Ali)

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Then Birgit and Baron fell asleep.

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Bogie flipped over and fell asleep. He is quite a clown!

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And then I look at a picture like this and I see how huge the puppies look next to her. Look at this picture taken the day after they were born three weeks ago.

Isn’t that amazing?

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Arnie is doing great and is back to acting like his old self. I’m still giving him his medications, and he is on the rice and chicken diet! Oh yum!

My sister, Mel and my Mom should be here in time for lunch! I can hardly wait.

Life…

Arnie went back today for the last of his medications and hydration. He is like a different dog tonight and I am so pleased with his recovery! I have made him a special pot of chicken and rice food for the next few days and he really likes it.

As I write he is sitting here next to me chewing on his favorite bone, acting like his old self. I think the worst is over and he is on the mend!

The puppies can hear! For those who do not know, puppies are born with their ears fused shut. They are deaf. About the time that their eyes open their ears also open. Today when I went into the puppy room to say good morning, feed Anneliese and weigh the babies, I called out good morning and the puppies all stirred! It was awesome. Later in the day when they were all asleep I went in and clapped my hands and they all responded.

Also on the growth chart was the fact that when Anneliese jumped into the puppy box today the puppies all SAW her and with their eyes followed her to the other side of the box where she lay down and nursed them all.

So many changes in their short lives!

My sister Melodie, and my mother will arrive here on Sunday for three days. I have so many things planned and puppy time is definitely on the program! My sister takes such great pictures that I hope she can get a few of me with my grand-puppies!

My yard is full of beautiful fruit blossoms right now.

Apples, pears and plums. The Cherries are past and the peaches will be next week. But it is lovely and I have been enjoying the flowers.

My vegetables are also doing well. My seedlings (cucumber, summer squash, zucchini, and butternut squash), all sprouted and I’ve purchased tomato, eggplant, brussel-sprouts and pepper plants. The green house is just full! I just love the anticipation of July and August vegetables!

Ah yes. Life. Today was a good day. Have a great weekend everyone!

Newspapers, Sneezing and Fat Bellies

Wednesday the local paper printed a story about Anneliese and Isegrim. I am thrilled with the article, the pictures and the fact that it mentions my love of the dachshunds, and breeding for health. If anyone is interested in reading the article, I will send you the link. Just leave me a comment to let me know.

This morning after I cleaned out the newsstand of nearly all their copies of the paper with the story, I came home and felt nearly delirious with a stuffy nose, achy head and stopped up ears. I happened to look out the window and what did I see? Clumps of pollen so large that it almost looked like it was snowing! Ah yes, allergy season!

I went in and sat sniffling next to the whelping box to watch the wonder of the pups. Oh boy, are they cute! They lie on their fat little bellies, nursing up a storm. They are all so big now that they fan out as they eat.

The puppies are just the cutest things ever and even when I am feeling a little down, or (Ah-Choo), full of allergies, these puppies make me smile!

(Baron on the left and Birgit on the right)

Have a great day and don’t forget to take your allergy medicine! lol!

My 4th Blogaversary!

Just a little note to say that it’s my 4th blogaversary. I’d almost forgotten, what with all the excitement of the puppies! Four years. Wow, that went by fast! I started off wondering if anyone would ever read anything I wrote, and now I have made so many new friends, I am very grateful that I listened to my cousin, Janet and started “The Dackel Princess”.

Cheers!!!

The Joy!

Wednesday I spent quite a bit of time with Anneliese and the puppies. It was so much fun to climb into the whelping box and hold the puppies, while I patted Anneliese. She was so cute. I think she is very proud of her litter, and she certainly should be.

They are happy, healthy, squirming little babies, with fat bellies!

While holding them, they tried to nurse my hand and they would snuggle against me.

Hubby came in with me and we took turns taking pictures.

Just look at this face!

In just a few more days their little eyes will open. I can hardly wait!

In other news, I planted my cucumber and squash seeds today, re-potted my tomato, eggplant and brussel sprout plants, and got the green house cleaned up and organized.

Also a little note to my cousin. I love you, sweetie and I’m wishing you all kinds of good luck!

Sleep?

Monday was a nice low key day. I sure needed it. You see since the puppies were born, Anneliese has been getting me up early, or in the night and I haven’t gotten a lot of sleep. This morning was no exception. At 5:15 she woke me up with sweet kisses and snuggles.

Well, I love the girl. She is my baby, but I also need my beauty rest! So today I took the bed out of the puppy room, and replaced it with a recliner. This gives me a place to sit and recline during the day with Anneliese, and then at night I will sleep in my own bed.

We also left the puppies for 1-1/2 hours to go out to eat for Hubby’s birthday. All was fine when we returned, but I still worried the entire time.

Now that we are past Hubby’s birthday, it is back to being on a strict Weight Watchers diet. It’s not that I have gained a lot (some), but I need to get myself back on track.

The rest of the week is easy with only a visit to the fountain of youth for my hair. Aside from that, I am home with all my babies! Just where I want to be!

I’m Banished

The day began as usual on Wednesday. Anneliese woke me early and I slipped into my robe and clogs and jacket, turned on the coffee and went out to walk my pregnant little Miss. I came in, answered some email and then made breakfast for Hubby and me.

I dressed and drove down for my Weight Watchers meeting and then came back home afterward to wait for my friend to arrive to pick up some documents I had for her.

That was the last normal thing that happened.

I sat down in my nice chair with my nice dogs and picked up my nice laptop computer. But something was wrong. Something was very wrong. I tried rebooting the machine, nothing. I rebooted it again. Nada! I tried to get a handle on what was wrong, but inside I knew.

The system files were corrupted and only wiping the hard drive and redoing the system would work.

I called my computer man and arranged to bring it in and have him download my files for me onto a disk, and then wipe the drive and reload the system.

If all goes well, I should be getting my machine back tomorrow.

Meanwhile I am banished to the Office where we have a desktop computer that I am using. It’s a nice enough machine, but I really miss my laptop!

Anneliese is fine. Eating well, and with a temperature of 100.5 (F). So I guess that there will not be any puppies tonight. I’m thinking Friday or Saturday night. (Don’t puppies always come in the middle of the night?)

I took a couple of pictures of Anneliese today. What do you think?

That’s all for now. Have a great day everyone!!!

Friday’s Happenings

Friday was such an emotional day. Taking Anneliese to the Vet’s and seeing the babies on the x-ray, makes it all so real. In another week they will be here and then the fun begins!

We also went out after lunch to see the movie “Doubt”. It’s with Meryl Streep. I will tell you, it is a very well done movie, and Meryl Streep is totally fabulous in her part as usual! I wasn’t really looking forward to the movie, but in the end, I admit I enjoyed it!

A dear friend of mine passed away this week. It was sudden and unexpected. She was a young woman, pregnant with twins. She was happy and full of life and the promise that the future held for her and her husband. Rest in peace, dear Louise with your little angel babies!

Now the week is over. Next week at this time we will be awaiting the arrival of the puppies. New life. Sweet life.

Have a great weekend everyone!