tammy

The girlfriend reminded me late last night that I had missed posting a Tammy Tuesday this week.  And then earlier tonight she told me again.  So you can direct thanks to Kristen for kicking me in the tail and getting a new pic of my mini dachshund up for your viewing pleasure πŸ™‚

This week, nothing too special.  Just a photo I took with the iPad of Tammy in my lap, as I tried to get her to hold still…

There may be some more pics of her out and about town next week. We’ll see πŸ™‚...

Read more

Hey gang, been a mite busy on this end of things, but don’t let that stop us from having our weekly does of mini dachshund hijinks!

This past weekend my longtime friend and filmmaking partner “Weird” Ed Woody came to visit.  And it so happened that this was the very first time that he and Tammy have had a chance to meet.  I was outside with her when he pulled into the driveway and had my camera with me, so I got to record their first-ever encounter…




It took Tammy awhile to get used to somebody so new…

 …but it wasn’t long before she really took on to Ed, as you can tell πŸ™‚

Incidentally, Ed and I discussed our next film project.  It’s gonna be the first one we’ve done in quite some time.  Maybe we should give Tammy a cameo?...

Read more

Kristen and I spent the entire weekend at the Outer Banks.  We really enjoyed ourselves and already are planning what to do the next time we visit.  When we do I’m bound and determined to go hand-gliding on Jockey’s Ridge. But even without that this time, the trip was a neat lil’ adventure.

And when we got back home Tammy was waiting for us.  As much fun as we had, I really did miss my lil’ mini dachshund. And I think Tammy was happy to see us too…

Tammy, Kristen, dog, miniature dachshund

The next time y’all see Kristen and Tammy in a photo together, it might also include Kristen’s cat Zoe. We’re trying to figure out when would be a good time to introduce her and Tammy to each other.

And it was two years ago today that Kristen and I had our first date!  Hey, a sweet and beautiful girlfriend and a mischievous ...

Read more

Didn’t get to post an installment of Tammy Tuesday yesterday ‘cuz of too much stuff that came crashing down all at once.  Hey I enjoy blogging but it’s not like this is my full-time career, right?

Forget I asked that.

It’s a day late but no less cute: here’s Tammy trying her best to assist Dad in the kitchen as he looks for cookware…

Tammy, miniature dachshund, dog

Truth be told, I think Tammy enjoys eating the food more than she does actually preparing it πŸ˜›...

Read more

Tammy found herself last week at one of my favorite places: HyperMind in nearby Burlington!  So while the place was packed with people playing Magic: The Gathering, Settlers of Cataan and several other games there was this cute lil’ miniature dachshund running up and down the store.  I think everyone stopped what they were doing to give her a pat on the head or a tummy rub and a lucky few even got their faces licked!

Here’s Tammy with HyperMind’s owner and manager Denise…

Tammy, HyperMind, miniature dachshund, dogs

Tammy is getting to travel around quite often lately. I’ll be sure to photographically document her exploits and post them here in the future πŸ™‚...

Read more

Poor Tammy.  Ever since I brought her home last year, she has often sat alongside the horse pasture next to our land and watched the horses.  I can’t help but think that deep down, she believes she’s going to grow up to be that big someday, too!

Tammy, miniature dachshund, dog, horse

I always tell her that she doesn’t need to be a horse and I wouldn’t want her to be one either! I mean, a horse can’t snuggle up next to you on a sofa while you read a book. It can’t play with you indoors. It can’t sit patiently at the dinner table with those irresistibly cute eyes waiting for a tasty morsel of steak or barbecue chicken.  It can’t lay against your bedroom door as you sleep at night, guarding you against monsters and the bogey-man.

And for my money, I think a miniature dachshund can outrun a horse any day!  ...

Read more

It’s the first ever video for Tammy Tuesday!  A coupl’a weeks ago my mini dachshund Tammy wound up at my cousin’s house nearby for a play date with her sister and litter-mate Sassy.

So here are two miniature dachshunds running around and playing with an adorable little girl on a spring day.  If this blog had any more sweetness in one post, I’d have to offer free insulin!  By the way, Tammy is the dachshie with the red collar…




If Tammy can be still enough I’ll try to post more videos of her soon πŸ™‚...

Read more

Last week my mini dachshund Tammy became one year old!  I don’t care what her age is: she’ll forever be my baby.  I’m always calling her “Tammy the pup” (okay, along with other nicknames like “Tammy the Troublemaker”, “Tammy the Terror”, “Tammy the Tripper” and too many others to count…)

But this week marks the one-year anniversary of the first time she and I met.  And the first time my eyes fell on her, I was madly in love with that fuzzy little ball of concentrated cuteness!

So I thought that for this installment of Tammy Tuesday, I’d post photos of that very first encounter between Tammy and I…

Tammy and her litter-mates

It was four weeks later that I got to bring her home. Y’all can’t imagine how eager I was to have at long last a female miniature dachshund to run around the place πŸ™‚

I still can’t ...

Read more

(Awright, who will get that reference without having to Google for it? πŸ™‚

A few nights ago I was trying to snap a photo of Tammy and myself together.  Of the ten or so that I took none of them had Tammy looking at the camera!  She refused to cooperate any way at all.  I think it’s because she figures she has to be the star of everything and she doesn’t share her stage with anybody…

Anyway, here’s Tammy and her always-loving/more than occasionally exasperated owner:

miniature dachshunds, Tammy, dogs, Chris Knight

Here’s a hint: next week’s Tammy Tuesday features these same two characters in altogether different circumstances πŸ™‚...

Read more