Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and YouTube Lovers…
Have you guys seen this one?
So very magical.
More loving slow motion big juice boys later…Cat, Daisy Lynn (Chaps and Emma ATB sending love from all of your rainbow ones.)
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and YouTube lovers…Wow, what a fun video. Can you imagine taking a walk on this beautiful path in Spain and happening upon the Morning Dew Sweepers? I love following them on facebook.
That guy in the back looks kind of like Burger King.
More loving the Sweepers later…Cat, Daisy Lynn (Chaps and Emma ATB sweeping rainbow dew from the early morning misty air)
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Lighting up the Season Lovers…It has been a few years since I lit up bassethoundtown. Grandma and I decided to get busy and make Daisy Lynn’s Howl-o-day season full of fun.
We have been working on it for a few days.
We knew an ice and snow event was coming today so I really made sure to wrap it up yesterday! Daisy Lynn was supervising from her perch!
This time the weather people were right!
We were in the path of the big ice and snow dump!
I took these pictures right at blue dusk.
Blue dusk is even bluer reflecting off the snow. It was pouring when I took these pictures but you can’t really tell. I love blue dusk.
Daisy Lynn was transfixed… (note Chaps bench)
She has not left this window all day!
Howl much fun!
Tomorrow I might get her out front for a few pictures but tonight she is staying firmly planted on the couch arm.
That is until she has to potty!
Then it is “Let me the heck back in Mommy!”
Of course a lady needs her “lady’s room” lit up!
More lighting up the season (and lady’s room) with love later…Cat, Daisy Lynn (Chaps and Emma ATB loving the rainbow lights!)
ps
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Slinky Lovers…Last night our darling Slinky crossed over the rainbow bridge due to complications from bloat. Grandpa, Chaps and Emma were waiting for her.
Slinky Halleran is survived by her Mother and best friend Maureen. Slinky was 10 years old.
Maureen our hearts go out to you at this very difficult time.
click poem to read
More Loving Slinky and Maureen Later…Cat, Daisy Lynn, (Chaps and Emma ATB leading Slinky to a rainbow cloud.)
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and favorite toy lovers…I have been blessed with bassets for 2 decades and I have seen hounds that like toys, kind of like toys, not like toys, and in Chaps case just one little toy that he would nuzzle for a few moments. It was so cute.
Daisy Lynn loves toys and she is the toy lover of the world! She does have a favorite.
Mr. Snake Toy. We name all of her toys which number at about 50.
She plays with it night and day.
She even sleeps with it. I find it in our bed most mornings.
So, you can imagine our fear that something would happen to Mr. Snake and of course it did. The wild squeakers were affected after I washed it. I was mortified. It did not seem to matter too much and some of the sound slowly came back.
I had cut the tag off so I had no idea howl to find another one. We got it at TJMaxx so they just get odds and ends.
I gooogled and googled but no luck…until Grandma and I walked into a boutique dog store in the mall!
A real Christmas shopping treasure! 3 Mr. Snakes!!!
I thought I was going to pass out! They had 3 and I bought 3! 1 for my place, 1 for Grandma’s place and one to keep in reserve.
Whew…
More loving finding treasures later…Cat, Daisy Lynn (Chaps and Emma ATB sending gifts our way.)
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Colby Chaps Lovers…Tonight I was wrapping up the decorations outside and turned on the Christmas special from Rockefeller Center. Daisy Lynn was looking out the window at my efforts…
Then I got an e-mail from my granddog.
What a star on top of a great day. My perfect Colby Chaps.
More loving family later…Cat, Daisy Lynn, (Chaps and Emma ATB trimming rainbow trees)
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and lighting up the season lovers…Today was a decorating day!
It was really pretty out and warm so Grandma, Daisy Lynn and I went for the big event…
Light up bassethoundtown!
The Mayor was a bit apprehensive of the lights at first but she ventured out to help.
Then the money shot! She actually went under the strand by herself.
Last year we did not decorate so it has been fun getting all of the fancy stuff out.
We have the other half of the yard to do next!
So, I have a question…do you decorate outside, inside, or both?
More loving lighting up bassethoundtown later…Cat, Daisy Lynn (Chaps and Emma ATB loving the rainbow lights!)
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Judge Kathleen Delaney Lovers…Well there is certainly order in her court!
The Las Vegas Sun reports…
Those working in the justice system often quip that “Law & Order” doesn’t prepare the general public for what it’s really like in a courtroom.
The joke isn’t usually intended to refer to courtroom décor.
But go to courtroom A on the 15th floor of the Clark County Regional Justice Center. On the bench is District Judge Kathleen Delaney, clad in a kelly green robe.
On giant canvases around the courtroom are photos of basset hounds — their ears floppy, their eyes droopy, their legs short and bodies long — professionally posed.
District Court Judge Kathleen Delaney, background right, presides over a hearing in her courtroom, which is decorated with oversized photos of her beloved basset hounds, at the Regional Justice Center Tuesday, November 15, 2011.
it’s a little-known fact that Clark County judges are allowed to decorate their courtrooms and choose the color of their robe. Judge Mark Denton’s courtroom has photos of the Hoover Dam. When Jackie Glass was on the bench, she wore a blue robe.
Delaney appears to get more grief for her dogs and bright attire than other judges who have decided to mix things up in their courtroom.
“Is there a difference?” Delaney asked, comparing her basset hounds to the Hoover Dam photos. “I don’t know that’s up to the beholder to decide.”
Some people think the dogs are goofy and silly. Delaney doesn’t see it that way. The dogs are a symbol of a serious issue in Las Vegas and elsewhere — animal overpopulation. Delaney is president of Las Vegas Basset Rescue, and all of the basset hounds gracing her courtroom were rescued.
“This isn’t me trying to say, ‘Look, I like basset hounds,’” she said. As for the robe, she chose green as a tribute to her father, because Delaney thought he would have really enjoyed it, and to honor their Irish heritage.
When Delaney’s docket was devoted only to civil cases, people didn’t seem to care about her robe and courtroom decorations. The snide comments and questions didn’t arise until she started hearing criminal cases, she said.
Weighty criminal actions — such as the one against Ammar Harris, who is accused of killing three people in a shooting and fiery crash in February on the Las Vegas Strip — go through Delaney’s courtroom. But Delaney doesn’t differentiate between civil and criminal litigation. Civil cases are serious and also deal with people who have experienced great trauma, she said. And civil cases can stem from heinous criminal cases.
“Her office is in chambers — she can decorate that all day long. The courtroom is a public space which is supposed to have a certain degree of decorum,” wrote one commenter.
Delaney, though, isn’t worried proceedings in her court will go to the dogs.
“I think people tend to forget that it’s there when the serious business is going on,” she said. “I think what matters is the seriousness of whatever is going on in the courtroom.”
Delaney says she always explains the robe and basset hounds to juries so they won’t be a distraction.
Some in the legal community have snickered at the photos, asking who has a sadder expression — the defendants who appear in the courtroom or the dogs who decorate it.
“I don’t know.” Delaney, said. “Do they look sad?”
Delaney suspects most of the naysayers don’t know the charitable organization behind the canvases.
For Delaney, it’s a way to showcase the rescue program and something she loves.
“It makes me happy,” Delaney said. “I assume everyone in court would want to have a happy judge.”
End of article…
Wow – that was really cool. I love these slice of life stores that come across the basset hound wires.
More stories later…Love, Cat, Daisy Lynn (Chaps and Emma ATB loving Las Vegas Judge Delaney!)
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Share Time Lovers…Are we all eating leftovers? hehehe
My sister sent me home with some delicious delectable delights after our wonderful feast.
Here I am with a few of my favorite friends…
Daisy Lynn was giving thanks as well. Get this!!! Audra, Colby Chaps and Abby sent Daisy Lynn a birthday present all the way back in July. We never got it until a few days ago!
Daisy has about 100 toys but this one really got to her. I am thinking it still have the scent of Colby and Abby on it. Audra always rubs toys on her kids so mine can enjoy it. Very thoughtful indeed!
More sharing….
Today Enzo turns 8!
And then it was time for a KY hot brown! I do my own twist and it was delicious.
Rye bread, onions, mushrooms, diced ham, turkey, jalapenos, broccoli, with a 6 cheese wine sauce topped with cherry tomatoes.
Ready for the oven.
Oh yes…we are very thankful!
More loving sharing later…Cat, Daisy Lynn, (Chaps and Emma ATB making sure that duck toy got to Daisy Lynn)
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and thankful for Colby Chaps Lovers…
Is this not the cutest picture? I adore Chaps son and it really warms the ole soul to seem himz. I am very thankful for him and his family…
He is such a joy.
More loving a joy boy later…Cat, Daisy Lynn, (Chaps and Emma ATB eating left over rainbow turkey and stuffin’)
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