Today, September 4th is Labor Day. Labor Day is celebrated every year on the first Monday of September and is a United States federal holiday. Labor Day celebrates the social and economic contributions of workers. This day is often associated with parades, food and the end of summer. Labor Day also marks the beginning of the NFL and college football seasons – YAY!.
So this day, enjoy your cookout. Enjoy your family. Celebrate your day and be safe my friends!
Today, September 5 is Labor Day. Labor Day is celebrated every year on the first Monday of September and is a United States federal holiday. Labor Day celebrates the social and economic contributions of workers. This day is often associated with parades, food and the end of summer. Labor Day also marks the beginning of the NFL and college football seasons – can you say YES!
So this day, enjoy your cookout. Enjoy your family. Celebrate your day and be safe my friends!
Today, September 7th is Labor Day. Labor Day is celebrated every year on the first Monday of September and is a United States federal holiday. Labor Day celebrates the social and economic contributions of workers. This day is often associated with parades, food and the end of summer. Labor Day also marks the beginning of the NFL and college football seasons. I’ve heard that Bacon and his dad live for this time of year here at the Hotel Thompson – YAY!
So this day, enjoy your cookout. Enjoy your family. Celebrate your day and be safe my friends!
One year ago, my little brother Houdini came to live with us here at the Hotel Thompson. At that time, he was a 12 week old Yorkshire Terrier. Snorts – we learned real quick that Terrier really means TERROR.
In this picture, he didn’t even weigh 1 pound yet. For the first six months that we had him, I didn’t even think he had legs because he got carried everywhere by mom or dad. Must have been the life, huh?
And he would fall asleep everywhere and anywhere. Mom said that because he was growing like the little weed he is.
He plays hard. He sleeps hard. We’ve come a long way in his first year. Clothes, birthday parties, groomers, play dates. And I have to admit that the little guy has grown on me. He is no longer just 1 pound. I’m happy to report that he goes between 5.5 to 6 pounds – depends on what he eats that day – snorts. For a poochie, he’s not bad. I can’t imagine life here at the Hotel Thompson without him.
Do you remember how he got his name Houdini?
Mom and dad put him in his crate in their bedroom and went to the pet store to pick up some supplies for him. When they came home, he had escaped out of his crate and was wondering around their bedroom. Mom said he was a cute little escape artist therefore Houdini stuck. Personally I don’t think mom shut his crate all the way.”
I leave you with his very first video that mommy made the day he came here. Enjoy my friends and let’s take the time to tell Houdini WELCOME and Happy Anniversary.
Happy Monday my friends!! I hope everyone had the bestest of time and if you were off yesterday – had a wonderful LONG weekend. If you read my blog Saturday, you read that it was International Bacon Day. A day all to me – happy piggy dance. Mom got up and fixed me piggy pancakes and we played for the longest time. We even snuggled on the sofa for a while watching television. I should have know something was up. Mom was happy like normal but it seemed like her and dad were talking in ‘code’. You know the one my friends. Lots of winks, nudges and spelling out words. What they don’t understand though is that I can spell some things. I knew that b.a.b.y. meant baby. Of course, I assumed they were talking about me or maybe Mouse Girl, the only girl purr thing here at the Hotel Thompson. Around noon, mom and dad said they were picking up Nana for a field trip. That’s not out of the ordinary. They go off at times to play. But you see my friend, this is where my day took a twist of a different kind.
Do you remember me telling you last week that mom’s biological baby clock was ticking like a TIME BOMB? Well, it exploded Saturday. See the evidence to the left? This is my new brother. Yep. I said new brother. May I please introduce to you Houdini who is a 12 week old Yorkshire Terrior. He’s full blooded – whatever that means. I mean, aren’t we *all* full blooded? But mommy and daddy says that means something and that he has papers. Shakes my piggy head. I don’t understand that part at all? I have papers. I used them to wizzle on sometimes – snorts. Not such a big deal to me. I still don’t get that. If you understand it, please explain it to me my friends okay.
I bet you are wondering how the little tyke got such a big name like Houdini aren’t you. Well, mom and dad are crating the little guy. And I say little and mean LITTLE. He doesn’t even weigh a pound yet. Shakes piggy head. Strange little fury guy. But anyway I digress. Mom and dad put him in his crate in their bedroom and went to the pet store to pick up some supplies for him. When they came home, he had escaped out of his crate and was wondering around their bedroom. Mom said he was a cute little escape artist therefore Houdini stuck. Personally I don’t think mom shut his crate all the way.
I’ve met the little guy as daddy calls him with love. He’s a lot of fun. I think when he gets bigger – snorts – he’ll be a great friend. Mommy says that ‘bigger’ means probably no more than 10 pounds. Can you imagine that? And trust me, he’s a tough guy. That’s what I ❤ about him. Well that he’s tough and that he chased Mouse Girl down the hall and under mom/dad’s bed yesterday – snorts. He may be small but he’s not afraid of anything. Maybe mom and dad should have named him Killer?
And he’s full of puppy spirit. He plays hard but he also sleeps hard. He fits right in here with all of us. Mom took this video of him being spunky. I hope you enjoy it my friends.
Oh and P.S. Daddy says that his roots may be from Yorkshire, England but he thinks he’s got some French in him too. Why do you ask? Because he likes to French kiss – snorts you have to be careful because he will give you some tongue with his puppy kisses.
Today, September 1 is Labor Day. Labor Day is celebrated every year on the first Monday of September and is a United States federal holiday. Labor Day celebrates the social and economic contributions of workers. This day is often associated with parades, food and the end of summer. Labor Day also marks the beginning of the NFL and college football seasons. I’ve heard that Bacon and his dad live for this time of year here at the Hotel Thompson – YAY!
So this day, enjoy your cookout. Enjoy your family. Celebrate your day and be safe my friends!
Oh friends – can you smell it? Here comes a wonderful LONG weekend. Full of fun, food, cuddles, food, love, food, backyard fun, food, television, sleep and more food – snorts. You get the drift – let’s all have some fun. Kick your feet up, snuggle down on the couch, gather in the back yard to make S’mores and have F.U.N.
Have a great LONG weekend my friends! I’ll be thinking of you!
Yesterday on Labor Day, mom proclaimed it a no electronic gadget kind of day. That meant no iPhones, no IPads, no laptops and no computers. We actually had to converse with each other face to face.
Have you tried to live life without any of those glorious gadgets for one day?! It’s the pits! We couldn’t check the television guide because it’s on mom’s iPhone. She allowed me 15 minutes to post my Happy Labor Day post yesterday and that was it. I was cut off after that. I couldn’t talk to any of my cyber friends. Do you know how hard that was?! I was shaking with withdrawals by noon. And poor daddy. He couldn’t play any of his Angry Bird games on the iPad. It was not good. We were all wanting to reach out for these devices. Even the purr things with whatever they have been up to lately were wanting to get on the laptop. They couldn’t and they were complaining big time to mom but she wouldn’t cave.
At 1:00pm, mom went into the kitchen and started pulling things out of the big ice box. I followed her because well you know there wasn’t anything else to do. The next thing you knew, dad was in there too. Mommy said we were going to cook out as in the great outdoors in my magical backyard. What?! Go outside and eat… with nature? Mom, you’re taking this way too far!
So we all went outside in my magical backyard. Mom and dad worked with the grill and after a while some amazing smells starting happening. I walked around the back yard – my hooves even touched the grass and it was okay. Okay because the grass had just been cut. Even mom’s hooves were touching the grass when she was playing with me. It was kind of… cool. And you know what? It was kind of fun rooting around with my snout. Let’s not go crazy and say I want to do it everyday but it was kind of fun. It wasn’t too hot and it smelled good out in nature…. of course the smell coming from the grill helped a lot. We all even ate on the deck. That’s right. I said all. Mom and dad were slipping me bites here/there of chips and little pieces of steak. I even had some potato salad. Afterwards, me and mom played tag in the yard. I would chase her and then she would chase me. She said that she needed the exercise after eating.
After a withdrawal kind of morning from electronics, the day didn’t end all too bad. We actually had a wonderful time together face to face without gadgets and emails or texts. I would highly recommend it every once in a while – just don’t tell mom I said that. I can’t let her know she’s right all of the time, right?
But there was ONE down side to being off of the computer yesterday. I missed a very important date – my friend Easy had a birthday and turned four! How many times do you turn four and I missed it? I know mom turns 30 every year but it just seems different with us anipals you know. So Easy, I hope you can forgive this little oinker and his blunder. This is from the deepest parts of my piggy heart – HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY FRIEND!
Today, September 2, 2013 is Labor Day. Labor Day is celebrated every year on the first Monday of September and is a United States federal holiday. Labor Day celebrates the social and economic contributions of workers. This day is often associated with parades, food and the end of summer. Labor Day also marks the beginning of the NFL and college football seasons.
So this day, enjoy your cookout. Enjoy your family. Celebrate your day and be safe my friends!
Happy Labor day my friends. Mommy said that it’s a holiday to celebrate people that work in all kinds of different ways. She also said that a lot of people look at this holiday as the end of Summer. I can definitely go for this. The end of Summer means cool weather is right around the corner. That means my hibernation kicks in all the way.
Mom also says that there is a lot of people that celebrate the holiday by cooking out. Mom says that we aren’t going to any cookouts because she didn’t want me to be the master of the ceremony. I’m not sure what she meant by that.
We’re probably going to grill out some steaks. I’m all for eating more beef. 🙂
So happy Labor Day my friends. Enjoy and be safe in whatever you do.
Miniature pot bellied pig and friends - Bacon, Houdini, Hemi and all of the Rock Clan with Journalist Rocky the Squirrel all out looking for adventures from the Hotel Thompson.
One year ago, my little brother Houdini came to live with us here at the Hotel Thompson. At that time, he was a 12 week old Yorkshire Terrier. Snorts – we learned real quick that Terrier really means TERROR.
Do you remember me telling you last week that mom’s biological baby clock was ticking like a TIME BOMB? Well, it exploded Saturday. See the evidence to the left? This is my new brother. Yep. I said new brother. May I please introduce to you Houdini who is a 12 week old Yorkshire Terrior. He’s full blooded – whatever that means. I mean, aren’t we *all* full blooded? But mommy and daddy says that means something and that he has papers. Shakes my piggy head. I don’t understand that part at all? I have papers. I used them to wizzle on sometimes – snorts. Not such a big deal to me. I still don’t get that. If you understand it, please explain it to me my friends okay.
ds – can you smell it? Here comes a wonderful LONG weekend. Full of fun, food, cuddles, food, love, food, backyard fun, food, television, sleep and more food – snorts. You get the drift – let’s all have some fun. Kick your feet up, snuggle down on the couch, gather in the back yard to make S’mores and have F.U.N.
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