More Fun With The E-Collar

Much to her relief Yumi doesn't have to wear her e-collar anymore. But I thought you would enjoy seeing some more funny pictures of the e-collar in action.



Here Yumi attempts to eat food while wearing the e-collar. For some reason she feels like it is best to take the food out of the bowl piece by piece and then eat each piece one at a time off the floor. This activity pre-dates the e-collar so that bit of weirdness has no excuse! With the collar on though the task was more challenging. Yumi would chase after the food with the cone clomping down over eat piece of food like a kid trapping a bug in a jar. Remember that toy from the 70's that was essentially a pair of plastic cans with strings attached so that you could walk around on the the cans? (Why was this fun? Dunno but it sure was!) That was the exact same clomping sound that Yumi made. Ahhhh - memories. :)




Here Yumi attempts to shake off the collar. I don't know how dogs can make their whole bodies shake so violently without making themselves throw up or having their eyeballs come flying out or something. Seems like it would be a handy skill to have though. :)

Yumi in the e-collar,



kept making me think of:



Marvin the Martian.



"Take me to your leader!"

Dog Portrait

Libby wants nothing to do with Yumi and the whole E-collar business.



I love this double portrait. It's so strange, yet so revealing of the personalities. As soon as the camera comes out both of them have to charge right at it - Yumi frantically jumping and pawing and licking the air and Libby barging in and knocking her off balance every five seconds. LOL! The two of them are like chalk and cheese yet they get along quite well.

Look at how grey Libby's mask is getting. Poor old lady. :(

So Sleepy...

So very, very sleepy.



Yumi is plum tuckered out.

Luca

Luca as the Mighty Hunter, Bane of All Squirrels and other Suburban Rodent Types.



Nothing gets past a greyhound when their ears are set like that. He's a trap ready to spring. He's fast as lightning too. Many a small mammal has blessed the abundance of trees in our neighborhood!

Dogs? Yeah, We've Got 'Em...

...all sizes!



Yumi and Libby prove that David and Goliath don't have to quarrel, even with a tasty Nylabone in the vicinity! This should be a poster for world peace or something don't you think? :)

Clementine

My hubby takes wonderful pictures.

How could he fail with a beautiful model like this?



Clemmie is a favorite subject because she is completely unfazed by the camera. The other dogs often break their pose when they see the camera or when hubby gets down to eye level. They just can't resist coming to investigate. Not Clemmie. She's unflappable. Must be the English in the English Toy Spaniel. :)

Can You Guess?

Hubby took this photo of one of our dogs. Can you guess which one it is?



(No mousing over & cheating!)

My guess is that Chris will really like this photo. Even though this one is canine rather than feline. :)

Cool Photos My Hubby Takes #2

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This is a drip of water from our kitchen sink. You can see our back splash tiles reflected in the big drops. Cool!

In crafty news I have crocheted all the skeins I have on hand for the square target blanket so it is on to the sewing. I've been procrastinating in the sewing a little bit because I have been crocheting all the sock yarn scraps into one large square. I arranged all the scrap skeins in the order I wanted to use them and sort of figured I had better just go ahead and get them worked in before I forget what that order was! The square has gotten a little big to be my traveling project anyway. :)

So - I've got to get my next project on board! I started looking at my Ravelry queue to see what to do next. I'm still really into blankets. I do want to finish the Cobblestone Pullover but the thought of working with Rowan Yorkshire Tweed Aran in 90 degree weather isn't too appealing! I really want to KNIT something but all the patterns that are calling my name are CROCHETED. The other day I had a moment of panic where I thought maybe I didn't know HOW to knit anymore since I have only been crocheting for the past few months. It was actually a physical panic. Sort of like how you drive a familiar route all the time on auto pilot and everything is just fine. Then one day you look around and actually think about your surroundings and you suddenly think that you must be lost because you don't recognise that tree, that house, that store etc. That's how it felt. So when I pick up my knitting again I'm going to have to come at it sideways for the first few minutes until I get my groove back. If I actually look at it or think about what I am doing I may just seize up!

Anyhow - I think I will use my World Series Blankie as my knitting project (even though it's also a bit heavier and woollier than I would prefer to work on in the summer). And I have dug through my stash for more sock yarn to crochet a hexagonal blanket with. It will be 100 percent stash yarn (I hope - I think I have enough) and this time I am using all hand dyed stuff that I got from Etsy or bloggers who dye their own yarns. All in earth tones. Fun fun fun!

Cool Pictures My Huby Takes

Since I'm going to be running a little low on blog fodder until my blanket is sewn up...I decided to steal some from other people. :)

Don't worry, I'm keeping it in the family.

Ever wonder where I get the awesome bird & dog photos from? From my hubbs! He is crazy into photography - so he takes all the shots for my blog these days. And since he doesn't really keep a blog of his own and since he is pretty much the resident photographer for On the Needles anyway - I've decided to give myself license to steal his photos for blog use any time I want. :)

(I DID mention about being a hard-to-live-with-Diva didn't I?)

Well, here's a shot Hubby took yesterday. I call it "Spray Misty For Me".



(I crack myself up y'all.)

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