HAPPY NEW YEAR

Twas the night before new year
and all through the house
the sundogs were thinking
no way will we be quiet as a mouse!

Come on new year, come on down here!
we've stories to tell, been silenced so long
Mom says she has figured out how to get those internets
And says this time she isn't singing that same old song!

So all of you have a very good new year
we are wishing for a kind and gentle one that has
jobs for those who need them, health &happiness too
just a year to be a good one for all the masses.

okokok  No more attempt at poor rhyming.  Within a week or so (depends on work schedule of the company.  Kinda when they can get to us.  Oh and TV too.  Scooter misses his Animal Planet.  Seriously) the sundogs will be getting internet at home, so we can post on our blog and visit our friends too.

We do want to show you our place-and the assorted livestock around us. Like this guy who came to visit and hung out on the back porch.........

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!!!!!




 

Merry Christmas to All!

As we await Santa over at our human sister's house, our girl is waiting for Santa to make his way around the globe.  She knows she has to be asleep before he can come to Texas and it is still too early for him.
Before we go to bed, we will read, as we do every year, the wonderful story of the very first Christmas when angels appeared before a babe in a manger. 
We send you joy, peace, and good will toward others no matter what your faith is.. 
Merry Christmas to all, and to all a very GOOD NIGHT!!
(Dang Blogger won't let us to a picture......just imagine us all spiffy and stuff :-)

OPY, Run Free

I could not believe the news of Opy's trip to the Rainbow Bridge when I got a chance to get on the computer. 
My heart breaks.  The Queen of DWB has joined the King, Charlie- where the sun always shines, where they are young painfree and can have all theMc nuggets and full happy meals-fries, all the cheeseburgers they want.  Heck Filet mignon if they so wish.
Opy was not so Gruff really.  That is why I love this picture of her smiling. She and her King of DWB, Charlie, leave a legacy that few if any dogs can claim.  (With the help of Brooke and Gregg), they began a family, a community with a kinship I've never seen among people from all over the globe.  A family that shores oneanother up when needed-giving comfort(which I have been the recipient of when my mom died.  and for reasons I cannot explain, it helps.) and when needed pulls together to help folks out in other ways.
The Texas Sundogs bow in respect and will howl to the Heavens tonight and many nights. 
I, Jamie, the human, will send prayers and hold Brooke and Gregg very tightly in my heart. God Bless y'all my Aussie friends.  You are being sent hugs from around the world and I only wish that there was something, anything that I/we could do.
so much joy, so much pain "when you give your heart to a DOG to tear".
Bye for now dear OPY.  Just for now.  BJP, try to do all you can to help out your mom and dad.  I know you will miss her too.
Sad, sad licks and hugs
Jamie and the Texas Sundogs

Yes, We Are Still Around

We have a chance to make a quick post.  As some of you know, we do not have internet at our new place yet. We now live out in the country (still Denton county) on about 2 acres in a small old farmhouse.  when we can, we will show you pictures.  We hear the cyotes sing their haunting tunes.  the crickets, singing frogs, and the buzz of the locusts.  we hear all manner of bird calls and watch the buzzards loop their lazy circles.  we also have hawks big enough to carry little Scooter dude off, so he is under close supervision!
Not only do we have tree lobsters (squirrells), but rabbits everywhere. (And yep, some snakes, but it was right off the freeway where we lived before that I killed a snake in the bathroom in the house)
In short, we now live on a nice quiet peaceful piece of country.
Scooter is doing well.  He turned 13 on 9/13.  Sunny turned 9 on July 8. Nevermind how old I was on my bday 9/29.........;)
Hope we will be back soon with pics.  We miss all of you.
God Bless and Hugs

Busy, busy back to packing

Well, it looks like it is going to be a very busy month for us. (ok, mostly Mom-that opposable thumb thing.)  We have found out that finally the time may have come for us to pack up and move from Casa de Tejas Perros del Sol. (If mom remembers any of her 2 years of Spanish in high school, that should be close to" the house of the Texas sundogs")  We think we have about 30 days to pack and move.  Soooooooo, all that catching up we were planning on doing, will be every now and then.

Hopefully Mom can find us a place to move that will be nice.   Scooter is doing stretches to loosen up his muscles so he can do some of the heavy lifting...good idea Scooter dude.

I am taking a minute to watch for one of those tree lobsters.  Hope we will have them wherever we end up.

Then a little cardio so I can help too.  We will try to come by as we can.  Mom is a bit stressed out, but figures we can do anything we set our minds to.  Wish us luck in the packing and finding a place to live! 

Don't forget us, as like Patton, We shall return!  And hopefully post once a week.  Visit here and there as we can..

Hugs

Sunny

This bite's for YOU..dumb troll

I have ginormous teeth.  Just sayin.........

Sunny here.  Mom got so disgusted over some "jerk" who made some atrocious comments on her Memorial day post she just didn't think about blogs or blogging for the last week. ( Also, she had more dental work, yipeee.)
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(*note from Jamie to mr"Ashamed  to be an American".  You are lucky you hide behind a computer and never said those things about my Dad to my face.((Your voice would have raised by numerous octaves...just sayin))  But then since you are a coward, you never would have.  As far as spitting on his grave, calling him a warmongering baby killer,etc, etc, I forgive you for that because obviously you have the IQ of a gnat...Also, may I suggest if you are so ashamed that you move.  Oh wait, that's right,my Daddy and countless others have allowed you freedom of speech HERE. You are Sad and pitiful...get a life. )

We will be coming by our friends and catching up as best we can.  And of course, we, both Scooter and I, always have alot to say.  Today is just to let y'all know why we haven't been around and why comment moderation will now stay on.  AND the Texas sundogs always have each others "six" (means we have each other's back, as y'all who are friends with AO4 know)
Hugs

Sunny

On behalf of a grateful nation: Memorial Day Monday

The last Monday of May is Memorial Day.  This is the day we honor our dead who have served our country.

It is the only day the flag is flown at half-staff until noon, then raised again until sunset.
It is not the day we thank our veterans who are still with us.  That is Veteran's Day.
It is not just to honor those who fell in battle.  It is for any veteran who has died by any means, during war or peacetime.

You familiar with this blog know that I come from a military family.  And I wouldn't have it any other way.
I grew up on bases, hearing TAPS.  Played each evening as the flag is lowered and signifying day is done.(During the civil war signifying go to sleep.)   Since attending my first military funeral(my cousin in the Navy), it became a very different song to me and can bring tears to my eyes immediately.Especially since my Dad's.

Please take a moment to say a little thank you.  If not for them, we would not be who we are today.  Thank you also to all the volunteers who spend days putting a flag on each and every grave in our National Cemeteries.  Thanks from me to you, I appreciate it.

Three volley salute (often called 21 gun salute, but that is actually only for a Preident of the United States.) There are 21 bullets fired, just that 7 rifles, fire once,lower rifle,2nd time, lower rifle, and third time, lower rifle, and march away.

Taps(bugler is always off from where the family is) 

The flag is lifted and crisply, precisely folded, then given to the presenter(at the head)

It is then given to the next of kin.  At my Dad's, to my mother. As he gives the flag, he says to her/him:

"On behalf of the President of the United States and a grateful nation, please accept

this flag as a token of the honorable and faithful service of your loved one."   

 

I hope you do take the time to say thanks. And to be a part of "a grateful nation".  

God Bless them all. And I will be thinking of all the sacrifices all have made for this country I love.

Jamie 

(pictures of actual services are not from my Dad's, they are from internet) Those of you who have known us for sometime also know it was this time last year that Mom was laid to rest with Dad.