Wow, I just realized after my last post that I haven't even introduced Mopsy or Ella to my viewing public. Well, we got Ella in March because we were having a problem with mice in the back yard. Joey wanted to put posion out, and I said, NO because Honey might eat it. Well, the next obvious choice was to put the cat outside, but I had already had Morocco front paws declawed (yes, animal lovers, I know that is cruel, but it seemed like the best decision at the time). Well, not wanting to send Morocco outside without claws to defend himself, the next obvious choice was to get a new "outdoor" cat. Off I go to Petsmart and adopt the sweetest little black cat with a white patch on her chest. OK, that was in March and it is November. Here is what has happened. Ella, hardly ever goes outside and although she has claws she never uses them. Morocco, who has demonstrated that he not only doesn't need claws to defend himself can also climb the trees, fence, cars, whatever. He has pretty much become our outdoor cat. Ella, on the other hand is the sweetest most mild mannered cat ever. She pretty much hides out and comes to see me a couple of times a day to be petted when things are quiet. Joey says that I will never be allowed again to go buy a pet for utility purposes. Oh yeah, and the mice...well, Honey killed one on my birthday and brought it inside for me.
OK, on to Mopsy. Well, if I had been posting like I should be, you would know that Honey has just become the best dog ever. She is "technically" Bibianna's dog and this summer, Carolyn starting shopping for dogs because she really felt that she needed one too. Well, after checking out several rescues, we found this one sweet little mixed breed (maybe Shih Tzu and Poodle, definately poodle but not sure what else). She had been rescued by the Humane Society and was almost dead. It seems that her owner was very young and just wasn't ready for the responsibility for a puppy. Mopsy had come to the animal shelter very sick and covered in grass burrs. Well, after removing a good portion of her hair and being thouroughly checked out by the vet and put on IV meds/fluids, Mopsy bounced right back. After her surgery to spay her, we brought her home on July 3. Well, she has just been the best thing ever. Honey now has a playmate, and we have a perfect 2 dog, 2 cat family.
Let me tell you a little more about Mopsy. She is now 8 months old, so we are still going through the puppy stage. Her favorite thing is to get branches from outside and bring them in my living room and shread them. Her second favorite thing is to find anything she can...ANYTHING...and take it out into the back yard and shred it. Trash, knick knacks, medicine bottles, pens, pencils, paper, tissue, my small broom, flyswatter, flashlight, etc, etc. I think that Morocco and her have teamed up to accomplish this feat. I think that Morocco knocks things off of tables, desks, shelves to the floor so that Mopsy can then play with it. I am constantly amazed at the items that I find, and subsequently have to clean up from the back yard. And, chewing on stuff isn't her only favorite past time...Oh no....she likes to also chew on cats (which explains why Ella hides out most of the time) and people, furniture, window sills and poor little Honey. Honey used to have this big beautiful pomeranian tail. Well, now it looks like a few wisps of some old wig. But it is so fun to watch those two dogs play together.
Ok, so that's Mopsy and Ella with updates on Morocco and Honey. Carolyn and Bibianna (my other children) are both blowing and going so that I usually don't know whether I am coming or going. Carolyn is on the debate team at school doing LD (Lincoln Douglas debates) and interp. She is doing so well, even though she doesn't think so, and I am so very proud of how hard she is working. She is also in choir, taking voice lessons, ballet lessons and just completed drivers ed. We just need to go get the license. Yes, that scares the heck out of me.
Bibianna started off the school year managing for the volleyball team so that she was traveling almost every weekend for the first 6 weeks of school. She is in choir and Rebel Rage, and got a part as Barrister Munchkin in the Wizard of Oz which will be performed in February, so that means rehearsals every Tuesday night with a Saturday every now and again.
So, that's it, my last 7 months in a nutshell. If anybody is still reading, I will try to update more often than 2 times a year.
Here are some pictures from Christmas Eve (the Gingerbread house that Joey and Bibs built with a little help from Carolyn) and then from Christmas Day (Joey frying the turkey. Dad and Joey building Dad and Sally's new fire pit). The best thing about these pictures is that Bibianna took all of them. She takes great pics. I like this blurry off-center one. Two of the blogs I follow, tangobaby and willowmanor posted "happy accidents" this week which consisted of photos that don't look like photos are supposed to look, but are way cool. So this is a happy accident from Bibianna.
