YES...WE ARE SPECIAL

Hi...My name is Calli Fae and I have been in my forever home since June 12th 2009 This is my Sister Maggie Mae..we are from the same Mom but she looks like our Mom..they think my Dad was a German Shepard and I guess that is why I am brown

This is the day we came to live with our forever Mom and Dad..They bought us a rawhide chew and since we were so little we shared it.

Mom gave Maggie a tshirt and she loved that shirt but it didn't take her very long and she tore it to shreads
I am the good one..She how sweet I look sitting on the car port waiting for Mom to come out and sit by me :)

This is Maggie with the chew she was supposed to share..she is so naughty sometimes

Dad put a fence up so we would be safe and not run out in the road..I am trying to show Maggie how if we act like a cat we can get out of here

But maggie just sat there and watched me and then Mom caught me in the act and fixed the fence so I couldn't do that again

Mom used to give us a bucket of water outside when it was hot out..I liked cooling my feet in the water and she would always get angry and yell at me.

Then Mom bought us a wading pool and she also put water in a horse water thing so we could stay cool because it was so hot in AL

This is Maggie taking her turn in the little pond. Mom read about raising Labs and it said they liked to go swimming. Now she said she will NEVER let us have another pool. She didn't realive how the water would draw mosquitos and that is how Maggie ended up with Heart worm and had to have 2 very painful treatments. She doesn't want that to ever happen again and now she is finding information of things she can make herself to keep mosquitos..and ticks...and even fleas and flys off of us.

Mom took some pictures of me jumping up in the air...I can jump straight up just like if I was on a trampoline and I jump about 6 ft straight up in the air....Mom and Dad laugh at me every time I jump like that.

When we first came to live with Mom and Dad my Dad put this fence up for us and silly little maggie thought she could get out by going through this hole LOL

Look how dopey Maggie looked when she was just a puppy..Now everyone says how pretty she is and that hurts my feelings. Mom always gives me a kiss on my forhead and tells me I am cute and special and that makes me feel better.

I found a toad one day and he just kept hopping and going under things and I never was able to catch him.

Mom gets the job of giving us a bath...and then Dad gets the job of drying us off. Which job do you think is easier?

Mom bought this crate for Maggie because she was so naughty all the time and they couldn't trust her out of their sight...but I don't like to be away from maggie so I go in the crate too and we sleep close together :)

When Mom and Dad go to town they usually take all 4 of their furbabies with and we all lay down in the back except Maggie.For some reason she has to put her head between Mom and Dad and watch out the front window to see where we are going. She can be so annoying some times but yelling at her doesn't help..she just ignores them.

Whenever we are in the hose and we take a little nap we are usually very close together.

Even when we go in the crate at night..Sometimes I lay my head on Maggie and sometimes she lays hers on me..We Love each other very much

We love it when Dad gets the brush out and grooms us...It sure does feel good

Maggie thinks she is still a little puppy and jumps up in Dads lap every time she gets a chance

She even rearranges the chair to make it more comfortable even if it means pushing the cushion out

Mom and Dad bought this couch just for us..I think that war really nice of them..We must be special...sometimes we share it with Bianca and Annie..our 2 little White sisters.

I guess we will be with Mom and Dad and Bianca and Annie plus the 3 annoying cats for the rest of our lives. We will be haing another Birthday on April 21st..we will be 2 years old and Mom always said that when we turned 2 we better behave better. We are getting a lot better and we don't like it when they fuss at us so I guess we better start letting them know we do appreciate them and Love them like they Love us
They moved back up North to Central IL and took us with because they say we are family :) Even though we got loose 4 times while moving...twice in the woods in AL before we left..They we took off out the door in the one Motel..Mom and Dad were really scared that we would go out in the highway and get run over. Then the 4th time we were only about 17 miles from our new home and we jumped out the car window (Mom forgot she left it down) There was a nice man that got out of his car and he had a dog..We just wanted to check this dog out and make sure he wasn't going to harm Mom or Dad...They were really getting aggrivated by the time we got to our new home

We like it here a lot better and it is fun playing in the snow. We still have to go outside and be put on a chain but this summer they are going to put a new fence up for us and this one will be 6 ft high..just to make sure we can't get out

AND THE WINNER IS.......

I put the names that said they had a publix store on pieces of paper and folded them all and had my DH draw a name and............................... The name he picked was mages 828.....Congrats to her and I would like to thank everyone that left a comment....I will be hosting an Easter give away soon so come back when you can...maybe you will be the next winner.

mintex...can you please email me your mailing address and I will turn it over to Blogspark and they will be sending you your Publix gift card...Enjoy your Easter dinner :)

ANOTHER GREAT GIVEAWAY

Publix Grocery Store is having a promotion from now until Feb 12th so one lucky winner can see the great deals going on in their stores. They are giving away a $25.00 gift card to use in their store. This is sponsered through Blog spot ...card will be sent to the lucky winner so please make sure I have a way to get your mailing address.
To enter you must be a follower & also leave a comment about what you would buy with your grocery card.... if you post a link in your blog you will receive a second chance.
I will have my husband pick a name on the 12th and will announce a winner on the 13th. Good luck to all of you & thank you for visiting my blog :)

BEST LAND LORD EVER AND ICY TREES

I don't know if you can see the ice on the trees in this picture but with the sun shining on them and they were all sparkley and shiny when we ventured out to go to town yesterday..Billy stopped to let me take pictures of the sparkley ice This is just actually weeds on the side of the road but even the weeds had ice on them...It was kind of pretty to look at but now I wish all the ice and snow was gone.

The dogs were barking and having a fit and when I looked out the window I saw the Landlord coming up the driveway on his tractor with a front loader and was plowing our driveway

He was putting all the snow in a big pile where it would be out of the way...He plowed right up to the front of the garage...couldn't ask for a better LL

It was Maggies turn to go out (we have to put the big huge pups out one at a time on a chain since they broke the other chain) and she was facinated by the tractor and we barely ever have a vehicle pull in our driveway so that was exciting for her to. Maggie does not like it when it is Callies turn to go out and she has to stay in and wait for her turn..

This is our back door that goes out to the back porch and the LL cut a hole in it so our cats could go out on the porch to go in their litter box plus their food is out there. I took the back side of a piece of velcro and had Billy screw it into the door right above the hols and then I took some upholstery fabric that wouldn't fray and sewed the top half of the velcro on the back of it and cut it in strips. We did that on both sides to keep drafts out and if anything happens to the fabric (like maybe Maggie tearing it up) it can be replaced easy enough.

And here is Maggie with her head out through the hole because she is upset because Billy is outside with Calli and Bianca and Annie. She howls..whines..and crys until it is her turn.

I sure wish I could just let the pups out without a chain but every time they manage to sneak out or break the chain they take off and I am afraid they will get out in the road and get killed. I would love to have one of those zappers to use and there is a special collar to put on the dog and when they go past where you want them to go you can zap it and they will learn not to go where they are not supposed to go...will be glad when spring is here and we can rig up some kind of fence...even if it looks like little house on the prairie..

IT'S LIKE THE MIDWEST IS STANDING STILL

I am really looking forward to spring ...so I can go outside with just 1 layer of clothes and work in the yard. Our power went out on Tuesday night around 8 P M and we were without heat until 9:30 A M on Wed. I stayed in bed even after I heard it come back on and waited for the house to warm up a little. We didn;t get a lot of snow but we did get about 3" of ice.
The white you see on the ground in the pictures is not snow...it is ice. This has been a very weird winter here in the midwest as I am sure it is a lot of places. We knew it was coming on Monday so we went to town (10 miles down a winding road out to the highway)..We had a scrip refilled and picked up a few necessary things at WM and also took our gal jugs to fill with water since we can not drink the water here yet. They have been working on putting mew water lines in out in front of the house and by spring we should have city water. By the time we got home there was ice all down both sides of the car..just like frosting on a cake..only ICE. The rear view mirrors were also covered with ice and ice cicles hanging on the bottom of them, very nasty weather to drive in. I took this picture out my kitchen window and if you look close you can see the ice hanging on the branches on the left.

This is some of the pine trees on the other side of our driveway..they are huge and all the branches are hanging down from the ice

I have lived in the midwest most of my life and don't remember ever seeing huge pine trees with all the branches bent down. I guess we are supposed to get hit again this week end so we will try and make another trip to town and stock up on milk and bread and then just stay inside and hope the power doesn't go out again. Good time to just relax and watch T V or work on my crafts. Even the dogs don't like to stay out for more than 2 min to go pody and come back in and lay around.

I will be having another give away in my next post so be sure and check back...it will be a good one :)

Hope everyone stays safe and warm :)

Blogging problems

I would just like to let all my blogger friends know that if I have to put my gmail address and PW in order to leave a comment ...I can't do it...it will not let me put my PW in ...keeps saying it is not the right one.
It just isn't worth it sometimes to try and try to fill out forms in order to leave a comment. If you are worried about spam or a virus then just set it so you have to approve the comment.
I just spent over 20 minutes trying to leave a comment in rusty thimbles blog..it is just to much work.
Does anyone else have that problem?
I will be having another give away in about 10 days for a free 30.00 grocery card so stay tuned :)

THE WINNER IS~~~~~~~~~~~

I took all the names that left a comment for the give away sponsered by Progresso soups and I wrote them on pieces of paper I had cut up..Then I folded the papers with the names and had Billy draw a name for me The name he drew was**************drum roll***** It was papel 1....

Please email me you address Judy so I can forward it to My Blog Spark and they will be sending you the coupon for some soup and all the neat things to use for yoga.

Thank you everyone that entered and keep watching my blog as I will be having another great give away very soon.