Nature Friday, Mortie has a Waddle and Other Non-News

Published on by Xena, Lucy and Chia

Xena: Not too much happening around here. Mommy and Daddy have been super busy doing things NOT with us and it’s been a bit boring.

Lucy: We still get our after-lunch walks every day except on Tuesdays and Thursdays when they are both gone to work so that they can afford to feed us “better than they eat”. That’s what they say. And we still get our after supper walks except for the one day last week that it was so late that the sun was going down. Oh, and the one day last weekend that we ate supper early and then they left. OK, I guess it really has been a boring week or two.

We did find out something interesting, though. Mortie has a waddle, BOL. You can see it in this picture. Aunty Jen told us that this kind of pig is originally from New Zealand where there are lots of poisonous snakes. (Our friends from http://www.jaspersdoggyworld just let us know there are no poisonous – or other -snakes in New Zealand.)The snakes bite the waddle and the poison doesn’t spread.  So now we don’t know where Mortie is from or what the waddle is for!

Xena: It’s been 87 days since I went to Freestyle class. My Big Girl time is finally over and I want to go dancing. Sometimes I sit on Mommy’s lap and watch what the other dogs are doing in their dance routines. If I like it, I try out the moves when we get home. That way, Mommy thinks I’m good at making up new dance steps. She laughs and tells me what a clever girl I am.Our next set of classes begins this weekend, but I. Can’t. Go. My folks are going far, far away to Indiana to celebrate Daddy’s aunt’s 95th birthday and our sitter, Miss Christy, is staying with us. I think she should take me to Freestyle, and I could show her what to do.

We’re joining Rosy and the Gang for Nature Friday.

We got something called a Yard Flag. It looks a lot like me when I was a puppy. It makes Mommy smile every time she sees it.

Lucy: What doesn’t make Mom smile is our not-a-year-old azalea bush. She took a picture of it to the garden center where she got it and asked if it should look like this.

They said that’s what it’s supposed to do, and will bloom again in the summer and in the fall. And they gave her a one-half refund on the “organic” fertilizer she bought in March to use with the fescue grass seed in the dog lot. She found out the tiny little pebbles are made out of people poop. Ewwww! Xena and I ate a little tiny bit of it before we heard, “No!” We both had the squirts and puked on and off for three weeks. We weren’t allowed back out there for 87 days. So she figured half her money back was better than none, since she would have just thrown it away.

Xena: We’ve been watching this grow in front of the house. I heard that a boy named Jack might be coming to visit and we might get a golden egg or even a harp. Mommy wants to know if anyone has a guess what this plant is. I still think it is a magic beanstalk.

Do you remember Mommy’s hostages that she planted after the Hated Bush got gone? This time, it really wasn’t me who chewed something up. Mommy mixed up some essential oils and stuff and sprayed everything. It did seem to kill the tiny red and black bugs crawling all over the giant beanstalk.

That’s all on our news around home. Love and wiggles, Lucy and Xena Schnauzer Warrior Princess

 

32 thoughts on “Nature Friday, Mortie has a Waddle and Other Non-News”

  11. We both LOVE Freestyle! Mom said just another week or 2 and we’ll be doin it, doin it, doin it!! I’m the meantime we are having fun playing with it. Xox Xena

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  13. Ah – I can’t wait for you to get back to freestyle. I love seeing you and your mom in action. I’m so glad that your big girl time is over so you can get back to it!!! Soon, Xena, soon!

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  16. Sounds like a lot is going on around you. Way to keep a watch on things for your mom and dad when they aren’t there. Keep up the good work! ~ Bessie Pup

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  17. That is funny abouts Mortie’s waddle! I thought it was gonna be abouts his walk! BOL!!
    I thinks you are super smart abouts watchin’ and stealin’ other puppers moves! genius! plus, I thinks you’ll do them betters.
    Kisses,
    Ruby ♥

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  18. It has been kinda boring here this week also. All it does is rain so I did not get to go to agility practice.
    hugs
    Mabel

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  21. Mew mew mew Xena mee thinks you meen a wattle? Mew mew mew….yore like mee; sum of THE werdss are so simmylar aren’t they???
    Sir Mortimer iss cute issn’t hee?
    An mee hopess you getss a chance to go free stylin soon Xena; mee knowss how much you love to dance!
    An Lucy sumtimess borin an quiet iss lovelee…peecefull an so zenny!
    ***purrsss*** BellaDharma

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  23. Hi Granny! Hi Miss Toni! We think the picture of Mortie is just close up so he looks bigger. We’ll tell Mommy about the plant. Xox Xena and Lucy

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  25. I was born and raised in Savannah GA, which is azalea country. they are gorgeous, but they only bloom for a very short time. lots of blooms and gone… that pig is soooooo cute even with a waddle and I be the will waddle when he walks soon. glad you are learning to dance, sorry THEY are leaving you with the sitter..

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  28. Morning girls It sounds like you’ve got a case of the long hot days of summer already. Your know I’m old and can’t see as well as I once could but it looks like cousin Mortie is twice the size he was in his first picture. Tell Mom I think the plant with the single spike coming up is in the Agave or Yucca family, which is sometimes referred to as a century plant( but they are usually larger). Now I’m getting confused…..
    Have a good day

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  30. Wow, we were misinformed. Thank you so much for setting the record straight. We’ve (sorta) corrected that in the post and gave you credit. We appreciate it, and will have to dig up the truth. (Good article, too.)

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  32. that was interesting to read about that waddle… thanks for sharing !!! we would like to go to dancing with you, but we have to do some dance lessons before because we step on da blue suede shoes of each other da whole time lol

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