yum

Goats milk yoghurt
honey
banana

I bought an ice cream maker to make the hooligans own ice cream (him indoors liked my own made stuff too, but I am not sure I am prepared to spend 15 minutes making custard again). Anyway for my little darlings ice cream,  I stuffed a piece of banana into the hole in the bottom of the kongs and whizzed the yoghurt and honey through the ice cream maker, then stuffed the kong.  Freezer for a couple of hours, and the hooligans had a lovely 5 minutes in the garden with them.  They keep licking their lips so I assume the sticky honey is lingering :)

I am not sure you need the gadget though, it would be just as easy to simply put the yoghurt in a kong and freeze it .... hmmm  However I got my maker on the tesco voucher exchange - it was half price, and spending vouchers that I got free.  So it was a bargain ;)

dog friendly beach

During the period March to October few beaches allow dogs.  We have one an hour or so away so the hooligans get to charge about and splash in the sea.  And dig.

Yesterday we noticed 2 dog wardens watching.  There were lots of dogs running about having fun and I hope the wardens  report back that the dogs had a good time, were well behaved and the humans  picked up. I will be sad if this bit of coast bans families with dogs.

There was a cock-a-doodle-do noise

and then there wasn't

whose is this?

Guilty

Waiting

Would you look at the state of the lawn! 

tired out

Kizzie knows better than to leave her chew laying around.  Murphy isn't called "Two Chews" for nothing.  She really was fast asleep here

We went to the seaside

As it was such a nice day we took ourselves off to the beach.  We had a lovely couple of hours.

On the way back we had only been in the car a few minutes when Kizzie leaned over the back seat and started to whine very insistantly. B pulled into a layby right across from a deer park! There were lots of "stay....staaay..." whilst we opened the boot, but they were as good as gold and sat and waited whilst we put the leads on. Phew!! As they jumped out I realised why Kiz had been so upset. There was a very large puddle of vomitty looking stuff. Poor little love used to get very car sick but she has been fine lately. Luckily we always pile the boot with blankets so I just lifted the top one out and shook it by the side of the road, noticing at the same time that the kibble forming a large part of the pile was in fact Murphy's.  That's a first.  Bless my little girl she was telling me that Murphy was ill :)

As we drove home we could see huge flashes of lightening and the sky got darker and darker.  It was the biggest storm I have driven through, lightening striking down to the ground, thunder fit to deafen and pounding rain that the wipers couldn't keep up with.  The roads were flooded and it did get a bit scary, but we were very brave as we didn't want to frighten the dogs.

All is well that ends well , both hooligans are fast asleep with full bellies as they have just eaten their dinners and the sun is shining

tears

Something happened yesterday.  I was out in my studio (aka garage), the hooligans were playing in the garden.  I looked up and saw Murphy laying on the grass chewing his chewy but couldn't see Kizzie.  After a quick look around I went back into the studio and there she was.  Under my desk. Fast asleep.  It was one of those 'perfect moments'.
My beautiful Katydog was supposed to sleep under my desk but she died before the building was completed and somehow it never became the space it was intended to be - our space.

I did gulp a bit.

I may regret saying this, but Kizzie didn't even try to steal anything.  Either I have Kizzie-proofed my space or she is growing up.  Time will tell :)