12/22/2009

Dashing thru the snow!

Woo there! I'm still enjoying all the snow! All day long there have been guys with loud machines throwing snow all over the place, and then Mom took me fur a walk! It was kinda fun! the snow came up on both side like walls, and sometimes I couldn't even see over them! Mom made a little walking video fur woo - its a little hard to tell how deep the snow is, but take my woo fur it, it was deep fur around here!


mom & I walked all the way around back so I could watch some of my little friends sledding. It looked like fun! I'll be I could pull one of those sleds for a really good time, ha-roo roo roo!


How woo are all enjoying your snow, or lack of snow, or whatever.

a-roos to yous,
jack a-roo

12/21/2009

Winter Solstice Memorial 8 PM


Please join us at 8 pm your local time in a moment of silence for all those Siberians who have crossed North of the Rainbow Bridge this past year.

It's been a particularly hard year in the Siberian blogging community, so many heartbreaking losses of so many wonderful dogs. And sadly, several more have recently received devastating news about their health.
We hold all of woo, each & every one, in our hearts tonight.




" So to all of the owners lighting a candle, may knowing that others are
lighting candles bring you comfort. To others lighting a candle, know that
all of the dogs listed here brought some sadness, but mostly they brought
happiness to their owners by sharing their lives with us.

And to the Siberian Huskies listed, Godspeed!"
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Dearest Star, sweetest Tori, amid our tears we also have hearts filled with gratitude, we were honored to live with you, you filled our lives with great joy and beauty.
A-roos to yous!

Love, Mom & Dad, and of course, Jack a-roo


Snow-Snow-Snow!

Woo-hoo! We got lots of snow! Not sure what the official total is, but our house must have been extra blessed cause we had even more snow than any of our neighbors!

I have such a nice mom & dad, they went out to clear my yard up a bit this morning.

I snoopervised.


Thanks, dad!

Thanks, mom!

Back on my bench!

End of the day results:
the Jack a-roo Mountains!

And guess who gets to be King of the mountain!

a-roos to yous,
King Jack a-roo from his mountain-top ice palace!

12/19/2009

PUPDATE! It's beginning to look a lot like....

...snowfall! I was wooried that maybe the big snow as going to skip right over me, but.....

10:30AM PUPDATE: 15 " & counting!

Mom cleared a little spot so I could go out, and I made myself a race course!



late Saturday night:


Rescuing my huskyhead toy!


Finding my ice cube!

see woo later this morning, once the sun is up & the fun begins!
a-roos to yous,
jack a-roo

12/18/2009

Friday Foto

Dear Santa Paws,
If woo will look at this picture, woo will see why I need sum new toys fur Christmas. Just to be clear, this was not my fault, it was the evil squirrels. They should get a big hard lump of coal in their stockings, that's what I think! I have been a furry good boy.

Sincerely,
Jack



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I do still have a few toys, here's some happy time to get the weekend going right- the music is the Cheiftans from their Christmas Album -The Bells of Dublin
"The Arrival of the Wren Boys"
Even with no snow and no playmates, I can still have fun! That brown thing on the grass is my "duckball". After the squirrels ripped the head & a foot off my duck , mom fixed him up so I could still play with him, khool, huh?

Have a furry nice weekend!

A-roos to yous,
Jack a-roo

12/16/2009

Jack's "Best Christmas Picks"

Ha-roos efurryone!

It's that time of year - got to let Santa Paws know what it is woo really want. A new squeakie to destuff? A new chew-toy? How about a big fat jar of extra yummy treats?

Well I finally found what I really want. I just know many of woo out there (especially of the Siberian persuasion) will want this too!



LOOK! It's

Watch the video! Grab that plastic money -
order yourself up a whole truckload!


Just get your humans to drop bags of this stuff all around your yard. The commercial says to "add water" but I'm pretty sure pee will work just as well. (and who cares if its yellow snow?) Woo'll be doing zoomies, digging & snowzing in snow in no time!

Better get your humans on board quick - they have one of those great "TV special offers" going on right now.

At last! No more depending on Mother Nature's whims!


a-roos to yous!
Jack a-roo

12/15/2009

Ghosts of Pengies Past

*Please go visit our dear friend, Khyra. Her sibe-sista Kyrye left for the Rainbow Bridge yesterday, after 15 long and happy years here on earth. We're wooing sadly for our friend, yet happy cause we know Kyrye is running free & once-again healthy in her silver harness North of the Rainbow Bridge. Run free, beautiful Kyrye, along side our other angels*


Mom was looking through pictures
of Pengies from the past.
2002
Christmas- Brand new A. Penguin!
Pengie survived Star, Rosie, & Sherman relatively in tact
and then, in
2007
Jack arrived.
posing for the Christmas card
by March 2008...
2008 summer- New Pengie!

Star manages to keep new Pengie safe fur a while:


2008 - late summer Whoops

2008 Christmas: Another New Pengie!
This pengie had a short life.
January 2009....poor flattened Pengie!


No photographic evidence remains.
But the squirrels did it, really.
No new pengies since then.
Maybe Santa Paws will bring me a new pengie this year?

Check out this khool King-size Pengiun:
He's guarding a little bridge near our house and we get to say ha-woo on our walks.

Hope woo have a woo-nderful Wednesday!
a-roos to yous.
Jack a-roo

12/14/2009

Pengie Alert!!!!!

A-roos to yous!

I guess by now, woo all know by now how much I love my Pengies!
A little package came to our house & when we opened it up... it was a Pengie! Sooo cute! Thank woo sooo much to Cap'n Mav's bipeds - Cecile & Lisa the Not-so-Mean fur sending this to us, mom loves it.

And its not just any pengie... its a DADDY penguin with a little pengie chick poking his head out from his daddy's feathers! That's because its the dads that take care of the eggs & chicks all winter long. What nice dads! It's going to go in the cupboard right next to the Pengie bead Tehya's mom made fur me.



a-roos to yous,
jack a-roo & two pengies too

PS - I'm not sticking my tongue out at woo, mom was holding a cookie & I was just getting ready to taste it.

12/12/2009

Remembering...

Today was Sherman & Tori's birthday. They would have been 7 yrs. old today. I'm keepin paws crossed they're celebrating with Angel-food khake and heaven's version of Frosty-Paws at the bridge tonight!
Mom had planned on posting these and a few others, and I woo'd that she should go ahead in remeberance, so here they are:

Pup-pup-puppies Winston, Tori, & Sherman - 4 weeks old.
Sherman and Tori as young adults.

And one of me & Miss Tori & enjoying one of our outings earlier this fall.


These pretty flowers were sent to us by our Ohio friend Phred, in memory of Tori. They're so beawootiful, and very fitting, cause Tori was so beawootiful.
Thank woo Phred!

Phred knew Star and Sherman furry well when they lived in Ohio. Here's Dad with Star & Sherman, Phred with Cinder, Bowzer & Smokey at the Husky Hike. Bowser, (a husky-corgi? mix), is now playing at the Rainbow Bridge with all our furiends, too. I hope he gets a big dollop of frosty paws!


Last night mom's Auntie Jeanette crossed her Rainbow Bridge. (She was 92 years old!) Maybe she'll drop in to the pawty tonight at the Rainbow Bridge, to pass out snooter kisses & belly rubs!

efurrybody goo hug yur fur-kid!
a-roos to yous,
Jack a-roo


12/11/2009

Time to trim the tree?

Ha-roos! All week long I've been hearing about how much snow some of my Siberian friends are getting. This is me in my yard this morning. What's missing?

That's right, THERE'S NO S-N-O-W !!! We get a lot of no-show-snow here on the coast. The bipeds say its because of the salty ocean air - it keeps us a little warmer than inland, which means they get snow, we get slushy rain. We also get lots and lots of wind, which means we get lots of ice instead of nice fluffy snow. I don't mean to complain, but a foot or so of fluffy snow here would be nice. Maybe that's what I'll ask Santa for.
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Isn't that a fun drawing with me in the header? Thanks again to the girls at Zoolatry. Such talented paws! And in keeping with the "trim a tree" theme, I'll show woo some of my favorite ornaments.
My friend Mikki's mom made us the husky ornament last year - isn't it siberiffic? It was mom's idea to put that stupid squirrel right next to it. She finds it amusing, I don't think it's funny at all.

And here are three furry special ornaments. Its a tiny Sherman, Star, and Rosie!

And here's my most favoritest ornament of all -A. Pengie! Mom says she's had this ornament for many many years, I'm glad she still does!

Mom also told me I am not allowed to destuff the little penguin. She put him up out of my reach, but I'm furry good about not taking things off the tree. How about woo?

a-roos to yous,
jack a-roo

12/09/2009

Wednesday Woos-Update on that snow


My mom's got the right idea... Thanks, mom, I love my new sign! Let's hang it outside, maybe it'll help.

a-roos to yous,
jack a-roo

PS - Wed--this morning we barely had a covering of snow.

Then it turned into slush falling from the sky, and now there's rain & wind blowing blowing blowing!!!!!
Poor St. Francis, now he's ankle deep in freezing cold water! I've decided to sleep in for the day.
Z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-

12/08/2009

Outside my window

Shhhhhhh....... he's right outside my window....

Come closer......


No, no! Not that way! Don't go up the pole!

Geesh, mom, maybe if you wouldn't have taken out the flashie beast....*sigh*

One last chance....

Pfttttt, stupid squirrel, no fun at all.

a-roos to yous,
Jack a-roo

12/06/2009

Unexpected!

Hey, what's this? could it be....? It is! SNOW!!!

Aw, look at woo, Mr.Huskyhead, woo look cold & wet.

Hey mom, do woo think I could take him inside?

There, there. I'll get woo all cleaned up in a jiffy!
It was wet, it didn't last, but it was SNOW!

a-roos to yous,
Jack a-roo

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Thank You
We're overwhelmed by all your messages of sympathy for Tori, each one means a great deal to us. You understand the bonds of love we have with our fur friends, and how each of us dreads the day we have to say goodbye. Thank you for taking the time to come visit and leave a kind word. I'm sure that Tori's family in Ohio will also read them and find comfort knowing how many hearts Tori touched in her short time here with us.

Pat & JoJoe

12/05/2009

Heartbroken


The seeds of love grow quickly
when planted in the fertile heart.

So short a time together, too short, and

too full of struggle and heartache,

my little one.

Add your light to the Heavens
and be at peace.


Friday, 12/4 7:30 pm

After beating the odds and surviving surgery for a dangerous perforated bowel, she seemed to be making a slow recovery. But it was not meant to be.

Tori is following in her brother Sherman's paw prints to the Rainbow Bridge. She accepted her path with grace, it just took us a while to catch on. She let us know it was ok to release her, she was going to be alright, and she wasn't afraid. I marvel at her simple acceptance of that which I find so unacceptable.

Godspeed, beautiful Tori.
Wear your silver harness with pride
as you dance in the stars above.
You will always be in our hearts.