Janet Gets A Parcel!

A couple of weeks ago, FatQuarterShop.com had a 20% off sale with free shipping to Canada.  This was exciting for Janet.

She waited and waited for the parcel and it finally arrived about 8 days after it was shipped.

You won't be able to read the teeny tiny print on the label.  There was a $16 charge for GST which is fair enough and a $10 bullshit rip off "handling fee" from Canadian Border Services!  Janet managed to rant and rave about this for a couple of hours.  She says, "yes, it's only $10, but you don't have to pay this stupid fee when you fly into the country and have to pay overage.

 

 

Before she gets all wound up again, here is her pretty array of fabric:

Meg says Mr. Baby Big likes dinosaurs and will  be  big enough for a tyke size bed soon, so we have dinosaurs, Mother Goose and two other bundles for lap size quilts.

Janet has spent alot of time working in the yard next door and it is now a blank slate!

Now look:

Jeremy and his friend Dustin are building a new fence along the back to keep the deer out.  Janet loves the deer, but not dining on her plants!

We decided to be big buds and share the same bed.  How cute is that?

Most of the time I'm kind of a pushover, but I held my ground firm whilst relaxing under the kitchen table.  No, Janet, I will not move so you can mop under me!  Much to my shock, Anal Cleaning Lady let it go!

Guess who's going to see Ringo Starr??  Well, I'm not all that big of a fan and Noodles says she isn't either so that leaves Janet and Phil.  They are super excited - Ringo Star and His All Starr Band on 08 October.

Rockerisms!

This week marks one year since our much beloved Rockers passed away.  We think of him everyday - sometimes with sadness but mostly with a smile as we remember what a big, gentle giant he was.  A doggie so sweet, who lived to please you and was afraid of his own shadow!

Assistant Nanny!

Pony pup, when they couldn't actually lay their hands on a real pony!

Janet cherishes how much Rockers loved her.  Come on, Janet, isn't it bath time?

Every day, without fail, whenever Janet had a bath, Rockers waited outside the bathroom door on the left hand side as you enter the bathroom.

His big cold nose was always welcome.

He would lay his head on your lap waiting to be gently petted.

I'm a super good guy!

He loved Bronwyn and Mike as much as he loved Janet and Phil.

Selfies!

He suffered, along with his sister, the indignity of the stupid effing fabulous party hats the humans love to torture us with.

Rockers was everything a guy could hope for in a brother, cousin and human companion.  He is missed so much.

On another sad note, Rubby Dubs was born 15 years ago today.  Time flies!

Good night!

Guess Who Came To Visit!

Mr. Baby came to see us!  Noodles loves Mr. Baby so much she hobbled up the steep stairs at least twice to let him know how happy she was to see him.

Mr. Baby has a couple of new gigs.  First one, Pirate Baby!

Ahoy, Matey!

He is fascinated with doors and loves to open and close them - many, many times!  Janet says (we hope she's joking) that she is going to call the condo on Maui to see if all interior doors can be removed.  Doable?

There was a big mess outside the closet upstairs as Meg was searching for the wooden Brio train set.  She found the train set and numerous other treasures.

Cool old wooden train set.  Meg says that all train sets nowadays use the same track.

Open, shut, open shut.  Repeat.

Meg's friend from medical school had a baby boy, so Meg is going to give her friend this quilt that Janet made with a bonus of two homemade bibs!  Meg thinks the bibs are the greatest as they are so large.

You can only see one bib which is the big polka dots. The red ribbon came on a package that Phil received for Christmas.

Crazy YoYo and equally Crazy Mr. Baby's Mother decided they should go to the Petting Farm.
  We think this is YoYo's secret plan to go and not look like a 61 1/2 year fool who cries when baby goats run around.

Finley was bucking the plan from the get go.

Let's put on your rainsuit!

I don't think so, Mama!

Seriously, Mama, it doesn't look that great outside.

Looks like he knew way more than the two so called "people in charge"!

This was across the road.  Ouch!

 End result...Finley was way smarter the other two!

His Mama is rockin' a Keroppi umbrella!

After the non petting farm visit, they went for pizza!  "So Yoyo, could you hand me a piece of Diavolo pizza please?

Janet has been as busy as could be (at her sewing machine!) Check out her stack o' quilts to go to Longarm Arlene!

Nice Friend Karen was going to LongArm Arlenes and offered to take Janet's quilts.  Janet very stupidly forgot to pre-wash the navy batik fabric in the centre.

See the purplish fabric on the left?  Janet was quite lukewarm on that quilt until she and Karen went to the Fabric Show last weekend and she bought the cool diamond print for outer border and backing.  Inner border is even cooler - Grunge fabric from Moda!

Yard Work All Done!

We finished off our huge gardening pile by the curb and then Holli, the Gardener came and did a ton of pruning so now our pile is gigantic.

I don't know if it was the excitement of getting to help with the gardening or not, but I had a bad day where I was sick a couple of times and even passed up on my breakfast!  And cookie!  Janet picked up my breakfast bowl while Noodles finished off hers.  Then, when Janet returns to the kitchen, Phil says - "look she's eating her breakfast".  He didn't realize it was me with the upset tummy so Noodles scored two breakfasts in one morning.  It's just like cagey, cagey Noodles to not let Phil know she had already had her meal.  Bonus day for Noodles!

So, because I wasn't feeling well, I got the the Sick Doggie Menu.  This consists of cooked ground beef, cooked rice and cottage cheese.  It was really good!

Rock Star Ball Finder that I am, I managed to score another tennis ball at Willows Beach.  That meant I could eliminate one of them.
I will gently hold the other one in my paws until the moment of destruction arrives.

Janet says if you throw a blob of ink on a piece of paper and then fold it in half, you will have two versions of the same pattern.  Here we are, being identical ink blobs of each other.

Never mind those crappy dog beds - I think I will avail myself of the humans pillows.  Way more comfortable!

We have chiropractors in our family.  Could those elcheapo beds be good for us?  We want....no, we demand Temurpedic doggie beds.

As Scarce As Hens Teeth

Who would ever have thought this was possible?  Look, Janet even has photographic evidence!

It's Phil - working in the garden!

Most of the bamboo has gone to seed.

Yup....that's Phil!

I wish I could come out and give a paw.

Please?  I will behave and be helpful!

Yay!  I get to help out.  Janet says we need to break down the large pieces into smaller ones so that Oak Bay will pick up our stuff from the curb later this month.

Janet was under the gun to get Briana's birthday present finished and mailed before her birthday on Sunday.  Turns out Canada Post can deliver almost anything on time if you pay enough.  Janet very carefully tracked her package numerous times; kind of (mostly) hoping it wouldn't arrive on time and Janet could get back her pricey shipping.  No such luck!  It was delivered on time.

It has bikes on it!

A puppy girl enjoys a good Nylabone.

I'm proud to say that our pile curbside is the largest on our street.  This is called "gettin' the job done" when a puppy gives a helping paw.

Janet Needs Some Serious Excitement In Her Life!

Poor Janet!  It's enough to make a puppy dog weep.  Her life is so dull, it's not even funny.  We just don't know how she can stand it.

Puppy girls - oh, yeah!  We know how to live the good life.

Phil decided to go to Whistler to ski for the weekend, so we had a "staycation".  Talk about quiet and relaxing!  Janet made some stuff for Phil to take to Whistler and to Squamish as he was going there on Friday to have dinner with Mr. Baby.  Mr. Baby can now say "Ya Ya" and "Grandpa".

Ricotta stuffed pasta shells with ground beef and Italian sausage, chocolate chip cookies and blueberry muffins.

Noodles helped Janet with the cooking chores.

Smack dab in the area Janet is working in.

While he was gone, Janet took us twice a day to either Willows or Firemans Park.  Noodles has the exact same routine every time we go to Willows.

She heads over to the far wall and walks toward the sidewalk.

And a different  same routine at Firemans.  Soon Firemans Park will be nirvana!  Those little baseball "playing" tykes will be back and some of them don't have a snowballs chance in hell of catching the balls.  Nor do they care enough to look for them.

Rolling on the baseball diamond while I enjoy a good stick.

We got to frolic in the backyard after Janet cut the grass.  Super fun as we haven't been down there for several months.

See what a clever girl I am, holding the bone in my paws.  I'm also as fast as lightening.  Janet left the trash compactor open for about 2 seconds and BAM - I was Johnny On The Spot selecting a chicken wing bone.  Janet didn't think that was so clever and pried my mouth wide open to retrieve the pieces.  Then I got a big lecture about the dangers of bones - a lecture I'm not likely to recall should I have the good fortune of an open compactor again.

This was also not my brightest moment.  I was convinced it was a ball and nearly dislocated Janet's shoulder getting over there.

We enjoy our food so much that the bowls often end up far from the kitchen!

Phil....we want our cookies now!

Janet made yakisoba from some noodles she bought at Costco.