It's Fall 'n All ......And time fer ' Ball......and seein' houses big and Tall...

Hi Bloggies,

We actually do have a lot ta talk about lately but then we were havin' trouble with Gram....gettin' 'er  motivated ta get off 'er computer so we can use it.

Last night, I slipped 'er a sleepin ' pill and when I was sure that she was out of it, I booted up the old laptop. And here I am ta tell ya all about what we've been doin'.....

It's Fall 'n All 'n we just love the cooler weather, the beautiful colors, the fallin' leaves and bein' able ta play ball and search fer vermin without bein' so hot we can't breathe....

 

This is what our driveway looked like taday.....

 

 

 

 And ya might want ta see this one too....that's our butts walkin' down the road......our road.....our butts...and pretty cute butts at that....

 

And we played ball too.....Toby was plain tuckered out....he likes ta run around like a nut tryin' ta get the ball....

 

It is very unusual fer Toby ta get the ball......why?.....Cause I always want ta get the ball....

But it looks like he's gonna get the ball this time....

Then we were searchin' in Uncle Donny's woodpile fer vermin....

We know that they love ta hide in the wood ta keep warm....

My Mom was lookin' like crazy fer them vermin....she didn't find any either.....

And here's a view of our cottage thru the trees........Ain't it just peaceful 'n invitin' ?

Now let me tell ya that Grndma Judy got 'erself a new group of chickens this year....she wanted ta have somethin' that might alert the other chickens that there was danger around since she lost 10 of 'er chickens when a whole clan of foxes moved in next door......

Now the noise that those chickens make would drive me ta drink........water, of course.......

 

I think we told ya a while back that the very first oil well in the world was drilled in Titusville, Pa. in 1859. When that oil was flowin', there were a lot of oil barons around and they built big fancy houses in town. Gram loves ta drive by and look at 'em and she took some pictures of a few of those huge houses on East and West Main Street In Titusville.......

Can ya imagine what the gas bill is ta heat these places during the winter? But they sure look beautiful all painted up pretty and lookin' stately and distinguished........

Some day we'll take a walkin' tour and photograph them all.....

 

So this is what we've been doin' in our life lately....what have ya been doin' in yours?

This is Dewey Dewster reportin' on our beautiful fall.....playin' ball... and houses in T-Ville big and Tall .........

Geez....No posts since March......So Sorry !!!!

Hello ta all....

Well, I can hardly believe that we have not published a post since March.......

now that is unacceptable !!!!

Did ya like that "Unacceptable".....

that's a new word that I learned taday and it certainly fits the bill here ,

cause we really have NOT posted anythin' since March 2012.

The truth of the matter is that we have not really been doin' anything excitin' lately.

But since we are all here right now, I tackled Gram and told her to let me use the computer.

So here I am.....Dewey Dewster....

Filin' another report on what we have been doin' fer the past 3 months...

Well.....

Maybe there's not enough time ta tell ya EVERYTHING that we have been doin'......

But we can sure at least tell ya a little bit of what we have been doin' lately anyway....

So......here goes...... 

A couple weeks ago...

I hurt my left leg....or my left paw....can't remember which one....

So I had ta take ta my sick bed........

Yep, Gram....'n Pap too..... had ta carry me everywhere.......

up the steps....

down the steps.....

Why they even had ta put me in and pick me outta my sick bed.....

It took a few days before I felt better....

 

Then I got up outta my sick bed and got back ta bein' Dewey.....

Since I was feelin' better, Gram gave me a haircut....

I have ta remember that fer next time......

So I can stay in my sick bed longer and then avoid the haircut......

Things were pretty boring after that fer awhile....then....

We got ta come back ta the cottage....

When we go there.....we play ball.....lots of ball.....

When my Mom gets hot....she likes ta cool off.....

If the pool isn't out, she just plops in any bit of water available....

Ever wonder how my Mom gets inta that little pan?

Here's how....



So now ya know....amazin' isn't it ??????

Well, that's my Mom !!!!

Ya know....when we are up the cottage......the vermin are everywhere....

Ya just never know when ya might run inta one.....

There was this big black snake in the side yard and we felt so threatened....

That we had ta attack it.....

 Yep.....ya can see how scary the bugger was.....

Ya know....this is the same snake that we attacked once before....

He was pretty stupid ta come back again.....

Ya always have ta be on yer toes up here in the woods.....


Ya might enjoy my attempt at rippin' that monster apart.....

I think I got the best of 'em......yep.....fer sure.....

So I will leave ya with a snapshot of me restin' with MY BALL......

MY BALL.....

Remember that.....MY BALL

This is Dewey Dewster here......reportin' on what we three terriers have been doin' lately......

Dewey the Master Earthdog

Hi Bloggies,

Do you remember when my Mom won all those ribbons......

'n the titles ta go with 'em by goin' inta a silly little tunnel

 ta try ta finds some rats in cages at the end of it ?

Do ya remember that....do ya  ????

Silly ribbons.....silly titles.....silly job....

Now I....Dewey Dewster....am a real earthdog cause I don't need ta go inta a tunnel ta capture a

vermin......

I can capture a vermin by patrollin' our yard and sniffin' round.....

Yep, when I get out there, I know if somethin' has been there that doesn't belong.....

Like the other day....I went out and smelled somethin' that wasn't quite right.....

Somethin' moved in MY YARD that didn't belong there.......

'N I had ta teach 'em a lesson......

I guess ya know what it was....don't ya?

Yep....it was a RAT !!!!!

'N somehow or other..... he ended up in my mouth....see 'em in there ????

I was pretty proud of that RAT....I tell ya......

I caught it fair 'n square......

I am the KING of the YARD cause I caught the VERMIN in our yard........

My Mom 'n Toby wanted ta take my Rat away but I wouldn't let 'em.......cause he was MINE !!!!!

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'N if that rat wasn't bad enough.....

I discovered another VERMIN in our yard.....

but I could never get 'em. I knew he was there though....

'n so did Gram 'n Pap too cause when they went ta pick their one and only cantalope outta the garden....

they found out that it was gone.....not a trace of it was left either....

So Pap put out the trap ta see what he could catch.....

He caught a raccoon........see 'em in there ?????

Why he ate Gram's prize cantalope....he did...the little piggie.....

Silly Raccoon....

He needed ta go fer a long ride ta find a new home cause we didn't want 'em here..........

We got ta check 'em out before he left so we would remember what a raccoon smelled like....

just in case some of his relatives stopped by later on.......

So as ya can see there was a lot of excitement aound our house lately......

But as usual, I, Dewey Dewster......saved the day......

Yep.......there's nothin' quite as special as havin' Dewey Dewster around.......

This is Dewey Dewster reportin' on all the vermin I have had ta take care of lately....it's a tough job but someone has ta do it..........

Shades of Fall.... 'n a History lesson

Hi Ya bloggies.......

I tell ya.....we hardly ever get ta post anymore....'n we hardly ever get ta visit yer blogs anymore too.....

Now why do ya suppose that's happenin' ?

Maybe cause we have a real old person that we have ta depend on ta visit 'n ta post.......

What do ya think ????

I'm here ta tell ya that this is a long post.....cause if we don't get ta tell ya all about it now......we will never get ta tell ya at all..........

It's the Fall.....'n if ya have never seen the trees in the Fall.....ya have never been in heaven.....no siree....

Fer sure......

We love ta go ta the cottage.....even more so now cause we have DSL up here 'n the OLD ONE takes pictures.....'n we can get 'er ta upload 'em now too.....

Ya can biggify any of them by clicking on them........

So here is Northwestern Pennsylvania in all it's splendor....'n here's what the dirt road our cottage is on looks like right now....

We got ta go on long walks this visit cause the Ps weren't real busy 'n the weather was warm and sunny and the road was dry.....

We get ta run around without leads cause we're pretty good about staying with Gram 'n Pap....

Me 'n Mom are always sniffin' around tryin' ta find out if there are any vermin hidin' where we can't see 'em.....
We get ta check out McCarthy's place ta make sure any stray vermin are cornered there too....

We check out Uncle Donny's place too 'n we usually find neat stuff there...

'N what we found on this visit was not a disappointment......

Just look at what we found in Uncle Donny's back yard......

Can ya guess what it is ?????

Can Ya GUESS ????
Can Ya????
Why it's Bear Poo.....yep....in all it's glory.....just messin' up the yard....'n providin' great smells fer the 3 of us.....wowee......'n Gram made sure that we didn't roll in it..... cause .....well....now... that woulda been a real mess fer her ta clean off us.....


Gram 'n Pap said that we were going on a real road trip ta visit a special place......so we all got inta the car 'n drove up ta Warren, Pa and then onta Kinzua Dam.......


The Kinzua Dam, in the Allegheny National Forest in Warren County, Pennsylvania, is one of the largest dams in the United States east of the Mississippi River.
The dam is located 6 miles (10 km) east of Warren, Pennsylvania along Route 59, within the 500,000-acre (2,000 km2) Allegheny National Forest. A boat marina and beach are located within the dam boundaries. In addition to providing flood control and power generation, the dam created Pennsylvania's deepest lake, the Allegheny Reservoir, also known as Kinzua Lake.

Lots of the places that we would have liked ta visit were closed fer the season but we found a boat launch where we could stop and walk down by the water......'n out on the water too on a floatin' dock....

My Mom sure would have loved ta go in the water but Gram said "no" so we all stayed dry....

It was cool walkin' out onta the dock but it bobbed in the water 'n that was pretty scary......

We got ta read some of the signs that were posted....rules....a ton of 'em....but me 'n Toby just sniffed all the signs that other dogs left behind.......


We saw some fishermen fishin' from the shore.....no boats were out in the water....none that we could see anyhow....but it was a work day so that may be why too....

This is what it looks like when water is let outta the dam.....pretty....isn't it ????

And the scenery is just beautiful too....this is right below the dam......

Kinzua means "fish on a spear" in the Seneca Iroquois language.

Construction of the dam forced the departure of Pennsylvania's last Native Americans, the Seneca, who now live near Salamanca, New York, near the northern shore of the Allegheny Reservoir, which covers land flooded by the dam. Inundation led to the evacuation of both the Cornplanter Reserve (PA) and parts of the Allegany Reservation (NY).[1] It also led to the destruction of the grave of Seneca religious prophet Handsome Lake. Construction of the dam was begun in 1960; in 1961, citing the immediate need for flood control, President John F. Kennedy denied a request by the Seneca to halt construction.[2] A lawsuit against breaking the U.S. treaty which guaranteed perpetual Seneca ownership of the land had been argued by the Quakers but it lost in Federal court.

Authorized by the Flood Control Acts of 1936, 1938, and 1941, actual construction on the dam was begun by the US Army Corps of Engineers in 1960 and completed in 1965. The main purpose of the dam is flood control on the Allegheny and Ohio rivers. This dam controls drainage on a watershed of 2,180 square miles (5,650 km2) or an area twice the size of the state of Rhode Island. Side benefits derived from the dam include drought control, hydroelectric power production, and recreation.
The total cost of construction was approximately $108 million. According to the US Army Corps of Engineers, Kinzua more than paid for itself in 1972 when tropical storm Agnes dumped continual heavy rains on the watershed, bringing the reservoir to within three feet of its maximum storage capacity. Over $247 million in downstream damages were prevented.


'N the scenery is just breathtakin'.......'n there's 24 miles of it ta enjoy too.....

The next picture was taken right above the dam.....

During the summer season, the waters are full of boats but on Monday there was nothing but cool blue water.... ....'n we pretty much had the place ta ourselves too.....

Well we sure hope ya enjoyed our Fall scenery....'n our trip ta Kinzua Dam too....because we sure did...

Oh yeah, we also got Gram ta take a picture last night out the slidin' glass doors.....

Good night everyone....we sure hope that yer week is goin' well 'n that yer weather is as super as ours has been....

We just LOVE THE FALL !!!!!

This is Dewey Dewster reportin' from Grand Valley, Pa in the hills of northwestern Pennsylvania......Penn's Woods at it's finest..........