Dentastix and I got my first award!

More on Stelula (Stella/Dracula) later!

What a day, what a day! Today, Mama had to do non-Stella stuff for a little bit so before she left she took me up the hill to have a romp at the cemetery. It was tres cool! It was still a little foggy and it was warm. There were some older guy humans and a couple of big machines! Mama said they were digging but not like when I get bored and dig at the couch. We were far enough away that the only thing I really noticed was the digger thing and I barely looked at it once. Sadly the batteries in her camera were dead and she had left her cell phone in the car so no pic-ys.



After dinner was the big fun! Mama picked up some Dentastix for me and my sissies. They were sooooo yummy. While we were chomping away, Mama went to Dentastix website and there was a thing that you could turn your own pictures into one of the denture wearin doggies from the TV commercial. There are several different sets of toofers including Dogcula. That made Mama want to get all creative and turn me into a vampire. (She says my teeth are as sharp as a vampire's!) So yes, the seemingly kindergarten drawing of me in a cape was made by my Mama. Here it is with the toofers.

In other news, the fabulous Dory from Dory's Backyard gave me MY FIRST AWARD!!!



So now I have to tell you seven things about me and then tag seven furiends! I don't remember what all I've told everyone. I hope none of these are repeats!

1. I learned to climb the baby gate Mama and Nanny keep across the stairs. Nanny was going up to change after work the other day and I wanted to help!
2. I have only barked three times other than only when I want Sarah & Maddie or the kitties to play.
3. In the right light the fur on my sides looks brown, almost brindle-y.
4. I get wild when I'm tired. I try and dig in the couch or get someone to play but I do it slower than normal. Mama usually puts me in my cage and I lie right down and fall asleep.
5. Mama had to make harness bigger today! I'm growing up!
6. The rain doesn't bother me at all. I'm content to just hang in the grass and chew on a bone or a toy if I've liberated any from the house.
7. Mama had to pry *candy* out of my mouth yesterday because Grandma wasn't paying attention and I *stole* it from her. Oops.

I think all my new doggie friends have been tagged. I made the attempt to tag doggies who definitely haven't been tagged before. Mama has been reading dog blogs for about two and a half years and has suggested some of her favorites!

1. Cubby Goes Digital chronicles the strikingly handsome Boxer, Cubby and his sissy the beautiful black Lab, Dakota. They work with the Legacy Boxer Rescue, a really kick-butt rescue based in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.
2. Crooks and Crazies Is actually a new one to Mama; she found them via Pippin's Gentle Blog (you'll see them later in the list.) They've got a whole passel of pooches over there including some border collies who herd SHEEP. Just like my doggie daddy!
3. dogblog This is one of the doggie blogs Mama has been reading the longest. The menagerie there includes Ethel & Oscar (the Peppy Sheppys) and Otis.
4. Joe Stains Mr Stains blog is another one Mom said she has been reading forever. Mr Stain's can be ornery and gets cold just like my sissy Sarah! Sarah says I'm just like Mr Stain's brother Tanner because I'm doofus too! Um, Mama? What's a doofus?
5. Lab Tails This bloggy has a seriously high cute alert on it. It's puppies times nine at Lab Tails right now, plus their regular five! The puppies' Grandma Joan (and her hubby!) are long time Lab lovers and facilitate (at most) one litter a year. They are beyond committed to the breed and their animals. Joan does an *amazing* job of chronicling all the details of whelping a litter and their first months of life.
6. Patience Please Mama first started reading this one right around the time that Patience was helping a severely starved doggie (first named Shelby; check for her in the tags!) Patience has a whole housefull of Whippets. They are super pretty. Also Patience is an author! (I love seeing how many doggie blog people have started writing books!) Mama said Patience hasn't updated in awhile so we're hoping maybe she'll come out of hiding!
7. Pippin's Gentle Blog Another bloggy with a ton o'doggies. This one is ALL Border Collies. My favorite is Rafe. I love his description of his favorite game, Pilla!

Okay, I'm a tired pup. I'm gonna go raise heck.

Peace out!
Sleepy-Stella

Furiends and Sissys and Toys OH MY!

Mmmm, ice cubes!

Good golly I has lots of new furiends! And I'm up to 14 followers! I started with two. It's totes thrillifying. For reals.

And no, I do not have a boyfriend. Yet. *wiggle* So how many boyfriends can I have? I'm srsly confuzzled. Cuz I mean there are sooooo many cute boys commenting here. How ever shall a girl choose? If it's first come first date, then I believe Mister Riley was at the head of the pack. And he is suuuuper handsome. :) Help me out grrlz! What do I dooooooo?

Anyway, as for what is new in Northwestern Pennsylvania the most important thing is this:

Ignore the grumpy black mass on the edge of the photo. That's my sissy, Fattie Maddie.

When Mama got home from non-Stella work and play practice she presented us with several new toys: 3 identical (read:yet we'll still fight over them) lambs wool kangaroos, a fancy AKC fox and an AKC puppy teething ring (not pictured.) It is sheer bliss I tell ya. Almost better than treats. Almost.



Even sissy Sarah liked them! She said that I should know that I'm darn lucky I got pressies today after what I did to my bed:



Mama said that's exactly why I got 'em. My teefers are comin in and she figures the more stuff to chomp on the better.

See ya on the flip side, pals!

Peace out!

-Stellaaaaaaaaaaaa

This is my GABE post

So yes, I only have two followers as of yet but I figured I'd join the Global Animal Blogging Event. Mama says I'm kind of using this as a way to get more followers/commenters. I say kind of? More like TOTALLY.

Anywho, a cool doggie named Twink planned GABE. The jist of includes Active and Passive peeps. Active peeps participate by holding giveaways and visting and commenting on other Active peeps GABE posts. Passive peeps participate just by visiting and commenting on the Active peeps posts about GABE.

And now
*drumroll*
MY GIVEAWAY

Everydog (cat, horse, etc etc.) that comments on this post will be placed in a drawing for a... well, Mama isn't really sure what to call it. She makes these nifty framed scrapbookky things of people's family trees (I thought they were called pedigrees) and of their extra special ancestors. (Mama said something about Rev Uh Lew Shun Airy War soldiers. I have no clue what that is.) Mama said she'll do whatever the winner requests! This is a basic (digital*) example of what a doggie one would look like. FYI the real stuff is way cooler! :



At any rate, the winning blogger will get one of those for their pawrent(s) and a sewper seekrit surprise for themselves! Three runners up will also recieve a sewper seekrit surprise!

All you have to do to enter is leave me a comment!

*credit for digital scrapbook pieces goes to FreeDigitalScrapbooking.com

THIS is my Easter Post

Oh Dog.

What a day yesterday was.

It started out innocuous enough. Good smells were coming from the food room. Everyone kept talking about my Mama being the Easter Bunny because it was her birthday. All in all I thought this stuff would bode well for me. I mean it wasn't horrible. Sure I didn't get to eat all the yummy stuff they did. I got NONE of Mama's Peanut Butter Cup Blizzard cake. I did get ice cubes! I now run to the kitchen and sit for an ice cube when the freezer's open.


This is the yummy I missed out on.

Then once it was dark outside, the dogmiliation began. Worse yet? Nanny was in on it.



Upcoming posts will include such riveting topics as:
-GABE! (okay that one is pretty riveting)
-Dogs With Blogs and how long Mama has been reading many of you
-TITANIC there's no way to explain this one. Mama says it will be riveting I think she means revolting. Oh... she was making a joke about rivets. If you haven't gathered, she's a little touched in the head.
-Shots, the ouchie kind as well as the coolness of Rabies Clinics
-More about Gettysburg

Peace Out!
Stella, the not-Easter Bunny

Breaking News this Easter

"Oh my DOG, what has she done to me?!?!

Full story tomorrow.

This isn't my Easter post

Today is Mama's birthday! I'll be posting more on that and on Easter later. First, though, I wanted to tell you about yesterday. So for about the third day in a row yesterday it was HOT. I was fairly unimpressed. Mama used the opportunity to do some size pictures of me since she's been forgetting to do that. She cared not that I was nearly suffering from heat prostration.



I did perk up when Mama told me that I need to learn to deal with heat so that we can take an adventure this summer. She told me about a place she called Gburg that has lots of good hikin places. I did some research and found out she meant a place in our state, Gettysburg! I found some cool pictures and some SCARY pictures. I asked Mama if I can wear a uni-form when we go but she said it will probs be even HOTTER than the past few days. Instead she GIMPed me into a uniform at Devil's Den. Tres cool, no?



Later alligators! Peace out!

Sgt Stellaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

And today makes FOUR

So I've been going to post several times but Mama wanted to make me a new background first. We all see how that worked out, eh?

To her credit she did make one but it was sized wrong. I could have done a much better job. Just sayin.

Anyway, life has been full of learning though not necessarily the things Mama wants me to learn. She keeps saying I have selective hearing. I'm jsut a free thinker! I've definitely been pushing my boundaries though. *wiggle* I'm mouthing like crazy which we're going to work on this weekend. On the upside (so says Mama) I have longer period of calm. Then too everyone is doing a better job of wearing me out!

Last weekend Mama and Nanny noticed a change in my tail. I've always wagged my tail of course. Duh. But now when I'm happy I *reeeeally* wag my tail. They fear it shall become a lethal weapon.

I also learned how to play bitey face better! I've been taking lessons from Sarah and her extremely scary Kujo face and now know how to bare my toofers while yipping. I'm quite proud!

Lastly, I learned to bark at the neighbor dog. Mama is not overly thrilled at this. Until yesterday I only barked with the kitties or Sarah and Maddie when I wanted to play. Now? Not so much. Mama also found it interesting that it's a totally different bark, a more low chesty bark instead of my yipping. She says it's just one more thing to work on. Whatevs! As long as I get treats, I'm cool!

Well, apparently it's time to clean so I need to go make some mess or another.

Peace out!

--Stellaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

PS I forgot to say hihi! to my new pals The Peppy Sheppys (and stinky Otis *wiggle*) Toby and Lola. They're all rockin doggies. More on them later!