Sookie Stackhouse Book Series

I discovered this series quite by accident. I was at the library and managed to check out the 8th book in the series - From Dead to Worse. This is another series about vampires. They are true vampires so don't expect to find any Edwards in this series. A co-worker received the first 7 books for Christmas so I was able to read them all in order. The 9th book will be out in May. All the books have the word Dead in the title. I love Sookie's character. She is telepathic and is hired by the vampires for her special talent or as she refers to it her "disability". These are books purely for entertainment. This series inspired HBO's True Blood series. I do caution they are not 100 percent clean cut books but I've been told they are cleaner then the TV series. I tend to trust people when they warn me against a certain TV show or movie. Most people know what a prude I am. Anywho check them out if you are looking for a fun, light hearted, fast paced story.

Something Just Ain't Right...

As Sully discovered when he went into the backyard this evening. Something sent him into guard dog mode. He was not a happy camper. My dog was actually barking - A LOT. This is not normal Sully behavior. So I went outside to investigate. I thought for sure I would find the kids next door either throwing rocks into the yard again or spraying water into the yard. Instead this is what I found. That's right folks a blanket hanging over the wall. This must be some evil blanket the way Sully was reacting. It totally made me laugh. This oh so dangerous, threatening blanket was causing my rottie to have an absolute fit. Sully sure does keep me laughing. It is never a dull moment around here.

Fun in the Backyard

Sully has discovered a new toy in the backyard. I thought he was eating branches off the tree. I discovered over the weekend that is was not the branches but roots from the tree. How did he find the roots you ask? He dug up the lawn next to the tree. Once he found the root he chewed it apart and then proceeded to pull it up across the yard. This is the whole he dug.

This is the end of the root.

I know it is hard to tell in the picture but this is how far he pulled to root across the yard. Luckily you can not tell in the lawn where you pulled.

Honestly have you ever heard of a dog eating and pulling roots out of the ground. I have a strange dog! Guess its off to Home Depot this weekend to buy some dirt.

Sully's New Toy

Sully gets a new toy whenever he has to go to the vet. This is the toy he got Saturday. He loves it and more importantly he has not destroyed it yet. Hopefully it will last at least a week.

Sully Weighs In

Mr. Sully went to the vet on Saturday. He now weighs...

79.1 lbs

My little guy is getting so big!

New Appliances

I had a new dishwasher and over the range microwave installed on Saturday. I love the way they look. I can't say I love the way they work because I have not had a chance to use either one yet. I decided to slowly start switching all my kitchen appliances over to stainless steel. What I failed to consider was how much Sully would like to lick the front of the dishwasher. It is going to be impossible to keep clean. But here they are.

Sully's smoking??

Sully was chewing on a treat a couple nights ago and it looked like he had a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. I thought it was pretty funny looking and just had to share.

I love this face!

Just had to share this hilariuos picture. Clearly my dog does not like getting his picture taken - which is evident by the look on his face in this picture, but I love taking them. Poor guy just has to suffer through it.

When the Universe throws a bump in your path - learn to jump.

Don't you hate it when thing don't go the way you planned? Friday I had big plans for work. I was going to work on the performance appraisals I have to have completed, approved and given by March 13. My parents came into town Thursday night and my mother was not feeling well. My mother woke up Friday morning needing to go to Urgent Care. My father had a doctors appointment he could not miss. So I needed to take my mother to Urgent Care. I called work to let them know that I would be in a late. My mother and I were at Urgent Care when it opened at 8:00 am and then on our way to the pharmacy by 9:00 am. I am thinking this is great - I should be to work by 10:30 am latest. I should have remembered what they say about counting your chickens before they hatch... We are coming out of the store from dropping off my mom's prescriptions and my front driver side tire is flat (but not completely). I can see the large head of what I thought was a nail at the time in my tire. I carefully and slowly drive to the closest gas station to put air in my tire. Then I take my mother home before heading to Discount Tire. I finally make it to Discount Tire without my tire going flat again. They ended up pulling out a bolt ( am still trying to figure out how/where I picked that up). By the time they were done with fixing my tire I would not have gotten to work until 1-1:30ish and I would have had to leave at 2:00 for an off-sight meeting. So I managed to only make it to the meeting that day. Looking back I am grateful that things worked out the way they did because if I had not taken my mother to Urgent Care then I would have either been on the freeway (in rush hour traffic) or downtown in the parking garage when the tire finally went flat. I learned that sometimes it is best not to question the universe.

Sullysitting or not...

Background - my parents were in town this weekend. My mother put 2 bananas on the center of my kitchen island thinking that Sully would not be able to reach them.

Saturday morning my father was in the family room on the computer with Sully. I assumed he would be paying attention to Sully. Well you know what they say about assuming... So while my father was NOT paying attention to Sully - Sully managed to get the 2 bananas off the kitchen island. Then he proceeded to lay down directly behind my father and eat both bananas. My father had NO IDEA what was going on until I asked why there were banana peels on the ground. The smell did not alert him or the fact that Sully was being too quiet. Unfortunately I had to immediately put Sully in his crate for the rest of the day (the eating incident happened at 8:00 am). I was so worried that when I finally got home that evening (around 6:00 pm) I would have a mess to clean up. But luckily Sully did not have an accident in his crate. So the moral of the story is Grandpas might be great at watching grandchildren but they are not so great at watching 11 month old rottie puppies.

If anyone was wondering Sully must have really liked the bananas. Other then the peels, there was not a trace left of the bananas on the floor.