New Years Tradition

There’s a yearly tradition that we do here at the Hotel Thompson that I thought I would share.  It’s nothing difficult, really simple if you will.  Mom/dad have done this for years and as they say, “If it ain’t broke – don’t fix it!”  I thought I would share with my friends here in blogville because one can never have too much of good luck, right?

On the 31st of December before midnight, place money outside on your porch.  It can be a loose bill, change, or in an envelope.  This stays on your front porch.  Before midnight, everyone goes outside of the house.

At midnight, you open the front door and throw the money in over the threshold.  This should be the first thing that crosses your door.  This represents money coming into your home for the new year.  Remember, you don’t step into the home until after the money goes in.

I’m not sure where mom/dad got this from but they have been doing it forever.  I mean heck, we’ll take all of the help from everywhere we can, right?  Happy money tossing tonight my friends 🙂

 

2013 in review

Was I ever surprised with this years results.  It could have only happened with all of my friends here in blogville.  Thank you for reading along and supporting this little piggy in his mission of making people laugh.  Here’s a toast for an awesome new year in 2014!!

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 30,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

Click here to see the complete report.

 

Happy New year

Misaki and Bashful have made their New Years resolutions – have you? Check theirs out! XOXO – Bacon

the Misadventures of Misaki

Bashful and I have been thinking about our New Year’s resolutions and we’ve come up with the following:

Me

• Spend more time with friends
• Improve my doggy paddle
• Get mummy and daddy fit

Bashful

• Add more stamps to my passport
• Take part in more extreme sports – bungee jumping anyone??
• Start a rock band:-)

Have you made any resolutions this year?

Hope you all enjoy yourselves tonight. Bashful and I might raid the drinks cupboard later hehehe:-)

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Dear Bacon

Dear Bacon,

Don’t ask.  It was a dare. Those stupid cats think they know everything.  They dared me to do this. I did. They took pictures and now it’s all over the You Tube thingy.  And, I can’t get down.  Help. Signed Limbo

Dear Limbo,
That is quite the predicament you have there my friend.  I guess you could say your in between a rail and a staircase – snorts.  I’m sorry.  I shouldn’t snort.  Perhaps take the challenge and just jump down. Once you are down, find those purr things. Revenge is sweet.  Wishing you the best.

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Dear Bacon,
I got the coolest gift for Christmas.  I’ve been wearing these and freaking people out in the home and while walking.  Aren’t they just awesome?  Signed Bug Eyes

Dear Bug Eyes,
Snorts – I absolutely *love* them my friend.  They are so cool.  I can just see the people you pass as you are on your constitutional walk with your humans.  So much fun!!

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Dear Bacon,

The humans.  They are the strangest people. The little knee high human was blowing what they call bubbles at me.  These things were fascinating.  I couldn’t get enough.  They floated in the air but when I touched them, they went away.  Have you ever seen this witchery?  Signed Impressed

Dear Impressed,

I have never seen them in all of my life.  Your little knee high human must have special powers.  I would be hesitant around them and walk the line.  What if they trapped you in one of those bubbles?  hhmm – this is just most strange to me.  I must research this more with my human daddy.  Be careful my friend.

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Dear Bacon,

Today, I will be on the computer most of the day – just like those humans.  But, I don’t get it.  This computer is doing nothing.  Signed Confused

Dear Confused,
Okay, let me explain this to you my purr friend.  You don’t *sit* on the computer to be ‘on’ the computer.  You sit in front of the computer and type on the keyboard to surf the net.  Understand now?  Try it.  You’ll be surprised of the world out there at your claws.

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Dear Bacon,
I am SO with you on your Christmas tree escapade last year.  I understand completely.  The tree got tired.  I’m saying the same thing.  I walked by it and it fell.  It had nothing to do with me looking at the pretty shiny ornaments.  Shaking head – nothing at all.  Signed Busted

Dear Busted,
Oh dear kitty.  You see with at least my ordeal, I didn’t stay in the room for a picture.  You my friend got exactly what it is – busted.  The proof is in the picture.  Next time, flee fast on those little legs and act like you are asleep.  Not that I know from experience, but that might help your cause next time.

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Remember friends – keep the questions/pictures coming to me for my weekly Tuesday Dear Bacon issues.  You can send your questions/pictures to me at Baconthompson@gmail.com

 

People who hate you

I love this saying and of course it has mom’s favorite mouse saying it 🙂 Enjoy XOXO – Bacon

 

Missing Bacon

Remember to check out what Bashful is up to in the UK. Poor little tyke is homesick 🙂 aawee – he does love me. XOXO – Bacon

the Misadventures of Misaki

When I woke up this morning I found Bashful curled up with the piggy toy that Bacon sent me:

It seemed that Bashful was feeling a bit homesick. To try to cheer him up, I sent him down with mummy down to Pet’s Corner to introduce him to some of the pigs there. Mummy said that as soon as they saw Bashful they all rushed over to say hi.

The little fellow seems so much happier now. Phew!

Tomorrow he and mummy are planning to have an adventure, I wonder where they’ll go? Pop back tomorrow to find out!

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Bye Bye Don Juan

Thank goodness the holiday season is done and over with. Christmas decorations are put up… With the exception of the Mickey Mouse lamp pole. Mom has decided that she likes looking at the lamp in the dark. Tell you the truth, I do too.

It’s been a great Thanksgiving and Christmas. We’ve napped, shopped, rode around in the Smart car looking at lights and eaten ourselves into oblivion. Not that I’m complaining but I can kind of relate to how mom feels during her “fat” phases. Like a balloon ready to pop!

So with the first holiday of 2014 this week, all of us here at the Hotel Thompson want to turn over a new leaf and start off on the right foot and hoof. I guess that will be on the top of our New Years resolutions.

But speaking of Christmas decorations. I’m glad to report that our evil elf on the shelf Don Juan has safely been boxed up and secured in the attic. Of course I wanted to hog tie him and cover his mouth but mom said no. On the other hoof, dad was all for it. Why do you ask? Because Don Juan left one little thing for daddy before he was captured put away until 2014. I snapped a picture for you. Adios Don Juan.

 

Pig Operation

Mom has a wicked sense of humor. As she says, “Why be normal? There’s a lot of normal. Be different”. I guess that’s where I get my sense of humor. I aim to be different. Different is good in many ways.

Other peeps play normal games. We play different here at the Hotel Thompson. I’m sure you have heard of the childhood game Operation. You know the guy that you try to use tweezers to get things out of him without touching the edges. Because if you touch the edges, the guys nose turns red and things buzz. You remember the game now?

We have our own Operation game here. Let me introduce you – happy playing. Of course, I stink at playing these games. Believe it or not, my hooves get in the way. Shocker, huh?

Remember it’s just a game. Life shouldn’t be so serious. Oh I said Life. That’s another great game we like here – snorts.

 

Bashful’s Christmas Present

Oh sweet baby – who would have ever thought that my Bashful would be the next Tony Hawk? He has skills that I didn’t know about. Thank you Misaki for reminding Santa he was with you for Christmas. XOXO – Bacon

the Misadventures of Misaki

I’ve just realised I completely forgot to tell you about Bashful’s Christmas present from Santa Paws. He got a pair of skate boards! Because they were a bit little, we fixed them together so he could try them out.

The next step was to try out some ‘sweet jumps’ as Napoleon Dynamite would say. We made a small ramp to see how he got on:

And then he progressed to a longer one:

Check him out in action. But be warned, blink and you’ll miss it!

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Silent Saturday

Okay. Me and mom made a deal. After the weekly grocery shopping this morning, she is all mine. Finally! I get some quality one on one time with my mommy. I’m calling for lots of snuggles and hog kisses. So today, I’m going silent in my posting. Oh snap – I guess you can scratch that because I’ve already spoke – PLOL (piggy laughing out loud)

So for my “Silent Saturday” – snorts, I’m going to post two of my favorite pictures that dad has taken. Enjoy and I hope you enjoy them 🙂