All Schmoo, All The Time
So my little buddies Leroy and Sal :
you came home! we love you!
.....are back home with their owners. On Tuesday, I came home to see those little cuties resting in the kitchen, no accidents, waiting patiently to go outside. So I let them out, and boy, did they run! Sal couldn't get very far but Leroy started running like a crazy schmoo. I herded them towards my neighbors (Wayne and Carolyn, world's most adorable old country couple) and they immediately fell in love with Leroy and Sal and offered to keep them until we found their owners...or just keep them! I was so freakin' excited..they'd be next door, and I could play with them and love them...
But, the owners saw a sign that Wayne and Carolyn hung up and called 'em. The people own a BBQ joint here in Athens - the dogs had been MIA since Saturday - and they told Wayne and Carolyn that they were THINKING ABOUT GETTING RID OF THEM ANYWAYS. Harumph. However, they still came to claim their doggies and Leroy and Sal were super excited to see them.
Well, Wayne and Carolyn gave the owners their info and said to PLEASE call if they decided they didn't want to keep the schmoos..of course Wayne and Carolyn would take them in a second. I'm glad that Leroy and Sal (whose real names I never found out) got back hom safely, but, boo, I hope their owners are nice to them and don't get rid of them. Or at least call our neighbors if they do. At least we know by their rounded bellies that they get enough food.
Oh, the complicated life of a weiner schmoo.
Bella celebrated their departure by pooping in the computer room.
I am coming towards you! I am adorable!
Since I have no knitting updates to show you, I'm posting yet another picture of Bella. In this picture, she is participating in a very common activity that Jacob and I call "worming". When Bella wants to travel across our den floor, instead of walking like a normal dog, she does an army crawl so she can drag her belly across the floor and scratch it. So she drags her back legs across the ground and looks like a little worm, moving inch by inch. She is about to get her worm on in this picture.
Okay. Probably too much information about my dog's everyday habits. But I'm trying to distract you from my lack of knitting content. I promise I will have some kind of fabulous update after July 4th because I'm going to knit my little hands off this weekend. Oh, yes.
Gotta work now. Have a wonderful day!
Comments (16)
Loved the Tale of Two Schmoos!
Those BBQ vendors better watch out - if they aren't nice to Sal and Leroy, we'll posse up some knitters and come teach them how to treat little furry critters...
Posted by Bonne Marie | July 6, 2004 12:17 PM
Hey! I'm over here in Flowery Branch. :) Did y'all get a day withougt rain, too?
Posted by :) Nicole | July 3, 2004 9:14 PM
I love the schmoo entries too! Bella is adorable (I love the worming tale; our girl roaches--she turns over on her back, legs all in the air like a dead roach when she's happy or relaxed). I hope Leroy and Sal do end up being your neighbor schmoos. What scary BBQ owners to think about giving them up anyway (wha???).
Posted by Giao | July 3, 2004 11:09 AM
OMG, Carrie, NOT too much info.....I'm still giggling over here. Cute visual. Thanks!
Posted by La | July 2, 2004 7:39 PM
I sure hope you're neighbors become those cute dogs' new owners! Sounds fishy to me; I bet the dogs' current owners had abandoned them. They could be fined for doing that! Good thing that you all were there to save the day.
Posted by Becky | July 2, 2004 1:47 PM
Bella looks sooo cute in that pose! I'm glad the weiners are going back to their owners. I can't understand why they would want to get rid of those cute pups. Don't they get attached to their babies?
Posted by Evelyn | July 2, 2004 1:28 PM
Who could give up those adorable dogs? I hope they take your neighbors up on their offer.
Happy Independent Knitting Weekend!
Posted by Em | July 2, 2004 1:27 PM
Keep checking out the BBQ joint and get those pups back to your neighbors!!!!! Those people DO NOT need those pups if they are going to talk like that!!
Happy 4th to you, Jacob & the schmoos.
Posted by Karen | July 2, 2004 12:33 PM
How could those people even think of giving those puppies away? I hope your neighbors get them!
Posted by Anne Marie | July 2, 2004 12:07 PM
Your dogs are too cute!
Posted by Jaime | July 2, 2004 9:29 AM
Hee hee! I love the shmoo entries. Don't stop.
Posted by Heidi | July 2, 2004 9:00 AM
Hi! Carrie I'm so happy I can come to your blog and expect to hear about both knitting AND puppies, sometimes even in the same entry. The knitting- and puppy-related stories all in one place are great :)
Posted by melanie | July 2, 2004 12:54 AM
I had a Westhighland White Terrier in Jr/Sr high school and she used to pull herself across the carpet with her front legs too. We used call it, "burning dessert," like she was dying of thirst and pulling herself to the water hole - or something like that. Eventually, she could do it on cue when we would say, "burning dessert, burning dessert." She was quite a schmoo.
Posted by Marie | July 1, 2004 8:20 PM
Yay- I am glad that the puppies got to go home... although it is too bad their owners don't seem to appreciate them!
I love the pic of Bella- haha What a character! :)
Posted by frecklegirl | July 1, 2004 5:20 PM
When you do knit again, I saw this correction on the IK site and thougth I would pass it along in case you didn't have it already:
Polka Purl Dots (page 54)
Use the Backward Loop Cast-On for this pattern, rather than the Tubular Cast-On.
Belt opening: should read:
Make a belt opening at right side between the 2 right side "seam" sts as foll: Work in patt to the second st "seam," work the first "seam" st, join a second ball of yarn and work to end. Work 3 more rows even, working the right front with a separate ball of yarn from the back and left front to leave a belt opening slit at the right side. Next row: (WS; Row 14 of chart) Discontinue second ball of yarn and work across all sts with a single ball of yarn to close the top of the belt opening slit. Row 14 of chart has been completed; piece should measure about 2 1/4 " (5.5 cm) from beg, including seed st border. Note: The waist shaping and center front decs are worked at the same time; please read the next section all the way through before proceeding.
Happy Polka Purling!
Posted by Julia | July 1, 2004 5:13 PM
Now we know why Sal is so fat. Owners own a BBQ joint! Sal gets all of the ribs he wants.
Posted by Cathy | July 1, 2004 4:41 PM