Taking down the Christmas tree sure looks like hard work....

Which is why I'm glad the most that was expected out of me was to lay quitely on the chair... I sure hope they move this over infront of my favorite window soon... the backyard is very boring to look at!

I'm back!! (again)

Hi all! 

I know it's been a long and beagle-less month for all my readers... sorry about that guys, but trust me its been worse here.  I've barely seen either of my parents all month long.  M has been super busy with this thing humans have called "jobs"  I don't see what all the fuss is about those, but apparently that's what keeps me well fed so I guess it's important that she has one, since I don't like to be hungry (I don't like to be ignored either but whatever).  And C has been super busy in the basement, but more on that later.

So it's been a long month for poor little me, but many things around here haven't changed.  For example the Christmas tree is still in the living room!!  That's good for me because I like to hide under it, M seems to think it's embarrassing though, I've heard rumors it's coming down this weekend, I better enjoy it while I can....

I still do naughty things, like stealing items off the counters and eating them...

caught in the act darn it all!


I still love animal crackers...

 (don't worry I got one)

and of course I still love to sleep... good thing too since that's how I've been filling my time lately...

But then again many things around here changed this month primarily due to C since M was nowhere to be found... I'm super excited because the dark scary basement, with the super scary open stairs has become a wonderfully cozy "movie room"

turns out the stairs aren't so scary once they are covered in carpet

and thankfully the movie room turns out to be another pretty excellent place to take a nap!!

As the beagle of the house...

I consider the floor to be something of my domain...

I play on the floor....

I scratch on the floor...

I eat on the floor (too quickly to take a picture of) and I sometimes nap on the floor....

So when something shows up that will be sharing the floor with me, I am not necessarily thrilled about it.  This Christmas Grandpa B thought it would be fun to get C a jeep to play with....

Here I am assessing the threat posed by the noisy newcomer...

Here I am attempting to threaten the newcomer....

Here I am running away from the newcomer...

And here I am deciding it is a better approach to hide from the newcomer...

These are the times I do not like sharing the floor... M & C however seem to think this is hysterical ... so in retaliation I ate M's shoe.... (again, I've been caught red pawed with this one before)

And her magazine....

And also something called an oven mitt... M was too horrified by that one to take a picture of it, just pried it out of my jaws and told me "you'll be sorry"... but honestly it didn't bother me, I'm something of a garbage disposal.  That should teach them to put things I don't like on my floor.  But I will say thank you to Grandpa B... I've had my eye on the oven mitt for awhile now, I was just waiting for a good excuse and it was delicious!!

Merry Christmas!

As you can see I am all tuckered out from all the holiday festivities..

 I had a big day, what with checking out everything under the tree...

 And working to try to get at the dinner leftovers...

Plus the excitement of opening presents, it was all a lot for me to take in... so here I am resting with my present from grandma and grandpa B....

Later on I got snugly with M on the couch.....

And that was how I spent my Christmas... I hope that all my friends had a very happy holiday!

Also just so you are aware, I might be taking a brief hiatus in January.... M has a lot of work to do at her job and apparently won't be available to type out my wonderfully entertaining thoughts for you all.  Rest assured though, I will be back in February!

A dog and a sac

As my followers may have noticed, my blog hasn't been as active lately as it sometimes is... this obviously isn't my fault since I'm not the one who types it.  My typist however has been preoccupied lately something about "the holidays" and also a project that C has embarked upon.  He is building himself a theater room in the basement.  I have mixed feelings about this, first I am hopeful that he will enclose the stairs so that I will no longer be afraid to venture down them.  Second, I'm jealous because right now all he does is work. 

He is making much progress...

M meanwhile has been either assisting C or attempting to get ready for the holidays in a flurry of activity that included making me pose as Santa and baking a lot of cookies.  Cookies are great, but all this has meant that I have been left alone quite a bit, which for obvious reasons I do not enjoy.  Thus I saw fit to take out my frustrations on M's sneaker....

But today they came home with a fabulous thing called a sac... something kind of like a bean bag chair but big enough for multiple people to sit on and not full of beans.  At first I wasn't sure about it, I am suspicious of anything that shares the floor with me.  But after awhile M heard me barking in the living room and found this...

Me squarely in the sac, barking my approval... clearly this is the best dog bed ever!  And supersized for me!  So excited that my parents bought me a gift to make up for my abandonment.... then I sadly found out that is wasn't for me...

M better watch out for her sneakers and C better make sure I don't get a hold of any of his hats (have we ever discussed how I like to eat hats?)  that's all I've got to say about it!!

It snowed!!

I really want to go outside!

I spend a lot of time napping but....

My dedicated followers will recognize that I spend much of my time like this:

However, that doesn't mean I can't move fast when I think there is something worth moving fast for.... food items would generally fall into that category, as would the arrival of M or C (as long as I'm not asleep, sometimes when I know it's them I don't even bother getting up) or preferably the arrival of anyone of my grandparents.  When either of those two things happen there is quite a lot of motion involved on my part as you can see...

DID SOMEONE SAY COOKIE??!!

Oh boy!

Here I come..

This is super exciting, I am so hungry!

Look I can clap my ears together...

I better hurry... what if someone else shows up first...

Almost there... luckily my ears can also help slow me down... kind of like a parachute on a drag racing car

Gimme cookie, now please!!