Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and The Lily Book Tour Lovers.  I have been talking about our tour for 2 years and we finally made it happen this summer.  We left #bassethoundtown on June the 5th after many hours of planning.  By many, I mean MANY!!!

I could hardly believe we were on our way.

The Mayor Daisy Lynn was all packed up along with a large amount of Lily Books and marketing packages.  Part of the planning was scheduling marketing stops along the way.  I guess you could say we were a well oiled machine!!!  (With lots of potty stops;)

It cracks me up howl organized we were heading out.  At certain times during the tour it looked like we were fleeing the scene…

Our first stop of the trip was just an overnight in Knoxville.  We do not like to drive more than about 4 to 5 hours so that is a lot of dog friendly lodging and dining.  All of it will be documented and reviewed on #bassethoundtown.  I will share with TripAdvisor, various facebook pages I run, and some other dog friendly sites on the web.  I did too much #PPP  which stands for proper, prior, planning not to share with others like us who travel with their dog and look for affordable and safe options.  On another note – it seems to me that affordable is a bit overstated.  Wow!!!  The costs of lodging is really getting out of control.

First stop –

Knoxville, TN – we barely knew yee…We got up early, had our breakfast and rolled down the road to Asheville, NC – So pretty we planned on a 2 day stay!

More about our next stop later…Love, Cat, Grandma, Daisy Lynn (Chaps and Emma ATB reading the Lily Book…)

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and soon to be Pig lovers…Wow – This hound harkins from my neck of the woods and I would love to meet such a HERO.

Nelson County man holds burglar at gunpoint with help of family dog…

By Travis Ragsdale

Posted: Jul 03, 2017 9:29 PM EDTUpdated: Jul 03, 2017 9:37 PM EDT

BLOOMFIELD, Ky. (WDRB) – An 18-year-old man is in jail after authorities say his plan to burglarize a Nelson County home was thwarted by a Basset Hound named Pig.

The Nelson County Sheriff’s Office says it happened around 4:30 Saturday morning at a home on Goodloe Avenue in Bloomfield.

Chris Stevens and his wife Heather were asleep Saturday morning when their dog Pig began barking near the door to their 13-year-old daughter’s room.

“Usually she (Pig) doesn’t just bark for any reason,” Chris Stevens said. “So my wife got up to go see what she was barking at.”

Stevens says once his wife was in the hallway to see what Pig was barking at, a man’s arm appeared to be coming from inside their daughter’s room trying to ‘shush’ the dog.

“Of course she screamed,” Stevens said of his wife. “I jumped up, grabbed my weapon. I walked right into his face; I mean literally, I was face to face with him.”

Stevens said once the person inside their home saw the gun, he immediately began to comply with commands. Luckily, the Steven’s daughters were in Chicago at the time visiting family.

“He went through her dresser drawers and ransacked a few things in there,” Stevens said.

Stevens held the suspect at gunpoint for around 20 minutes he said, before the Nelson County Sheriff’s office arrived to arrest the man.

18-year-old Garrett Harlan Inghram was arrested and charged with 2nd degree burglary. It’s believed that he entered the house through a window leading to the bedroom.

“He was dressed all in black,” Stevens described. “Black pants, black hoodie, black gloves, black backpack.”

But for Stevens, he said the real hero and the reason the situation didn’t escalate further was his dog Pig.

“If it wasn’t for her, I don’t know what would have happened, I truly don’t,” he said.

End of Article…

Wow – who knows why this JackA$$ was attempting home invasion but in KY we have a horrible heroin problem.  Thank goodness for Pig.  I think that Daisy Lynn would do the same thing.  While we were on the book tour a man came out on the balcony next to us to take pictures of the sunset and when Daisy Lynn saw him she started a very low growl.  In all of our travels she had NEVER growled at anyone.  I totally trust her instincts.

Be careful resident. Be careful…

More loving Pig later…Cat, Daisy Lynn, (Chaps and Emma ATB watching over all of us…)

LINK TO VIDEO

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Howllow Fellow Basset Hound and did ya miss me lovers…

Mayor Daisy Lynn, Grandma and I have been gone for a month on the Lily Book Tour.  Only one of many but albeit the longest tour.

We are now home – #bassethoundtown…

From the hot white beaches to the cold mountain tops we marketed the Lily Book from sand to mountain ridge.

You can see it all in the back of the basset hound hauling vehicle.

You can read it all in the upcoming weeks on this blog…

Join us on our journey please…

Much, much more later…Cat, Daisy Lynn, Grandma, (Chaps and Emma ATB and along with us in spirit the whole time…)  WOW!!!

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and things you do for love  – lovers…Romeo was over last week for his Summer vacation.  Well, our big, big guy gets so hot…I had the AC turned way, way down and a fan blowing on his butt…

bassethoundtown was as cold as a meat locker…and this little piece of meat needed her gully blanket to stay warm…

I think this is an age old problem with couples – one is hot and one is cold and the fussing over the temp is always and issue…

Daisy Lynn says, “as long as I have my gully I am good with the big guy turning down the temp”.

More loving the things you do for love later…Cat, Daisy Lynn, (Chaps and Emma ATB in the perfect temp…)

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and blast from the past lovers…

Wow – so many memories when you have a blog.

I took this picture in May of 2009…

8 years ago.  8 years ago I was loving these faces.

I am so happy they were in my life and they continue to be a strong force day to day…

So many lessons learned…

Thanks to the residents for letting me share them with you.

More enjoying the past later…Cat, Daisy Lynn (Chaps and Emma ATB helping Mommy…)

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Signs from the Rainbow Bridge Lovers…A few mornings ago I woke up to this…

A very vivid and bright rainbow patch on the rug right next to my bed.  I opened my eyes and this is what I saw…

So, I grabbed my camera – (yes I sleep with my phone and with Daisy Lynn;) and snapped a picture.  These moments are fleeting so we must act fast.  Just as I snapped the picture the rainbow disappeared.  Just like that!

So, I went out to the sun room, which by the way is one of the darkest rooms in #bassethoundtown, and looked around to see if I could find the channel my late hounds were using…

Look what I found…

This crystal item hangs from the chandelier in the sun room.  Can you see the sun hitting the bottom of it.  Talk about a channel…

This is a broader view…

A whimsical dog fairy and an acorn to remind me we all start off small (or as a nut) and grow into something mighty…

What a way to wake up…

Or not…

More loving signs from the rainbow bridge later…Cat, Daisy Lynn (Chaps and Emma ATB and shooting through the channel…into my heart:)

 

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and super summer Sunday lovers…Today Mayor Daisy Lynn Rudert and I switched from winter to summer mode at the headquarters location of #bassethoundtown.

Interestingly, we have never used our slip cover for Daisy’s couch.

Soooooo pretty!

When the sun shines in the windows it throws a pink hue over everything.  Wow!

Pink is her signature color!!! It makes me smile!

More loving smiling later…Cat, Daisy Lynn, (Chaps and Emma ATB laying on pink clouds 🙂

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Beach towel lovers…Grandma and I have been looking for a beach towel for Daisy Lynn which by the way has been so much fun.  In our quest for the perfect towel to match ours and bring out her own true beauty we stumbled across this set.

They are not beach towels but I was looking for a towel that was not quite as big as a beach towel for Daisy Lynn so I can carry it in my beach bag.

These were such a great deal I bought them for both of our bathrooms…

So cute…Grandma loves hers…

And an additional one for our Mayor…

What do you think?

It’s a little hard to see from this pic but of course there will be many more to come, mostly covered in sand!  hehehe

Do you think the colors will bring out her true beauty???

More loving true beauty later…Cat, Daisy Lynn (Chaps and Emma ATB laying on rainbow beach towels…)

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Howllow fellow basset hound and walking hound lovers…Well, well, well…this really came up on us fast.

Here is the flier for our next walk.  Print it out and hang it on the fridge at basset hound viewing range!!!  It’s their big day…

Do any of the resident have plans to attend???  I sure hope so!  We all love it so much..

More getting the wieners ready on the silver platter later…Cat, Daisy Lynn, (Chaps and Emma ATB eating rainbow wieners and walking on clouds…)

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Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and Spring Time Lovers…The weather has been so nice this week so we decided to sniff on over to one of our favorite spring time parks…Ault Park.  If you live near by you should make a point of heading over to this wonderment.  The strolling is top notch.  The home surrounding the park are just beautiful – what a joy…

Daisy Lynn just loves the fresh spring grasses and we did a lot of sniffing around…

Ault Park, in our opinion and research, has the best cherry blossom display in the area.  We did not catch it at it’s peek but it is a gamble unless you follow their facebook page, which I do, but I missed it.  Regardless – some were still in bloom and it was, GLORIOUS…

Daisy Lynn was so good.  She is just a joy hound and we love her.  She is the boss in our family and we know it!!!

More loving the spring time and the boss later…Cat, Daisy Lynn (Chaps and Emma ATB under rainbow cherry trees…)

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