a yellow thursday and the bestest pressies ever!!!

so i'm apparently on a diet!! and what's this got to do with canary yellow you ask?

well they've started giving me yellow false food - see my roast duck & corn?, not funny!... is this some kind of weird joke guys?? and to add insult to injury...

they're letting the blackbirds with those mean yellow eyes and sharp yellow beaks steal my food! i tell'ya, having 2 babies to feed in a nest in our tree is no excuse guys... i am your number one charge... yes me! apparently i've got to eat it or lose it cos i'm on the 15 minute rule... hmmmm

maybe i will create a stash in the newly planted dwarf flax with their yellow flowers

b's mum and dad get us a garden voucher for xmas and we like to buy natives with it... oh and note the brick t in the previous photo... would that be t for trouble?... fess up c... tell everyone how you went through the water main with the spade, arf arf... tell them how it cost $325.00 to fix, choke choke...

then just when i thought life's getting a bit too tragic i got a pressie from sally ann and mack - how arfing cool is that!!! it's come all the way from atlanta, georgia, USA!!

the parcel has daisies all over it with canary yellow centres... rather fetching i thought and addressed to ME! how furry exciting!!!

after an intense sniff session and a thorough examination to check the beagles at the airport hadn't messed with my pressie... i delved in, nose first...

and there it was the coolest witches hat with scrunchy sounding brim and a ball peak... how wicked...

but wait there's more - whatcha mean ones for mollie? nah, addressed to me remember...

ooooo guys check this out... it's black and soft and nearly as cute as me...

and there's something soft and orange too! yes i know the post is about yellow, so i digress a bit who cares when there is a pressie unveiling going on...

woah look i've got the bestest black halloween cat...

and the finest orange mr pumpkin head... hey b he sounds just like a duck arf arf - oh dear somehow we seem to be back on the topic of false food...*sigh*

and there's the spooky witches hat that makes a cackley scrunchy sound... oh what plunder i have...

there was also a very cool card that we will keep for every halloween ok b! most definitely doyle... now which one is for mollie?

aw b do i have too, they are all way too cool, they are grown-up toys!!! aw ok, i spose you could put the cat aside for later... and we could maybe share it... maybe...

so will i be the biggest loser and shed my 2kg's?...

with friends like sally ann and mack i reckon i'm winning all the way! thank you guys i totally love my pressies!!!! you were furry, furry generous! (note from b: doyle has totally become infatuated with the pumpkin head to the extent he hid it, burying it like a bone, under his bed last night... very cute to watch! and yes, we have put the cat aside as a special toy for mollie.)

now because i think sally ann and mack are furry cool for sending me such a generous parcel of goodies i've made them this special award... guy's you are awesome, you totally rock! peace & loves ;D

next week blue wants to play violet woah that could be a bit of a challenge...

a black thursday

so b asked me this week to sort out a halloween costume, she just said to keep it black, i went off to look...

how about the cat in the hat?, not really black... a dementor?, that would be pretty dark... even a ghoul could do...

or maybe i should lighten it up a bit and go as a black dog arf arf arf... a black gorilla would be pretty cool... edward scissor hands even...

now edward kinda reminds me of lindie... she's awfully skilled with a pair of scissors... mmmmm now there's an idea, with a snip here and a snip there...

i will go as the emperor from the emperor's new clothes... how flash is that... i will just go butt naked!

blue's next colour challenge is gonna be canary yellow.... mmmm

a green thursday

so b's been a real pain trying to make me do a green post all about mollie...

b it's cheating, you are not playing the game... you are manipulating things to suit yourself!

we are going to post all the pics from our mollie visit doyle because mollie's a noob or newbie and that is someone who's a bit green...

woah talk about justification skills, hey i heard that noobs are usually annoying and excessively stupid...

so doyle if that's the case why did you chose your green 'acorn' dragon to take out to mollie as a pressie? did i twist your paw?

... yes!

we can post green cos mollie lives in clevedon on a farm with lots of horses, ragdoll cats, donkeys, dogs... doyle it's very green!

so big deal it's green out here, it's green at home too...

mollie's mum is cavalier named ruby and her dad's a minature poodle named ferrari...

mollie is a little shy...

our mollie at 6 weeks...

hey b... she doesn't look green...

ah the first kiss... may it last!

urban dictionary definition of conked out... "to suddenly be in a state of fully functioning to non-functioning...

waddling back to the pen...

mollie has 2 siblings, a brother and a sister whose going to become trained as an assistance dog...

mollie loved her comforter rug full of doyle smells and the green toy he donated for the cause... mind you so did all the others... wonder what state they come back in?

so when b wasn't looking i typed mollie into the urban dictionary to see if she was green oh boy, she's more than that arf arf and i quote... "in short, mollie means a) ecstasy. b) inexplainably cool. c) great in the sack. d) sex bomb... woofhoo that's one cool chick. yeah, she's a real mollie alright... arf arf!

doyle lose the green monster attitude ok, mollie is irish for mary... you can't get much greener than the irish! plus next week blue wants to play black and something tells me it's gonna be all about you!

a pink posting this thursday

so c has told b that she can't make mollie all cute and pink (snigger snigger)...

but b isn't going to let this one go, oh no, she's pretty determined to give mollie a sweet wee girl persona... she's been waffling on all week about how cool pink can be...

*note the wee puggy model is not mollie

good pink and bad pink huh, b says pink can be pretty funky, just think coconut ice...

she says pink can be very retro like this cool pink china piece...

hey b it looks a bit like mollie's furry mom!

i wonder if this could be a pink china piece depicting my furry momma?

blue's idea of pink this week is to support a lot of mums out there, you see, pink is the colour of breast awareness... and october is breast awareness month - this is the cool campaign running in nz we think it's sad but still pretty retro funk...
sadly c's momma, dianna, lost her fight to breast cancer...

b never met dianna but knows they would have been great friends, dianna was a 'hostess with the mostess' - we have this old polaroid of dianna and c's dad glen at c's 21st... c's the one hiding behind the bubbles, wonder if it's pink asti spumante... soooo 80's... OMD look at c's hair!!!

dianna loved to bake for partys, every time we see the kiwi classic pink lamingtons we think of her...

posh pink lamingtons

melted butter for greasing

½ cup self-raising flour

½ cup plain flour

½ cup cornflour

6 free-range eggs at room temperature

1 cup caster sugar

4 cups desiccated coconut

Icing

1 cup frozen raspberries, thawed

6 cups icing sugar

pink food colouring to colour

Preheat oven to 160°C. Grease and line a 4cm-deep, 23cm x 28cm lamington pan with butter and baking paper, allowing the paper to overhang edges of the pan slightly. Sift flours together into a large bowl three times. Beat eggs and caster sugar in a Mixmaster on a high speed for 5 minutes until mixture is thick and pale, then scrape into a separate bowl. Sift flour over egg mixture and gently fold until just combined. Spread mixture into a lamington pan and bake for 28-30 minutes until pale golden and sponge springs back when touched in the centre. Cool in the pan, then cover with a tea towel and set aside overnight. Turn out sponge, trim edges and cut into 24 squares. Spread coconut over the base of a baking tray. To make the icing, crush raspberries in a bowl with a fork, stir in 2 tablespoons of boiling water, then allow to cool for 5 minutes. Sieve raspberry mixture into a clean bowl, discarding solids. Sift icing sugar into a bowl. Combine ⅓ cup of raspberry liquid and 1 cup of boiling water, stir into icing sugar and whisk until smooth. Whisk in enough food colouring to reach desired colour. Dip one sponge at a time into icing, turning quickly to coat and allow excess to drip back into bowl. Roll in coconut and place on a wire rack to set. Makes 24.

while we are on the subject of mommas, b's momma is apparently going to fly up and visit me... woof hoo i am tickled pink, cos it will be a first and a major cause for celebration... b loves this pic of her momma and look she's got a pink plastic bag!

apparently after seeing the pretty colours in b's momma's photo b had an inspiration...

after much searching she has now declared this afghan is to be the colour inspiration for mollie and because she's my hooman momma i guess b's word rules... hey c got anything really really dirty to do???

pee ess - i was out minding my own business and i found b & c a pink flower on bodie's lemon tree... nice! we miss you bodie cat.

next week blue's colour of choice is green... hey guys that sounds kinda familiar...

a silver thursday

so doyle, you went to visit mr vetty on monday?

it's all good; everything is all good.

how you feel, yo?

oh man, you know i'm silver...

silver?

woof.. in the periodic table of elements, the symbol for silver is AG... AG... get it? All Good!

so whatcha got?

interdigital dermatitis... amongst my silver fur

sounds flash...

you reckon?... it's dam itchy if you ask me... mr vetty gave me some liver flavoured medicine...

hey b did'ya know 'livers' is a direct anagram of silver...

just thought i would pass on that bit of brilliance before i collape into my silver bed for another licking session...

so doyle... do you think we need to go on the silver computer and order you some silver sneakers?

aw guys get out of here now you are just being pitiful!

blue's next challenge is pink cos its breast cancer awareness month... nice!