A New Years Apology

 

After My Vickies little "Venting Episode" yesterday

she feels a need to say she is sorry.  But then I told her

that if she learned something from all the little problems,

then it was worth it.  

 

Monte and Mables mom felt so bad for her

after reading about her difficulties,

that she went to a local

cafe and bought My Vickie a

wonderful fresh Salad. 

 

Vickie......

Cat Food      NO

People Food      YES

 

So tonight is the end of 2012 and I hear

that you humans all get together and

kiss someone at midnight.

 

Well I think Scrappy is a little confused about  this

little action and tried to kiss me today.

WHOA little Buddy, If I am gonna kiss anyone

to bring the New Year in, it is going to be

Charlotte.....

I don't want to hurt your feelings little guy,

but..............

This is how we are spending the New Years Eve.

Allred left for his New Years Eve with

Nellie, earlier in the day.  He sent us this

picture to share with everyone and his wish,

(Yes it is true) He said:

I sure hope all of blogville has a

wonderful evening.

 

Happy New Years everyone.

Thanks for a wonderful 2012

Love, 

Bert, Allred, and My Vickie

Need a laugh at My expense?

From Vickie  (Ya gotta see the humor in this, I do)

So, Bert is resting peacefully from his very active week.  Hiking Swimming, You know....It's all about him......

Allred is in the back room high on his perch sleeping as well, getting ready for his New Years Eve Date with Miss Nellie

And Me, what am I doing........well, let me tell you......

I am moving all the furniture away from the latest leak in my roof.  Is this fun you ask......well, yes it is.......I mean, I don't clean that often, and it takes a catastrophic event to get me to really clean.  Thus......today....

Now that may sound bad to you, but really, I did need to clean behind things for some time now.  Now is the time.

And now that I am complaining, let me just say, that the IRS surprised me last year with a huge amount owing on my tax's.  I spent all summer paying it off.  Then all of a sudden the IRS started sending me large amounts of money. 

Wow I thought, how cool is this......I have overpaid........Not So. 
 
Christmas Eve, I get a letter from my friends at the IRS telling me that now I owed them all the money they sent back to me......and to teach me for thinking they knew what they were doing, they are going to add a penalty and interest.

Did ya learn anything Vickie?

And all the snow that Bert loves so much.  Well guess who has to shovel the crap.  (Not crap, but white snow crap)  (Well, I have to shovel all the other crap too but now the white snow)

How many buckets does it take to catch all the dirty brown water that is falling from the ceiling into the living room? (oops, just a littl side tracked there)

Back to the shoveling.....so guess who has the worst back pain of her life?  No really guess......

And the chiropractor took the whole Christmas and New Years holiday off.  Guess who can't go and get relief until next Wednesday...... No really....guess.

And to finish the whole lovely experience off,  I was fixing myself an salad for lunch today.  I had bought croutons, almond slices, tomatoes salad, a bit of hamburger and some roast red pepper dressing.  I was looking so forward to it.

I fixed the salad up bit by bit, first the lettuce (finely chopped) Onions, I love onions, sliced tomatoes dressing and some warm crumpled hamburger bits, finally taking the croutons from the cupboard, pouring a healthy handful of those on and then my favorite part, the sliced almonds.

Ignoring the leaky roof I sat down next to the bucket catching the falling water and began watching a movie and slowly eating the wonderful salad I had prepared.

The first bite was pretty darn good.  The combination of cold lettuce, tomatoes and onions with the warm crumpled hamburger bits.  By the second bite, I was ever so slightly displeased with something in the salad.  I couldn't put my finger on it, but there was something wrong.

I ate some more, I had to be sure.  It seemed that the almonds were mushy, kind of odd tasting.  I hadn't read the package, perhaps there were raisins and cranberry's mixed in with the sliced almonds.

I kept eating.  After a few more, almost painful bites of salad, I noticed that the small chewy parts tasted like liver. 

Oh my heck.....what was going on here.  In between my teeth, all through my mouth was a mushy yet powdery taste of liver......

Yes, My Friends.   I NEED GLASSES.  I had not grabbed the bag of slivered almonds, I had grabbed a bag that my good friends Michelle and Goose had brought over for Allred as a welcome home gift.

Yes, My Salad that I had eaten 3/4 of was generously sprinkled with "Whiskers Lickins"  First ingredient being "Animal Liver flavor, and chicken by-product meal."

You heard it.   LIVER FLAVOR and CHICKEN BY-PRODUCT MEAL.

I am now spending the rest of my day bending over the sink vomiting and trying to get all those little goodies out of my mouth and from in between my teeth.

SO How the Heck is Your Sunday Going.......

H2O in any other form

I'll take H2O any way I can get it.

For now, this week, I get it in

Snow, Running Rivers and Dripping Icicles

Join me and my friends today

on an H2O experience in pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope everyones week was filled with

Friends, Blue Skies and Large sticks.

 

Love

Bert

She Still Loves Me

So, Like I told you yesterday, I came home

from my snow shoeing trip and found, to My Great

Delight.  a package from Austria.

 

I could barely contain myself with wonder and

excitement.  Could this be from My Beautiful Charlotte

Of course I knew immediately by the aroma

coming from the inside of the package that it was her.

Check it out Abby, My Charlotte sent me

a Christmas package full of goodies.

See the big orange ball and the big yellow one

and here Abby, you can have one of the chews.

And where on earth did she find such a cool

blankie with all the moose's on it.

How did she know that I love moose's.

And the best part of it all was the card

that came with it.  Not just the card,

but what My Charlotte had written in it.

 

Want to know what she Said?

Well, You are gonna have to wait to see

what she wrote until another day.

I need to work on my response to her before

I share that information with all of Blogville

 

Just know that I have a smile on my face.

 

In Other News.

Allred is doing much better.  He has gained back

most of the weight he lost.  He still sleeps all day

and eats every chance he gets, but he is looking

tons better.

John caught a couple more pictures of

our eagles today while on a drive up in

our mountains. 

Aren't they beautiful?

Some of our guests spend quality time

with Whitney.  Nothing like a little huggin

Dougal is feeling a lot better.

the snake bit is healing well and he

has finally gotten to go out without the cone.

Click here to read his story.

and here to see the follow up.

And finally a lazy game of tug-of-war.

I was too tired to tug hard, so I just used

my body weight.  IT was a sad

attempt on both our parts.

 

No real tuggin, just hangin.

 

Have a nice Weekend everyone

Love

Bert

It Was Like Saturday

It started out as a Weekday

No plans to hike or play,

Christmas is over so no gifts to open

Just a normal day at

Canine Country Club

UNTIL

My Best Walking buddies

in the whole wide world

called My Vickie and asked

if I could go Snow-shoeing with them. 

Me, just me, Not My Vickie

But Me

Of course she said yes so off

we went.  IT WAS BEAUTIFUL

The snow was deep and I took

the lead.  No trail, no signs, no

directions, just

"Go Bert Go"

INCREDIBLE

Alex and Kory did a pretty

good job keeping up with me

as I lead them deep into the hills.

Sometimes I would get

snowballs in my feet

and we had to stop while I

let them work out.

Kory would tell me to relax

and I would lay down in that

wonderful beautiful snow

and he would gently work on

my feet until I was comfortable to

take the lead again.

By the time we were thru and

made it back to the car

I was completely and totally done in....

and happy as a fish in water.

I barely made it in to the back

seat before I fell fast asleep.

Ah the sleep of the pure at heart.

Thank you Kory and Alex

Thank you Thank you Thank you.

My Vickie woke me up

about an hour after we got back

and told me that I had another

package in the Mail.

 

Wow, I am the luckiest

dog alive.  I was so excited, especially

when I saw where it was from.

 

Austria.  It was from Austria

and that could only mean one thing.

CHARLOTTE

 

I got a package from Charlotte

 

What could this mean?

Does she still think of me?

Could she still have feelings for me?

 

And the answer to all my questions

will have to wait until tomorrow.

 

I am off to bed.......

 

 

 

 

Oh Baby It's Cold Outside

Believe it or not,

I actually got a picture

of My Vickie

and she let me put it on

the blog.   Yep, that's her.

It is so cold and snowy and

blistery and WONDERFUL

she pulled out her extra

warm snow gear for the day.

 

She says this is the coolest

stuff ever.  There is a hat, a

neck shawl and a pair of

warm gloves.

The reason she likes this particular

set of snow gear is that it is

special made so that you can

place hand warmers

ear warmers and

neck warmers inside

the gloves, hat and shawl.

 

I like them because when she

wears them, we get to stay

outside longer, hike further

and enjoy more of our

winter wonderland.

 

A special thanks to her

friend Jill from

Pet Expectations

for giving them to her for

Christmas.  I really scored

with this gift.....

(PS We were not asked to tell you about this

product, we just thought some of you might

be interested in this really warm gear)

I hope you all had

a great Christmas, I know

I sure did.  Along with my cool

bandannas from Jack which

I opened early cause I

couldn't wait,

I also got a cool gift from

my family in Vermont.

A special thanks to my

Callie, Scott and Andrew

I LOVE MY

STUFFED SANTA

This is James Deans new Foster Sister

Bessie.  Bessie is 12 years old

and her family took her to

the pound to be put to sleep because

"She was too old"

TRUE STORY, they had her her whole

life and when she got old

they decided to just "Get Rid Of Her"

 

Thank goodness for sweet and loving

families like James Deans.

 

WE get to see her and play

with her every day  and she is

so sweet and fun loving.

You would never believe she

was 12.  and as for Bessie's old family

Well, My Vickie won't let me

tell you what we think of them.

Finally, Allred is still sleeping, eating,

sleeping and eating.  He only

gets off his chair to go to the

kitchen to eat or the bathroom

and he hasn't once slapped me.

 

Love

Bert

At 9700 Feet

Remember a few weeks ago when

My Vickie and I hiked up to see

a waterfall above her old house?

Click Here to see it

 

Well, we only went a little

ways up that canyon.

John and Trigger went from

4260 feet elevation to 9768 feet

in an effort to get the following pictures

We hope you enjoy them

Although John will let My Vickie

come along when he is photographing

Moose, he does not allow her

to come along for the Mountain Goats.

To get photos like these

you have to be very patient.

You have to sit, sometimes for

hours, not moving, not talking....

And My Vickie

Well, she just cant do either

Besides the fact that you have

to hike straight up the cliffs.

My Vickie just slows him down.

John and Trigger are like

Mountain Goats.

They scale those cliffs

like they had four hooves

and incredible balance.

Luckily it was a beautiful Day

with blue sky's, at least

where they were.

The Bald Eagles have come

to our area for the winter

and they spend the nights

up high in the mountain

with the Mountain Goats

after fishing all day in the lake.

Many of you ask what kind of

camera John uses and if it has

a super strength zoom lens on it.

Nope, on these trips he wants

a small light weight camera such as a

Cool pix Nikon

Like most of the rest of you

we are expecting a huge snowstorm

to hit for Christmas Eve

And we want to finish

today's post with a wish

of Safety for all of our friends

out there in blogville

who will be traveling

through the Holidays.

Love

Bert, Allred and My Vickie