The pack

From Knit your own Dog: The legs on the pug turned out very floppy – if I were making him to stand up, I’d stick pipe cleaners in the legs. Since I made these for a mobile for the baby I’m leaving it like it is. When I construct the mobile I will most certainly [...]

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Public Service Announcement: Gus

You all know Gus, right? Yes, THAT Gus. Gus the Beagle-Basset. In case you don’t, let me tell you more about him. Gus has a few problems. When we got him at 6 months, he was overweight and had almost no training (including house-training…that was fun). He didn’t make eye contact with people. He had [...]

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Gus

We’ve been on a clean living and cleanliness kick lately, so this morning I made the bed right after getting up. I know what you’re thinking, smug clean-freak people – “Why is that unusual? I do that every morning, right before I exercise for 30 minutes and sweep my already spotless floor!”  Well, lah-di-dah. It’s [...]

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Why the bed never gets made around here.

That is all.

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Signs of the apocalypse

- ROB FORD IS MAYOR. Toronto, WTF? Seriously, Richard Nixon’s corpse would make a better mayor than this buffoon. – Someone stole my credit card number! And bought gas!  The bank just called to ask, “Hey, did you buy gas this morning and yesterday?” I didn’t, because I don’t have a car.  Bastards. – Sadly, [...]

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Daily Basset, Oct 24, 2010: Welcome Home Party Edition

Madeline and Gus throw Ben a welcome home party. Or I wake Gus up at 10:30 to put a plastic lei on him and take his picture. I upload, you decide. In other news…the conference yesterday was great.  I saw some excellent talks and presentations and did some quality schmoozing.  People really liked our show.  [...]

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Daily Basset, Oct 21 & 22, 2010: Bassets phone home

Yesterday’s Daily Basset pictures were not what I would call spectacular.  I tried to catch both playing/being bad: Today Gus fell asleep next to my cellphone.  When I went to get the camera to take a picture of the resulting cuteness, he woke up and followed me, so I had to stage these: Aw.  Anyway, [...]

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Daily Basset, Oct 19, 2010: Film buff edition

It’s a joke in our house that Gus likes movies.  That is, he likes it when we watch movies. He jumps up on the futon, sighs, then burrows under the covers and sleeps. That’s what he thinks “watching a movie” is. Yes, that’s right, I watched “The Last Airbender” today.  It was really, really awful. [...]

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Daily Basset, Oct. 18, 2010: Helper hound edition

You know how yesterday I said I was tired? I was very tired, and I had a bit of a sore throat, but I figured it was just a mild hangover/remnants of a cold I had a week or two ago. This morning I woke up and it was a very bad sore throat. So [...]

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Daily Basset: Oct 17, 2010

Ohmigod I’m tired.  Last night was my Bearded Lady Pub Crawl…I will post pictures of it later…and today was a full day of teaching.  Also I decided to paint the studio this weekend.  I wanted to fix up the house a bit while Ben’s away, and it looks very nice (I have to do a [...]

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