Look Up

Bubsy: Somebody is knocking….it’s September! We are almost there! It’s Labor Day weekend. And believe me, we are doing our best to not do any labor this weekend…and always. 😉 Best part is…college football is back! Mom and dad watched a healthy dose of football games all day yesterday. 

Sissy: Mercy me, let’s not talk about that Texas game. I think it went as well as I anticipate this coming Thursday going for the Cowboys. Actually, I expect Cowboys to do even worse.

Bubsy: Speaking of the Cowboys…Boy, did they capture the headlines here in Big D after trading a star player to the Packers.

Sissy: I say, have fun freezing your tail off in Green Bay! If you don’t want to be here then we don’t want ya here! Peace out! 

Bubsy: Yep, Cowboys made a stunning trade with the Packers after a star player refused to sign his contract for the new season. Would you ever refuse to sign a big contract, sissy?

Sissy: Nope, I’ll take whatever money I can get. Which reminds me to check the couch for loose change later today. 

Bubsy: Have you ever found loose change in our couch before? 

Sissy: No, but there’s a first time for everything. 

Bubsy: I know all about looking for things this weekend. I kept looking for you.

Sissy: Blame mom! 😆 

Bubsy: Here’s the story, mom leashed just sissy up to take her out in front of our house to potty since our backyard is a designated disaster sight with no fence and a downed tree. So Sissy and mom went outside, I watched from the window. Then I saw they were coming back in so I moved to the front door to greet them. Unbeknownst to me, mom had picked sissy up to carry her back inside. When mom opened the door to come inside, I immediately looked to the side of mom expecting to see sissy….but no, sissy. I quickly looked behind mom….no sissy! I ran a quick circle around mom…still didn’t find sissy. Then I felt it necessary in a panicked state to run to dad to tell him it appeared mom left sissy outside. After alerting dad to this situation, I turned to run back towards the front door there you stood on the couch staring at me. Silly me was only looking for sissy on my low level…I never looked up to see sissy in mom’s arms being carried. 🆙

Sissy: I can’t believe you never looked up. Just kept looking low to the ground. You should know, my feet are way too precious for all the mess that is in our area after all the storms we’ve been thru. 

Bubsy: Yes, silly me. I should’ve known, you always insist on being carried. 

Skylar: I got mom well trained! Dad on the other hand, is not as well trained. 

Bubsy: Our week featured some additional funny moments too. Mom was dressed as a pig for a certain spirit day at her school, mom gave the cat a bald spot, and mom got stuck in her nightgown. 

Sissy: I’m telling you….mom is a trip! She always says I’m a trip. But mom was a trip this past week. I’m still wondering how mom got the cat to stay still long enough for the big bald spot to happen? The way the cat looks is exactly why I don’t let mom come near my goddess-like locks. 

Bubsy: Sissy, let’s wrap this up and get on with our long weekend. Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the long weekend! Eat some BBQ, go to a pool party, or kick back and watch football. See ya next week! 🐾 

Insane Sight

Bubsy: Welcome to Sunday! Whew, it was an insane week for us. So glad you made it thru the week. We had some frightening moments for sure…especially you and mom! 😱 

Sissy: You have no idea! 😳 

Bubsy: I do actually know all about your week. I lived it, right along side of you.

Sissy: The week started off great. Last Monday we got our ceiling fixed FINALLY! A couple months ago there was a leak in the attic that busted thru the ceiling and started leaking into the middle of our kitchen. That issue was finally and completely resolved. Moving on to Tuesday…things seemed normal all day.

Bubsy: Then out of nowhere shortly before our bedtime mom posed the question randomly…”is that thunder?” Deciding she was indeed hearing thunder, mom quickly took us outside for the last time of the evening. There was a bit of wind, a little lightening and thunder in the distance. I did my business as mom instructed me to. But someone else didn’t do anything. So mom hurried us back inside, then decided to QUICKLY leash up sissy to take her up the street to do her business. Sissy, you take over telling the story…

Sissy: As we walked outside the largest drops of rain started falling. The wind started fiercely swirling as we walked down the street debris was flying around and momma started to steer clear of trees. Next thing I know, momma scooped me up in her arms and started holding her hand over my eyes to protect me. Then momma turned around and we headed back to the house. Literally in a matter of just a few minutes the weather conditions became extremely dangerous. About 20 seconds after we walked inside our house a big boom was heard for miles. We all headed for the safe spot in our house and prayed for the storm to pass or lessen up. We heard many more booms and pops and unknown noises. Next the ultimate boom occurred from a bolt of lightning hitting, then out went the power. 🔌 

Bubsy: After the storm passed. Mom and dad went outside with flashlights to survey any damage. Flower pots were completely destroyed and scattered over our yard. And once again….our fence was down. Yep, down went the fence. Our last tree in our backyard broke and crashed thru the fence. Actually, our entire street lost their fences. One by one those hurricane winds took out the fences. It is an insane sight to see no yard with a fence right now. Lots of homes have roof damage and storm drains were ripped off roofs and littered front yards and the streets. So much rain fell at one time lakes and rivers started to overflow and fish were swimming down the roadways. The smell from the overflowing lake water was horrendous. Had to hold your nose until Thursday. The stench was gone by Thursday. But the clean up from the hurricane winds is still ongoing. 

Sissy: I was kind of traumatized to go outside until Friday. I was quite the challenge to mom with my bathroom habits until Friday morning. But mom was very patient with me in the days after the storm. She knew I was traumatized. 

Bubsy: Lets briefly review….we finally got our ceiling fixed once and for all on Monday. Then Tuesday night our fence was taken out by a tree that fell thanks to hurricane winds. Mercy me, one step forward for our parents and two steps backward. 😒 

Sissy: Yep, back to square one. Back to getting bids and waiting for a fencing company to be able to fix the fence.

Bubsy: You are so right, sissy. Anyway, moving on to other things. The Cowboys wrapped up their preseason on Friday night. They skillfully won zero games during preseason. No surprise there. 

Sissy: I think I’ll be watching most Cowboys games with a blindfold or like this…🫣

Bubsy: Same goes for me. But before football officially starts it’s all about the last grand slam of the tennis season in our house. The U.S. Open started earlier today. 🎾 

Sissy: I suppose we should get used to dad not moving from the couch for two weeks. 🙄

Bubsy: Well let’s end this and go for a walk then relax with our parents. 

Sissy: Sounds like a plan! A good plan! Everyone out there, enjoy your week. And if the winds start swirling just stay inside, let your dog pee on the floor…you and your pupper will at least stay alive. 

Peace Loving

Bubsy: Ring the bell….schools are about to be back in session. We thought we’d start the school year a day early, we are dressed in our best and ready to catch the bus. Let’s get these kids and teachers back in session. 

Sissy: This is all music to my ears. These kids in our neighborhood thinking they have the right to ride around on their skateboards or play basketball in their driveways is beyond me. I’m tired of barking at them for these infractions. Get back to school! 🏫🔔 

Bubsy: Oh Sissy, you are a trip! As we type this post our parents just got home from attending a special church service at the church school our mom works at. First time for dad to be willing to go to a church service there. 👍

Sissy: He kind of had to go this time around….since mom was being recognized as a lead teacher at their school academy. 

Bubsy: Good point sissy! Moving on, what else is going on in our tiny world?

Sissy: This was the week you nearly lost your mind.

Bubsy: That is so true. How could I forget such ongoing chaos. So here’s the story…

Sissy: Grab some popcorn…it’s a long one. 🍿 

Bubsy: Gather round for part one of our woodpile chronicles. A bunch of wood neatly chopped and piled up sits on the side of our house. Now, I am a peace loving guy that is extremely comfortable with sharing my backyard with blue jays, cardinals, and even squirrels. I don’t typically even hinder the geckos that occupy our porch. And during the rainy Fall season I’m not even troubled by the frogs that hop in our yard. That all being said….a peace loving guy has his breaking point at some point. One day this past week I realized there was a new inhabitant to the woodpile. Although I’m a peace loving little guy, I’m also not into allowing some animal to have squatters rights in MY backyard. 

Sissy: So what did you do about it?

Bubsy: Well all day I was completely fixated on the woodpile. Dad didn’t think much of it. But then mom came home for the day. She instantly noticed my obsession for wood had grown exponentially while she was at work. Every time I went outside I only hung out by the woodpile. Mom immediately questioned things? Her brilliant idea was to wait until it got dark then shine a flashlight to see what’s living in the woodpile. 

Sissy: Just a brief side note….I was totally unconcerned about this woodpile and its inhabitant. I’m rather self-centered like that. 😉

Bubsy: Anyway, back to my story. Darkness arrived and mom, armed and not so dangerous with a flashlight set out to explore what is living in the woodpile and driving me bonkers. 😵‍💫 After a few looks at different angles between the logs mom saw a tail. A long tail! Hmm, what has such a long tail like she saw? Next up, Dad came outside to explore too. That’s when all my fears were realized…As I’ve stated before I’m a peace loving guy and I share my backyard very well with blue jays, cardinals, random birds, and squirrels. However, I do not share well with possums. O’possum, oh no!

Sissy: Yep, his worst nightmare is the real deal! 

Bubsy: Can you believe it? There’s one maybe even two living in our woodpile. 😒 Now I’m not sure why I can’t find peace with possums? But they just seem to annoy me to no end. 

Sissy: Now the question is how long will the possum live there?

Bubsy: Don’t even get me started. This possum is going to be like an annoying squatter that you can’t get rid of. And now that our parents know it’s “just a possum” they aren’t as concerned. 😦 

Sissy: Well should we wrap this up and get back to our day? You probably need to get some extra rest so you can be on possum patrol later. 😆 Plus we have to help mom make paper airplanes. Her school is doing a special event with paper airplanes for National Aviation Day on Tuesday. And after all the Dallas area is home to both the headquarters of American Airlines and Southwest Airlines. ✈️  So celebrating aviation day is a must. 

Bubsy: You are so right. Time to end this for today. We must end with this…our mom who is a teacher of tiny humans along with the rest of the state of Texas start the school year tomorrow. We wish all the little and not to so little kiddos a great school year. To their teachers, we hope they enjoy their students and come away from this new school year feeling like they made an impact on numerous students. ✏️🚌📓🖍️🎨🎻🏈🍎 Happy First Day of School!….don’t forget an apple for your teacher. 🍎 Below you will find our individual first day of school pics. We are ready to catch the bus! 🚌 

Dog Days

Bubsy: Ching-Ching-Ching, do you hear that cash register ring?

Sissy: Oh yes I do! 🤑 

Bubsy: It’s tax free weekend here in Texas. Taxes got turned off 6:00 pm on Friday and no taxes will be charged until the stroke of midnight tonight. The store lines are long, traffic is awful, and the malls are as crowded as they were back in the 90s….according to my momma. 😉 

Sissy: The 90s? Say what? That’s ages ago…I can’t comprehend the 90s or comprehend what a mall is. I know Petsmart and Petco, that’s all I believe I need to know. 

Bubsy: That’s right sissy, you are doing fine just knowing the places for us puppers. Let’s think…what else is going on in our world? The Cowboys started their preseason last night.

Sissy: Oh geez, same old story. And if Parsons doesn’t sign his contract and get back to the team there might be rioting in the streets. 

Bubsy: Sissy, you are so dramatic. But I agree we need Parsons to sign on the dotted line or else the fan base will get very upset.😡  So are you excited for football season?

Sissy: Not particularly. Means I see these funny dressed large men with helmets on their heads coming at me on TV. I don’t need anything jumping out of the TV to get me.😬  Plus, I’ve been enjoying the quietness of our household without football. 

Bubsy: The quietness? I seem to recall just last night you barking and growling at the cat. You are the loudest one in our household. 

Sissy: I’m keeping order in the house. But when mom and dad cheer and boo at football it’s unnecessary noise. 

Bubsy: Whatever, sissy. Anyway, with tax free weekend here…you know what that means….back to school time is in full swing. 

Sissy: The countdown is on. Momma better hurry up and get her classroom in order.

Bubsy: Momma will be ready. But for now let’s enjoy this sunny summer Sunday. It’s another hot one. We survived last week’s heatwave and this week should feature slightly lower temps. The mornings are already cooler so summer is definitely winding down. Well my little sissy, let’s wrap this up and leave you all with a dog day of summer pic…tropical vibes for our pic today. 🌴

Sissy: I’m feeling those tropical vibes. Someone pour me a drink.🍹Have a good week, everyone!

Squeaky Clean 🧼

Bubsy: Well hello there, welcome to our Sunday post.

Sissy: Everyone out there should know one of us comes to this post clean and one of comes dirty today. 😆

Bubsy: One of us is squeaky clean. 🧼…For it is I that has arrived to this blog post ridiculously squeaky clean. 

Sissy: Every time I looked around you were being put in the sink for another bath this week. I think 4 baths later…but I may have lost count. 

Bubsy: So here’s the first story…there I was standing in the kitchen while daddy fixed his potato…next thing I know I hear a plop. Then I felt something cold. Next I heard mom exclaiming, “what’s on Bub’s head?”

Sissy: Then dad was trying to get the sour cream off your head. But he made it worse. 

Bubsy: Next thing I know, I’m in the sink getting my head doused. After that debacle….skip ahead to Thursday….dad was making football munchies to watch with the Hall Of Fame game. Next thing I know, I smell something weird. It didn’t smell good but it didn’t smell bad either. I kept trying to get my head to cooperate so I could reach what I was smelling to see if it was worth licking. 

Sissy: And I kept wanting you to stop moving so I could check out the new smell on you to see if I wanted to eat it. 

Bubsy: Once again, the next thing I know….mom is questioning dad….”did you drop something on Bub’s head again?” Then dad looked down and realized cheese dip was dripping off the spoon he was holding out to the side and on to my head.

Sissy: Then once again…dad tried to wipe it off but made things soooo….sooo much worse. 

Bubsy: It’s like he smeared the cheese dip into my scalp. 🥴

Sissy: You were literally a “cheesehead”. You were suddenly like a Packer’s cheesehead fan. 🧀🤣

Bubsy: All I have to say is, it ain’t easy being cheesy. Because I swiftly found myself being lifted into the sink by momma to have yet another bath. I was good and clean. But then went outside a little later and got majorly muddy from running around. While mom was giving me my second bath on Thursday night I got distracted and went running to play while being soaking wet. Needless to say…I needed a third bath. Boys will be boys! 😉

Sissy: Thankfully yours truly has not needed a million baths this week. Nothing has dropped on me because I don’t trust the humans and I stay far away while they are making food. And I don’t go off the porch so I never get muddy in the backyard either. 😇 

Bubsy: So this is a big week around here. As our mom is preparing things for her student transitions and getting ready for her school’s Open House. 

Sissy: The smell of paint is going to make me high. Mom is painting items for her classroom for  her students visiting on Open House night. 

Bubsy: It might be a long tedious week for us. But first let’s acknowledge National Chocolate Chip Cookie day…which is actually tomorrow on Monday. But we’re a day early since we blog only on Sundays. 🍪 

Sissy: Our pic this week is so confusing. Why are we wearing ice cream cones to celebrate chocolate chip cookie day? 🍦🍪

Bubsy: As surprising as it is, we have no cookie bandanas. But we have these ice cream cone bandanas that has one cone with chocolate chips on it. So mom put us in these for today’s pic.

Sissy: So with this type of reasoning, check in with us on national hamburger day…we’ll probably be wearing hot dogs. 🌭🙄

Bubsy: Oh sissy! Let’s wrap this up and go enjoy our Sunday afternoon. I have a full time job this afternoon of steering clear of getting any paint on me. I do not want to be turned orange or gold or whatever color mom is working with for her Open House decorations. 

Sissy: Have a good week everyone! Enjoy an extra chocolate chip cookie for me. 🍪 We also included a bonus video this week as one of us couldn’t wait to be done with the photo shoot so he could play with the cookie toys. 🍪