Bring The Rain

Bring The Rain is one of my favorite blogs to spend time with. This was a recent post. After watching it, I had this strange vision of me at age 3.... somewhere in my past I had a purple dress like this, bangs cut like this, and pudgy upper arms like this little darlin.... take a peek... it'll bring a chuckle to your Monday! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_VknTKQQhw

What Would I Do All Day at the Lake - Take #2

Teach Hazel how to SWIM out to Grandma's raft... hop on board, jump off again and head to shore !

Obedience Training Attempt #101

This is me in the new outside kennel my parents got for me... since I bark constantly when left alone in the cabin and can't seem to keep from jumping up and down on every single person that comes near me....





This is me trying to bite my way out of my new kennel.... only took me a few minutes.... notice my cute white front fangs stuck in the netting :-)







just another normal day in hazelwood

Hey Miss Emme

Remember when we were comparing notes on Katelyn's lap at the 4th of July Party??? Well THANKS girl for proving I'm not the only puppy enjoying naughtyville. After my mommy saw your mess she felt a bit better about my misbehavin' until she came home from work for lunch today and saw me standing here in the entryway instead of in the gated kitchen where she left me this morning... I had some mighty fun with my freedom today and decided to raid the hats and mittens cubby. I learned how to obtain this freedom by jumping over my gate those silly parents of mine put up for me... Come over soon for another sleepover... I'll teach you my tricks. That is if I ever get out of doggie jail.

P.S. If the pics are a tad blurry that's cuz Mommy's camera was on the bench and I got so excited when I saw her coming home that I peed all over it... ouch...that was BAD.

Say What ? ?

This is Richie...standing in front of the cabin he rented "just for me". He told me not to expect him there too much because "After all, he wasn't a "lake" person like I am... and besides what would he DO all day at the lake? and how could he deal with not working 24/7???"


SO..... last week was vacation... I MADE him take 3 of his vacation days he had coming.... much to his dismay

and this folks is what I found inside the cabin when I came up from the beach.....


this one was Wednesday



this one was Thursday


I won't show you what he looked like by Friday :-)

The crazed world of Hazel-land

So the other night, I'm hanging out over at Ria's with the kids while she and Tim are out celebrating his birthday and admiring all the cute stuffed animals that Miss Emme has.... wondering if getting crazed-dog Hazel a larger stuffed animal would serve as a companion for her and calm her down some.... So I found a cute nice sized Easter Bunny I've had in storage and take it out for her to get acquainted with.... well when I came back downstairs after being up on the computer for awhile, this is what I found.... a triumphant little beast, proud of what she'd accomplished in a matter of minutes. That my friends is called "conquer and destroy" in the world of Hazel-land. Keep all other pets and small children away - - Hazel-land is a dangerous place.

Chesney... up close....

So we worked our first stint as "security" at the FargoDome last Sat nite when Kenny Chesney was in town. I pretty much knew what to expect, but Richie never having been to any kind of concert before,was one nervous rookie! After our "briefing" meeting with supervisors, we were off to our assigned areas. Being new, I figured we'd end up in the nose bleed section somewhere helping those with "beverage issues" up and down the stairs. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised to find we were put right on the floor... and not just anywhere....but right in what they call "the mix"...where the sound system folks run the show! Richie was about 20 feet away from me against the outer rail of the area and I was put at the entry... and told "listen, don't move even 2 ft. away from this entry... you have to make sure that absolutely no one gets in and out of here other than Kenny's sound/light people". OK, so I figure this will be an easy job.... what they didn't tell me was that short, skinny, little Mr. Kenny starts his show from that area.... I thought something might be up when a bunch of hunky bouncer type guys were prowling around me... and then several black equipment boxes got pushed in... next thing I know the lights go dim... and a large cable with a black metal aerial chair with a curtain around it gets lowered right next to me... and out from the table behind me pops KENNY!!!! two feet away! they strap him into that aerial chair and I hear him telling them to make sure it's secure all while I've got bunches of screaming girls charging at me to get inside the gate!! I remember spreading my arms out and telling them to "get back" while my supervisor came running over to help me. I look at RIchie down the rail and he's just standing there in awe with those silly looking earplugs he had in! flourescent green ones I might add ... sticking out like pencil stubs!!! He also had a great job of the night... one of Kenny's stage hands who looked just like Bob Dylan came up to him and said he needed help finding some women to take up to the sand bar area... the place RIA WAS LUCKY enough to get into right next to the stage.... He told RIchie his mission was to help him find tall, skinny, gorgeous women with their boobs hanging out.... cuz that's what Kenny likes to look down at from stage...... hummmmmm...... no wonder Richie had a smile on his face all night long... after the show when I asked him why that stage hand kept coming up to him with blue sand bar wristbands he explained this all to me.... so I took the plunge and asked him.... "did you find any for him then?" to which Richie proudly responded "Yup I found at least two of 'em".... I had to laugh..... over 14,000 people there... most of them young, attractive girls fitting this description and he could only find two of them.... guess I'm the lucky one huh?