Pippin’s Peek at the Past #4 … My Name

For today’s “Peek at the Past” I want to take you back to our post on some of the critters we’ve found around here. This same post is when I got my name changed from Neelix to Pippin!

Here are the questions for this week’s “Peek at the Past”:

1. What did the pups find in the back yard? _________

2. What was BG’s little ex-mistress doing in the picture? ________

3. What did they find in the tackroom when they went to feed the horses? ____________

For new readers/players, here are the rules: There will be 5 sessions, (this is the 4th one) and the winners who answer all questions in each puzzle correctly, will each get a Badge to display for the weekly wins. At the end of the 5 sessions, all of the winner’s names will be put into a Corgi Toss and the Grand Prize Winner will be chosen. (It was possible to have 5 entries if you'd gotten each week's questions correct.)

The Grand Prize Winner will get their choice of one of two prizes…

1. A “Little Dott Finds A Home” book  OR

2. A $15 Gift Certificate to our Country Corgi CafePress Shop We’ve added a LOT of new designs – here are a few…  Also, if you have a picture of your dog, and would like a design made, let me know, and I will work with you on it. 

   

AND

A $10 donation in your name to the Unity Thrift and Outreach Dog Rescue that Grammy’s Sister works with. They take 50+ dogs and puppies to no-kill shelters on the coast in various cities every month (over 1,000 dogs saved already) and have helped pay for over 400 spays/neuters this past year!

The following link is to a Newspaper Article about Linda Hodges (Trixie) and Unity Thrift and Outreach if you’d like to know more.  (Auntie Naunie is just to Mrs. Hodges right, in the purplish blue top.)

Remember, too, that I put on comment moderation during the game so that everyone has an equal chance of coming up with the answers. I will moderate and show the comments after Midnight on Friday, so you have until then to get in your guesses for this week’s contest! Good Luck, Everyone!

Pippin’s Peek at the Past #2 … Memorial Day

Because it is Memorial Day, I decided to take you back to last year’s Memorial Day post that Grandma OC made. Like Grammy says, we must remember that “Freedom’s NEVER Free!” Someone ALWAYS has to pay the price, and we are grateful to those men and women, and their families that have sacrificed limbs and even lives, for us and our freedom.

Today’s questions are:

1. I’m proud of my Papa… he served during what war? ____________

2. For what group did he serve last Memorial Day? ____________

To find the answers, follow the above "Blue" link to our past post!

The Rules for my Puzzles follow the same format as Mercy’s game, with 5 sessions, and the winners who answer all the questions of each puzzle correctly, will each get a Badge to display for the weekly wins. At the end of the 5 sessions, all of the winner’s names will be put into a Corgi Toss and the Grand Prize Winner will be chosen. 

The Grand Prize Winner will get their choice of one of two prizes…

1. A “Little Dott Finds A Home” book  OR

2. A $15 Gift Certificate to our Country Corgi CafePress Shop (We’ve added a LOT of new designs – here are a few…)  

 

 

AND

A $10 donation in your name, to the Unity Thrift and Outreach Dog Rescue that Grammy’s Sister works with. This is also the Dog Rescue Group that Grammy has fostered for during emergencies.

The following links go to Newspaper Articles about Linda Hodges (Trixie) and Unity Thrift and Outreach if you’d like to know more. They have saved over 1,000 dogs over the past year!

http://www.taftmidwaydriller.com/news/x1043117645/Local-animal-rescue-team-gets-4-100-donation (Naunie is just to Mrs. Hodges right, in the purplish blue top.)

http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/90167792.html 

Remember, too, that I always put on comment moderation during the game so that everyone has a equal chance of coming up with the answers. I will moderate and show the comments after 4 p.m. on Wednesday, so you have until then to get in your guesses for this week’s contest! Good Luck, Everyone!

Pippin’s Peek at the Past Puzzle #1

Mercy had her Miss Mercy Monday Mystery game, and my Dad told Grammy that I should get a chance to host a game, too! We decided to call it the Pippin’s Peek at the Past Puzzle, and think that it will also help a lot of our new followers to learn a bit more about the Country Corgis.

It will follow the same format as Mercy’s game, with 5 sessions, and the winners who answer the puzzle correctly will each get a Badge to display for the weekly wins. At the end of the 5 sessions, all of the winner’s names will be put into a Corgi Toss and the Grand Prize Winner will be chosen.

The Grand Prize Winner will get their choice of one of two prizes…

1. A “Little Dott Finds A Home” book  OR

2. A $15 Gift Certificate to our Country Corgi CafePress Shop (We’ve added a LOT of new designs – here are a few…)   

 

AND

A $10 donation in your name to the Unity Thrift and Outreach Dog Rescue that Grammy’s Sister works with. This is also the Dog Rescue Group that Grammy has fostered for during emergencies (including our dad… ooops…)

That is what Oskar chose for his GABE prize. Naunie (Grammy’s Sister) and her friend (Trixie) were very happy to receive this help and say a BIG “Thank You, so much!” to Oskar.

The following 2 links go to Newspaper Articles about Linda Hodges (Trixie) and Unity Thrift and Outreach if you’d like to know more.

1. http://www.taftmidwaydriller.com/news/x1043117645/Local-animal-rescue-team-gets-4-100-donation (Naunie is just to Mrs. Hodges right, in the purplish blue top.)

2. http://www.bakersfieldnow.com/news/local/90167792.html

Now, for our first Pippin’s Peek at the Past Puzzle. Today, one of our favorite things happened! It happens every two or three months and usually results in a TREASURE HUNT for all of us! What fun! If you follow the link, you will see the very FIRST of the Treasure hunts my brother and sisters got to attend with the rest of my family! Gimli wrote that one, and please remember that we were only 3 months old, and just learning to write at the time, ok?

Below, we are chewing on pieces of the treasure that Grammy brought in for us today (because it started raining outside just as they finished…)

More, Grammy… I need seconds… 

thirds?

Stay back and you won’t lose your nose!

Mama Dott REALLY gets into chewing on HER piece of treasure!

Yummy! This is SOOOOO GOOOOODDD!!!

Pippin’s Peek at the Past Puzzle Questions (You must answer ALL 3 of them to win this week’s challenge)

1. What happens that creates our “treasure?”

2. What IS our chewy “treasure?”

3. What do they have Cory do to make him give up his part of the treasure? (Hint: Gimli got muddy because of this…)

Remember, too, that Grammy will have the comments in a "moderation mode" so that everyone will have a fair chance at figuring out the puzzle. You will have until approximately Wednesday at Noon, Pacific Time to get in your answers.  Hope you enjoy this week's Peek at the Past Puzzle.

Finally got Clive’s Picture to Ireland & Hair/Fur Needed…

Grammy was so happy to hear from Clive, the Assistance Dog in Ireland. He is the one that won the Mango Minster 2010 Best in Show. She had finally finished the portrait that she had been working on for the Grand Prize. With all the stuff that’s happened around here… hospital visits and funeral, etc. it’s taken her quite a while, and that has really bothered her.

She was so worried that she was making Clive’s NSLM (Not So Little Man) unhappy. She had sent it a couple of weeks ago, but it had a LONG way to go from here in California all the way to Ireland, and she was so relieved to find out that it had finally made it safe and sound, and that Clive and Murray really liked it.

We just want to tell Clive congratulations, again, for winning Best in Show at the Mango Minster 2010 from the Country Corgis! Murray’s big smile made Grammy so happy that she cried! You can follow the link to their blog if you want to see that beautiful smile and the portrait.

Also, we wanted to tell you that when we visited Cathy Santarsiero, "The Christmas Corgi’s," Facebook page, she told about how they want hair… human, horse, sheep, dog, etc. to make oil absorbing booms for that huge oil spill.

It seems that hair soaks up this kind of oil and there are big wear house places that they want people to ship the hair/fur that us furry critters “wear” when it comes off. She thought, and Grammy agrees, that there are a few of us breeds out here in bloggy land that have a “bit” of extra hair springing off of us now that it’s turning into Spring, and we can put it to good use and maybe save some other animal’s lives.

If you might have a bit of “extra” hair to spare, and we are thinking Corgis and Sibes, especially… please follow this link to “Matter of Trust” to find out how and where to mail it to if you are interested… 

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.

And the GABE Winner is…

I finally decided that BG had slept long enough, and woke him up late this afternoon. He had said that HE wanted to do the picking of the winner from the GABE contestants. I think that he was really hoping he’d be able to pick his sweetie, Lorenza’s, name from the eligible names.

Here is the list of names with me checking them to be sure that all of them got written down…

Contestant’s names scattered and ready to be picked through for the winner…

And the Winner is…

 

OSKAR from The Daily Oskar

Grammy just noticed that this post is our 250th post for this blog!  It really snuck up on us.  We decided to go back to our first blog and check who our very first commenter was, and found out that it was Betty and Koda from A Corgi in Southern California!  She has been a regular follower from that very first blog post on December 21, 2008,  AND has commented on every post we've written, so we are going to send her a Little Dott Book, too!  


We've had a lot of friends that have been with us for almost as long, like Dozer and Corgidogmama, and we really appreciate everyone's support since we started.