How did our pumpkin photoshoot turn into a disaster? We’ve been having perfect fall weather lately, so Mom decided to take Bailie and me to our favorite pumpkin patch for a few photos. We got two photos, the above photo is the only one of me. The trouble started when Mom went to take my photo and realized she lost her lens hood. We hunted for it but didn’t find it. Because the loss had her mind preoccupied, she forgot to adjust the camera settings and this was the best photo we got of me.
Bailie refused to sit still for her photo which was irritating Mom big time. Not only was the lens hood gone, we were not cooperating. Mom realized Bailie would not be still as she was covered in really sharp painful burrs!
I wasn’t interested in the burr situation, so I was off wandering while Mom tried to get all the burrs off of Bailie. She had to work one handed holding me leash in the other hand. Of course, Mom didn’t think to take a photo until most of the burrs were gone, but this is how they looked. We also realized the field was covered in these burrs. While Bailie was being “deburred”, I was bored and found a wonderful mud puddle to lie down in and roll around!
Mom was livid! Lens hood was gone, burrs everywhere, and now I looked like a walking mud puddle, which meant pumpkin photoshoot over! There were a few shots of me in my mess, but once again being distracted, Mom forgot to adjust the settings and they were all over exposed! We were quickly loaded into the car and I was headed off for a yard bath.
Normally we get our baths in the tub with nice warm water as Mom finds it cruel to use cold hose water. On Saturday she was so mad, she tied me to a tree and gave me my bath in the yard like a common dog! I was not happy about the treatment, or lack of.
I kept shaking, getting Mom all wet, which made her more mad. She was like a mad hornet but I was mad too.
Can you imagine how I felt looking like this in my own yard? It was very degrading!
Finally, the bath was done and I wanted to get back in the house. Mom said, “no”, she wanted me to stay outside and dry off. Well, I’m no dumb dog! I marched right up to the door and laid my nose on my dog doorbell until she couldn’t take it anymore, and let me in. Mom bought the bell and taught us how to use it, so joke was on her!
I wasn’t the only victim of the day. Saturday night Bert got into a glue trap. His whiskers, mouth area, and one paw were all covered in sticky glue. Bert ended up in the laundry tub after Mom managed to get the sticky stuff off with vegetable oil. He was steamed as a clam after his bath! As a matter of fact, he is still not having anything to do with Mom.
It was one of those days where nothing went as planned, but Sunday was a new day with a clean slate. Do you ever have days like our Saturday?
well Bailie was burred, you were bored and Bert was bathed…efurrything with “b” :o) btw: you looked like the twin of dad’s rival Rod, Emma :o)
It was (look out, “b” word) bad day all around! Stuff happens some days.
Oh dear, I’m trying hard not to laugh, because I’m sure none of it was funny to your Mom at the time! But we have days like that too, so we definitely know how it is. So sorry you had to have a common bath, Emma, but it sounds like you got your payback on Mom with the doorbell! Seeing poor Bert all wet, I definitely couldn’t hold my chuckling back! Giving a cat a bath is something I have thankfully never had to do (knock wood).
Mom is getting worried as Bert hasn’t had anything to do with her since the bath. He shows up at mealtime and then hides out in the basement. I guess she really made him mad!
Cats can be pretty good at holding grudges!
He is still mad three days later, geez!
“Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Day!” The mom loved this kiddie book and used it in her child care classes. Emma, it was NOT you bad day, or Bailie’s bad day, or even Bert’s bad day! It was your mom’s very bad day! Better days to come. XOXO Sparkle the PBGV
Every day is a new day and Sunday was much better. It happens, but it is not good when I end up with a hose bath.
I remember one day very much like that one that began with my very furry Keeshond rolling in bear poo, answering quite specifically where bears…um…”go.” (Hint: it’s not always in the woods.) The day went downhill from there. I like to think that when you have a day like that, it means there are lots of really great days ahead, because all the chaos was jammed into that one. So, you’ve got about a month’s worth of great days waiting for you. Enjoy!
–Wags (and purrs) from Life with Dogs and Cats
We always say, tomorrow is a new day. Forget the past and move on, but in the moment it seems hopeless.
You all had quite a day. Your mom sure had her hands full with all of your mischief.
Millie & Walter
Not the best day ever, but Sunday was a new day.
BOL, I wish I could have been a fly on your wall! It is just one of those days where nothing was going right, but at least the Vikings won!!! Hope you have a better week!!! π
Gophers, Vikings, and Twins all won which is awesome! Only Saturday had a bunch of mishaps.
Dang! Look on the bright side, the rest of the week has got be be better!
It was a big mess Saturday, but then things got better.
Holy cow, that’s way too many things to deal with in one day. It must have been wine thirty early at your house after that day.
It was more like early to bed to end the day!
So sorry it was not a good day! It is just like the story Alexander and the Terrible Horrible, No Good Day! You book would read Emma & Bailie and Mom’s No Good Terrible, Horrible, No Good Day at The Pumpkin Patch!
Have a good week!
That would be a good book covering that pumpkin patch visit for sure!
Oh boy! If you ask us goldens, that sounded like a perfect day at the pumpkin patch! Poor mom and Bert! π Hope today is going better for you!
The burrs were real painful. Don’t think you would have liked those.
Ok you KNOW I love you but I am sooooooooo happy to see that you are, INDEED HUMAN!! Your photos are always superb and perfect and it is nice to learn that sometimes even YOU have mishaps like the rest of us! Poor Bailie and poor Bert! A glue trap? What in the world???????????????????
DakotasDen
Oh yes, we do have our share of disaster with five pets! Bert got into a glue mouse trap in the garage because it had a mouse in it. He isn’t supposed to be in the garage, but sometimes he escapes. He is still mad at Mom about the bath and is in hiding except for mealtime.
Feel bad for Bailie. Those things for hurt and are hard to get off. Emma- you look cute even when you are wet
Bailie did alright, poor Mom ripped up her fingers pulling them out as they weren’t the normal ones, they were hard and sharp. Not good.
Well…pumpkins are one of the few hard skinned vegetables that can change your whole day – you drop them and they come down SQUASH! Hope you found your lense cover.
Mom was so mad, she just left and went to the camera store and bought a new hood. Couldn’t find the other one in the field.
Omigoodness, Emma! Y’all really did have a very bad day!!
We sure did. Every family has catastrophes sometimes!
Sometimes you just have to crawl in the bed and say “Enough for one day!” We have days like that and are always glad when the next day arrives. It sounds like all of you had a ruff time…even poor Bert. Have a terrific week to make up for it.
The next day was back to normal, but those bad days are really tough to survive!
Oh God, one of THOSE days! A day where I feel like climbing back into bad and never waking up, BOL.
Mom could not wait to go to bed Saturday night. She just wanted the trouble to end.
Haha, wow, what a day!! They are great pictures and maybe it is funny now :)??
There is some humor to it all now except for cat bro Bert who has been in hiding almost constantly since his ordeal in the tub.
Oh, yes, we have those days far too often! Sorry everyone was mad at everyone else! It makes for a funny tale though! π Hope everyone woke up as their normal happy selves the next day!
A good night’s rest can cure a lot of things! Sunday we were all back to normal except for Bert who seems to be traumatized and is still in hiding.
I had to laugh, but your poor mom! I hope she had a nice big glass of wine after that day!
Mom doesn’t drink, but she did get herself a nice mint oreo concrete mixer at Culvers. That didn’t go well either as when the cat got into the glue trap, she left the ice cream on the table and Bailie ate the last third or so. It was just not her day!
All I’ll say is I’m glad your Sunday was better. I feel for all of you. We’ve had some pretty bad days around here, too, lately. But we all get through them and smile when they’re over with.
Smile, laugh, and know things will improve, but in the moment it can be hard to do.
Uh oh….Sounds like a rough day all around. I do have to admit, Mama was giggling a bit, we have had those same exact days….we also hope there was a big glass of wine (or ice cream sundae) treat for your Mama!
Smileys!
Dory, Jakey, Arty & Bilbo
The ice cream was there, but that didn’t work out either as Bailie ate part of it while Mom attended to the cat in the glue trap. Just one of those days!
Oh no! I hate it when everything goes wrong like that and I know having your mom get mad is rough but she was probably just as frustrated as you were! Plus, that’s some silly mischief you got yourself into! π Also, tell your mom I totally sympathize with camera settings. I’ve had that happen to me a few times and it’s always annoying!
Sometimes I think I need to fire her and get myself a real photographer, but most of the time she does get the job done right. It was only one day, the next was much better.
At least those days always come to an end.
Exactly!
That sounds like a super tough day! Hope the rest of the week is better. Stay clean!
They did comment at the sniffing field trip on Sunday morning that I was looking especially white, LOL!
That’s how it went wrong sweets
Lily & Edward
It is all good now, thank goodness!
What a day! I feel for your mom, sounds like she had it pretty rough.
She had a tough day, but the next day was all back to normal.
I am so sorry you had a sucky Saturday, y’all, but thank you for the Monday evening laughs π How very appalling to have been forced to take a commoner’s bath…BOL!! Now I’m headed over to read about your doggie doorbell. Very interesting!
…by the way…last Saturday was kind of “blah” for me as well, so I just said “to hell with it all” and ended up watching several episodes of Homeland that were being broadcast as part of a Homeland Marathon on TV. Along with a glass of wine. And snacks.
Mom tried ice cream, but left it on the table to get the cat out of the glue trap and Bailie ate what was left…par for the course of that day! We love the doorbell and it even works with our harsh winters. We use it to come in, although it can be used to ring to go out if someone prefers that option.
Oh my gosh what a day. I have had those days myself. I can sympathize with Bailie. The last time we went for a walk in the forest, the bottom on my jeans were covered in burrs and those things were sharp and hard to get off because they were so sharp. Hubby was fine because he had his hunting pants on and they have a stiffer fabric or something so the burrs did not sick to them. Brown dawgs were fine. Burrs do not like Chessie coats. But not me. I finally had to find a stick to brush the nasty things off my jeans.
Mom had them all over her shoes too. Nasty things!
Normally we do not have burrs. I wonder if t is because we had a hot dry end to summer? I am surprised to hear they were with the pretty pumpkins you found.
And they were not the normal burrs, these were hard and sharp like knives.
I bet Bert wuz even more unhappy dan you!
It took Bert until last night to even go near Mom. He was real angry.
oh NOES!! Fiascoes! Debacles! Disaster! (MOL!!!)
Not a pretty day, but it happens. The next day is a new and better day.
Oh boy!! That definitely sounds like a mishap of a day! Burs are horrid things aren’t they?
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They are bad and these were a different kind that were especially nasty!
Well, you got ma cackling like a hyena. When a mom has numerous fur kids and decides to take them out on an adventure, the mom should be prepared for anything.We have trained mine well over the years. I can imagine the grrs and the woofs that was coming out of your mom’s mouth or under her breathe.
Those outdoor baths can be refreshing in the summertime. I like a bath once in a while outside. That house blows the stink and dirt off a pup and gives a vigorous massage at the same time.
I bet your mom will be more prepared next time she takes you and Bailey out to a pumpkin patch!
We are always out on adventures, but some days, the stars are not aligned correctly and everything that could happen does happen. With more than one dog, it always doubles the opportunity for troubles too!
Awww, Emma…you still look adorable even if you were yard-bathed. The burrs are super bad here too this year (must be all that rain this springtime). Sam has been Mr. Velcro when it comes to burrs and stickers this year. For the record, the one pumpkin shot of you is adorable. P.S. Tell your mom not to sweat the lens cover-if that’s the worst thing that happens on any given day, you gotta score that one pretty high. π
Luckily the hood is only a $10 or so item, but it is frustrating when you can’t find it and you didn’t go far. Bailie and I get burrs all the time, but these were especially nasty!
Sorry for laughing so much, I see it was a bad day, but the story was so well told and your Mom certainly got what she deserved! Imagine! Bathing you in your yard. Harumph! I hope you got her good and wet. I hope you have a better week!
Sunday was a much better day. We all got over it, except the cat who is still not speaking to Mom.
Hahaha Mom can’t control everything can she! Love Dolly
Nope. Some days are just meant to be bad!
Emma, believe it or now sometimes you and Jax can work our last BORROWED nerve. Heed the signs and then get our of our way for a few hours! LOL
Since I refused to leave Mom alone, she left instead to get away for a bit.
I hope Bert has forgiven your mom! I don’t suppose it’s any use telling him it was for his own good?
Nope, he is still avoiding the entire family and only surfaces at mealtime, eats, then goes back to the basement to be alone. It is going to be a while I think.
whoops a day full of mischief.
My mom was not amused!