Pooh...

successfully changed the roll of toilet paper.

And flushed two towels down the toilet in the process. Yup, don't ask how it happened. Whether or not this causes a flood in the kitchen is TBD.

Edited to add: When asked if she would like to say anything about the situation, Pooh said "No comment."

The day after

Well peeps, it looks like we made it through! We lost power about 1 am and it cam back about 10-15 minutes ago. Record time for us to get it back in a big outage!

I went out and surveyed the damage this morning. Two trees are down in our woods, but they thankfully fell between the other trees and kept from causing a chain reaction of falling trees. It's still raining and a little breezy this morning.

I'm a tired out puppy though and will probably be spending a lot of the day snoozing.

WWFN,

ROSIE

Liveblogging Hurricane Sandy

Hello my faithful readers!

1:05 pm October 29, 2012

I was trying to start this earlier, but the internet wasn't cooperating. Gee, I can't imagine why.

Anyway, the wind and rain have definitely been picking up throughout the day.

I went out about 9:30 this am to do, well, a dog's personal needs, and got very wet. I was not amused.  I had to take a big nap afterwards to dry out.

At about 11:30 am or so the news people announced that Kanga's hospital was without power already. She's glad to not be working today and tomorrow. :) Owl is off work, and Tigger is off school as well. I've been busy helping them both with homework and work.

The current forecast.

The mail did come today. Neither rain, nor sleet, nor snow, nor hurricanes shall stop the USPS!

Hard to see, but the great Lake Superior is forming in the front yard.

Hard to really get a good picture of how windy it is, but this shows it a little bit.

 

The status of the backyard as of 1:10 pm, 10/29/12.

Tigger is about to take me out to attend to my dogish needs. Not looking forward to getting wet!!!!!

1:30 pm October 29, 2012
Just back from going outside. ICKY!!!!!!! I GOT VERY WET!!! From only a few minutes outside. Owl is getting ready to call Aunt J-Dog who lives in NYC to find out how things are going there. For Irene her comment was "I've got plenty of wine and cat food so I'm fine."
2:10 pm October 29, 2012
Winds still increasing. Looking like it's supposed to become even nastier before it's over. 
4:10 PM October 29, 2012
Sandy is about 50 miles from land.  It's raining a little harder, and the wind is still increasing.  I'm waiting on my dinner. There's a decent sized branch down in the front yard and Lake Superior is filling up.

Trust the bowtie: Nabby "Hurricane" Schwartz

5:16 pm

Winds have dramatically increased. Power is flickering. Looks like it's going to be a long night!

5:33 pm

Sandy is making landfall!!!!!!!!

Evidently, in NJ, there are wave heights of 20 feet. EEK!

5:49 pm

I'm putting up a new poll- you're supposed to vote after the storm passes you, but I'm posting it now, so it's sure to go up. BTW, you've gotta love Gov. Christie- he sure tells it like it is.

7:05 pm

The girls took me out during a temporary lull, but there were some impressive gusts. Here are some pictures from earlier this afternoon/ evening.

I also helped Tigs study

And hid under the dining room table.

STAY SAFE!!!!!!

7:58 PM

The electricity has started flickering again. Strong gusts seem more frequent.

8:46

We're hearing some big stuff fall right by us. Tigs wants to move to the basement.  Of course, when stuff isn't falling, it doesn't sound very windy. We're watching North and South, a very good BBC mini-series, on DVD. The girls are playing "what else was that actor/ actress in" with a fair amount of success. 

9:05 pm

We just heard something else fall, but it was further off...

9:25 pm

I wonder by what miracle we still have power....

10:00 pm

The wind is pretty calm now, and we haven't heard anything fall recently. 

10:55 pm

I don't hear anything outside, and haven't for a while. According to the NOAA, it looks like the worst is over. North and South just ended. Kanga was right that they would get engaged- not that the fact that she's seen it before would help her predict that- she said she could tell because he was mean to her. :)

11:02 pm

Tigger here disagreeing with Rosie's statement that the NOAA indicates the worst is over. According to their hour-by-hour windspeed chart, we haven't reached peak gusts yet and should be at peak gusts from about now until 2am.

Here we go again!

You may remember if you were reading this blog back in the first couple of weeks of its existence me writing about Hurricane Irene. (You can find  those posts here, here, and here.)Well peeps, it looks like another one of those big pesky storms is headed our way! Time for some more cute pictures of me wearing a rain hat, power outages, and lots of wind and rain. I am not a fan of either the wind or the rain.

This was from Irene last August. It's not nearly as green out there right now. I'll try to get another picture like this later today.

Today I have lots to do to get ready for the storm. I'm going to take the humans on a long walk so they don't get too destructive while we're cooped up during the storm. I'm going to go get some kibble and move things off the back porch. I might do some more raking, and I've been doing lots of laundry so that the humans will have clean clothes if the power is off for a long time.

WWFN,

ROSIE THE WEATHER DOG

Canine Heroes

image source: http://www.waff.com/story/19841874/lost-boy-kept-warm-by-puppies?hpt=us_bn8

I was about to post some pictures of me goofing off with the family, when Roo saw this post. DOGGIE HEROES FTW!!!!!!!!!!

Warning: The following story is so heartwarming it may melt your computer or mobile device.

A 10-year-old boy with Down syndrome reported missing in Hackleburg, Ala., on Tuesday was found on Wednesday morning along a creek near his home with a pair of puppies that rescue workers believe kept him warm overnight.

The boy, Kyle Camp, went missing Tuesday afternoon, his family said. Police, firefighters and as many as 150 volunteers launched an air-and-ground search that lasted well into the night, covering several square miles, Marion County Sheriff's Dept. officials said, and resumed early Wednesday morning.

Jamie Swinney, one of the volunteers, told WAFF-TV that he followed the Camp family's dog along the creek and discovered the boy in thick with the dog's two puppies at about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

"I heard the dogs barking again and followed him down there and started hollering for the puppies and I hollered for him and he hollered back," Swinney said. "He was in the creek about a half a mile over the ridge."

According to WAFF, the boy was found wet and without shoes, and officials "think the puppies kept him warm overnight."

The boy was treated for minor injuries at a local hospital and was released.

( article source yahoo.com)

(Note: Yes, the picture above is the heroic pups)

Love,

Rosie<3

More Autumnal Pictures

Fording a stream.

Climbing the hill to the pond

Preparing to jump across a fallen tree.

Looking noble at the pond.

The pond

Carrying home Daddy's travel mug.

WWFN, 

Rosie

P.S. If you read this in your email, be sure and check out the blog. I did some redecorating.

The day Tigger flooded the basement with fizzy water

Yup, that would be yesterday. So, it rained hard yesterday afternoon bringing in a glorious cool front (not cold -it's still about 61 F out there). Kanga went down into the basement to get something out of the freezer and she yodeled, " There's water in the basement!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" It was in a strange location and we were all standing around scratching our heads as to how it got there. (Hint: It wasn't Tigger who made this flood, nor was it the rain. The guilty person (wasn't me!) would probably like to remain anonymous.)

This would be me. I am not, have not been, and never will be responsible for any floods in the house.

Anyway, Tigger noticed that there were some boxes by the flood that were wet, so she asked Kanga if she should move them. Kanga said that was a charming idea, so Tigger moved one box. Then she went to move the other, and instead of dragging it like she had the first one, she picked it up. This turned out to be a failure of the policy of the Tigger Administration because a.) the box was cardboard, specifically WET cardboard and b.) the box contained 12 750 mL bottles of fizzy water. Did I mention that the bottles were glass? You can envision what happened I am sure...Somehow only 5 broke, but those were enough to make a big mess of broken glass and fizzy water and add to the flood.

Tigger- I still love ya even if you flood the basement because you take me on walks in the snow!

What is my house coming to? Floods from the roof, floods from the basement, floods from the Tigger, snakes in the house, squirrels in the yard, I tell ya, it's enough to make a girl want to find a new house to relocate her family to!
WWFN!

ROSIE, FEARLESS FLOOD RESCUE DOG

The Bears go on an adventure

Nabby and Buffy accompanied the humans on vacation, and went on their own personal adventure while they were in Tennessee. 

Proof that they went to the park

Fishing at the park...

Caught one!

WWFN,

ROSIE!!!!!!!!!:)