Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and newest HoPper lovers! Chloe is a very tiny, skinny girl but the sweetest little bug, ever! I posted her story as a note on House of Puddle’s Facebook page, which I believe you should be able to access even if you don’t have a Facebook account

http://www.facebook.com/notes/house-of-puddles/our-next-hopper-chloe-a-very-sad-story/453923730158

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Pretty Pink Patty Lovers! Well, I know a lot of residents are one of those! For those of you that might not know what a Pretty Pink Patty is, it is Emma’s belly when it is in near pristine condition. Kind of like this!

Well, every morning when Julian wakes up we lounge in the dog bed and talk about our dreams. Emma always goes Patty up and Chaps nibbles on the pillows. It is a magical time. So, this morning I was calling Emma, Shimlette. Which turned into Shimlette Gimlet. We laughed and I told Julian that a Gimlet is a drink. He suggested that we name a drink after her. The Shimlette Gimlet! Well, I told him that we needed a drink that did not have an alcohol meaning and he suggested the PINK PATTY! So the Shimlette Gimlet has Vodka and the Pretty Pink Patty is without the hard stuff. Keep in mind all of this took place in the dog bed at 7:00am!

This is what I love about us. When we get an idea, we follow through. We designed the drink, discussed the recipe, and made it happen!

First off, you must get in your car and go to the Hawaiian Shaved Ice Stand.

You rush home with 2 large shaved ices. We made sure Emma was supervising! After all, it is named after her Pretty Pink Patty!

Then you do the set up! This is Julian rimming the frosted mugs in lemon. Then he squeezed the lemon into the bottom of the mug.

Now we add the Raspberry Lemonade….Notice howl the color matches the original Pretty Pink Patty!

Then you add the Pomegranate Juice.
The parts are about 3 parts Raspberry Lemonade to 1 part Pom Juice.

OMD! This concoction is as sweet as the PATTY!

We toasted our new drink!

Grandma loved it!

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh,,,,,I love early morning conversations and making dreams come true while in the dog bed! Emma is so inspirational!

We miss you Julian…….

More loving our boy and Pretty Pink Patties later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Fisherman’s Warf Lovers! Ah, who does not see the resemblance between seals and basset hounds? Look, seals even go belly up!

This is a major couch region in the San Francisco Pier 39 area of Fisherman’s wharf.

This is the couch region in the bassethoundtown.com wharf area!

Look howl our Emma smiles as she dreams of fish sticks and clam chowder! She can have any food she wants in her dreams!

More viewing the seal pups later…Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Staycation Lovers! Who does not love a good Staycation? We had a lot of fun today. Julian is still over and we had planned to go to Coney Island amusement park today. Howl ever, the heat index was supposed to top 110 and we decided to change our plans and not suffer from dehydration. We opted for a film and ice cream instead. We went to one of our traditional favorites, the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal. We were blessed to see the OmniMax Film. Mysteries of the Great Lakes….

It was so cool in so many meanings of the word!

Oh, if you have an OmniMax Theater you must see this. I was weeping like a baby. I am kind of a weeper in movies anyway, but this one will uplift you beyond belief!

Then, we cooled off further with a rainbow sherbet cone! OH MY DOG, it was so good it gave me a brain freeze! No 110 heat index for us!

Then we did the museum and had fun, but no trip is fun without the GIFT SHOP! LOL!

So, we meandered through the high priced items and I asked Julian, “Why are there never any basset hounds carved out of the sparkly gold stone?” I love me some gold stone! Here is Julian standing next to the case of various animals carved out of various stones.

Kind of miffed I opened the drawer beneath the display….

What? I felt faint!

Could it be? YES! A basset houndish goldstone gem! I know, it might be questionable, but I grabbed it like it was a chunk of gold in a mining pan! It is about the size of half of your thumb.

The front view is a bit odd, but I can totally see it! I saw it so much Grandma bought it for me! hehehe

She also bought Julian a piece of AZ sandstone! Gotta love Grandmas! (no picture but it is totally pawsome)!

I also love cool days in the museum!

More Great Lakes, Goldstone Basset Houndish item and AZ sandstone later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Hollow Fellow Basset Hound and 7th Grade Lovers! Well, we are sure one of those in BHT! Yesterday Grandma and I had a welcome to 7th grade party for our boy Julian! First off we took him to his check in day. We filtered through a series of events like, school picture!

The we did eye examination, pick up school atheletic wear, booster table, school supplies, and English reading novels. One was the Princess Bride!

Then we went to his locker and stocked it up!

I was checking out the other kids near him. I saw a cute girl! I remember, I was in 7th grade once, 100 years ago!

Then it was home for a pizza party! After we ate Emma actually crawled into Julian’s lap for a fantastic movie!

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY!

She hitchhiked through 2 hours of dreams and never moved….

More hitchhiking through the 7th grade later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and can’t stand the heat lovers….

OMD, it has been insanely hot in basset hound town. The heat indexes are roaring into the 100s and the hounds are as sluggish as the humans. We are so over summer. The Mayor is so funny, he comes in from the outside….

and heads right for the bathroom to lay on the cool tile floor right next to the AC vent. It is so funny. The vent is right next to his right side. He goes right side, half belly up. I love AC!

Our Mayor is so smart, and cool, in more than one sense of the word!

More loving cool tile floors later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and a sweet, darling little girl named Paige Alessandro lovers….Well, we are sure one of those in Basset Hound Town. Paige’s Grandma, Judy is a resident of basset hound town and a dear friend of mine. Recently, the unimaginable happened. Little, sweet, dear, darling Paige was taken from her family way too young. I asked Judy to write a little something for all of us to know this special little girl a bit better. Her memory will be cherished forever…

Grandma Judy states,

“Hi – here are some pictures I picked out that you might want to use.

1. Paige with her ribbon for horseback riding

2. Paige after her dance recital

3. Haley, Gracie and Paige in the Outer Banks on our family vacation

4. Kennedy, Karli, Davis, Morgan, Paige, Gracie and Haley on the beach in the Outer Banks – our last vacation where we were all together

5. Memorial garden in my front yard in memory of our angel Paige

As some of the bassethoundtown resident already know our family suffered a tremendous loss this Spring. One of our grandaughters 6 year old Paige passed away rather suddenly on May 18, 2010. This has been the hardest thing our family has ever had to go through. Paige was just finishing kindergarten and excited about moving to a new house. She became ill on Thursday May 13, was admitted to Cincinnati Childrens on Sunday and despite heroic efforts by the doctors Paige sufferd a massive brain bleed and passed away in the arms of her loving parents Steve and Heather on Tuesday afternoon. Paige has two sisters 8 year old Gracie and soon to be 5 year old Haley.

Paige was an adorable little girl. She was the life of a party and her mother said it very well, “Paige was the pitter patter of our family”. Paige was a little girl that loved everyone elses birthday party as much as her own. She was never grumpy or unhappy – she was always trying to be sure that everone else was happy. She touched so many lives in her 6 short years on earth and she is truly missed by all. Paige loved the UK Wildcats – the school her daddy (my son Steve) graduated from – she never missed watching a game with him. She enjoyed riding her horse DeeDee so much – something she did every week. Paige always loved sleepovers and get-togethers with her cousins that love and miss her so much.

We are so fortunate to have gone on a big family vacation last year to the Outer Banks, NC. We have many memories from the days spent on the beach. We were so blessed to have spent Mothers Day this year with Grace, Paige and Haley at their new home. This was one week before she got sick and the last time we saw her able to play. Our memories will last a lifetime if we can get over the grief that we are all experiencing now. God chose this angel to come home a little too soon. Even though life goes on – it will NEVER be the same without our little Paige. Say some prayers for her grieving family. Love you all, Judy and Rick.”

End of this beautiful blog from Judy….

Since the passing of dear little, darling Paige I have been gathering pink rocks from my garden for Paige. Pink was her favorite and signature color! The kids, Grandma and I wanted to place them at the base of the tree that Judy had planted for her Dad back in the park where we always walk the kids.

This was kind of a rock sculpture I designed. The 5 rocks are the family. Mom and Dad will always have a chip out of their soul but they must bare the burden to make their other daughters whole. The little pink Paige rock is with Judy’s Daddy.

We enjoy spending time at Mr. Kuyper’s tree! Now we will enjoy it even more.

We visit it often.

More never forgetting Sweet, Darling Paige later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Disco Tuesday Lovers….

Emma and I were racking our brains to find a picture that would lift the Tuesday doldrums. What is better than memories of the Disco era! I could dance for hours, on platform shoes mind you to this all time fav….

Our Emma can really turn the beat or butt around!

This is a sequin tube top I made for her 2nd birthday photo shoot. Our Disco Queen!

I bought the tube top material at a theatrical shop a few towns over where all the Drag Queens shop. I had one end of the bolt and Sweet Evening Breeze had the other end. It was so funny. It was in the remnant pile. As she tugged, I tugged and then our eyes met! Turns out there was enough for both of us! Too bad I was not blogging back then because I certainly would have had a picture of her.

More hoping to take the doldrums out of Tuesday later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Disco Queen Emma!

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Howllo Fellow basset hound and cool day lovers! Since the longest yard sale in the world starts 10 minutes away from us Grandma and I decided to check it out!

It starts in Covington, KY! Guess what? This is Grandma’s home town! So, as we were driving to the yard sale we took a trip down memory lane. OMD! Grandma’s Daddy was a barber shop owner! His name was Roy Loftus! Here is his barber shop!

Look at our Grandma standing at her Father’s shop. They also lived in the back on the first floor! I love it!

It was a pretty emotional photo shoot.

Of course I have been here before but Grandma never talks about herself too much.

Then we pressed on to the start of the Longest Yard Sale in the World! AKA…….a lot of junk!

Unless you find this secret treasure!

Basset Hound Salt and Pepper Shakers???? What???

They were asking 17 dollars for the set and Grandma was ruthless! We got them for 10.00! LOL! She was my hero!

Look at the collar on this one!

I clutched my find thanks to Grandma! We forged onward to our local Mexican restaurant for a JUMBO Margarita!

Some days just come together perfectly…

More needing my hair cut later…Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Birthday Basset Hounds that give a gift to Basset Hound Town Rescue Fund Lovers!

Today is Phelps and Zoey Porter’s 2nd birthday! Phelps and Zoey are part of the Porter pack that include Charlie and Otis as well! BJ and Gary are the proud parents! To celebrate their birthday they sent basset hound town rescue fund a check for 25.00 bucks! Nice! Sweet! I cannot thank the Porter Pack enough!

PARTY, PARTY, PARTY!

Frosty paws and party hats for all! Yummers!

Let’s get this party started!

Here are Zoey and Phelps the birthday kids!! I just love this picture! Phelps was Zoey’s Christmas present! Her own bro!

Hey Mommy, love the frosty paws but wez is getting hungry! Can we eat our Sunday Birthday Supper early tonight? Please?

Oh dear me, howl can you refuse a sitter upper?

Thanks Mommy and Daddy! We had the bestest birthday ever!

Thank you Porter pack for the 25 dollar birthday donation! The basset hound town rescue fund is now up to 65.00 dollars. That is huge!

More loving generous birthday hounds later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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