Whole lotta shaking going on

As you've probably heard, we had an earthquake here today. 

The epicenter was about 130 miles northwest of Norfolk. 

Mom's office is on the 7th floor of her building. 

She said it shook enough to make her grab for the wall to stay standing up!

Pretty scary for her.

But no damage here at all, thank God.

But when mom came home. she got stung by bees. Isn't that a kick in the pants?
She's never been stung before so she immediately took some Benadryl. Now, Benadryl would make most people a little sleepy. But after all the excitement of the day, she's still wired.

Now, we are preparing for Hurricane Irene's arrival this weekend. Not looking forward to that one at all. But mom has gas, a generator, plenty of food and water containers. And we are hoping to get an window AC unit tomorrow. Ordered it online, hoping to pick it up at the store. 

If that works out, we will be sitting pretty. If not, can we move in with someone with air conditioning?

The sunset of summer

The end of summer will be here so soon. 

It always makes mom a little sad. 

So we are soaking up every last bit of summer sun that we can. 

Hope everyone has had a great summer and is living life to its fullest.

Weekends are for relaxing

For us anyway. 

   Mom has been busy. Here's her list.

laundry

mowed the lawn

dishes

made dog food

grocery shopped

made food for freezing

took us to the dog park

took Isabelle to Carealot

We did this.

Isabelle

Tallulah

Petunia

Hope your weekend has been relaxing!

Only 135 days til Christmas!

We had a very special visitor to Virginia this weekend, Santa!

Photos by Feist

We had to put on our best dresses and go see him right away. Never hurts to get a good word in early.

PS. Santa to said to keep up the begging for treats faces because it tests our parents. THEY get put on a list, too.

Happy Sunday!

 Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Prayers for Vinny

Today, Vinny is having surgery to repair his liver shunt. 

Send your most positive thoughts and prayers to him, his mom and even Vito.  

Vito probably won't admit it, but we bet he's anxious, too. 

And awesome job, blogworld! We helped raise all the money for Vinny's surgery! 

From tweets to blog posts, the power of pugs prevails!

If only they'd let us work out this whole debt ceiling thing....

Versatile Blogger Award

Urban Hounds gave us the Versatile Blogger award!

We are honored. A little peeved that we have to let mom hog the blog, but then again, she does feed us.

So seven things about mom.

1. She's a smarty pants. Working on her doctorate in public administration. About 3 more years to go! Puts a crimp on our time, but she claims it will bring in more treat money later on.

2. She drives a ratty old pickup truck. It's been breaking down a lot, so we are hoping to get a pugmobile this fall. Fawn colored interior, of course!

3. She learned Korean for the Air Force. She hated it and was glad she never had to go to Korea.

4. She trained us in Chinese. Gotta be different. So now we can ignore "sit" in two languages!

5. Her sister is her best friend. The plan is to find a great place to live (somewhere southern!) where they can either share a big house or live next to one another. We have to wait a few more years until Uncle John retires from the Army, then they hope to at least be in the same time zone.

6. She likes to call herself Martha Vila. She channels Martha Stewart to sew and craft and cook and Bob Vila to build stuff. She has some really cool power tools.

7. She plans on having really blue or purple hair when she gets old. Why not?

We are passing this award on to seven bloggers we'd like to know more about. Definitely hard to pick just seven!

The Pug Posse
Salinger
The Pugs Strike Back
Wilma the Pug
Noodles
Payton
Kitty + Coco