And the Winner is…

We had five winners in this week’s Miss Mercy Monday Mystery Contest.

They were:

1. Rachel and Bender of Bender the Adventure Dog

2. Betty and Koda from A Corgi in Southern California

3. Miss Lorenza from El Diario de Lorenza

4. Dory from Dory’s Backyard

5. And the Mango Man from Mango’s Great Adventures

Congratulations to this week’s winners, and here is your Badge for MMMM #5.

These were added to the names of the previous winners, and Gimli chose the winner from all of the names.

And… the WINNER IS…

Congratulations to Bender and his Mom, Rachel who are the Grand Prize Winners of our Miss Mercy Monday Mystery Contest! We want to thank ALL of you who played our little sleuthing game, and hope that you all had fun. We will be contacting our Winners by email, to find out which prize they chose, and let everyone know later.

FINALLY! Miss Mercy Monday Mystery #5

Today I get to post Miss Mercy Monday Mystery #5! THIS is the one everyone has been waiting for because after we get the winners from THIS post, we will have the BIG Corgi Toss to find out who will win the GRAND PRIZE for this set of MMMM’s.

SO FAR, we have Mango with 1 chance, Betty and Koda with 2 chances, Rachel and Bender with 3 chances, and MayzieGal, Lorenza, Khyra, Dog Foster Mom, and Martine ( Candy & Captain) with one chance each. (By the way, congratulations Candy, Captain, Martine & Daddy on the new brother, Pierce, that was born this last week!) Here is the last MMMM Badge.

Let’s see who adds chances and/or new names to our list of winners this time, that will go into the Grand Prize Corgi Toss!

This weeks Miss Mercy Monday Mystery takes us back in time to January when my two brothers, and Uncle BG (Grandma OC was “gone” to Mango’s mansion as a Judge for Mango Minster 2010 remember or she would have gone too…) went on a BIG Road Trip. You can go to this ARCHIVE of our blog to sniff out the answers to these three questions. 

1. Where did we go: From **** to **** and back.

2. How long did the trip take: ** days

3. What kind of vehicle did we take? ****

AND to this other ARCHIVE for this final question. (I’m not making this one easy… ) 

4. What was the C-A-T’s name at our Auntie Rachael’s house? ***   (Hint if you don’t want to read the whole post, you can scan down to the picture of the C-A-T and read beside it for his name…)

Remember, the prizes are a Miss Mercy Winners Badge for this week’s winners, and the Grand Prize, picked from ALL the winners of the weekly Mysteries, will win EITHER a “Little Dott Finds A Home”  book written by Mama Dott and GrandPaw Robert, OR a $20 Gift Certificate to our Country Corgi CafePress Shop.

There are still designs from the Mango Minster 2010 Competitors. If you happened to have been one, you might want to choose something from there, and half of the profits from those sales go to NEADS.  NEADS trains service dogs, hearing dogs and other assistance dogs of all breeds, shapes, and sizes to help people who are deaf or in wheelchairs.

Good luck, Super Sleuths!!!

P.S. Remember that I have put comment moderation on during the 24 hours or so of this contest so no one will be able to see other people's answers.  The comments that are left will be posted Tuesday afternoon or evening.  You can leave your answers in a comment up until Tuesday at noon PST.

We had SEVEN Winners ...

WOW! We had SEVEN winners in this week’s Miss Mercy Monday Mystery Contest, and they will all have their names in the Corgi Toss after MMMM #5. The seven winners were:

1. Mayzie from her Mayzie Gal Blog,

2. Candy, Captain & their Mom, Martine from I Need a Sugar Fix,

3. Bender & Rachel from Bender the Adventure Dog

4. Lorenza from El Diario de Lorenza

5. Khyra from Khyra’s Khorner 

6. Koda & Betty from A Corgi in Southern California

7. Foster Dog Mom from the blog, Foster Dog Mom 

All of these friends will be added to the Winners of MMMM#3, which were Mango, Koda & Betty, and Bender & Rachel, AND the Winner of MMMM#4, which was Bender & Rachel. Here is the badge for this week’s winners…

We will be having one more Miss Mercy Monday Mystery and then have the Grand Prize drawing from the names of all the winners of our little game. Good luck to you all, our friends.

Grammy has been snapping away with her new camera, and since she has been rather busy (and says she will be for a while) with helping to get Papa’s Auntie’s things put in order, we will probably be posting mostly pictures, and let THEM do the story telling mostly for a while.

Look at what was up on the hill behind our side pasture! With the new camera, GrandPaw could take some good pictures with the zoom before they ran off!

It’s NOT FAIR that we aren’t allowed out to help chase them off! We yell at them, but they just ignore us! How RUDE is that!

And Grammy was so pleased with the view she had from the front steps after the big storm cleaned out the air!

It was so clear that she could see the valley through the break in the hills straight down our driveway!

Pippin thinks he is a parrot!

BG: Still thinking about Date Night, and what fun Lorenza and I will have…

Dott: Mmm… what am I going to wear for Date Night?

Gimli: Peek a Boo… I SEE you!

OC: Well… See you all the next time!

Date Night, Other News, and Miss Mercy Monday Mystery #4.5

OC: I don’t know how many of you get the follow-up comments from these blog posts, but this was one of them…

Bender’s Mom, Rachel, to Dott: If Dott doesn't have a date Bender would love to accompany her. He's never been on a real date and he's a little shy.

As Matriarch of the Country Corgi Crew, I wrote back to Bender’s Mom:

Letter to Bender’s Mom from Mama OC… My Dotter was totally excited about Bender's asking her for a date! She thinks he is a real hunk! She ran right away to talk to her Dad (Robert) about it. He told her that Bender looked like a nice guy, but that he'd better be a gentledog while around his Dotter, and that he would be waiting up after their date because he had to clean his gun that night... :o) (His brother says that’s what he’s going to tell his daughter’s boyfriends when she gets old enough to date…) He still remembers her "Date" with Doug and how we ended up with Pups....

Uh Oh... IF you are new this might be news to you, and now Dott's embarrassed and hopes Bender will still want to take her. She was very young and didn't know any better, and now she's been "sprayed" so isn't interested in that type of relationship anymore!

Not only did Dott get a date with Bender, but BG’s little Sweetie, one of the best dressed Doxie’s in Mexico, Lorenza, consented to be his date and so HE’s pretty happy too! They can hardly wait, and really want to thank Twix again for hosting this soirée! You can go HERE to find out more about Date Night at Twix’s!

We’ve also gotten so many new friends through GABE (the Global Animal Blogging Event) and have entered a bunch of their prize drawings. We have 17 people entered for our drawing already, too! If you haven’t entered our drawing yet, go HERE for our GABE post so you can add your comment to get a chance to win.

Meanwhile, Grammy is terribly excited because she got to go with Papa (we had to stay home… ) to a big Liquidation Sale (which means they sold things really cheap and NOT that they sold things to drink) and she got a new camera! It takes really great pictures and even when we are moving pretty fast, they aren’t blurry! That’s a GOOD thing around us, and she can hardly wait to get a chance to start posting some of her new pictures and take a LOT more!

She took a few pictures at the place they went to eat. We could hardly believe what we SAW!!! It was a place called “Coconut Joes” and there was a truck out front of it with a HUGE SHARK on it! Grammy says it wasn’t real, but those pictures…. I don’t know…

BG: Another thing that happened this weekend was that Grammy may have found a good, loving home for Poppi. He has gone for a visit to see how things work out. They really seem to like him, and his “Maybe Mom” wrote Grammy a couple of emails and sent us some pictures. They wanted a little dog that would be inside with them and liked to snuggle. They don’t have any other dogs now as their old one took the Rainbow bridge, and the last one they had was stolen, so their little daughter was pretty heart-broken. Poppi seems to be getting along with her really well, too, so far.

Grammy asked if we could post and the lady gave her permission. Here is the first email we got:

I just wanted to send you some photos. Poppi wouldn't get on the couch until about 5pm. He finally thought it was safe I guess. Attached are 2 pictures of him on the couch. The first one is him lounging with Hubby and Daughter, and the other one shows him asleep with Hubby. Poppi already loves the spoiling.

The second email said: Go ahead and post them! (In answer to Grammy’s question) He is taking to being spoiled! He even pushed me out of bed this morning so he could have my pillow! LOL He loves chasing the cat away and then he comes prancing over to us like he is the big dog in the neighborhood! LOL

Grammy is really happy about this, and we are, kind of, too. There was just to many of US and not enough hands to pet us all, so some of us got a bit jealous and there were a few … um… disagreements… shall we say. Gimli has a bite on his ear, Pippin has a big scab on his nose, Mercy has a small scratch under her eye, Poppi got a pretty bad cut under HIS eye, and Sadie got a bite on her leg. BG is limping on that hind leg again, and OC might have gotten bumped or something on her other eye. It was swollen the next day and has been running a bit like its irritated, though Grammy has checked it thoroughly and it’s not red and the swelling went down right away.

Poor Poppi didn’t start any of it. He just happened to be right where a couple of others were when Grammy moved her chair back and probably pinched someone, who yelped and then the fuss was on! Can we help it if we all like to gather around Grammy’s feet? Now, she’s making us all lay down in different areas and only one of us (OC or Gimli) gets to lay on her feet. She tries to have OC stay on one of the new doggy beds she got this weekend and puts close to her. She says it’s better for OC than laying on the hard wood floor anyway!

Mercy: And, last but not least… Here is my Miss Mercy Monday Mystery question: When you click the link to go to Twinkie’s GABE info, who’s blog is listed fourth. You can tell me the name of the Doggy, or the name of the blog.

The Mystery’s are posted on Monday afternoons, and the answers need to be in by Tuesday evening, before 9 p.m. PST. You have a little over 24 hours to figure out the mystery and write a comment with your answer on this blog.

Everyone who has the correct answer/s will be awarded a Miss Mercy Mystery badge (See the side bar), and have their name entered in the Corgi Toss that we will have at the end of MMMM #5. 

BG will choose the winner from all the names in that Corgi Toss, and they will receive their choice of either one of Little Dott’s Books, Little Dott Finds a Home (Click the title to read a preview of the first few pages)

OR a $20 Gift Certificate to our Country Corgi CafePress Store where you can pick from a BIG selection of designs and items. Here are just a couple…

Good luck everyone, and happy sleuthing!

Sadness.. By The Country Corgi Crew

Grammy says we are going to have to “drop back and punt,” whatever that means. I gather we are going to have a “do over” as there was a misunderstanding this evening and a comment with the answer got posted before the time limit. 

Robert was trying to help while Grammy was at the hospital with Papa visiting his Aunt, and didn’t know about the change in available time. What we are going to do is accept Rachel & Bender’s comment, but we will have a MMMM #4.5 next time.

This will probably NOT be this next Monday, as Papa’s Aunt passed away this evening and they will be busy with funeral arrangements, etc. the rest of this week and weekend.

We are so sorry that Happy lost his New Mom, and we know that Papa is hurting and will have a lot of stuff to take care of over the next few weeks, as he is the only close relative that she had.

Grammy says that we may not be able to post for a while, as she might not have a lot of time to let us on the computer. She said “We will see…” when we asked her. We will be back as soon as we can, and we will miss you all a lot!