My Life – Page 133 – The Dackel Princess

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!

Okay, So We’re Getting Old!

Hubby asked me to find some papers that he’d left lying around since before my Dad’s funeral. Hubby is like that. He has trouble with paper control and usually he believes that I have thrown away his paper.

And usually he is right.

So, I started to look in all my usual places. Like the trash. Oh, Gag! I do not handle stinky old trash very well, but since I had to find these papers I had to look everywhere!

I searched high, I searched low (can’t get any lower than the garbage!). Nothing. I went through my file box, which you all might recall is very full, all the time, because I hate to file. Nothing!

I went back down to the garage to the old garbage and began to search again. Gag!

Then, a mere 1 hour after I started to search for these important papers, it hit me! I suddenly knew where they were.

I went to the stairs and started up, my knees shaking with excitement and nearly buckling under me. I ran down the hall to the office and pulled open the file drawer and there, filed nicely and neatly in a new folder, just as HUBBY HAD INSTRUCTED ME, were the two documents that he needed.

I can’t totally blame Hubby for this fiasco. After all, I was the one who made out the file and placed the papers in it.

Then I started to laugh. I’ve admitted to a short term memory problem and now Hubby must as well.

I wonder if they have service animals for this. Maybe we could train Arnie. All I would have to do is say, “Arnie, where did Mummy put those papers?” and he would run to the file box and point with his nose!

Oh I am just laughing like crazy!

Happy Easter everyone!

Frost Bite!

I did something really stupid. Actually two somethings. Ah well, what can I say, I’m getting old.

Yesterday Hubby and I celebrated our anniversary. We went shopping late in the day and I bought a bottle of champagne to celebrate. Oh, how nice, right?

Well I wanted to chill it quickly so I put it in the freezer and before I knew it we were out the door to go to dinner, and I completely forgot the champagne.

Now I should have just left it out for a few hours, but I wanted to pour two glasses, so I carefully opened the bottle and the bottle went off like a rocket. I jammed my index finger into the bottle, as my friend told me once that this would stop any champagne from overflowing.

WRONG!

You see, it froze, and while the champagne was spurting out, my index finger was freezing! Eventually the volcanic champagne bottle stopped exploding and I pulled out my finger only to find it shockingly white and frozen!

I put warm water on the finger and it hurt so much, so I stopped that. I tried cool water and that was better. At least I got some color back into the finger. But now, well, the champagne is frozen and we have it sitting on the shelf…..melting.

Our anniversary was wonderful. We had a great meal, spent some quiet time talking and reminiscing, and now we are sitting watching…..GOLF.

Yeah, it doesn’t get any more romantic than that!

Oh, and while I am thinking of it, I wanted to mention. I felt one of Anneliese’s pups move today! Now that was exciting!

Pancakes, Cats & More

We’ve been working hard to organize and decide what we are cooking for the dinner after the service for my Dad. Yesterday we went out to BJ’s and Stop & Shop and got the things we needed and this morning we will be cooking up a storm.

We did take my Mom out for breakfast yesterday to a place that she and Dad went to whenever they could. Their favorite waitress took care of us and we ordered one of dad’s favorite’s, Strawberry Pancakes! yum!

I was amazed to discover that I can’t eat the way I once did. I filled up very fast and ended up leaving things on my plate. An unheard of event a few years ago. Mostly I craved coffee, and they make great coffee there!

We came home to Mel’s in time for lunch, and Mel made us roasted asparagus! Oh WOW, that was good! We also had Portuguese Sweet Bread. Also a big YUM!

I then noticed my niece’s cat Annie lounging on the foot stool and took a picture for Gattina and her cat Arthur! Now you can see, Gattina, why I love Arthur so much!

We also have made a collage of picture to have at the supper after the service, showing Dad thorughout his life. I think it came out well.