Classic Texan

Bubsy: We had a week where the chants of “Cooper” erupted and Mavs fans started waving “Flagg’s” again. (No, I didn’t misspell Flagg…you’ll understand as you read on, if you don’t already get it)...In case you missed the BIG news! 

Sissy: We should say the TALL news. Since it’s basketball and basketball players are super tall like giraffes.🦒 

Bubsy: Okay sissy, the tall news of the week. The Mavs got the NUMBER ONE pick in the NBA draft and they attempted to repair the broken hearts of their fan base after the boneheaded trade of Luka during last season by drafting a Duke player this past Wednesday night.

Sissy: And who doesn’t like a Duke player? Duke is known for producing top b-ball talent. 🏀 

Bubsy: Yep, you are right sissy. So the #1 pick in the NBA draft that was selected by our home team is Cooper Flagg! It’s time to start waving some Mavs flags. 🏀

Sissy: Things could get better real fast next season for the Mavs. 

Bubsy: That is the hope. Hold on Mavs fans it might be okay after all. Anyway, speaking of flags waving. We are beginning a celebratory week. Lots going on, mom has a short work week, America celebrates a bday and our daddy is celebrating his bday next Sunday. So of course with only days to go until the 4th, mom went around earlier today putting out our American flags to line our walkway. 

Sissy: We have no shortage of American flags around here. Especially since our daddy always wants a patriotic bday party. 🇺🇸 

Bubsy: As mom finished putting the flags out and even hanging one up in the house on the mantle, dad asked where the Texas flags are and why she wasn’t putting those out too. 😆

Sissy: Mom looked puzzled and reminded dad it’s America’s birthday not Texas’ birthday. 

Bubsy: To which dad responded with a big time “So what! Put the Texas flags out too”…Cue mom’s eye roll. 🙄 

Sissy: Not sure dad saw the eye roll, but I saw it. I think mom copied me…I give good eye rolls and side eye with a perturbed look on my face….like this…😒

Bubsy: And that right there is a CLASSIC comment by a born and raised Texan…only a born and raised Texan like dad and the two of us would think to insist on the Texas flag joining the American flag leading into America’s Independence Day. 🇺🇸😆 So sissy tell the folks, what is the status…have the Texas flags joined the many American flags outside our house for the week? 

Sissy: Nope!!! Because mom is a CLASSIC Zonie!  She is not about to put the Texas flags out on the week of America’s birthday. 

Bubsy: I think mom has won this battle. 😆 Way to go, momma. 👏 Well sissy, we’ve been running a little behind today since our mom has been trying to get ahead of the game with so much going on next weekend. So let’s end this post, go relax and get ourselves rested up for the evening. 

Sissy: Sounds like a plan. Bye everyone!

Bubsy: Just a little side note…we will change up our schedule a bit next week. We will post on Friday and will skip posting next Sunday. Our pic below is a little taste of classic Americana thanks to my bandana. 🇺🇸 Have a fun week! 

What A Trip

Bubsy: Wowsers what a week! I mean….what a week!

Sissy: Wowsers and bowsers!

Bubsy: Where do we begin? The theme of our week was a “trip”.  What a trip it has been. No joke! 😳

Sissy: And not the good kind of trip like a vacation. Nope, a totally different type of trip or trips, shall we say. 😵‍💫😬

Bubsy: It was a crazy week for us. Mom and dad have been noticing a weird spot on our ceiling for a little while now. And now that it’s summer that weird spot got much worse. How much worse?  Mom woke up one morning then soon walked into the kitchen to discover puddles and a very steady drip in the ceiling above. 

Skylar: Skipping ahead a little bit, a large hole had to be cut in the ceiling to get to the leak. Did anyone notice I said LARGE hole?  I’m not talking about something the size of a donut hole….nope. It’s a large hole Winnie The Pooh could fit thru. 

Bubsy: This is one time sissy is not exaggerating. It’s a very large hole in the ceiling. Worst part is after workers have done multiple visits to our house…the leak, the hole, the overall mess is still not fixed.

Sissy: We have been moved out of the kitchen. Our food is now served to us in the dining room instead of the kitchen. It’s too much of a mess for us to be in there. 

Bubsy: Let me describe the scene, there’s plastic tarps hanging around, there’s two industrial size fans drying the ceiling. There’s two ladders and two large buckets to catch the water. Plus there’s a lovely hose that is going across the floor, across the counters and wrapped around the faucet to drain into the sink. I cannot begin to emphasize the MESS our kitchen is.  I also can’t begin to tally the number of times mom and dad have tripped over the fan cords and water hoses. It looks like half the kitchen had a demolition crew start to demolish it.

Sissy: On day one of this mess mom arrived home to quite the scene and noise from the huge fans in the kitchen left here by a crew that are still in the process of trying to fix the situation. Then later when mom was trying to make dinner she tripped the breaker and we lost power. She didn’t even think about the industrial fans sucking up all the power and overloading the system. 🔌 

Bubsy: Then dad had no idea how to fix the problem and trip the breakers back. 🙈 

Sissy: Gotta send a WOMAN to do a MAN’S job. 💪…which is exactly what happened. Mom went out to the fuse box armed with a flashlight….and next thing we knew, our lights in the house were restored. Thankfully, we didn’t have to eat our dinner by candlelight or flashlight. 

Bubsy: Dad wasn’t too happy for most of the evening, after getting showed up by his wifey. 

Sissy: And once again I say….sometimes you gotta send a WOMAN to do a MAN’S job. Girl power! 

Bubsy: Needless to say…both of us have our paws crossed that the leak is fixed and the kitchen is put back together this week. And then we can enter the kitchen again, instead of waiting for everything to be brought into the dining room for us.

Sissy: Mom and dad have been texting or calling each other’s phone when they move around the house. Because if they are not in the same room they can’t hear each other at all because the industrial fans are way too LOUD. 

Bubsy: Mom and dad have given new meaning to the saying…Can you hear me now?😆📱…Everything in our house is extremely loud right now. No luck finding a quiet place. The cat has had an extremely hard time this week. She likes her peace and quiet. And that is not available for the time being. 

Sissy: Nope, can’t even hear the voices in my little head. 😵‍💫 

Bubsy: And our poor mom can’t seem to get away from construction matters. At her school there are construction crews working on a few projects while summer camp runs. They are trying to get done before the new school year starts. It’s a tight schedule. We shall see if it’s all complete by the start of school. 

Sissy: We shall see first if the construction in our own house gets completed before I lose my ever loving mind. I did not authorize all these workers going in and out of MY house almost everyday this past week. 

Bubsy: Well sissy maybe we should end this blog post and rest up for next week. Chances are it’s going to provide us with some new twists and turns until things are fixed. We wish you all a great week. Our pic below has sissy reverting back to her old ways of giving the camera plenty of side-eye. When we were on Instagram everyone commented how my little sis is a side-eye queen. 😆

Happy Dad’s Day!

Bubsy: Well hello there, fancy meeting you here today on this blog, my sissy. 

Sissy: You should feel honored. 

Bubsy: Actually the one that is supposed to feel honored today is our dog dad. Happy dog dad day! Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. Mom’s school did a special event on Friday called “Donuts with Dads”. Mom brought home leftover donuts for our dad. 🍩 

Sissy: Perfect….means we don’t have to get our dad donuts today. 😉🍩 You know dad scored big this week. 🍩🍪

Bubsy: Yes, he did. Our mom got a gift of cookies from one of her student’s parents…and since mom never eats cookies….dad got a box of cookies. 🍪 

Sissy: With mom bringing home cookies and donuts for dad we should have gotten him a cow for Father’s Day. An on tap milk supply. 🐄🥛

Bubsy: Oh sissy, you are too much sometimes. 😆 

Sissy: But no, instead we got dad some lame gifts.

Bubsy: They aren’t lame gifts. We did good sissy. Wait…I did good…when did you chip in? 

Sissy: Oh yeah, l forgot to chip in on the gift.

Bubsy: Story of her life so far, folks. Story of her life. Speaking of stories. Mom and dad watched a new version of freaky Friday for Friday the 13th. The new version of the movie is about a husband and wife that switch places. Mom could handle doing dad’s “job”….which is sitting at home with us. 🐶🐶

Sissy:  But can you imagine dad doing mom’s job…being a lead teacher? Mercy! 😆😆

Bubsy: He’d walk off the job within the first 10 minutes telling the kids to teach themselves. 🤣

Sissy: You are right about that.

Bubsy: So sissy, let’s sign off for the day, so we can go fishing with dad. Just kidding, we aren’t really going fishing we just got dressed in something outdoorsy since it’s Father’s Day. Notice our bandanas in our pic below. And we have a co-star in a bonus pic…our daddy!🎣 

Sissy: I was forced to match with you in the gone fishing bandana. Forced against my will! But I dealt with it like the good natured girl I am.

Bubsy: She’s full of it! She is challenged at being “good natured”. Mom needs to video her 

struggles with you every Sunday morning. That’s a laugh a minute. 

Sissy: I keep mom on her toes and give her a run for her money. I think deep down she appreciates my attitude. 😉

Bubsy: Well let’s wrap this up and return to our Father’s Day fun with our dog dad. Have a great Sunday funday and good week! 🤗 

Fixed

Bubsy:  It has finally occurred it’s bittersweet for us since she’s not home as much but….MOM IS BACK TO WORK! 

Sissy: Hooray! Yay, momma! 🎉 

Bubsy: I’m not sure mom thought it would ever happen? And mom was also very confused as to whether or not she wanted to return to her current school. But so far so good. The school and especially the parents were HAPPY for her return. We shall see what transpires, but judging by week one of her return she seems content to stay there for the foreseeable future.

Sissy: Maybe what she thought God was telling her was just that she needed to get some things worked out…fix her body, her mindset and get some other things fixed too before going back to work at that school.

Bubsy: Well let’s both just hope things keep going well for mom at work. I am sure there will be tough days ahead but hopefully fewer tough/chaotic days and much more good days.

Sissy: Best news is….mom will get half a paycheck this coming Friday. Which means my allowance should be deposited into my little piggy bank. 🐷 

Bubsy: Oh yes, I’m sure giving you an allowance is top on mom’s priority list when she gets paid this week. 🙄

Sissy: It better be! 😉

Bubsy: It was kind of a weird week for us overall. We had to get used to mom going back to work but then we had a few people coming thru our house to deal with issues. The A/C guy two different days and a plumber the next day. And this week the ceiling will get fixed. Mercy! Things are falling apart.😳

Sissy: It was nuts! How dare these repair people descend on my territory. The audacity! 

Bubsy: Mom and dad are just super glad to have things mostly fixed. There’s been a lot of fixing going on in our world in recent months. The fence fell down and got fixed. The trees were taken out so that issue was fixed. The A/C was fixed. The two leaks in our house were fixed. The ceiling is up next to be fixed and mom’s stomach issue was fixed. 

Sissy: Better watch out…next up could be you to be fixed! Bye, bye to your little peanuts…🥜😆

Bubsy: No way! My little peanuts are going no where, thank you very much! 

Sissy: 😆😆…don’t worry you wouldn’t feel a thing. But you would come home drugged up and confused! 😵‍💫 

Bubsy: Enough of that, sissy. Let’s end this and go enjoy the afternoon with mom and dad watching some playoff action. Note to people out there…try not to get hungry for a second breakfast when you look at our weekly pic below. I’m serving up brunch hot and fresh with my bacon and eggs brekkie bandana. 🍳🥓🤣

Sissy: Ooh, I like the word brekkie!

Bubsy: I have all the cool lingo, sissy. Stick with me and I’ll take you places. I’m so worldly…brekkie is breakfast in England and Australia. 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 …oh and there’s a bonus pic of the flowers mom got from her work when she returned…it’s a floral arrangement in the shape of a dog with sunglasses. Mom’s work must know all about my sunnies wearing obsession. 😆😎

The Craziness

Bubsy: Oh My Doggy-ness! What an unbelievable week. Our big tree came down, mom had two job interviews, sissy got irate, the Dallas Stars went down and out. I tell ya, I almost couldn’t keep up with the craziness. Sissy let’s start with your irate moments. So we went to the vet on Thursday and sissy became crazed. More crazed than usual. 😳 

Sissy: Seriously, why are you surprised? I’m not a fan of going to the vet. Every time I do they try to murder me. 

Bubsy: They don’t try to murder you.

Sissy: I beg to differ! First, they dognapped me. Took me from mom then took me to the back area and stabbed me multiple times. I’m lucky to still be alive to tell this story right now.

Bubsy: She’s so dramatic. I promise she wasn’t truly harmed she just had her annual visit. However, the vet techs usually take sissy to the back area away from distractions because she has a history of becoming irate. But this time she fought the vet techs so hard she had to be muzzled and they had to get mom to calm her down. 

Sissy: Best sight I’d seen all day, actually all year was my MOMMA after being nearly murdered by the vet techs. Give me back to my momma and then I’ll consider calming down. 

Bubsy: Sissy has always been sassy…since day one. And she’s always disgruntled at the vet office and very mouthy. But this time around she became a crazed Cujo type. 

Sissy: All I wanted was my momma! Everyone needed to get back, get away, and let me have my momma. 

Bubsy: The remainder of sissy’s appointment was completed with mom holding her. 

Sissy: Just as myself and God intended…thank you very much! 

Bubsy: Well, I just have to laugh, sissy. Because you and I are so opposite in this area. Our vet visits are very different. Everyone makes over me and can hardly wait to greet me, as they call me “loverboy”. I have quite the reputation with the ladies at the vet office. 😉 Sissy, on the other hand has the exact opposite reputation. Her reputation is one where no one wants to be put in charge of the tiny crazed lunatic. 

Sissy: And if you think I’m not okay with my crazed lunatic reputation at the vet…well you’d be wrong! I’m perfectly fine with it. Anything I can do to keep those murderers away from me I’m willing to do. 

Bubsy: Moving on, life is about to change for us just a bit. Mom returns to the grind tomorrow. During her time off she has continued to get us up at the same time everyday. So things will change minimally for us. Most obvious change will be mom leaving instead of hanging out with us all day.

Sissy: Ah shucks, this will be a change. But we’ll just be extra excited when she gets home from work. A whole day’s worth of excitement will build up for us.

Bubsy: Well sissy, let’s end this for today and go spend time with mom before Monday rolls around. Below is our pic of the week, taken where our tree used to be. Our biggest tree in our backyard basically split in two during a vicious storm. Our parents then decided they needed to have it removed. So here lies the remainder of the cut down tree. Perhaps it’s going to become my new photoshoot area. 📸 😆