Long Time No Post!

Some might think we have abandoned our blog... Nope. We're still here. Busy, but here.

Here's the re-cap of what's been going on around here...

Nell's parents got married in September. Nell had her pictures made... very pretty Nell. (Pictures by Medina Photography)

While the parental unit went on their honeymoon, Nell attended camp at Auntie Mary's House. She made friends, but prefers to be an only child.

Jasper came into rescue in early October. He was a stray and lived on the streets. He some how lost his eye, so we almost called him "One eyed Jack"... but we kept Jasper's name. He went to a LOVELY couple in Maryland. When the new owners came to pick up Jasper, he was scooped up off the ground and his paws never touched the floor after that. You know he's being spoiled!

Right after Jasper left, Bandit came to stay with us for a weekend. He is a former BT Rescue alumni. Very shy and independent guy.

After Bandit left, Frankie came into rescue... He was a BIG boy! He would make an awesome agility runner!
And after Frankie got adopted to a VERY nice couple up in Maryland, Nell got a new sweater handmade by her mommie. Doesn't she look great?

And now, we're getting ready for Christmas...

Where did 2008 go?
Nell and I hope everyone had a wonderful 2008 and looking forward to more adventure in 2009!

Yes, we're still around...

Psssttt... Hey, it's me... Nell. Mom's been too lazy to update this site. I swear... Do I have to do everything? It's been a hectic few months in our lives. Mom and dad's getting married in 11 days... mom keeps sending me to camp because she and soon to be dad has to go out of town... Riley, foster dog is finally out of my life... but I fear she will be sending me to camp again. *sigh* I do like camp tho... I get to beat up my previous foster minion Oscar. He was the one that was found in Maryland's landfill. Oscar's my bud.

My lovely auntie got me this... How crazy do I look? Why do people think we have to be dressed up? We have fur... we like to be na-ked...

Auntie... just wait until the baby arrives. Mommy's going to send you some awesome costumes for your baby. hehehe

Whale Watching & Lobster Bake

Early Saturday morning, we headed out for the whale watching tour. It was cloudy and cold. But we weathered the cold and bundled up.

Here's the light house we saw on the way to the whale park.

Birds that got really close to our boat.
I have videos of the whales... but I can't figure out how to get it on here.... We saw several whales coming up for air. It was amazing!

Coming back into Bar Harbor...

Margaret Todd... I wanted to go on this for sunset cruise... but we couldn't fit it into our schedule.

After the whale watching tour, we grabbed lunch at Rupununi Restaurant. SO had lobster roll and I had the crab quesadillas. Very good lunch. After we walked around Bar Harbor and shopped, we returned to the hotel to let Nell enjoy some fresh air.

Nell contemplating life.

Nell not enjoying the walk on the pier

Then came time for the lobster bake. Not only did we have lobster, we enjoyed some mussels. OMG... I'd go back in a heart beat!

Freshly steamed!
After the lobster bake, we all decided to go back to Jack Russell's for after dinner drinks.

Here's Butch. Butch's owner has a new book coming out soon.It's called My Buddy Butch.
Here's my favorite BT from the Woofboard. Seamus... look at the pouty lip!!!!

Woof!Fest 2008 Friday night dinner with the pups

We all got together for the first gathering. Dinner at Jack Russell's. Their food was DELISH! I had their filet and SO had the crab cakes. I tried SO's crab cakes... OMG! They were out of this world! Nell managed to snarl at almost all the dogs, but hey, she didn't bite.

Here's beefy! You can see the brindle Memmy in the back!

Here's Pepito... the emperor!

Here's Nell, dressed in her Tar Heel sweater. It was little nippy out!

And Nell... contemplating...
I wish I had more pics of the gatherings, but we were having way too much laughing and eating.

Woof!Fest 2008

Nell, SO, and I headed up to Bar Harbor, ME for the Woof!Fest 2008 (gathering of Boston Terrier lovers) for the weekend. It was awesome to meet other boston terrier owners. I know... some of you will think I'm crazy for taking a trip up to Maine to meet people from the web, but when else can I enjoy lobster bake and whale watching? When opportunities knock, I go.

To save some money, we flew into Portland, ME instead of Bangore, ME. Once we landed, I made my SO take me to the Portland Lobster Co. for lunch. Mmmm... lobster roll.

Nell was stuck under the table.... poor girl. What am I? A second class citizen?

The view from the restaurant deck... Nice, calm and quiet.

Nell's still mad at me for not sharing my lober roll.

To make it up to Nell, we walked into Fetch, an awesome pet store to get Nell a little treat.

Look what she got from Fetch... her own lobster!So after lunch, we drove to Ba-Haa-Baa... 3 1/2 hours later, we're finally checked into the hotel!
Nell claims the bed...

View from our "panoramic ocean view" room...

Our own beach...

View from our deck

Nell enjoying her loot... the official Woof!Fest gift bag!

Our Annual Maryland BT Specialty

We had a great turn out at our 2008 Boston Terrier Club of Maryland's Black-Eyed Susan Specialty. Over 80 dogs were entered, and we even met some people from the famous Woofboard! The weather was wonderful! Our rescue table made some money from our merchandise table. Thanks for everyone who attended... and for those of you who didn't... we hope you make it next year!

Here are some pics:

Here's Nell telling me to turn the air conditioner on in the car.

One of the MD club member's dog Meizzie the Entertainer.

Club member, Ivy Rose getting ready to wow the crowd.

Our Woofboard friend, Frank the Tank.

MD club member's puppies... Soooo adorable!!!!

Woofer's Turner and Duncan. So handsome!

Woofer's Della and Dreamy. Sooo pretty!

The Ag Center was also holding the Alpaca show, so I had to go take a look. By the way, they do not spit!

Nell and Jack -----> Twins?

I spend my day browsing Woofboard and low and behold, I noticed a dog that looked exactly like Nell (down to her left front white paw)... I thought maybe I had posted her pictures long time ago and I just forgot about it. But when I looked at the user id and post date, it was posted that day. It turns out, pictured boston's name is Jack. Jack and Nell comes from Maryland, but Jack is few years younger. There MAY be a possibility that they are related... but I do not have all the information about Nell, but I do have her breeder's name, so when I can get my act together, I'd like to get in contact with him. So you tell me... do they look like twins?

Where has Nell been?

Nell's been chillin on the couch... as usual. It's been busy couple of months... planning the wedding, selling my condo, trying to buying a townhouse, dealing with bank owned properties... you know... life just keeps getting in the way. :-) Anyway, it's almost spring in the DC area. Cherry blossoms are in full bloom. Nell has been looking forward to sun bathing.

Who's over there?

Do you love me?

I see something I want to roll in...

Our cherry blossom tree in our neighborhood

Preeeettttyyyy...

Mom, where's my cookie?

My favorite tree... I can't believe the leaves are already coming in!

Thanks for lookin'!

What!?! It's 2008????

OK... so Nell's owners are bad people... they have abandoned Nell's blog for 2 months! We appologize... we've been super busy... So here are the recap:

PICTURE WITH SANTA

Marty and Nell got their picture taken with Santa. Aren't they cute?

MARTY GETS ADOPTED!
Nell's thankful Marty got adopted before Christmas. Marty is now a resident in Baltimore.

MERRY CHRISTMAS - 12/25/07

We spent our Christmas down in NC as usual... before we left tho, Nell announced that she would like a picture with all the presents...

Here's Nell with her big BONE.

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY NELL 12/31/07

Nell, your parental units wish you years of happiness.

It's already DECEMBER!?!?!?!

It seems I have neglected Nell's blog... so... Let us catch you up in what's going on in Nell's world. Marty, the foster dog, is still with us. He made the Thanksgiving trip down to North Carolina with us. We were worried about his "hyper" behavior, but he did pretty well. The only thing he destroyed was Nell's clothe crate... grrr... bad dog!

Here's Nell positing with the antique Boston Terrier statue Jonathan's grandmother has. Nell saids: "Am I prettier than the statue?"

While Nell posed with the statue, Marty is running wild outside... ahhhh freedom! Marty enjoyed running without his leash. His favorite hobby... fetch and running.

Do you think he's having a good time?

Marty's ready for a nap!

Nothing much have been going on. We're getting ready for Christmas. They had a picture date with Santa last weekend. We should get the picture back on the 15th, so I'll post the picture once we receive the pic.

We're looking forward to going back to practicing Rally next winter. Nell will be competing for her Advanced title in the spring.

Happy Belated Holloween!

Happy Belated Holloween!

Bad mom forgot to post the pictures. Nell was a ballerina this year. She looked very pretty. Unfortunately, none of the kids came for a visit to give Nell a milkbone. Poor Nell.


Marty's still with us. He's made himself quite comfortable. You judge for yourself...

Say Hello to Marty

Here is our newest foster. His name is Marty and he was an owner surrender. He is 22 lbs of love and snuggle. I have to say, he is the best foster ev-ah! He's house trained and loves to retrive stuffed animal. He knows give me 5, high 5, sit, and learning down right now. He's a pretty quick learner. He won't be in rescue too much longer. Yeay for Marty!

Why am I gated?

See, I can sit

I need a nap!

I'm not hording! We're just having a huddle.

Miss Nell, why don't you like me?

Thank you Jenny!

Nell's friend Jenny in NYC sent her a little BT with Hello Kitty. While Nell's parental units were in Japan, they had scored some Hello Kitty doggie clothes... but Nell was too big for them.

Thank you Miss Jenny!

Nell's Napping Positions

Nell is lounging around in my office today while I work from home. There's a nice sunspot in my office in the afternoon. Here are some of Nell's napping positions.

Nell Protecting the Stove

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Poor Nell... it's been thundering all night. Everytime it thunders, Nell runs to the kitchen mat. It's her safe spot. Had to take a video of her panting to show the world we have a boston terrier that is fearful of thunder. Poor girl...

Long time no post...

Well, summer is almost over. Guess what Nell has been up to? That's right... lounging around in the sun and keeping the couch warm. Nothing changes around here...

A weekend trip to St. Michaels and Easton

For our 4th anniversary, we decided we would take a little weekend trip to St. Micahels and stay over night in Easton, MD. It was humid and hot... and probably should have asked a friends to watch Nell, but she came and braved the weather. Nell did awesome and even let some people pet her. My boyfriend surprised me by proposing to me at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum. We're getting married. Nell will now have a mom and a dad!




Everyone at the restaurant loved Nell. Everyone referred to Nell as "the smiling dog".


Nell standing in front of the Thor sign.

Finally.... we arrived at the hotel in Easton... only to find out that the air conditioner in this hotel could not be adjusted to each room's likings... booooo


One of my favorite signs... "Dogs welcome... Children must be on a leash!".

Christmas in July presents

The Boston Terrier online community I belong to had "Christmas in July" event. Nell received her present from Max and Karla in Texas. Of course, Nell shared her loot with Yoshi, our house guest. But after watching Yoshi with the toys, Nell got VERY nervous...

Nell is content with her stuffy...

Until Yoshi got a hold of the lady bug

Yoshi wanted to kill the lady bug...

Nell gets VERY nervous.

Yoshi wonders why his parental units do not belong to the BT community...

Nell looks pretty for the camera.

After all the playing and modeling... they needed to refuel.

Nell earns her Rally Novice title!

After we finished up in Fishersville, VA, we made our way to our hotel in Harrisonburg. Since Nell did so well, she received her treat... an empty soda bottle.

Today was the Harrisonburg show. The Rally trial was being held in a barn, so Nell felt she had to smell everything. We lost some points for "tightenting" the leash. We scored 92 and came in 4th place. With three qualifying rally-o scores, Nell received her Rally Novice title!!!!

CONGRATULATIONS NELL!!!!

Nell takes 3rd in Fishersville, VA AKC Rally Novice A trial!

Nell and I started our AKC dog show round yesterday in Fishersville, VA. We left at 7:30 AM and thought we were doing really well on time... until we saw the state tropper shutting down I-66.

A lot of cars waiting for traffic to reopen.
They had to call the medi-vac...

Nell waited patiently....


We met another boston that does rally-o. Her name is Rosie... but yesterday, she felt it was too hot to pay attention to her mom.


Mom... is it our turn yet? I'm bored.


Nell placed 3rd place and received a mug for "highest score for boston terrier".

Nell goes swimming

We packed up our stuff on Friday moring at 4am and headed down to Mooresville, NC for our weekend visit with 'da family. 6 hours later, we were at the lake, relaxing. Poor Nell... she was our source of entertainment.

I know you're going to take this life jacket off any minute now...



I'm not coming down the hill. No way!

Darn it... When I say "NO", what part of NO do you not understand?

I don't like you right now... See the death grip I have on this float?

Congratulations Nell!

We had our first AKC Rally competition today at the Mattaponai Kennel Club Nell competed in the Rally-O Novice A class and she did wonderfully. She scored 90 out of 100! When we first got to the ring, while the Advanced class was still carrying on, I tested out her "sit" and "down"... well... she looked at me like I was telling her to cook my breakfast. She gave me the blank stare... more like, "Show me the treats first". After I worked with her and gave her TONS of treats, she remembered how to "sit" and "down".

Our first station was "Halt, sit, down, walk around dog". Of course, I was nervous and Nell knew everyone was watching, so she decided, instead of sitting, she just decided to lay down "frog style"... all spread out on the ground. Nell, that cost us -5 points! Everything else went great. We have -2 points for tight leash walk and -3 points for something we couldn't read on the judge sheet. Perhaps I was too far away from the station.

Overall, our first competition was really fun and perhaps, I will spend some weekends going to other competitions so I can at least get her jumped up to the next class. :-)

It's been awhile

I've abandoned Nell's blog for awhile due to busy schedule, but we're back! To recap, Nell had two weeks vacation at Aunt Mary's while we were in Japan/Singapore/Bintan Island. We had a great time, but we terribly missed Nell. She was also glad we came back safely, as her "only child" syndrome was over ruled by Aunt Mary's boston terriers.

We're now back to our routine schedule. Nell will be participating in her first AKC Rally-O trial this Saturday!

Here are some pics of our trip -- We took over 500 pictures!:

Osaka Castle:
My niece Sophia Hana:

Bintan Island resort:

Nell and Yoshi (foster dog) relaxing:

Yoshi wonders why he can't be up on the couch with Nell.

Rescue Raffle

Here's the picture of the raffle basket that's being raffled off at the Black-Eyed Susan Specialty show in Westminster, MD on April 14th! You can't see it very well with the cellaphane, but here are the contents:

• BT Slippers
• Black Tote with dog paws
• Stuffed octpus
• BT Sun Catcher
• Mother Nature treats
• Treat jar
• BT bobble head
• Water Bowl - ceramic
• Black leash
• Gold BT picture frame
• Greeting cards and decals
• Blanket
  

Look what the beads fairy brought...

I haven't beaded in a LONG time... I went to the bead show in February. All the beads that I bought from there are still in my bag. BUT, since our Black-Eyed Susan Specialty is coming up, I figured I'll go ahead and make some earrings and other cool stuff and donate it to the rescue fund. Would you wear that if you got one?

Being a model is hard!

Zoe's Collection is doing a photo contest... so I thought I'd enter Nell into the photo contest. It's not as easy as I thought. But Nell looks good!


Nell throws a tantrum for not having her Evian water...

Nell saids, "You think it's easy being a model?"

Cricket was adopted!

Congrats to Cricket for finding his new forever home!!! I'm so happy for him... although I would have loved to have kept him. He was such a good boy! Be happy my sweet boy!

2007 St Patrick's Parade in Old Town, VA

We had a chance to take advantage of the warmer weather on Saturday and go check out the St. Patrick's Parade in Old Town, VA. Animal Welfare League of Alexandria was there before the parade to do a fun dog show. The also marched in the parade. Old Town is such a dog friendly town. I love it! Here are some pics from the parade.

Cute bulldog with a tu-tu.

Dressed up in beer costume.

Greyhounds celebrating St. Patricks day!

Had to go meet the fellow BT owners.

Orange Dog...

My friend's 10 year old pug. She's so cute.

Yikes, he's taller than me!

Nell chilling in the sun. She wasn't too keen about the parade, but she got a lot of rubbing from strangers. :-)

Accidental Amputation of Mr. Frog

For Christmas, I bought Mr. Frog for Nell. She had a smaller version of Mr. Frog and I figured she'd enjoy carrying around a bigger one. Fast forward to today... Mr Cricket LOVES all of Nell's stuffed animals. It would be OK, except for the fact Cricket likes to perform surgery on these toys. We would find random hand and feet left on the carpet.

Well, today was another accidental amputation...

The guilty....

and the Angel:

Mr Frog will be admitted to the stuffed animal hosptial for observation.

Burrrr.... It's Cold!

We got our first snow yesterday. None of us were ready. No matter how much we cranked up the heat, it just seemed like both of the bostons were freezing. So, I had to put their sweaters on!


Nell with her sweater that she got this past Christmas. Doesn't she look happy?

Nell and Cricket on the couch together.


Sweet ol' Cricket sitting on the floor admiring my camera.

Sad news to report...

Socrates: 1995 - 2007

We have a sad news to report tonight. Socrates has crossed the bridge. His foster mom said that when she returned from work on Friday, he was just not himself. He finally let his foster mom know that he was ready to make his last journey. Rest in peace you sweet boy!

Nell enjoys her cupcake!

Happy 3rd Birthday Nell!

Nell's birthday portrait.

Nell's cupcake with "3" sprinkled on.

Bon apetite

Mmmmm... peanut butter and cake....

 

I know you're planning on something...

Well, my BF and I am thinking about going to Japan in the spring. We were looking at the temporary itenerary that the travel agent sent us... Nell being the smart girl she is... she started pouting since she will be staying with someone while we are away. Can you tell she's already dissatisfied?

On the side note, CONGRATULATIONS to Appalachia State University football team for winning the NCAA Division 1 National Championship two years in a row! We got together with some of the alumni in Reston, VA restaurant to watch the game. It was an awesome game! 

Christmas pictures

Very artsy fartsy huh?

Why? Why do I let my human do this to me?

Where's my cookie?

That's it... I want my union rep here now!