Ginny Tata-Phillips's Blog, page 11
May 20, 2016
GRANDbump
My sweet daughter is 39 weeks pregnant this week. Never having carried a child that long, I feel for her. Just because my two pregnancies resulted in births prior to this week was no reason for me to expect the same from her. She reminds me that not only are no two people alike, but also no two pregnancies. She is wise….wiser than her mama!
So she glows and she grows and she rests and contemplates the wonder within. This child shall not always be within my daughter’s belly, but she will always be within her (and MY) heart.
Blessed Be
In DoG We Trust
Filed under: babies, birth, daughters, Family, grandparenting, Love, pregnancy, The Basset Plantation Tagged: baby, Birth, daughter, family, grandparenting, love, pregnancy
May 19, 2016
Pucker Up!
For Throwback Thursday – here is my kissy boy 4 years ago when he was new to us!
Who kisses better?
Rescued Bassets or Bullies
At the kissing booth.
In any case, In DoG We Trust
Filed under: Basset Hounds, Dog Rescue, Dogs, haiku, Pets, poetry, Throwback Thursday Tagged: basset hounds, Dog Rescue, dogs, haiku, pets, poetry, Spotsylvania, Throwback Thursday
May 18, 2016
Wordless Wednesday
Filed under: Blog Paws, Dogs, Pets, The Basset Plantation, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: blogging, BlogPaws, dogs, pets, Spotsylvania, Wordless Wednesday
May 17, 2016
Tongue Out Tuesday
We asked for Tongues Out
and we got this one from our
Alabama friend
and the ever popular Watkins had a great one on his Christmas Greeting!
In DoG We Trust
Filed under: Dog Rescue, Dogs, Friends, haiku, Pets, poetry, The Basset Plantation, Tongue Out Tuesday Tagged: basset hounds, Dog Rescue, dogs, Friends, haiku, pets, poetry, Tongue Out Tuesday
May 15, 2016
Mondays With Maggie
My friend, Maggie Honnold is going to guest blog for me the next few weeks. She is launching her own blog so eventually one will blend into another!!!
She is an author, Basset Hound mom, budding photographer, widow, mediocre cook and lover of everything humorous, Bassets, Birds and Blending, so she proclaims. Here is her first guest blog!!!
A Ginny Limerick
A recent visit to Ginny, left me without a penny
But I don’t really care
For in going there
I came home with house plants a many.
So, I am not a Haiku poet, but to grow a friendship one does not need to have every single interest match – just blend companionably. That is how it is with my friend Ginny Tata-Phillips, we blend. Our friendship began back when I discovered a group of folks who loved Basset Hounds. Ginny helped me with my first Basset puppy, Hollyberry, introduced me to Basset rescue and adoption, and continues to flood me with Basset care information and encouragement that is much appreciated. We have each had 7 Basset Hounds in our lives.
My newly discovered interest in photography is also being encouraged by Ginny. Here are a couple of pictures taken on my visit to her house last week. I was able to blend both her love of birds and my fascination of photographing them, a visit to the Pigeon Palace, and participate in Chicken Happy Hour, indulging our mutual enjoyment of a good wine. I am a sweet preference girl and Ginny a dry girl but oh well – we blend.
Ginny is encouraging me as a budding writer too. My rescue, Noah, has his own Haiku published in one of her books. She has edited some of my Basset poetry, and was thrilled for me the first time I was published. And now I am excited to “guest” on her blog as “Mondays with Maggie” begins another blended area in our friendship.
Friends like Ginny are a precious part of my life. She grieved with me at the time of the fire that took my home and the lives of my precious pets and spread the word so help began to pour in for our family. She held my hand long distance as I cared for my Alzheimer’s- ridden husband and she has taken time to support me in my grief recovery and my attempt to build a different future for myself. Ginny rocks – there is nothing more to say, except “thank you my friend.” The blending of our lives is a gift I will always cherish and I hope “Mondays with Maggie” will go on for a long time.
Filed under: Basset Hounds, Birds, chickens, Dogs, Friends, Pets, The Basset Plantation Tagged: basset hounds, birds, chickens, Dog Rescue, dogs, friendship, love, pets, poetry, wine
May 12, 2016
Jack(queline)
These facts I know to be true:
My daughter is pregnant
The baby will be born this year
2016
If we are all counting correctly, we are at 38 weeks gestation
http://www.thebump.com says my Grandbump is the size of a pumpkin.
This is the pregnant one many years before the idea was a gleam in her eye (I hope!)
So for this week we shall call The Grandbump Jack(queline) cuz Jack-o-Lantern just is no name for a baby!
AND before the end of 2016, we shall hold The Bump in our arms and whisper tales to her of blogs gone by and blogs to come.
These things I know to be true!!!
In DoG We Trust
Filed under: babies, daughters, Family, grandparenting, humor, Love, pregnancy, The Basset Plantation Tagged: babies, daughters, family, grandparenting, Humor, love, parenting
Murder, She Wrote
For Throwback Thursday…HA! Maybe THIS is why I keep putting off picking berries this year!!! That or the incessant rain…….
She picked strawberries. A LOT of strawberries.
And she made jam. A LOT of jam.
And it was good. But when he said “Too bad we don’t have any biscuits to eat with this jam”, she had to kill him.
The end.
In DoG We Trust.
Filed under: Cooking, Family, humor, The Basset Plantation, Throwback Thursday Tagged: Cooking, family, Humor, Throwback Thursday
May 11, 2016
Wordless Wednesday
Filed under: Basset Hounds, Blog Paws, Dogs, Pets, The Basset Plantation, Wordless Wednesday Tagged: basset hounds, BlogPaws, dogs, pets, Wordless Wednesday
May 10, 2016
Tongue Out Tuesday
Here’s our friend Arnold
Greetings from Arizona
on Tongue Out Tuesday!
In DoG We Trust
Filed under: Basset Hounds, Dogs, Friends, haiku, Pets, poetry, Tongue Out Tuesday Tagged: basset hounds, dogs, Friends, haiku, pets, poetry, Tongue Out Tuesday
May 9, 2016
Art!
Rainy day greeting
eager hounds leave their mark on
unsuspecting guest!
This mystery person will be guest blogging for me soon!!!
In DoG We Trust
Filed under: art, Basset Hounds, Dogs, Friends, haiku, Pets, poetry, rain, The Basset Plantation Tagged: basset hounds, dogs, Friends, haiku, mud, pets, poetry, rainy day
