Thirteen Reasons I Love Having Puppies
1. Puppy kisses
2. Wagging tails
3. The way they slurp up their food
4. The way they sleep in pig piles
5. The love they show when they hear my voice
6. Their big eyes
7. The way they run
8. Their little puppy barks
9. The warmth of their bodies when they fall asleep in my arms
10. Watching them nurse Greta
11. Watching them, watching Fritz walk by
12. Seeing them play with their puppy toys
13. Just watching them grow
A bunch of questions were in a survey about 2006 that I got from Goofy Girl. I took what I thought was most interesting and made it into the TT.
1. What did you do in 2006 that you’d never done before?
I bred a litter of wire-haired dachshunds. I witnessed their birth via c-section too, and helped to awaken the puppies.
2. What would you like to have in 2007 that you lacked in 2006?
I feel pretty lucky because Hubby and I have our health and this is the most important thing. Perhaps I would like the willpower to diet and exercise myself back into good shape.
3. Compared to this time last year, are you:
happier or sadder? happier
thinner or fatter?
I am Happier. But I am also fatter. Depressingly so.
4. What was your biggest failure?
Gaining weight due to my stress after losing Shubi and Hubby’s knee surgeries.
5. What was your biggest accomplishment?
The litter of puppies.
6. What was the best thing you bought?
All the Christmas gifts for those I love.
7. Whose behavior merited celebration?
My daughter. She has grown into such a wonderful, lovely, competent woman. She not only works hard at her job, she is an excellent friend, and she has cared for her elderly grandmother almost single handedly. My hats off to this fabulous woman!
8. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
The PUPPIES!!!
9. What was your favorite TV program?
NCIS & House
10. What song will always remind you of 2006?
None really. You can tell you are getting old when the oldies stations are the ones you listen to.
11. What did you want and get?
PUPPIES!!!
12. What did you want and not get?
A miracle recovery for Shubi.
13. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2006?
Life rolls along and many times you need to be able to roll with the punches. The most important thing in life above all, is the health and happiness of your family~
Happy New Year Everyone!
1. Friday, I kicked off my Christmas celebrations watching “A Christmas Story” with Hubby and Emily. Since Emily hadn’t seen it, it was really fun to watch it with her.
2. I then proceeded to watch “The Santa Claus” (first one), “Rudolph The Rednose Reindeer”, and “Miracle on 34th Street” while I wrapped, cooked and wrote letters.
3. Saturday, my cousin Janet came up and we watched “Scrooged” with Bill Murray (first time I’d seen it and I really liked it. then I put together a sort of appetizer’s delight of meatballs, artichoke dip (see recipe below), stuffed grape leaves and my own potato salad. I’d give you a recipe for that if I could, but it’s mostly a little bit of this and a little bit of that and then it’s done.
4. Janet and I made her Mom’s recipe for Sand Tart cookies. What was sort of funny about this was that when she sprinkled the colored sugar on them I kept almost seeing writing. Janet said, “Some people use Ouija boards, our family uses Christmas cookies.” But I never could read what was written on the cookies, still I know that they were speaking to me! Then we watched “Pirates of the Caribbean, Dead Man’s Chest”. I love Orlando Bloom and Janet loves Johnny Depp so we can watch these sorts of movies without feelings of competition! LOL
5. Sunday we had a big breakfast, exchanged Christmas gifts, I got an awesome Beatles CD and a Lennox Christmas tree ornament, and Hubby got a bottle of Glenfiddich Scotch!
6. Then we took puppy pictures.
Merry Christmas!
1. The first thing I do each morning is check on the babies
2. I try to hold and pat each puppy every day.
3. Most of them like it.
4. I always spend time stroking and talking to Greta and telling her how much I love her.
5. I also tell her what a great Mama she is. After all every new mother needs encouragement, even a doggy Mama!
6. Greta is spending a bit more time out of the whelping box and back with the humans.
7. But no one better go near those pups or she’ll come running!
8. She did finally let Fritz come close to the box to see the babies.
9. She only curled her lip once!
10. I am still sleeping next to the whelping box.
11. I can hardly wait to get back to my own bed.
12. I wonder when that will be?
13. I also wonder when their eyes will open?
1. Seeing the puppies born this week.
2. Helping to revive the babies after their birth.
3. Knowing that Greta would be okay after her surgery.
4. Seeing how quickly the puppies continue to grow!
5. Seeing what a great mother Greta is.
6. Getting my Christmas letter written and printed out.
7. Getting all the Christmas cards addressed and mailed.
8. Finishing up my baking.
9. Delivering my goodies to my neighbors.
10. Having Fritz do well with the entire puppy experiance. At least, so far.
11. Getting the Christmas lights up.
12. Did I mention the puppies?
13. Having a dream of mine fulfilled.
1. I have picked out 5 cookie recipes to make with Emily this weekend. Chocolate Chip, Ginger Spice, Toffee Bars, Snickerdoodles, and Peanut Butter Cookies
2. All the recipes will be found in the cooking section of my blog.
3. I plan to post the peanut butter cookie recipe tomorrow.
4. I make up boxes of cookies for my elderly shut-in neighbors.
5. I also make up a big tray of cookies for my Vet and the Post Office.
6. I love to bake!
7. I love to eat what I bake! Uh-oh!
8. My favorite cookies are Snickerdoodles!
9. This will be an all day cookie baking fest!
10. I will take a lot of pictures and post them.
11. Hubby’s favorite cookies are Chocolate Chip.
12. The kitchen is right next to the puppy nursery.
13. So I will be close by if Greta has had her babies.
1. Three’s Company
2. M*A*S*H*
3. Happy Days
4. Newhart
5. Dynasty
6. The Cosby Show
7. The Golden Girls
8. Cheers
9. The Wonder Years
10. Roseanne
11. Moonlighting
12. Taxi
13. Magnum PI
1. Germany. Specifically Berlin and Munich. I just love visiting those two places. They are my second home.
2. England. I loved the Cotswalds the best.
3. Hungary. Budapest. A really fun city to visit.
4. Alaska. Our trip last year made such an impression that I will always love Alaska.
5. Nova Scotia. It’s really beautiful there.
6. Greece. Athens. What a marvelous place to spend time.
7. The Caribbean. I love warm sandy beaches.
8. Switzerland. Zurich. There is a part of Zurich where the hills rise above the city and there are still grazing cow pastures.
9. The Florida Keys. Wonderful seafood and a relaxed atmosphere.
10. Alberta Canada. I love it up there in the wilderness, where the Elk and the deer roam.
11. Italy. I’ve only been to northern Italy, but I liked it a lot. I have wonderful memories of a trip Hubby and I took there with Shubi.
12. Austria. Vienna. The best Schnitzel I ever had was in Vienna.
13. Scotland. Land of my Hubby’s ancestors and the only place they can pronounce our last name correctly.
Thirteen Classic Movies I Can Watch Over And Over
1. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
2. It’s A Wonderful Life
3. Doctor Zhivago
4. An Affair To Remember
5. The King & I
6. The Sound Of Music
7. Tootsie
8. Fargo
9. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
10. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner
11. Harry Potter & The Sorcerer’s Stone
12. A Hard Day’s Night
13. The Wizard Of Oz
1. I’ve been mostly disappointed with the new TV season.
2. Of the new shows I’ve seen I like “Ugly Betty” and “The Class” the best.
3. I wonder what’s happening on CSI. The story-lines have been really weird this year.
4. I used to like the Law & Order’s, but I’m sort of tired of them.
5. Still loving “House” best of all!!!!! (Smoochies to Hugh Laurie!)
6. I think the funniest show in TV is “Two & A Half Men”. The kid is the best!
7. NCIS shifted gears this season which helps to keep things fresh!
8. “How I Met Your Mother” just keeps getting better and better.
9. I’m watching CSI Miami on A&E in reruns. Mostly because I don’t stay up after 10.
10. There is nothing on Wednesday that I watch. Sad, but true!
11. Desperate Housewives has had a few funny moments, but come on, some of these situations are just too far out and too wild that even I (a veteran Soap Opera Watcher), am getting a little tired of it.
12. I wonder if any good mid season shows will come on?
13. I’m watching more and more cable TV shows and spending more time on the computer.