Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Falling Back Lovers? Emma is not one of those. Herz don’t fall back very well, howl ever, herz can spring forward with the best of them! Needless, to say we were up at 5:30 for herz hungry meal! hehehe

This is not the picture but what I saw as I stumbled into the kitchen this morning and turned on the light…..along with her drip bark. Emma has something I call the drip bark and it is so annoying. Can you imagine our Emma being annoying?

I will try to adjust her hungry meal at dinner time. Falling back is a really hard process with herz…..

I did finally grab my camera but too late to grab a picture of Shimlette. She fell back in bed for her morning nap. It’s 20 degrees so she under her winter blankee. I did capture this piece of November sun in my dining room.

It looked really cool. The ray was hitting that glass vase and it was glowing like a beacon. Nice way to start an early Monday! Have a great one residents!

More falling back adjustments later…..Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and do you see what I see lovers….

OK, this morning I woke up and could not get those dang skeleton aprons off my mind. I thought it would be cute if I bought 3 more and then Chaps, Emma, Grandma and I could be the 4 bony musketeers next year! hehehe

So, I decided to hop in the BHV and go see if there were any left at Krogers! More about that later….

I looked on a the dash board as I was pulling out and saw a piece of wood/mulch I had picked up from the parking lot of Antler Village which is part of the Biltmore, which by the way is totally dog friendly.

As I was walking to the BHV in the village I glanced down and saw this. It is either a piece of wood or a piece of mulch. When I glanced down I saw a heart shape. It was a fleeting glance and a fleeting thought as I passed by but I turned on my heel and went back for it. I picked it up and felt it was a good luck heart. I saw it as plain as day. Grandma saw it too after I showed it to her.

It does not show up quite as good as it does in real life but I tired to photograph it when I got home for you to view. Do you see what I see?

The picture of Emma in the background is attached to a lanyard I wear a lot. It has both Chaps and Emma’s pictures on it.

Some folks wear them for work, I wear this one for love. I also left it for the airbrush artist to make my tee shirts. It really came in handy that day!

So, can you see the heart? I keep it in my car as a good luck charm. I am so glad I went back and picked it up.

I am also glad I went to check on the glow in the dark skeleton aprons. As I reached the sale table the clerk was marking all the Halloween stuff down again! The aprons were originally 20 dollars marked down to 8.00. Today they were marked down to 5.00! YES!

4 bony musketeers here we come next year! Howl cool will we be? hehehe

More pawsome finds later…Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

P.S. We wood heart you!

P.P.S. here is the sunset we viewed at Antler Village while eating dinner that night…

This is me eating dinner with the kids outside at Cedrics. Can you even imagine howl beautiful it was? After I jumped up and started photographing the sunset about everyone outside did the same thing. It was amazing. I sharpened the image but did not add any color. This is a Blue Ridge sun set folks!

That heart was meant to be…..

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Amazing tails of Chaps Lovers…..

I love having a blog for many reasons and this tail about Chaps and Emma is just one of the many reasons. This blog posting will take a zillion times longer to write than the moment I am about to write about. Really, the amazing thing that Chaps did only took one moment.

We were in the kitchen this morning and I was getting some clean food bowls out of the dish washer…..

Of course I did not have my camera at the ready so I re-created this picture to the best of my ability.

OK, so…..every time I open the dish washer I have to tap, tap, tap on the edges to warn Emma that I am opening the beast. When she first went blind I stupidly left the door open and she rammed into it. It scared her so bad that every time I tap on the dish washer she freaks out a tiny bit and scurries out of the way. With a blind dog you have to learn stuff like this. I tap on a lot of things that are in her way. I also use the word OOPS to warn her she is about to hit something.

Well this morning, I was needing coffee so bad, that I forgot to tap. As I began to unclick the door Chaps realized that I had not tapped. He whirled around and side bumped Emma to the corner of the kitchen and stood guard as I retrieved the bowls. She stood right behind him and did not move.

Well……Guess who got a bit of extra potato mush this morning? OK, both of them but it was so incredibally cute and poinante. It’s moments like this one that make me happy I have a blog. I can share, inspire and record it for myself.

Chaps is an amazing man and he inspires me everyday. I noticed a bit later she licked his chop. Maybe getting a drop of potato mush or maybe a quick kiss…..

More Amazing Moments Later…..Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and HONEYCHILD LOVERS….

Want to see an oldie but a honey lovers?

HONEYCHILD!

More loving honey later…Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and twist lovers. What you do today will hopefully make you think about yesterday tomorrow. Some say live for today but Chaps, Emma and I say live for what you DID with tomorrow in mind today and never forget yesterday.

Crazy…….

Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday. Is the order important? All part of a intricate weave in time. Make it a beautiful blanket to wrap yourself and others in.

More twisting riddles later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Sad Sack Sympathizers….

You may ask, “Why is Chaps such a Sad Sack?”

Himz misses himz Grandma…..

It’s dinner time and Grandma always come down and gives us extra tweats and makes the perfect potato mush for mez…..

Where is Grandmaz?

Grandmaz is eating dinner with someone else….Her eldest daughter! Look what dinner in Palm Beach FL looks like!

I am starting to feel just as sad as the Mayor! hehehe

Howl about after dinner drinks on her balcony? Nice… and just a tad different from the Asheville cabins! LOL! Each are charming in their own way!

Such a slice of heaven!

OK, back to the Sad Sacks….

“Grandma, I want mez pawz in the sand!”

More missing Grandma later, but we are not so sure she is missing us! hehehe

Love, Cat, Chaps and emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Kookie Lovers……Have any of the residents ever heard of this movie?

Lost Treasure of Sawtooth Island

It can be all bad, look at the poster!

I have only seen the trailer which I have provided for you. It looks like a cute little kid movie. If anyone has seen it or ever sees it let me know howl the basset hound is involved. That cracks me up! A hound on the high seas? hehehe

More Kookie Finds Later…Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Bad Dog Lovers! Well, not really. None of us love a bad dog but when Grandma wears a bad dog Tee Shirt for Howlloween it is different!

LOL! That shirt she is wearing is actually a night shirt that she thought would be fun for the kids Trick and Treating. Chaps actually started barking at her. A nice piece of cheese shut himz right down! hehehehehe

More BAD DOG later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Half Price Howlloween Horror Lovers…..

Visiting Basset Hound Town just might pay off from time to time! I must tell all of the residents that I have wanted this costume for decades. I just was not willing to put my hounds in one due to the uncomfortable nature of the design.

It looks like a torture chamber…..and it costs about 20 bucks.

Well, get this. Today I was at my local Krogers and saw a sign that said, “Half Off All Halloween Stuff”! So, being the curious sort I wandered over……

What do I find? A glow in the dark apron! Hum….I stared at it for a few minutes and decided it looked just like the design I had been looking for, for the kids. I am thinking this apron would fit like a dog coat, the exact design I have been looking for.

The neck strap is adjustable and the ties look like they will fit right under the belly of a long, long hound!

I adjusted the neck strap so it fit like a dog coat and the ties fit comfortably right under the Mayor’s belly.

Here you can see the side and the tie hanging down. All of that is really fixable.

Most costumes hamper walking but most dogs seem to be OK in coats. That is why I wanted something like a coat. See howl his shoulder are totally unobstructed? The top of the apron fits around the neck.

The back is kind of long but if you are just going to a school or a retirement home it is just fine. It did not bother Chaps at all. He walked right over and got a drink with Emma.

If you want, you could cut it off. I might do that.

LQQK! Emma even tried it on!

I could tighten the belly tie to fit herz! She went right about her crumb sniffing kitchen mission!

PLUS IT GLOWS IN THE DARK! ALL OF THAT FOR 8 DOLLARS!

I am going back to get Emma an apron tomorrow……

More working the half price sections for the residents later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and total denial lovers about November…

I am so upset. I cannot flip over the Sr. Hounds Abound calendar. It is November the 2nd and I cannot turn over the Calendar that features our Mayor, Chaps…

I am so upset that I had to make myself a grilled Havarti sandwich. I needed to go to heaven…..

Then I turned over the Calendar. NOVEMBER…

Himz name is LongShot. That is what it took me to flip over the month.

More LongShot later……Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma

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