Congratulations, Sierra! Chet’s April Friend of the Month
“The random number generator has spoken,” Admin says.
“And now that the fire trucks have left,” Spence says, “we can announce that what remains of the machine has chosen Sierra as the new Friend of the Month. On Monday Sierra’s photo will be over there on the right where Raksha is now. Sierra’s human companion – please email a postal address to spence.quinn@gmail.com and a signed copy of The Dog Who Knew Too Much will be on its way to you.”
Welcome Ozzie, Paddi Anna, Koko, Dante, Sidzilla, bunny-ear dude, Flower, birdwatcher, sunbather, toy catcher, Chauncey from Illinois, identity-issues dude, Gabby, Sadie from Tennessee, Mattie.
Tags: Friend of the Month, random number generator, Sierra, The Dog Who Knew Too Much
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9:02 am on April 1st, 2012
Congratulations, Sierra. We belong to your club!
We loved both movies last night.
9:04 am on April 1st, 2012
Good Morning
Congratulations Sierra. We’ll be happy to see you everyday in April.
I never dreamed that retirement could be so busy. If anyone asked me what I’ve done at the end of the day, I probably couldn’t say, but it seems that bedtime comes a lot faster than it used to. I have no trouble filling these shortened days; and, like most other retirees, I wonder how I ever found time to work. When I don’t have tasks of my own to do, my friends have a way of helping me keep busy covering for them in their stores and shops. Take that as a warning Dawson and Harris. Your retirement will no doubt be very busy also.
Now here is the April calendar page. Tyb is taking a break for the month and Blou is
doing the honors.
9:06 am on April 1st, 2012
Congratulations Sierra.
Good morning all.
9:07 am on April 1st, 2012
Good morning Oley, what movies did you watch?
Congratulations to Sierra, FOM. I had paws crossed for Beau, just so we could mess with Rio for an entire month.
BTW Rio, what did you mean by your comment last night? That we never stay up late, or that Barb has a hard time remembering things? Both could be true.
Thanks Macy for coming up with Everybody’s Talking At Me. 1969, Harry Nilsson, Rhinestone Cowboy theme song.
9:51 am on April 1st, 2012
I didn’t get FOM. Wah!
9:54 am on April 1st, 2012
Mom says I’m behaving like a brat and I should congratulate the winner. Okay, congratulations Sierra.
10:07 am on April 1st, 2012
I see we changed to DST the first Sunday in April, just like we last did in 2006. My guess about our software is that we have gone back to a very old version. Remember when we got new software so we could be more like Facebookie? That was not how we wanted the blog to work and we were conniping like crazy. B. said Mike Baker was so SOL and she attacked him with Melanie’s cane. Oh yeah, Mr. Baker will never be the same. That got us our old software back, but it was a newer old that let us have 100 posts to a page. Then the blog bug was attacking all the time so we were again conniping. Finally, one day, we had 50 posts to a page and the blog has been stable since then. At some point old software won’t work when a new operating system renders it incompatible, but until then we can carry on fat and happy. Then at the end of October we’ll go on Standard Time two weeks early.
10:31 am on April 1st, 2012
Congratulations to Sierra, new Friend of the Month!!! (Condolences to all the losers…you know who you are)
Good on ya, Macy, for remembering the words to the song and to Wolfie for knowing the composer and more.
MollyPop’s Mom proved herself to be blog software savy once again.
Did someone say something about pancakes with maple syrup and BACON???
BBL
10:33 am on April 1st, 2012
Drat! We are an hour behind again. Now I will have to think when I look to see what time something was posted. sniffle. Math is not my friend.
I was going to say Math is not my long suit but then I started thinking about that phrase. B? Does that have something to do with clothes, or cards?
10:47 am on April 1st, 2012
Tyb: Thank you for posting Blou’s April 2012 calendar!
Chet: We are thinking Spence and Admin should look into getting the random number generator fixed. And soon. It doesn’t sound like it is long for this world.
10:54 am on April 1st, 2012
“Not my long suit”. Perhaps with Bridge?
Interesting morning on the ol’ homestead!
Zoë and I went for the walk/run and while we were getting Mattie on her lead (she’s not called Waltzing Mathilda for nothing!) Ellie disappeared. Completely! Gone!
We called (since she’s deaf that really doesn’t work), Zoë used the emergency whistle (some times works), but NOTHING!
Ellie is 13. She has taken 2 of those Adequan shots. We wandered this way and that. We KNEW she wouldn’t go down the STEEP hill, because she’s 13!
I found her. She had gone down the steep hill and gotten stuck in a hole. Like a plug! She had followed the younger members of the Pack and investigated this hole then walk over it. Her back legs went down the hole and down she went. Hmmmm.
It was interesting getting her out. I had lots of help. Then everyone had to smell her butt then the hole then her butt and then hole etc etc.
Needless to say with all the excitement the dogs got very tired. They had to run down where I was then up to where Zoe was. Very exciting.
Anyhoo, The shots appear to be working!
10:59 am on April 1st, 2012
Ellie! Just because your mom uploaded that cool picture yesterday…remember…you are not a young pup anymore.
By the way,
Forgot to say,
Won the lottery,
Checks going out today!
11:09 am on April 1st, 2012
Greetings All!
Congratulations Sierra! And welcome all of Chet’s new friends!
Melanie: You and the Newfs always have interesting adventures!
Tyb’s: Thanks for Blou’s April page. Something to consider for the next Snowhook auction!
Bear and Macy: I love, love, love Harry Nillson! But being the font of worthless trivia, with your permssion, I would like to make a few corrections.
Everybody’ Talking aw not written by Harry. He was originally asked to write the theme, but the powers that be didn’t care much for it. The song was actually written by Fred Neil, and performed by Harry in the film ” Midnight Cowboy”.
11:11 am on April 1st, 2012
I really don’t understand why new software can’t be designed for the blog so that it looks just like this.
11:14 am on April 1st, 2012
B: MollyPop’s Mom could help!
11:19 am on April 1st, 2012
More two cents—the song Harry wrote for the film but was not used is The Lord Must Live Here in New York City.
Enough for now.
11:24 am on April 1st, 2012
Congratulations Sierra!
Fellow Sibers, What movies?
Thanks for the calendar, TYB.
March whizzed by fast.
11:36 am on April 1st, 2012
Congratulations Sierra. You look very wise.
Melanie – thanks for the forward; it’s a very good story. Yay. Plunderer cookies shared on the trail. 🙂
Have a good week, Everybody. (whisper – we have Harry Potter on our Kindle. That should keep Mom out of trouble for a few days.)
11:50 am on April 1st, 2012
Rose: That is interesting background information on the song(s) and the songwriter, Harry Nilsson. What a great talent!
11:57 am on April 1st, 2012
BearSpiritDog: ha, ha. Good one.
12:14 pm on April 1st, 2012
See you later to Raksha and welcome to Sierra.
Tyb: Blou is very well behaved among all those rabbits. There is a new Friend of Chet that is wearing bunny ears. (I was going to say rabbit ears but those are the things that go on top of really old tv’s.)
Mattie is a FOC! She is so excited about it that she ran off and got herself stuck in a hole. (Reminds me of a Winnie the Pooh story.)
Rio: Staff is next on the list for White Wings. Send it to her city address, I think.
Welcome to all the new Friends of Chet. What kind of cat is that dog?
12:19 pm on April 1st, 2012
Carpola!
My comment at 12:14 is awaiting moderation.
BearSpiritDog: Do NOT send my check to Canada! By the time it gets here (if ever) I will be long gone. Send it to my city address (Staff’s address).
12:25 pm on April 1st, 2012
C.Hobbit, you mean we shouldn’t keep checking the mailbox?? We thought BSD was serious about sharing the winnings!!!
Love the calendar page with Blou!
Melanie, could you list the ages of the pack?
12:46 pm on April 1st, 2012
Bear, could you please mail ours Express? We are sort of in a hurry for the money, since our retirement plan was based on a winning ticket.
We told youse guys the movies we were watching last night: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (English) and Midnight in Paris. We thought both were very good.
Tyb, did you see the new FOC who is also wearing bunny ears?
12:50 pm on April 1st, 2012
One of the new FOC’s is a tripaw. We have a sister that is a tripaw. Mom brought her home from the shelter to live here last year. She is missing one of her front legs at the shoulder but you should see her run and jump!! And attitude!!!! She doesn’t take any S*** from the rest of us. We think Mom should have named her Tippy, but she’s Miss Emmie.
1:00 pm on April 1st, 2012
Owley,
I did not see the other rabbit, but I’ll check right away. I have a friend who has rescued two tripaws (at different times) and named them Tripod. They had no trouble on three legs. My vet says dogs are built with three legs and a spare. Believe it or not, I even saw a three legged dog lift one of the back legs to mark a tree. It blew my mind how well he balanced.
1:07 pm on April 1st, 2012
I just checked out the rabbit eared dog on FOC. She looks about as happy as Blou does with the ears. I also noticed Sadie from Tennessee who, I think, is gorgeous. She’s got to be an ES and could be related to me. There is a strong resemblance and I don’t know much about my family background since I was a foundling.
1:20 pm on April 1st, 2012
Does anybody besides us think it is funny that Melanie still hasn’t won an autographed C&B book? She should have 9 chances!
Mom’s is wondering if Shiek, Annie, Ned, Chato, and Abby should each be a FOC.
1:24 pm on April 1st, 2012
“In many parts of Europe, an April Fools prank is called an April fish. The original, smelliest, version of such a prank was to attach a dead fish to the back of an unsuspecting victim; in kinder times a paper cut-out of a fish was substituted. The person fooled was called an April fish, meaning that he was a young fish who was easily caught.”
And, from the Farmers’ Almanac: If it thunders on All Fools Day, it brings good crops of corn and hay.
1:27 pm on April 1st, 2012
Howlers: Buddy may want to reserve that honor for himself along.
btw: BSD says to tell you: “The check is in the mail.”
1:28 pm on April 1st, 2012
alone
2:08 pm on April 1st, 2012
2:11 pm on April 1st, 2012
Ha Ha! April Fools!
2:24 pm on April 1st, 2012
Macy: Ha! You almost had us there for a minute, except for the tell tale date…April 15th.
2:26 pm on April 1st, 2012
Where’s Rio? We would have thunk he would have skunked us the Best of All.
3:12 pm on April 1st, 2012
When I was teaching French, I always hung a paper fish on the back of one of my students in each class on April first. They loved it.
3:22 pm on April 1st, 2012
What a great day Mama has been having. First they went with Gramp to a local sugar house and had pancakes and french toast with the maple syrup right out of the evaporator. Oh my!
When they left, Gramps got her one more treat – maple cotton candy. Mama usually doesn’t eat any kind of sugary stuff, but once a year at a sugar house…well, you gotta live it up.
Then they went to a country store that was full of neat whimsies and bobbles. Mama resisted most temptations, but Dad did get a “wrapple”- a kind of pie crust roll up with fruit stuffing. Of course, Dad can eat all that stuff and not gain an ounce. He has the metabolism of a gerbil on speed. Mama….not so much…
After they came home and gave us pets and tummies and cookies, they went to the clay place to drop off some new pots to be fired, and since they were halfway, they went to another country store. This place has all the best locally grown herbs and seasonings. Mama got some new herbs to cook with, and they got some catnip for you-know-who.
Talk about your April Fools – two zoned out Wrotten Kats, laying on the carpet. Now is our chance – if we can just get them stuffed in this box and ship it to Alaska….
4:21 pm on April 1st, 2012
TYB, You are right, Sadie does look like an ES. You don’t see too many clear sable ES. More of them tend to be tris or shaded sable like me.
That cat/dog reminded Barb of a story. About 10 years ago she went to visit an elderly aunt, who had grown up on a farm, then moved to town later in life. She had a feral cat that visited her and she always put food out for it. It sounded like a cat that had some sort of injury and could not move its back legs properly. Evidenly it sort of hopped, moving both back legs together. Some one started a story that it was a “cabbot”, half rabbit, half cat. Barb told her she had heard those urban ledgend stories before and that it wasn’t really possible to cross species. She could not convince her, even tho her cabbot seemed to only eat cat food.
4:45 pm on April 1st, 2012
Rio is too depressed because of not winning FOM to post. He should take comfort in the fact that at least Beau didn’t win.
5:18 pm on April 1st, 2012
Hospital!….snort!… We’ve had a very bad morning here…sniff!… Her mother hurt her ankle yesterday, but insisted on doing laundry this early am. Well she stumbled off the bottom step and really hurt her ankle…grunt!…My friend had to take her to the emergency room because she thought it might have been broken…wheeze!…Beau and I had to stay here. We had NO BREAKFAST! No pancakes, maple syrup or bacon…Nothing!….sneeze!…Anyways, those guys were gone forever and ever and we almost died dead of hunger. When they came back her mothers leg was in a cast and my friend had to help her hobble to bed…grunt!…Still no food for me and Beau. Nothing! My friend had to do all the errands and also make sure her mother was okay every 5 minutes or so…sniff!…We finally got some dry ole kibble to eat….burp!…April Fools Day!….snort!sneeze!
5:34 pm on April 1st, 2012
Rio: So sorry! Not a good way to spend a Sunday! Is the ankle broken or sprained?
5:42 pm on April 1st, 2012
Bear,
Did you miss the last line of Rio’s post?
6:06 pm on April 1st, 2012
Rio wouldn’t make that up for April Fools.
6:22 pm on April 1st, 2012
Yes!…snort!…Yes I would. Its not too far from the truth except for the steps and the hospital…grunt!…Her mothers been hobbling around here for 3 days now because she insists on watering the lawn with heavey ole hoses…sneeze!…The grass is large and lumpy and she turned her ankle something fierce, but won’t stay off of it come hell or high water…gurgle! …Beau and I did not get any pancake breakfast with maple sryup either…sniff!
6:36 pm on April 1st, 2012
Five!…My friend finished her fifth Flower Cart today…wheeze!…Those little babies are a lot of work. She made two with Pink, then one each of Blue, Yellow, and mixed Pastel flowers…sniff!…DONE!DONE! Now she can work on something new which will not be a flower cart…wuffle!
6:58 pm on April 1st, 2012
Supper!….OOOOwwEEEE!….I smell BBQ pork and scalluped taters for supper…snort!snort!
6:59 pm on April 1st, 2012
Rio: I am amazed at the amount of work your friend turns out. Amazed!
Hope your friend’s mother gets better soon!
Melanie: Thanks for AJs post. He is some writer and some guy!
7:01 pm on April 1st, 2012
I played a great April Fool’s joke on Zoe a LONG time ago. You see I was supposed to be born on 4/1 and kept her waiting for TWO weeks!
The Pack want to know where the fish is.
Hmm, I have yet to put ALL the dogs in … pondering.
7:06 pm on April 1st, 2012
I am glad Belle Starr is with Rose since she was not named FOC. Before we blurred to Rose’s she was saying things like, “This is my month. I just know it.” Disappointed Belle Starr’s can be a handful.
Belle Starr: You can stay with Rose though the end of the weekend. I dont wag you to wear out your welcome.
After weather delays, I arrived in Anchorage from Dutch late last night. My boss recommended I rent a hotel room in town so I wouldn’t be driving home so late. It was a good call because I could barely keep my eyes open. Before I left to go to Dutch last week, the awning over our front door collapsed from the weight of the snow. It was blocking my exit so I had to go to our back door we rarely use and dig out through shoulde deep snow to get to the car.
I missed all youse. I didn’t have access to Internet on my latest adventure.
7:06 pm on April 1st, 2012
I took YSAS to the train. We went the long way through the farm valleys. It was beautiful.
7:09 pm on April 1st, 2012
Rebeccer!…Are both you and AJ home sweet home now??…huh!
7:11 pm on April 1st, 2012
Hey youse Bella, (snicker) Glad you’re back. Is that giant back with you??
7:13 pm on April 1st, 2012
I’m sort of back. AJ is meeting me in town, the half way point between Anchorage and home to meet for lunch. It is our date since we haven’t seem much of each other since the race.
7:13 pm on April 1st, 2012
Rose!…Just so you know, your “idea” is up on the quilling-block next…heh!heh!…She doesn’t know if she can pull it off or not, so don’t get too excited…sniff!…She told me to tell you if the Pug-Mugs don’t work out she will make you something else – not a Flower Cart…wheeze!
7:45 pm on April 1st, 2012
Wow, we have lots of new friends today!
Welcome, everyone!
This has been a very nice, lazy day. Mom is making beef stroganoff, macaroni salad, and deviled eggs. She is trying out a new recipe that doesn’t use mustard, since she despises that yellow gunk. (We hope we are not offending any mustard lovers out there.)
Then she’s going into the sewing room and see if she can design some quilted ipaw cases for the Memorial Day MM.
7:59 pm on April 1st, 2012
Acronyms!…Guess we are all supposed to read each others mind…sniff!
8:01 pm on April 1st, 2012
Speaking of Acronyms …
TTFN
8:05 pm on April 1st, 2012
What does MM stand for Wolfie?
8:26 pm on April 1st, 2012
We were just going to ask that too. What is MM?
Watched a good movie this afternoon from Netflix. Simon Birch. It is older, 1998, be we really, really liked it. A little bit of a sentimental tear-jerker, but still good. Has anyone else seen it?
8:36 pm on April 1st, 2012
Hey, y’all! I’m a bit late getting on the blog today, but we’ve had a bit of a busy weekend. And my boy and his girlfriend and the two pugs ended up coming this afternoon instead of Friday, so they’ve just gone — thank goodness! Those two were getting all the attention and nobody paid any attention to me at all. 🙁 Mom kept trying to take pictures of all of us together, but I showed her! I wouldn’t pose with them at all!
The boy dog was a little tired and he ended up laying around a lot. On top of his heartworms he’s being treated for some kind of infection, so I don’t think he was feeling too peppy. He did get up and walk around the backyard a little bit when it got cooler. He’s kind of sad to look at, because he’s way underweight, and he has a rib that sticks out funny. The vet thinks maybe he was abused, and the rib healed wrong. He’s gained about two pounds since he came to live with my boy’s girlfriend. He really likes my boy, and he follows him around all the time, so I hope my boy gets to adopt him when he gets better.
As for the girl, she just kept smelling me. Silly girl!
8:52 pm on April 1st, 2012
Melanie: I just caught up on some of the blog. I’d like to get the email about AJ’s adventures, too.
8:53 pm on April 1st, 2012
The newspaper is the Daily Schnauzer. One year for AFD the Fort Worth Star-Telegram printed the living section back to front and upside down.
8:54 pm on April 1st, 2012
Mushers Mercantile?
9:04 pm on April 1st, 2012
Hi Kirby,
That’s it, Macy…Mushers Mercantile
Welcome back Rebecca, We missed you.
9:15 pm on April 1st, 2012
I sometimes used this site for Internet Slang acronyms: http://www.internetslang.com/
It is not foolproof…Wolfie’s MM according to the site means Married Man or Message Mode which doesn’t make sense in the context of Wolfie’s post.
After a week of temps in the 30s, I thought we were on the downhill side of winter. Then it was in the 20s and snowed heavily yesterday. {{{sigh}}}
I went to a indoor fair/show in Fairbanks and spent too much money. For some reason I have a hard time resisting those salespersons that demonstrate their products. They make their gadgets seem so indispensable and easy to operate!!! {{{sigh}}}
9:31 pm on April 1st, 2012
No truck for Snowhook, but how cool is it that the Mushing Mortician got one? Good Karma.
9:37 pm on April 1st, 2012
I just saw Trevor up above as a FOC and want to welcome him. He’s a great looking guy. I think he’s a King Charles.
9:46 pm on April 1st, 2012
I may be an April Fool but don’t care. If most of Rio’s bad news turned out to be not true, tis good to know nothing serious happened.
The raffle ticket winners are being announced on the Iditarod Trail Committee Facebookie page as we speak.
Welcome back from Dutch Harbor, Rebecca. We missed your posts. Have fun on your date with AJ.
See ya all tomorrow – Bear
9:55 pm on April 1st, 2012
Bear!…I didn’t mean to worry you for no reason…snort!…Grab an extra snack and all will be right with the world…heh!
Fence!…Did I tell youse guys our back fence is wibbly-wobbly because of all the wind lately?…snort!…Well some little pip-squeak was here looking at it and will be back on Saturday to “fix” it…heh!…This I gotta see!
10:04 pm on April 1st, 2012
My late lunch with AJ was delish! AJ did get his car stuck in the driveway when we got home and since I was behind him, I had to put the car in park and it immediately started to sink in all the slush. We have several feet of snow left to melt; it’s going to be a messy breakup season.
Memorial Day MM! Who knew?!?!
10:06 pm on April 1st, 2012
G&BB: did you ask about a photo of AJ a bit ago for the butcher or did I imagine it?
10:19 pm on April 1st, 2012
Good night all. Got a busy day tomorrow, so turning in early.
11:37 pm on April 1st, 2012
Well, we are probably too late to say hi to anyone, but it has been a super busy day, and we are just finishing up.
So, we will say hello and goodnight all in one, and we’ll see you tomorrow.
12:13 am on April 2nd, 2012
Handler Jeremy left yesterday to go home to the lower 48 before returning to work tours with the dogs in southeast again. My job tonight during chores was scooping and loving—-the latter being the more glamorous of the two tasks.
12:17 am on April 2nd, 2012
We are having a Memorial Day Musher’s Mercantile Mall, aren’t we?
Seems to me that the Commander mentioned it recently……..
12:19 am on April 2nd, 2012
Bella, somebody asked for a signed photo for a butcher, but I don’t remember who it was.
T and G, have your mum check her SDD.
1:07 am on April 2nd, 2012
Where was there writing by AJ?
Good luck with your slush, Rebecca. It was 88 here today.
2:53 am on April 2nd, 2012
Macy, they are referring to a posting on AJ’s facebook page.
8:57 am on April 2nd, 2012
Mama Rebecca: We had lots of fun with the Professor and Rose. Last night for dinner we each had our own rib eye steak. Do we have to come home? Rose says we never wear out our welcome.
9:01 am on April 2nd, 2012
Rio: Pug Mugs, that’s pretty funny! I won’t hold my breath, but anything your friend makes would make me happy!!!
10:47 am on April 11th, 2012
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