Showing posts with label Color Me Mine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Color Me Mine. Show all posts

3.23.2011

Wednesday Walk-About ...

So once a week or so, Mom & Aunt K. like to go out somewhere in the neighborhood after work, have a glass of wine, something yummy to eat, and just chat.  Fortunately for Phoebe, Cosmo, and myself, they say they always have a better time when the three of us are along.  Score!

Tonight we actually had a mission ... to pick up the glazed pawprint tiles we had made during the Christmas Block Pawty.  Mom figured we'd better pick them up soon ... or before we knew it it would be NEXT Christmas!  Time has a way of slipping past almost faster than we can keep up with.  So after Phoebe, Cosmo, and I had eaten dinner, we headed down to Hyde Park Village to Color Me Mine to pick up the tiles.

Color Me Mine is a place where you can go in and make your own handpainted pottery.  Sometimes when we walk by there on weekends, we see lots of little kids having birthday parties.  It always seems like they're having lots of fun!

Then we went to eat at The Wine Exchange, which is probably our most favorite dog friendly eatery.  (Mom & Aunt K. highly recommend the Athenian Pizza, the Chocolate Chip Fudge dessert, and pretty much everything else they've got going there!  Too bad we didn't get to take home a doggy bag!)


This fountain is right outside the back of Wine Exchange.  Mom forgot to take a picture of the front entrance!  (She says it is because the doggie entrance is at the rear because that's where the patio is.)


While there, Phoebe and I caught up on the Village news ...
 And we also noticed that there were some really cool drawings all over the sidewalk .... like this ...


Blue Moon happens to be one of Mom's favorite beers! 

This one of a koi pond was cool, too! 


Well ... this explains all the chalk drawings!  Who knew? 

Why, thank you ... don't mind if we do! 

And that's it for us ... we're off to bed soon.  We wish you pleasant dreams and hope to see you again tomorrow!

12.17.2010

Happy Friday!

TGIF, everybody!  I have to say - I'm ready for the weekend!  We had a late night last night at the Howliday Block Pawty to benefit the Humane Society of Tampa Bay - we met, we mingled, we made pawprints at Color Me Mine and got our pictures taken with Santa! 

We even ran into our favorite (and only - because Mom doesn't trust anyone else!) petsitter, Cindy, from Secure Home Solutions Pet Care    Cindy and her staff are pawsome ... they take great care of us and the cat kids when Mom has to go somewhere and can't take us!  They come and have a slumber party with us and stay with us pretty much all the time so we don't get lonely and miss Mom so much.  We go for walks and out to get yogurt, and when Mom gets home there is a whole big stack of notes about everything we did and everywhere we went, how we ate, and everything, so Mom feels like she was right there with us.  Mom sure enjoys her vacations and time away from us much more since she found Cindy, because she can just relax and not have to worry about us at all.  She knows that we're right there safe and comfy in our own familiar surroundings, not in some strange, scary place that we wouldn't like, no matter how nice the people are. 

After that, Mom & Aunt K. were pretty hungry and a mite parched (the participating businesses had water and treats for the canines, but not many munchies for the humans), so then we went to one of our favorite local eateries - Wine Exchange and met and mingled some more with other dogs whose humans were also a bit parched after all the festivities.  Mom & Aunt K. had a glass of wine and an appetizer while Phoebe, Cosmo, and I sniffed around for any dropped crumbs and generally had a howling good time!  I'll post a few pictures later tonight, and as soon as we get the email of our photo with Santa, I'll post those, too!

Meanwhile, here's another fun E-card we got - check it out: