our collective digital self
Posted by Michelle on Jul 29, 2005 in Hayley, pups & other pets
Hayley was in a cute, goofy mood so I grabbed the camera. This will probably be boring if you are a grandparent 🙂
You can just click on the first photo and continue hitting the right arrow to scroll through them all.
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Posted by Michelle on Jun 20, 2004 in Jeff, Michelle, pups & other pets
We had an incredibly restful week at the beach. The house had some faults (not enough living room furniture and small tv) but was roomy (four bedrooms, three bath, two wrap around decks and a hot tub). It was nice to have two master suites, one on each floor so when our friends arrived, we all felt like we had some privacy.
And this year, we had groceries delivered when we checked in, that was so nice – not fighting Seamark with the hordes on day one was such a gift!
Had some good food – mexican seafood at Don Gatos, chicken and ribs at Jockey’s Ribs, crab and shrimp at Dirty Dicks, fried seafood at Sam and Omies, burgers and shakes at Fatboyz, crab sandwiches at Quagmires and pizza…. and fudge… mmmm.
And of course, I shopped at my two favorite OBX stores. The KDH cooperative where I got some cute candles and ceramics (including a tooth fairy box). Then this great silver store where their business cards are shells, I got some more candles, two great prints, little s&p crab shakers and more stuff. I got shirts and such for the neighbors kids too.
We slept so much and read a lot. Jeff and I spent so much time on the deck, just reading. Watched a few DVDs and Jeff played some xbox. And a new movie theater opened so we went to Day after Tomorrow. Pretty good for a vacation movie.
Bryan and Tammy arrived Monday about 3am. He comes down almost every year and this was our first time meeting Tammy, who was a sweetheart. She and I had a good ole time shopping while Bryan and Jeff launched their traditional Axis and Allies fest – only a short 7 hours this time.
We managed to not get fried this trip nor lose any of the dogs, so thumbs up on that! However, no more queen beds. We just can’t sleep well with two of the dogs in bed in a queen – Jeff is too long and I’m too wide, and the dogs are too wiggly for a queen.
I actually didn’t take a lot of photos this trip – after five straight years at the same beach (and others before that when I was younger) you don’t really do the local shots thing anymore. Plus we had photos taken down on the beach that we’ll get the proofs from in three weeks.
Cute Jeff with his shades
Sam trying to find a way out
Buster loves to sleep in the sun
Molly and Buster took over the loveseat
Our friend Bryan and Jeff playing Axis and Allies on my computer – this year’s game was relatively short, only about seven hours
The guys hamming it up to get rid of me and the camera
Birds overhead
Bryan and his girlfriend Tammy.
The pink girls, Tammy and I return from our afternoon of shopping (in my defense, didn’t know i was going out for the full day and still have my swimsuit on underneath from my morning in the hot tub plus no makeup)
Jeff looking off into the distance
Bryan swinging Tammy around
Look close, you can see the puppies on the other side of the glass door wanting to get out
For the record… I had Bryan down 21-0 at the half of a UNC-UVA college fball game, I decided to quit so we could get to dinner and just drop the game. In Bryan’s defense, he was used to the Madden control scheme but later I found him practicing for a rematch – one I wouldn’t give him. hee hee
Sleepy buster
Posted by Michelle on Oct 31, 2003 in pups & other pets
2003… dogs STILL don’t like costumes anymore than they did 2002 and 2001.
Posted by Michelle on Jun 22, 2003 in Jeff, Michelle, pups & other pets
No cute photo this year of the three pups – they were half wet, dirty and grumpy on the beach.
Very cool mosaic at this artist coop, the horses are all over the Outer Banks and the location they are at gets to decorate them accordingly:
Another cool horse
I’m driving along and at a red light, I see some complete dumbass who ended up hang gliding over a Holiday Inn – seriously, he was way far from the hand gliding area at Jockey’s Ridge:
The house had these sun light windows that drove us crazy but the dogs loved to sleep in the warmth of them:
Jeff out front of Cape Hatteras
Another shot from Pea Island preserve (most insect infested place ever)
Two cute kids sitting in the surf:
Posted by Michelle on Apr 11, 2003 in Michelle, pups & other pets
In my house, if you get up from your seat and disturb nap time, you come back to this:
They take your seat and look at you all pissed off 🙂
Posted by Michelle on Mar 1, 2003 in pups & other pets
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As you might be able to tell, we love our pups!
We have two beagles, one six year old open marked tri-colored female named Miss Molly and a now eight month old black back male named Buster Brown. And now we have added Sam, a dachshund we found.
Michelle got Molly in 1995 when she was living with her roommate Michele Eager. Eager got two kittens, Cody and Grant the same week and the threesome grew up together.
When Michelle moved in with Jeff, Molly came along – little did Jeff know what he was getting into! Once we built the house, we had so much more room and thought Molly needed a pal.
Buster arrived the first week of January, 2001 – all of eight weeks old.
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Our six year old beagle Molly was thrilled to have a friend – ok that’s a lie! He’s a pest but we think deep down she loves him. And she has lost three pounds since he arrived, so that is great for her!
We added a fence to the house for them in May, so they can run wild outside. Molly likes to lay in the sun and relax but Buster wants to dig and play ball. We tried the frisbee thing but he seems to be more interested in chewing the frisbee than retrieving it. His new trick is when he wants to be playful, he runs under the house and hides whatever ball or frisbee that you are playing fetch with.
We put up a basketball hoop as well and Buster loves the basketball – as well as to try to grab your shorts when you are shooting.
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People think we are nuts but we had a wonderful artist, Keri Lynn Shosted, do a painting of the pups. We just LOVE it, here is the small version of it to the right –>
We took them on vacation to Nags Head in June, where Buster got in the ocean for the first time, found a huge fish head and escaped four times – of course Molly was content and mellow. Buster is now as big as Molly, skinnier but as long and maybe a bit taller – actually he’s two pounds more according to the vet. He may be the dominant one but she doesn’t take any crap from him.
Our newest pup, Sam, has been documented quite a bit already on here. On 3/19/02, we found a lost dachshund crossing the road near our home. No collar and as sweet as can be, I nearly jumped out of the car before Jeff had even stopped it. Check out the info we posted about him trying to find his owners.
Long story short, after many efforts to get the word out, no one claimed him – I’m sure now someone dumped him to fend for himself in the world. We fell in love with him and kept him despite his problems. I’m still angry someone dumped this wonderful dog but if they would to this to a dog, they clearly weren’t very good owners anyway. Read more about why we couldn’t give him up and kept him.
Sam wakes me up almost every morning – and I don’t even mind!
Posted by Michelle on Jan 12, 2003 in Jeff, pups & other pets
Posted by Michelle on Jun 30, 2002 in Humor, Jeff, pups & other pets
Jeff with the pups at Nags Head.
Smack, right on the lips!
Posted by Michelle on Apr 2, 2002 in pups & other pets
Jeff had the day off and we were heading to Home Depot to get supplies to plant rose bushes. About 2 minutes from home, a small dachshund ran across the road. We had to stop to check on him – I got down and called to him, he ran right up to me.
The warm, sweet little fellow was minus a collar. We drove around the neighborhood he was coming out of – it had to be someone’s baby who just snuck out. No luck.
We took him home and started trying to find his owners. We papered the area in, put ads in the paper and made calls to the SPCA & pound. But his owners never showed up.
He is a sweet boy, about 2-4 years old and a tremendous flirt. He started having seizures and was diagnosed with epilepsy – we suspect he was dumped because of it.
We thought the Cary law limiting homes to two dogs was still in effect but we found out it had been overturned.
We are in love with him as are the pups – well Buster definitely is in love and Molly is good with him. We got some nice calls from people offering to adopt him if his owners didn’t claim him but we think his wandering in to the road in front of us is karma, so we are keeping him. Why not – the law is gone and we have a huge house and great fenced in yard.
Jeff and our neighbor Jen separately said he looked like a ‘Sam’ and I found out later my grandmother named several dogs Sam, so that seems like more karma, so Sam is he.
The epilepsy is totally under control now that he’s on medicine – he takes a half pill twice a day and the meds cost the whopping $8 a month.
He’s a wily one, he’s snuck out twice the first week – he’s only 16 pounds and being a dachshund, he’s short. He snuck under the fence once and then out the front door once. We found him both times pretty quickly. Jeff has worked extensively on the fence and Sam-proved it.
I’m of course very tickled because a third dog has hastened our car buying plans – one trip to the vet with three dogs in the Saturn was enough! Hence we are now buying a used Jeep Cherokee. We’ve found the one we want, just need to negotiate the price down. So thanks Sam!
