Stowaways

We took a mini-vacation to OKC last week and went on a "tour of museums" which I will write about soon but I wanted to go ahead and post this pic cause it was SO HYSTERICAL.

As we were packing the car for our trip, we discovered we had 2 stowaways who were trying really hard to blend in although they didn't know that we were taking them with us and dropping them off at the big farm to stay while we were gone.

We decided it looked like Maggie was saying . . . Annie, don't make eye contact and maybe they won't notice us.

We LOVE these pooches!

No More Leftovers

What happens when you eat dinner in the sunroom and leave leftovers of Chicken Fried Rice on the table while you take dishes in to be washed?

This . . .

Annie's Love Language

Miss Annie Oakley

We really have enjoyed having Miss Annie surround our house with love.  Her love language is without a doubt “touch”.  She LOVES spending time in Kyle’s arms and sitting on my feet.  She totally thinks she is a human child except my real human children don’t drag EVERY cattle bone they can find in the neighboring pastures into our yard.  Yes, I have a cattle cemetery in my front yard thanks to Miss Annie.  I guess she thinks OUR love language is “gifts”.

Annie has gifted us will ALL these cow bones.  Some are old and some still have fresh meat on them.  Yes, I said fresh meat.  This dog is nuts. We thought there was only a couple bones in the yard but when we started picking them up to dispose of them, we realized there was enough bones to build a full skeleton.  Teeth and all. Can’t wait to see what our next gift will be (do you hear the sarcasm)?

Miss Annie Oakley

This dog has brought us great joy in the short time we have had her.  She is a 1 ½ yr old German short-hair bird dog.  She is a squirrel, butterfly and bird hunter.  She is also a clepto-maniac. You would NOT believe the things or LOVE OFFERINGS she brings home to us.  I WILL be posting the pictures of her offerings and YOU WILL need a stomach made of steel to view them.  As you can see in this picture . . . we have to keep a very close eye on her around the chickens.

WHAT IS THAT SMELL?

That would be . . . Miss Annie Oakley.  We were at the big farm helping the in-laws with a new barbed wire fence.  The kids and I were sitting on the 4-wheeler when Annie ran up from behind us as fast as lightening.  She started running around in circles and her mouth was foaming.  The kids started yelling . . . WHAT IS THAT SMELL?  Needless to say, Annie got an education on skunks and why you should stay away from them!  She and the other dogs were crawling around a huge brush pile and apparently there was a skunk living underneath it.  It sprayed her right in the MOUTH.  We tried to clean her up with GOOP which is the orange stuff that mechanics use on their hands but you can’t use that INSIDE her mouth.  Talk about stinky breath.  She survived and we survived our 45 minute drive home with her cooped up in the car with us.  What is next Miss Annie?  I hate to ask.

*This happened 2 months ago and I swear I can still smell skunk on her.