Does Anyone Want to Play With Me?

Is there anyone out there in blogland who wants to play with Sheepy2 and me? Mom doesn't seem to want to play right now (she is rewriting her resume again, and that makes her grumpy).
Let me know!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Scrapbooks are EVIL

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here! How are you? I'm doing pretty well except for the fact that nothing new has been happening here around our house lately so I have been rather bored.
Mom has been spending all of her time either looking for work or scrapbooking.
Let me tell you about the scrapbooking project that Mom is currently working on:
When Great Grandma Sue died almost two years ago she left a TON of pictures.
Several months ago Mom and Grandma Andrea organized those pictures and Mom agreed to divide them up and use them to make three separate scrapbooks, one each for her Uncle Scott, her Aunt Marcia, and her Mom (my Grandma Andrea) each of whom is one of Great Grandma Sue's children. In that way, each person could have a nice way of remembering a lot of family history and Mom (who is an organizational FREAK) wouldn't have to stay awake nights thinking about all those photos going unorganized and unused in Grandma Andrea's basement.
So, Mom easily finished Uncle Scott's scrapbook, and then Aunt Marcia's, and now she is working on the final one, Grandma Andrea's. The only thing is, Mom is starting to get a bit...frustrated by the whole project.
You see, the pictures that she is using span a HUUUUUUUUUUUGE chunk of her family's history including the last six generations with photo's dating back into the 1930's. They are ALL (Jemima's Mom's Note: ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!! ARRRRGH!!!!!!!! ARGH!!!! AHHHHHHHH!!!!) unlabeled and undated. An enormous amount of them are in black and white and the vast majority are ripped or folded or in some way violated and in need of restoration before use in the scrapbook. Grandma Andrea's scrapbook is already up to 40 complete pages with the end, well, apparently not close enough for Mom to have it in her sites. I keep hearing comments not befitting a scrapbooker coming from Mom's corner. Things like "Stick, you b*****d piece of s**t!" and "ANOTHER freaking unlabeled picture! Oh! And another! And another! And another f*****g one!" and "Gosh freaking darn it! Where did YOU come from? Why weren't you in the pile with the other pictures from the 1960's?! Now I have to find a damn place for you three pages back! Why me? Why?!".
All in all, I am thinking that it would be good for her blood pressure if Mom could get these scrapbooks done. So, I am going to let her get back to it!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Meetup

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
Mom says that since it is the middle of October that it is time to talk about the Meetup that is taking place in Las Vegas at the end of the month. So, here's Mom to talk to you about that... I'm going to stay wrapped up in this blanket on Dad's chair while she talks to you.
Hi! Everyone. Jemima's Mom, Rachele, here.
My question to everyone who is attending the Meetup is: What should we do while we are there? I know that we all have plans to do things on our own, which is good, but I mean, what should we do together? My thought was that we would meet for a meal on the 30th, do an activity or another meal on the 31st, and then a farewell breakfast on the 1st of November. What do you all think? Any other ideas? Where should we eat if we do decide to do meals together? Any restaurants that you all want to try? I have always wanted to go to Postrio Bar & Grill in the Venetian.
Let me know what your opinions are!
OK, so back to me, Jemima, now...hmmm...I guess that I don't have much else to say. Being wrapped up in this blanket is making me super sleepy!
Bye for now.
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

A Nice Day

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
Today was one of those really nice days during which Mom and I mostly stayed inside and snuggled under a blanket with just a few quick trips outside for me to go potty.
It was a very nice day! What did you do today?
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

I attempt to hold Mom Down

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
Today Mom and Dad ditched me to go and do the Coors Brewing Company tour. Even though we only live about ten minutes from Coors neither Mom nor Dad had been on the tour since they were little. So, away they went to the 55 acre Coors plant!
Here are some pictures:


This is where the beer is actually brewed. Apparently the Coors Brewery in Golden, Colorado is the largest brewery in the country. It produces well over a billion cases of beer every year!
This is the Coors packaging plant where Dad says that Grandpa Steve worked for years!

During the tour each person over the age of 21 is allowed to sample up to four beers. Since neither Mom, nor Dad really likes beer they only had two each. Mom got a Killian's Irish Red and a Blue Moon Harvest Pumpkin Beer and Dad got a Blue Moon and a Molson Canadian.
Dad enjoying his really fresh beer.




After Mom and Dad got home from Coors Mom laid down on the floor for a second to work on the puzzle that she and Dad are currently working on together and I decided to lay on top of her to prevent any further ditching attempts - no more running off without me for you Mom! Ha!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

People Suck

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here. Today Mom, Dad, and I went for a walk in Bear Creek State Park (which was fun) but when we got back to Dad's Jeep, Bella, we discovered that some horrible person had broken into it and taken Dad's tool boxes! How lame is that? How much does that person suck? A lot, I think. A thousand steaming Great Dane poops upon him! Anyways...here are some pictures from our walk...Here's me. I'm so cute!

And here's Dad. He looks pretty happy to be out on a walk with me, don't you think? But pretty, like, NORMAL, too right? Not overly excited or anything...

And here's a picture of Mom who looks...ummm...a little TO excited to be out for a walk. Like maybe I need to take her out more or something.
Anyways...have a good week everyone!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Hairy Balls

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here. Thanks to everyone who commented on my last post to tell me that no, in fact I was NOT having an ugly day. The number of comments that I received on the subject made me think that Mom may be correct when she tells me that there is no such thing as an ugly day - it is all in our heads!

Anyways, Mom and Grandma Andrea went to the Denver Botanic Gardens this weekend and Mom took a picture of these plants (see second image) that, I kid you not, are called "Hairy Balls"...Hmmmm that name reminds me of my brothers for some reason, but I am not sure why...!

Love, Jemima Jones Beck

Ugly Day

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
I am having a non-photogenic ugly day today, can you tell?
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Salt and Pepper

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
There are two new pugs hanging around our house that I want to introduce you all to!
Here they are: Everyone, I am pleased to introduce Salt and Pepper!
Aren't they cute?
They were a birthday gift from Mom's old friend, Jessica. Jessica seems to know that Mom likes pugs.
Here's a back view of Salt and Pepper - they have curly tails, just like me!
So far Salt and Pepper don't seem to want to play with me all that much, but I am sure that I can change that soon using my puggy charm!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Random Stuff

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
Mom and I haven't written in a while because nothing to incredibly exciting has happened lately...Mom still hasn't found a job, there have been no more major spider sightings, and nobody has had a birthday.
Mom did take me to the dog park this morning and snapped this picture of me looking back and her in a "hurry up" manner while we were there.
Mom also took this picture of a leaf. Thrilling, I know.
And this picture of some yellow weeds. Again, thrilling.
Now this picture shows something that actually was exciting - Grandma Andrea and Leo bought a case of Colorado peaches on a recent trip through the Palisade area and Grandma Andrea invited Mom and me over to help her make peach pies.
They look pretty good, don't they? Grandma Andrea looks pleased with them at the very least.
Hope that you all are having exciting end of summer adventures!
Jemima Jones Beck

The Creepiest Spider in the Neighborhood

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here. Today Mom and I went to Grandma Andrea's house to take pictures of her sunflowers because, you know, sunflowers are pretty, and Mom ran into the creepiest spider ever (literally, she almost ran right into it's web but stopped just in time which is good because eww).


These are just a couple of the bo-jillion sunflower pictures that we have now - pretty huh?
And here is the creepiest spider ever. Now, it turns out that this is a Cat Faced Spider which is an extremely beneficial garden spider that eats tons of bad bugs and is totally harmless to humans, but Mom didn't know that when she smashed it with a brick and then hosed it's guts off of Grandma Andrea's flagstone patio. Oops.
Now, I wondered what made Mom smash this spider and not Rosie, the Spider that Mom met at the Butterfly Pavilion a week ago. When I asked her, Mom told me that it's one thing to meet a "domesticated" spider that lives in captivity and is supposedly very used to humans, and totally another to almost walk into the web of a freaky looking free range spider the size of a cell phone.
I guess that I can understand that!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck
PS: Click on the picture of the spider to make it bigger - it's creepy and interesting at the same time!

Just Sayin' Hi!

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
I don't really have anything in particular to say other than "Hi!".
So...this is me...just sayin' Hi!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

The Butterfly Pavilion

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here with some pictures of Mom and Dad's trip to The Butterfly Pavilion this weekend. Apparently, it was really cool, but I wouldn't know because dogs aren't allowed.
Enjoy!
Jemima Jones Beck
The Butterfly Pavilion!
This giant praying mantis almost got Dad! Had I been there I would have protected him!
Dad made a new friend...
And so did Mom...

And they met some super pretty butterflies. Dad nicknamed this one the Frida Kahlo Butterfly because it is so brightly colored!

Thanks Everyone! And Random Pictures that Mom Took with her New Camera!

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here. Thank you very much to everyone who commented on our post yesterday to wish Mom a Happy Birthday! That was so nice of you all! You all made Mom feel special.
Mom had a great day. She went with Grandma Andrea to lunch, opened fabulous presents, and then went to Got Paint, a paint your own (anything) studio. Grandma Andrea painted a butter dish and Mom painted a ginormous bowl. Mom and Grandma's creations wont be "done" (glazed, fired and all) until next week, so we'll show you more pictures then!
In the mean time you all are probably going to have to deal with a whole mess of pictures that aren't of me for a little while...Dad got Mom a new DSLR for her birthday (Grandma Marlane and Grandpa Steve chipped in too), and Mom seems a little bit obsessed with photographing everything in sight including me, Dad, the cats, and Harvey, Mom's new Venus Flytrap. I promise that I'll make her go back to photographing me exclusively ASAP!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck
Here are Mom and Grandma Andrea at Got Paint (thanks Grandma Andrea for the picture).
Mom's almost finished bowl.
Wellington (don't mind the eye boogers).
Netty (again, don't mind the eye boogers. The cats seem to have been having an eye boogery night).
Dad, no eye boogers, thank god.
Dad again, this time at D'Deli showing off his massive sandwich. He should be glad that I didn't pick the picture of him shoving half of that sandwich into his mouth.
Mom's new Venus Flytrap Harvey who Mom thinks looks like a butterfly in this picture.
Harvey again, showing off his trigger hairs.
And, FINALLY, me, (hiding behind Dad from the scary new camera).
Smooches!
Jemima

Happy Birthday to Mom

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
Well, today is Mom's 25th birthday.
And, as usual, she will be celebrating it by ditching me at home while she goes gallivanting off to who knows where. Sigh. Mom sure is lucky that I am a forgiving pug otherwise I might poo on her as a little "birthday surprise"..."Good morning Mom! Happy Birthday! I understand that you are running off without me again this year! Enjoy cleaning up that poo, I made it just for you..." or, you know, something like that.
Anyways, this year Grandma Andrea and Mom are going to Pho Hau, Mom's FAVORITE Pho restaurant and then to paint pottery at a paint-your-own pottery-place (which I don't know that name of, can you tell?). Mom is super excited! Dad is also taking Mom to dinner somewhere, but I don't know where (not even privileged enough to know WHERE they are running off to this year! Hmpf!), so I can't really tell you about it.
Since I couldn't find any awesome birthday themed pictures for your enjoyment, I have instead included two random pictures of Mom. As usual, she looks kinda weird in both of them. Oh well.
The first one is of Mom and Netty, but you can't really see Netty because our camera flashed his head out. That's how desperate I was to find a picture of Mom - I had to use a crappy flashed out picture! Might be time to start letting people take your picture Mom - just a thought! And the second one is a self portrait that Mom and I took of ourselves while we were waiting for Grandma Andrea to come and join us for Perseid Meteor Shower viewing a week ago (that was a fun night!).
Any who, Happy Birthday Mom! I love ya!
Jemima Jones Beck

Mom's Side of the Bed

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
I want to apologize in advance for how ugly these pictures are! Mom is dead set on showing you all something: exactly what she sees every night when she comes to bed! Which is Netty and me (along with Andy and Chomps, Mom's stuffed alligators) taking up basically the whole bed (or, at the very least, Mom's entire side of the bed).
Poor Dad doesn't appear to have much space in these pictures but somehow I don't think that that is what irritates Mom about the situation. I think that it actually has something to do with the fact that we refuse to move, even when Mom threatens to lay on us, so she ends up having to squeeze into the bed either between Netty and me (which results in her being forced to deal with a set of cat paws shoved up her nose, and a pug face snorting up her cleavage all night) or between Dad and me (which results in her face being smashed into Dad's back and her neck being assaulted by my puggy butt all night). Apparently, neither one of those things sounds like a pleasant option to Mom...I am not exactly sure why...Mom is kinda weird that way.
Anyways, another post soon - Mom wants to show you all the awesome earrings that she ordered from Jen, Suki and Mojo's Mom, via her Etsy shop. They are super pretty but Mom needs a little bit of help photographing them (apparently, it's hard for humans to photograph their own ears).
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

My View At Buffalo Bill Days

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.

This weekend Mom and Dad took me to Buffalo Bill Days which is a popular festival in Golden, Colorado. It's a really exciting festival with lots of shopping and eating and drinking, but guess what I spent the entire time looking at?

Yeah, that's right, shoes, tattoos, and painted toenails since SOMEBODY (Mom) refused to carry me, and SOMEBODY ELSE (Dad) agreed with her.

Oh well, I suppose that there are worse things to spend a few hours staring at - like Netty's bum hole when he sits on my head and refuses to move for hours on end.

Love,

Jemima Jones Beck

PS: You can tell that we are in Colorado from the high incidence of Chacos and Flip Flops in these pictures ;)

Jemima

Updates and Such

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
Don't I look dignified in this picture? I think that I do. Dignified and beautiful!
Anyways, thanks very much to everyone who wrote to ask about my bladder infection. It is all cleared up thanks to Dad, who tried hard to get off work early for a few days so that he could walk me earlier than normal in the evening, and Grandma Andrea who came over to walk me every single day the week after I got the infection (Mom was in San Francisco, so she didn't help at all, the slacker).
And I am not going to have to worry about getting another bladder infection any time soon because Mom (and everyone else that worked at her office) quit her job last week. So, no more holding it for a long time for me!
Now Mom is looking for a job, again, and walking me around Sloan's Lake and our neighborhood parks in between applications.
Well, it's lunch time, so I had better go help Mom in the kitchen!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Climbing Mount Democrat

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
Dad took me to climb another 14er yesterday - Mount Democrat is 14,148 feet high and we climbed to the very top!
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Reminder

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
Grandma Andrea took these pictures of me a few days ago when she took me on a hike on Kenosha Pass. Aren't they pretty pictures?
I am writing to you today because Mom asked me to send you all a quick reminder about the North American Dog, And Other, Bloggers Meetup which is happening in Las Vegas, Nevada from October 30th - November 1st. Here is the original post about the meetup.
Mom (and maybe Dad) will be there to par-tay with our blogging buddies, will you?
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

That's all Wonderful and Junk

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
Well, Mom is back from her trip to San Francisco with Jessica and that is all wonderful and junk, but guess what I did while Mom was gone?
I climbed two 14,000 foot peaks with Dad - Greys and it's neighbor, Torres.
I am so cool.
Anyways, here are some pictures of our hikes and of Mom's trip.
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck


Here I am guarding Dad's bag...I am such a good girl!

You can just barely see me at the lower right hand of this picture.

Summiting the mountain.
Dad and I enjoying a snuggle at the summit.

Alcatraz.

The Golden Gate Bridge.

The hill on Hyde Street that attempted to kill Mom with it's steepness.

Mom, who, as usual, looks slightly insane in close up photography, at the Stinking Rose, a restaurant recommended by Leah. Mom had the pork chop.

Bad Mom

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here. Thanks very much to everyone who wrote in to tell me that they hope that I recover quickly from my nasty bladder infection. I am feeling much better today and I am sure that it is because of all of your good wishes! But I have some bad news! My bad bad bad Mom is running off with her old friend Jessica to San Francisco! Can you believe that? She is going be there for four days! How could she? Leaving me all alone with only Dad, Netty, Wellington, Spork and Grandma Andrea for company! Hmph! The nerve of her! Well, I had better go attempt to eat Mom's travel size stuff again; last year, when Mom and Dad went to Alaska, I managed to chew an entire set of travel containers! Hahaha! Love, Jemima Jones Beck

Bladder Infections Aren't Fun

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here.
Well, I am on antibiotics for my horrible bladder infection and Mom is making me drink lots of water and chicken broth and is taking care to walk me about every three hours today.
I am still not feeling well though, as you can tell from this picture in which I look less than excited about going for a long pee walk (I did end up peeing six times on the walk but I was less than excited about it).
Here are some more pictures of my walk!


"Mom! Mom! I managed to pee! Yay! Aren't you happy for me? I am happy for me!"


Uh oh, this is my pee (that red spot). Hmm...we'll just pretend that it isn't still pure blood and give the antibiotics another day to do their thing.

Duckies!


"Huh...this water tastes like ducky butt, weird".

The Vet

Hi! Everyone. I am being sneaky in this picture, can you tell? I am looking at Mom out of the corner my eye to gauge whether or not she will be able to see me if I decide to run over and eat the piece of stale cake that was sitting on our neighbors doorstep earlier (it's gone now, but sadly I was not the one that made it gone).
Anyways, I went to the emergency vet tonight. I have been peeing blood for a few days. It turns out that I currently have really high levels of bacteria in my pee aka a really bad bladder infection. Poor Mom is just sorry that she didn't find out sooner but the places that she takes me to pee are all covered in grass, so she can't see me pee when she takes me for walks unless she bends down and looks at it really closely which, well, I don't think that she does very often. Well, I had better go hide; Mom thinks that she is about to shove a quarter sized antibiotic pill down my throat, but I have some other ideas about that (other ideas known as running and hiding).
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Daddy's Girl

Hi! Everyone. Jemima Jones Beck here. Mom took these pictures of me today, she says that they show that I am a total Daddy's girl...I am not sure what that means. All that I do know is that I love to be sitting on Dad's lap, even if it is 90 degrees out!

Love,

Jemima Jones Beck

No Tongue

Hi! Everyone. Mom says that she thinks that it is disgusting the way that my tongue has been hanging out in every single picture on the blog lately. So, to make Mom happy, here are three pictures that do not feature my tongue (one of them does feature my anus though, so be prepared).
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Hiking in Colorado with Dad

Hi! Everyone. Jemima Jones Beck here. One of the benefits of Mom being gone to work during the day is that I get to spend more one on one time with Dad when he has days off.
Dad had yesterday off and he took me for a really awesome hike at White Ranch in Golden Gate Canyon.
I have some pictures of course.
In this first picture you can see that I sat with a fine example of the Colorado State flower, the Columbine.
I laid in some puddles...
and jumped over others...
and was really glad to be back in the car where I could lay down and take a load off. Happy day.
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck

Hello! and Goodbye!

Hi! Everyone. Jemima Jones Beck here. There isn't much going on around the Beck household these days since Mom got her new job. Grandma Andrea has been nice enough to continue to come and see me on most days, and yesterday she even took me home with her for the afternoon! That was exciting. Mom took these pictures of me this morning before she started getting ready for work. I call them "Hello" and Goodbye" Love, Jemima Jones Beck

Green Mountain Trail

Hi! Everyone! Jemima Jones Beck here with some pictures that Grandma Andrea took on our hike in Green Mountain this week.
I especially like the one where I am hiding under Grandma Andrea waiting for some water.
Love,
Jemima Jones Beck