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.

I LOVE Yogurt! By Mercy

I LOVE Yogurt! 

There is some WAAAAYY at the bottom… 

WHAT!!! Hey! Let go of my head! 

Get OFF!!! 

There’s still some more down in there…. 

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… 

Just Doin’ My Job… By BG

I’ve noticed that sometimes, when it sprinkles, there is a little gremlin that jumps up and races across our windshield!

We will be calmly driving along and suddenly… WOOSH! It jumps up and skates across in front of us!

I’m usually laying on Grammy’s lap when we are in the car, but when I hear that gremlin, I jump up and stand guard on the dash.

Dott checked and told me not to worry because it is called a windshield wiper and it is to take the rain off of the windshield, but I KNOW about that and THAT thing keeps going back and forth. After I watch it go for a few swipes, I lay back down and rest now, though I used to have a problem with IT, too…

The thing I’m seeing doesn’t go back and forth! It lays in wait at the side of the window, and just jumps up and runs every once in a while.

I KNOW it is trying to break in and GET US!!!

But I am ON GUARD!

I WILL NOT let it get by ME!!!

NOTE from Grammy: These pics were taken while sitting in our driveway… not driving down the road…

I’m Being Featured on the Daily Corgi Site! by Gimli

Guess what! I sent in my information to Laurie at the Daily Corgi, where I know that several of my corgi friends have been featured, and I GOT ACCEPTED! She let me know several weeks ago, but she already had quite a line up, so it took awhile for her to get around to me, but today (Friday, 5/7/10) I’m the Corgi that is being featured! Is that COOL or WHAT!!!

Now my brother, Pippin and my sister, Mercy are bummed, and they are both saying that they are going to write to her too, and see if they can get put on…

Do you remember the pictures from a week or so ago with a few cows on the hill outside of our side pasture fence? 

Grammy wouldn’t let us bark at them, or let us go out and chase them off! Well, I KNEW that wasn’t a good idea!

Just LOOK at what happened tonight!!!

 

They came back and brought a bunch of FRIENDS with them!!!

Squirrel Patrol in a Wheelchair! By OC

These videos were taken last Saturday, before the fight. Grammy let me go out on squirrel patrol in my wheelchair. I had some fun, but, as you can see, I still had a lot of trouble keeping up with that Sadie… Getting old is just NO FUN!!!

We are ready to GO...

I think that I'll watch for a little while...

OK, Robert... It's time to go in now...

A FIGHT and a Birth…

When Grammy checked the phone messages after she got up Monday morning, she got a message that her son’s baby was on it’s way and they were at the hospital! She was excited, but had to do a BUNCH of things before she could go. Since she can’t drive much anymore and the hospital is over an hour’s drive away, she was going to have to wait for Robert or Papa to get home from work, anyway. 

She called Papa and told him, and he said he be home as early as he could. She had breakfast in a hurry ( didn’t want a low blood sugar incident) and then got me into my wheelchair so that I could go outside to go potty.

While we were outside, she went around front and started the water to the back so that she could get the horse’s waterers filled. We were all feeling really good. I was wandering around checking the yard out, and the pups were running around playing tag.

Grammy saw the pups jumping in and out of our empty swimming pool, trying to hint that they really would like her to fill it, so she decided to do that. She turned the hose on full and was watching the pups snap at the water as she filled the pool.

She doesn’t know what happened, and I’m not telling, but the next things she knows, Sadie and I are in another BIG fight! She yelled at Sadie who was on top of me, and I couldn’t get away because she was on top of the wheelchair. That alerted the pups, BG and Dott, who all jumped in to help me (They go after whoever Grammy yells at). 

She turned the water hose on us both, but mostly on Sadie’s face to make her let me go and back her off. She did, but by that time, I was REALLY TICKED and since she had backed into the fence and couldn’t go any further, I went after her again. Grammy turned the hose on ME and tried to grab Sadie off of me again, but we were all wet and slippery.

Mercy jumped on Sadie’s back and got her just behind her ear, wrapped her front legs around Sadie’s neck and her hind legs around her shoulders, and rode her around and around. 

Everyone else was under her, getting her legs.

Grammy reached down and grabbed the bar that goes over my shoulders from my chair just as Sadie snapped at my ear again, and she got hold of Grammy’s hand. When she realized she’d bitten Grammy, she threw herself backwards and Grammy got hold of my chair so I couldn’t go anywhere, and turned the hose on everyone else to get them off of Sadie.

Sadie was SO SORRY (according to Grammy) that she just huddled miserably by the fence. Grammy left her in the front yard, and went to shut the patio door so that all the muddy dogs didn’t get in. 

We went in, and were both shaking pretty badly by that time. I guess Grammy was pretty scared for me because of all the blood. She got a stool, and a chair, and then sat on the stool and hoisted me up into her lap and then into the chair. (She has to be careful because of her back)

Then she got a towel and put it under me and hoisted me up into the sink, using the higher chair for leverage. Then, she gave me a BATH, so she could see where I was hurt. 

She was pretty relieved to find out that I wasn’t hurt to badly. I got a cut above my eye through the skin, but not quite big enough to need a stitch, and another scratch or something in the outside edge of my eye that bled some, but quit fairly fast. Most of the blood was from some cuts/bites on my lips and mouth. They bled a lot and flung blood around all over the front of me, but weren’t serious. 

When she finished checking me out, she wrapped me in a towel and just hugged me and cried a lot. We were both still shaking. I am so sorry I made her be upset! I kept licking her and hugging her with my head.

Papa came in about then and helped carry me into the living room and put me on the couch so Grammy could disinfect and medicate all my wounds, then she went out and checked out Sadie. Apparently, her super heavy, getting ready to shed coat protected her from any damage (grumble, grumble…)

Since the weather was nice, they left Sadie in the front yard, left me in the Living Room, and put everyone else in the kitchen to where they could go outside (after checking them) and then they got cleaned up and left for the hospital.

They got there about 10 minutes before their fifteenth grandbaby was born. Robert had gone to the hospital directly from work and got there about an hour before them. Jose Evan Joseph Landin was born at 7:03 p.m. He weighed 6 lbs. 8 oz. and was 19 inches long. Grammy and Papa were glad that they had gotten there in time. 

Grammy’s hand hurt her to much to let her hold the baby for very long, but she did get to hold him a little when she was sitting down. They visited for a while, took pictures and then came home, put my wheelchair back together enough for me to go outside and go potty, and then we all went to bed.

Before, Robert has been home when there has been a fight, and he could pick Sadie up and haul her out, but since he is working now, and the weather has warmed up enough to be pleasant, they have decided to put Sadie in the front yard whenever Grammy is here by herself. 

Grammy is upset that it isn’t fair to Sadie, but Grammy and I are so sore all over today, that she doesn’t see any other choice at this time. 

Boo... hoo...