Christmas Roundup 2019

Christmas Morning 2019

Christmas Day has come and gone and it was mind-blowingly awesome, yummy-on-your-tummy delicious, and utterly and completely exhausting!

The fun and festivities started the night before with a late-night viewing of A Christmas Story and a party platter of cheese, pepperoni, olives, and crackers. Sadly, I didn’t get to sample much of the spread (only one piece of cheese), however, I was compensated/bought off with a PB&K.

Of course, while I loved the PB&K and the cheese samples, this late-night festivity did cut drastically into my beauty-sleep which became very apparent when my family woke up bright and early on Christmas morning and started working their way through numerous brightly colored paper covered boxes. I tried to get involved, as I’m wont to do, but my family, friends, and Santa were on to me and provided me with a seemingly never-ending supply of toys, bones, and PB&Ks to keep me occupied including:

• A giant club like Nylabone for rough chewers (from Ma and Pa)
• A squeaky bear/octopus toy (from Gina and Baci)
• A blue Mini-Mecki (from Jim and Dixie)
• A yet to be shared toy for later (from Sister)
• A bag of treats (from Santa)

The fun continued when Aunt B came over a little while later to celebrate with my family. Once again, food appeared, naps were missed, presents were opened, and I was distracted with a PB&K. I also decided to be “helpful” when my family tried to take their annual Christmas photo by blocking Sister from her seat when she hit the timer button on the camera.

Blocking Sister

"Don't Ya Just Love Me?"

By the end of the night, I was completely and totally exhausted. I threw myself onto the couch and only begrudgingly got up when I was told that it was time to go to bed.  By the next morning, I was still totally spent, so I passed the entire day curled up on the couch catching up on my “Zs.”

Snoozing on December 26th

Merry Christmas 2019

Wishing Everyone A Very Merry Christmas!

 

Tinkerbell

The One and Only Tink

I found out some very sad news today: my pal Tink, the Giant Schnauzer, passed away last week.

Tink, you were a fun-loving gentle giant of a pal who was always up for a boxing match, a game of chase, a snooze in the shade, or a sloppy round of "Who Can Slobber the Most?" (try as I might, you always won because of your beard). I loved our play dates (you were my first official play date and you helped Sister get over her anxiety about me playing with other dogs) and I had so much fun during our pack walk through Old Westbury Gardens.  I was also forever in awe of the stories your Mom told my Sister about you breaking out of your crate, terrorizing the pool guy, and opening peanut butter jars without cracking their lids.

You will be very much missed.