Snow Day

Hey Pups,

Turns out everyone got a three-day weekend.  The snow had started falling around 4 am this morning.  We woke Dad up when it started so we could go out and check it out right away.  Dad wasn't too pleased with getting up at 4 am so we could play in the snow.

At 6, his alarm went off and he got out of bed to get ready for work.  Mom found out school was on a 2-hour delay so she went back to sleep and had Dad reset her alarm for 7:30.  Dad left for work a little earlier than usual.  After picking up some cardboard boxes from the neighbors yard that had blown around in the wind overnight and putting them back with our garbage, he got in the car.  Twenty minutes later, he was back.  Turns out, he had gone 2 miles towards his 27 mile trip to work.  It had taken him 10 minutes and he slid around a bit too much for his liking.  He got home, and sent his boss and HR department an email that he was using a sick day for the snow.  Shortly after, Mom got a call that school had changed from a 2-hour delay to closed.

Mom said she hoped the new Wii would show up sooner than later so that they could spend the day playing.  We were really excited because the last box that got delivered to the house had a new collar and leash for Brook, new leash for Canyon, new bed for Brook and a new dish for her too.  We were hoping that this Wii thing was something for us.

A few minutes later, we heard a truck outside.  Woo-woo, the Wii!  Oh, darn - just the trash truck.

Mom, looking for something to do, started to clean out the cupboards and figuring out if there was old food in there which wasn't any good anymore.  She found some chocolate chips and the little biped asked for cookies.  Mom told her that she could have cookies, but someone would have to help her make them.  Mom graciously volunteered Dad for that job.

Brook thought that the cookies smelled really good and wanted to try.  She didn't know we wouldn't get any because chocolate isn't for doggies.

Around 2pm, the big brown truck showed up!  The Wii got here!

Here's the little biped getting to play.

The Wii hasn't been off since it got here.  The little biped was so tired out by bed time from all the jumping around that she was doing that she went right to sleep as soon as her head hit the pillow.

Well, back to watching the bipeds play sports games.

Kisses,

King Skyboy

A Visit from Santa Paws - An Earth-shaking Experience

Hey Pups,

Christmas Eve and Christmas
Santa Paws was here to visit! Here are some of the pictures.

The little biped shows a toy ice cream set from Grandma and Pop on Christmas Eve.

Every year, Santa Paws leaves a gingerbread house for the bipeds.

She tore open the presents really fast this year (the blue box in front of the fire place is for us!).

Presents at Gama and Paw-paw's house later Christmas Day. Great-gama and Great-pop were there too.

This is what was in the blue box for us! Treaties! Woo-woo!


Meadow with her bone and tomato squeekie from the bipeds.

Canyon thinks his bone is lip-smacking good. He got a strawberry (star-berry in little biped speak) squeekie.

My squeekie is a pineapple. I like it because it's yellow. Orange is my favorite color toy, but yellow is a close second. If they're any other color, you can take it back to the store.

Here's Meadow checking out some of the little biped's toys.

We forgot to bring our bones upstairs with us later, but Meadow brought them all up for us later on. Thanks, Meadow, your a sweetie.

Christmas morning, we also watched the Disney parade on TV and saw Santa Paws at Disney after his marathon trip around the world.

The Day After Christmas

Dad had the day off of work yesterday and Mom had to work, so us pups and the little biped stayed home with Dad and played all day. After Mom got home from work, the bipeds went out to see the new Disney Pixar, Bolt.

Brief plot summary - It's about a white husky (voice by John Travolta) who gets adopted by a little girl (voice by Miley Cyrus) as a puppy from the shelter. A few years later, they are starring in a TV show. The dog has super powers (and he doesn't realize he only has them on TV). He accidentally ends up in a box being shipped from Hollywood to NYC and has to find his way home.

After their trip to the movie theater, they came home with a sick little biped. Fever and vomiting. She passed out on the couch and Mom and Dad left her there since it was easier for her to get off the couch and to the bathroom than from her bed. We went back to the bedroom to snuggle with Mom and Dad and watch TV.

Santa Paws must have gotten home around midnight. Apparently, the reindeer were very tired from riding Splash Mountain and the landing was a bit rough. So rough, it shook the earth. We heard a rumble like thunder and a little bit of shaking. This morning, we found out it was an 3.3 magnitude earthquake and not a crash landing at the North Pole. Glad to hear Santa is OK - just hoping no one was hurt or had serious damage to their homes or businesses. The epicenter was about 31 miles from here.

Today's plans include - sleep, go out to pee, chew on a bone, sleep some more, etc... Meanwhile, Mom and Dad are hoping the little biped feels better soon so they will be able to go see Nana, Pap, Great-Grandpa, Mom's Aunts and Uncles, and the little biped's Uncles and Aunt as planned.

Kisses Skyboy

Election Excitement

Hey Puppers,

I was so excited last night waiting for the election results and hoping to see Turbo and Khyra get elected. Unfortunately, I never saw the final vote results until this morning because I fainted when I heard the breaking news headlines: Dogs and Cats Turned Away at Polls, Very Few Votes for Sibertarians in Early Results.

Because of this fainting spell, I didn't get my hussy shot taken for this month. Sorry, everyone.

This morning, I checked the results of the election on a news website. Can you believe a human won the White House for the 44th time in a row!

Sibetarians in 2012!

Butt Wiggles, Meadow

Pirates!!!

Hey Pups!

Cap'n Maverick mentioned seeing Captain Hook and as it turns out I found a picture of Captain Hook having breakfast with my humans.

My humans also met another pirate this week in Disneyland. Mom was SOOOOOOO excited about this and showing everyone she can. She and the little biped got their pic with Captain Jack Sparrow!!!

I know there will be some SMS moms drooling over this pic!

Don't furget to vote for MaPaw on the left and only one day left to sponsor us for the Hike N' Howl. The link is on the left too!

Kisses, Sky boy

My Weekend

Hey Pups!

It was a bewootiful fall weekend here in Pennsylvania....just not inside my house!

Mom, Dad and the little biped went with Grandma and PawPaw to Merryland. They went to look at lighthouses. They participated in the 2008 Maryland Lighthouse Challenge. They had to see 10 lighthouse in 2 days to complete the challenge and they did it!

Here are some pics from their excursion...

Drum Point

Piney Point

Everyone at Fort Washington

Concord Point

Cove Point

Meanwhile, back at the ranch.....

I had to deal with the shooting poo twins. Yep, you got it, Canyon (KC, ha ha, yeah right, more like Klutz Canyon) and Sunshine Meadow were sick. They got some kind of doggy flu that gave them the amazing shooting poo. The house stank all weekend. I felt really bad for our teenage dogsitter that she had to clean up their messes. Mom and Dad made sure they paid her extra for having to deal with all of their "crap".

The good news is they are feeling better and after a few meals of burger and rice things are starting to be back to normal.


I promise later this week I will catch up on the blog awards we've won!


Kisses, King (yes, still the King) Sky boy

Bad Dog (News)... Good Dog (News)

Hey Y'all,

First da bad dog news. We's supposed to be goin to da Greenlane Scottish Irish Festival dis here weekend wid Mapaw. But Hurricane Hannah had udder idears. Dis mornins paper said we done got 3 inches of rain yesterday. We went out to go pee (I ain't been peein in da house to darned much lately) in dat heavy rain. Meadow and I reckoned we were gonna dig us a hole. So when we done come in we done had ourselfs some of da muddiest paws you ever done seen. We got shuffed in da baf tub to get our paws warshed.






Now da good dog news. Since Mapaw decided not to be goin to Greenlane, MyMama, MyDaddy and da li'l biped went for a ride in da SibeVibe. We went to an auto show and flea market. When we got der dis here Miss met us at da gate. She done gived me lots a hugs and I done gived her lots a kisses.

Dat's her Mistah on da right. We's at his stand at da flea market.

Dey was real happy dats I come to meet dem.

I was lissinin real good to hear whats da bipeds be talkin bout when we's were visitin. It sounds like Miss and Mistah gonna be doptin me dis Friday. I's gotta be on my best behavior when we go to dere house. If'n I doahnt behafe or if'n da udder doggies (dey's gots 4 sibes) doahnt likes me den I doahnt get to stay. I be sad dat I doahnt get to live wid da Kapp Pack no more, but I sure do want to have me a fur-evah home.

When we done left dere, we stopped to get us some lunch at a dairy farm. Da bipeds doahnt share wid me, but everyting was homemade (cept da hotdogs). Dey gots saurkaut on da hotdogs, ice cream, chocolate milk, whoopie pie, sho0-fly pie, and some mac'roni salad. Dat's typical food round dese parts. I doahnt know why dem bipeds doahnt be eatin normal food like ribs, fried okra, fried pickles, fried catfish, grits, chittlins and sweet tater pie.

Afder our busy day we all took us some naptime 'fore we done got dinner.

Y'all have a bless-sed day, Biloxi

Parental Discretion Advised

Hey Puppers!

Here is our contribution to the unified effort of the Sibermal Society to support Meeshka and her Week of 100 Blogs. Meeshka is having to work SOOOOO hard to keep her human woman from being a lush and being wishy-washy and not obeying her every whim. Let's join together and help Meeshka control her human woman!!!!

Here is our version of Huzzy and Studmuffin Day! Please if there are young canines present, shield their eyes. This is not suitable for young audiences (yes, Cornelia Marie, Khady Lynn and Domino, that means woo!)

Now go and pledge some money to Queen Meeshka!

TTFN, Princess Sunshine Meadow

Last Call!

Hey Everydoggy,

In Pennsylvania, the bars close at 2AM. That means last call is at 1:30AM. So in honor of Last Call at bars all over Pennsylvania, we're giving away two prizes donated by Khyra. We have two pilsner glasses (the picture shows just one) and a t-shirt featuring the beer Siberian Night from Thirsty Dog Brewing Company (Khyra also gave some Siberian Night coasters which will be added randomly to various prizes given out during the blogathon). Other beers from Thirsty Dog include Rasberry Ale, Hoppus Maximus and Old Leghumper. Here's the prizes followed by video of the drawing and naming of the winners.

Remember, make sure you have a Designated Driver.

Woo woo, Kelsey Ann

Blogathon No More?????

Hey Everydoggy!

As some of you know the Kapp Pack was planning to participate in Blogathon 2008 and blog for MaPaw Siberian Husky Rescue. Well, the organizers of the Blogathon have decided to take a year off from planning the blogathon this year. This was very upsetting to hear since we were all looking forward to it and coming up with plans to make the humans stay awake for 24 hours straight.

We even had a corporate donation. A couple of weeks ago we received a box from Fur the Animals. It contained all kinds of various dog and cat related items. Some very cool stuff Canyon wanted to claim for his own! Fur the Animals also agreed to donate gift certificates for their website. For a $35 pledge the sponsor will receive a $5 gift certificate and a $50 pledge will get a $10 gift certificate. 10% of every order from their website goes to a rescue of the purchasers choice.

Well, I've made the executive decision that even if there is no blogathon this year we will do our own blogathon on July 28th. We'll figure out a way to keep track of donations for the event and a link on our blog to make donations.

There is talk of an alternathon so we will see how that pans out.....We'll keep you all pupdated!!!

Woo woo, Kelsey Ann

Pee ess: Be on the lookout in the weeks to come for teasers of our giveaway items for the blogathon!

My humans' trip to the capital

Hey Everydoggy!

I told you our humans neglected us and went away for the weekend. Well, I found some pictures to confirm where they went. They went to our Nation's capital, Washington D.C. I told them if I would have known I would have tagged along to do some rallying for Turbo!

So here are the pictures I found. They had a busy two days!

This is the big Triceratops from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History...

Here's the Washington Monument...

This is a panoramic view of the new WWII veterans' memorial...
Dad and the little biped with the White House (Tubey's future home) in the distance...Honest Abe was at the Washington Nationals game vs. the Chicago Cubs. All four presidents from Mt. Rushmore were there. At some point during the game the presidents race each other across the field...This is Screech, the Nationals mascot. Somehow I don't think Kat would find this bird very tasty...On Sunday, they took the metro to visit the National Zoo. Their main destination was the pandas....Here are some pics of the cute and cuddly bears who eat bamboo! Here are two videos of the pandas!

The zoo was celebrating National Migratory Bird Day and in honor of that the U.S. Park Service has birdhouse kits there to make. This is Dad and the little biped making our new birdhouse....

Even though I wasn't along, it looks as if my bipeds had a lot of fun this weekend....

Woo woo, Kelsey Ann

Single Sunday - First Camping Trip

My humans went away this weekend. More on that later this week when I can get a hold of Mom's camera and figure out where they were. The only thing I know for sure is what the little biped has told me... She says: "I saw dinosaw bones. I went to the oo and see pannaz. I swim with Daddy."

I remember when they used to go away and they even took me with them. That doesn't happen too often anymore. The neighbors' grandson or the little biped's sitter's daughter comes over to take care of me, Sky and the Annoying One. That's OK, but it's not the same as going away with the humans.


A few weeks before Mom and Dad's wedding, we all went on my first camping trip for a weekend to Gettysburg. Mom had read in a bridal magazine that it was a good idea to take a pre-Honeymoon weekend trip one to two weeks before the wedding in order to relax and forget about the wedding stuff for a while. We went to the KOA, which is only a few miles away from the site of the famous Civil War battleground. This weekend is actually the seventh anniversary of that trip.

Late April nighttime tempatures aren't always the warmest, so Mom and Dad got pretty cold the first night. They ended up going to a nearby store on Saturday to find extra blankets to put inside the sleeping bag. Unfortunately, the only thing that they found (which was cheap enough to be used while camping, but still warm enough) was stadium blankets with a local high school's name on them. Those blankets are now used to cover Mom and Dad's bed at home during the day to keep Sky and Canyon hair off of the nice comforters and quilts. I didn't mind the tempature at all. We spent the day Saturday driving through the battlefield and stopping to look at the monuments. Later we went back to the campground to spend another night before coming home on Sunday. We had a good weekend so Mom and Dad decided to made an annual trip to Gettysburg with me and sometimes with Grandma and Pop for several years. The trip started taking place in August somewhere along the line (I think to coincide with a quilt show) and one year it was so hot (over 100 degrees). Mom and Dad were worried that I would overheat with all my glorious husky hair. I was constantly having cold water dumped on me (which was nice and helpful). Even worse that weekend was the frightful thunderstorm that came through to take care of all the heat and humidity that weekend.

Then the little biped came along and we stopped going to Gettysburg because Mom and Dad figure that the little biped would probably be bored silly with that trip, but we continue to camp at other places. Here's some pictures from that first trip...

Mom and I at Little Round Top

Me in a Husky Ball at the campground

Woo woo, Kelsey Ann

No Bed Privileges

I've lost my bed privileges tonight. Normally, when Dad is away, I sleep stretched out in his spot. When he's home, I sleep on Mom's feet. It's raining here tonight, so it's a teensy bit muddy out. Sky and I went outside when Dad took laundry downstairs (we think whenever someone is going to the basement, we get to head out the backdoor from the walk-out basement to the dog yard). Sky was really mean to me. He attacked me and rolled me in the dirt. When we came in, Dad made us both sit and stay while he got one of the old towels from the closet to wipe our feet. I had mud on my feet, legs, belly and back because that big meany, Sky, rolled me around in the MUD. When we came back upstairs Dad told Mom: "Dirty dog lost his bed privileges for the night." So, now, I'm dictating to Dad while laying by the door to the garage (that's where the steps go to the basement), hoping that I can go back out in the rain to try to get the dirt washed off so that I'll be clean. Surely, Mom and Dad will let me get in the bed once I'm clean; what bipeds wouldn't want a wet dog in bed with them? If I don't convince them I'll just wait until they fall asleep then pounce on the bed to take my spot! Oh no, got to go, Sky's coming and he looks like he wants to hurt me again. ECHO, Siberian at Law, I NEED YOUR HELP!

Puppy slurps, Canyon...

... I don't want to hurt him - I just wanted to chase that stupid mutt away from the computer so I could tell you why he deserved to get knocked down and rolled in the mud. When you are as stupid as he is, you deserve to be punished and lose some privileges and I'm just the dog to open a can of whoop-a** on him. Mom came home from work early today so he thought he was in trouble. He got all guilty looking, ears back, tail tucked between his legs, and rolled over on his back submissively, causing Mom to spend 10 minutes walking around the house looking for whatever it was that Canyon broke, destroyed, mutilated, tipped over or chewed up. Of course she found nothing, because he had done nothing. But, he's too stupid to realize he didn't do anything wrong. Because of this, Mom ended up getting started on her rose bush trimming 10 minutes later than she planned. This is why Canyon deserved to get what he got.

Kisses, Sky...

... Okay, it's the referee's turn. I didn't see any of it happen. When Mom came home from work, I was asleep on my throne. When they went outside; I was asleep on my throne; but it's my job as referee to determine who wins the fight. Sky wins because Canyon is annoying. Off to the closet I go....it's thunderstorming!

Woo woo, Kelsey Ann

Hoppy Bunny Day!

Hey Everydoggy!

Sorry this is a day late but my humans were so busy with the little biped this weekend that there was no time for them to take the dictation of my blog. According to the pictures I saw the little biped spent her time chasing after bright colored eggs filled with stuff. Apparently she thought it was lots of fun! And here's the answer to everypups question.......yes, we got SNOW on Saturday!

This is what mom and the little biped did on Saturday afternoon.....

Looks yummy, huh? Well, I am sad to announce we didn't get to try any of it.

Then, the little biped came home from Grandma's house with lots more candy and chocolate and once again we didn't get to have any!

We didn't even get to catch the Easter bunny......I'm thinking Easter is a holiday that's not much fun for doggies!

Oh, and by the way, thank you all for the well wishes on my arthritis. Dr. Horst and my humans seem to have come up with a combination of medicines that keeps me comfortable. I will have to go see Dr. Horst for a blood work-up in a month or so to make sure the Rimadyl is not doing any damage to my liver. It really sucks getting old!

Woo woo, Kelsey Ann