6 FAVORITE THINGS AWARD

THANK YOU

 TO OUR 7 FRIENDS AT COLEHAUS CATS

FOR GIVING US

'MY 6 FAVORITE THINGS AWARD'

IRONICALLY EDITION 
6 OF MADI AND MOM (THE PRINTED VERSION)
ARRIVED THE DAY OUR FRIENDS GAVE US THE AWARD.  

#6

Mom says being my assistant is a ton of fun

she loves writing and taking pictures

and thus far I enjoy posing.

We both say Volumes 1-6 of Madi and Mom
are 6 of our favorite things.  They document 
our blog in print over the last 4 years.
We celebrated our 4th blog-a-versary on
June 27, 2013.  Mom prints our blog every 6 months via Blog2Print!!!

Meet my Cabinet: Gizmo

GizmoGeodog  Outdoor/Woodsman Guide

First of all Mayor Madi let me tell you that I’m all happy ears and tail today.I was so honored to be named your official Outdoor/Woodsman Guide and absolutely jumping out of my furs to be interviewed by you.

1. Please introduce yourself(selves), tell us your age and a very special trait.

I’m Gizmo Geodog, and I’m a 5 year old Border Terrier. I’m unstripped, so most people don’t know what  breed I am, but Momz and I both think that my “scruffy” style expresses my personality. My “Gotcha Day” is October 11, but my Barkday is some time in July.

My “thing” is being a geodog and showing all my furriends how much fun they can have geocaching. Momz last dog Bruno was her first geodog and I got to visit my first cache the day after Momz brought me home. I love to write about my geocaching adventures on my blog and encourage all my friends to give it a try.  

Geocaching is a a great sport where you get to go out on walks and trails and find containers that other folks have hidden using a GPS. Momz handles all the technical stuff and I use my nose. Furriends who want to learn more can visit www.geocaching.com.

GIZMO BALANCING A GEOCACHE ON HIS HEAD!!  PURRFECT POSTURE

2. If you had and alter ego, who would you like to be and why

I am so happy being myself that I can’t imagine being another fur…I have a great home and Momz and me have wonderful adventures and I always have fun

3. What do you like best/least about where you live

What I like most is that we have lots of wild places nearby with great trails that I can explore…That’s what makes me the perfect choice to be your   Outdoor/Woodmans Guide. What I like least is that it gets very hot in the Summertime so we have to limit our outdoors time.

4. Who are some peeps/furiends you'd like to meet and why

I’ve been lucky enough to share sniffs and nose-taps with my pal Oz from Oz the Terrier PepperPom from Pepper’s Paws, Lulu from Life with Beagle and Flea from Jones Natural Chews. Of course it would be super special to have an in-furson date with my sweet gurldawg Misaki. I’d love to meet my Park Day partner Finn,  Sugar the Golden Retriever, Emma the GBGV and the two Mollies, Mollie the Blonde and Molly the Wally. Oh gosh, there’s so many more I’d like to meet like the two Weims Easy and Goose, Frankie & Ernest…heck I want to meet efurryone! I like cats a lot and would love to meet you Mayor Madi and a bunch of my kitteh pals. I’m going to Barkworld in August and hope I get to meet a lot more of my furriends there.

5. If you could give one piece of random advice what would it be?

Always have fun! That’s my motto and what I live by…I find fun in everything I do…

6. What do you do for fun

Everything! I make everything fun…I’m a very happy dog and love meeting new people and going places with my Momz and I wake up every morning just knowing that my day will be fun. Geocaching and hiking are my favorite things to do.

7. What is the first thing you do each morning

First I give Momz a quick face-cleaning then it’s outside to pee, then we go for a morning walk

8. What is the first thing you notice about a new furiend

First I notice their scent…It is very impawtant that they smell like a furriend…Next I check to see if their tail is wagging and if they want to play

9. Tell us how you came to live in your family and how you got your name.

My Momz adopted me from the Polk county Animal Control Shelter about a month after her Bruno went over the Rainbow Bridge. You can read the whole story here and see a picture of me on the first day I came to my furever home. When we got home from the shelter Momz wasn’t sure what to call me…The baddies who left me at the Shelter had called me Lance (?!?) but Momz knew that wouldn’t do at all. I was kind of curled up and scared. She started saying different words and when she said the word Gizmo I liked it and lifted my head and perked up my ears…That did it…I became Gizmo and then I earned my official Geodog title.

10. What is your absolute favorite food

Uh, my favorite food is…food! BOL! Really, I’m pretty much an omnivore…I like meats and veggies and even some fruits and of course cheeses and yogurt. But I guess that salmon and alligator are my very favorites.

BONUS:  GIZMO Mom and I never heard of GeoCaching until we met you.  It is most interesting hobby and certainly one you excel at...please explain it to us, how you got started and how often you pawticipate and well anything you want to tell us about it.

There’s a geocache right across the street from our house so Momz took me over there the day after she brought me home and I found it. Now I have my very own cache at our house, so folks can come by and meet me. If they can’t find the cache I can show them where it is. I have my own travel bug tag so my new pals can log that they’ve met me. Momz and I have gone on geocaching trips all over Florida. We’ve gone to lots of events where I get to make new friends. My favorite trips were the ones to the Ocala and Osceola National Forests. We get to go Jeeping there and I get to be a real wild dog in the woods and find lots of caches. My real claim to fame is that I’ve found a 5/5 cache which is the very hardest kind, and requires a boat to complete. It took two whole days and we had to bushwhack for over 15 miles through swamps and cow pastures with no trails at all, just our GPS. At the end of the second day we had to take a boat ride to an island to find the cache. It wa my first boat trip and I did great. Lately Momz & I have been going out night caching to get in some extra walks after the sun goes down. I think the very best thing that geocaching has done for me is that I hosted my very own event and raffle and raised over $500.00 for the Polk County Animal Control Shelter where Momz found me.

If you haven't met Gizmo, click here to visit this handsome dude!!

TRIBUTE TO THUNDER

TODAY WE ARE JOINING IN A 

TRIBUTE TO 

T H U N D E R

TRUE FRIEND

HANDSOME

     ULTRA SOFT AND LOVABLE

NOBLE

DUNDER

EYES OF BLUE

REARED WITH UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

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OUR WISH FOR YOU SWEET BOY

RUN FREE 

CHASE BUTTERFLIES

ROLL IN THE GRASS

AND MOST OF ALL MAY YOU FIND LOTS OF SNOW

WE SEND YOU

MADI KISSES AND MOM HUGS

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Tomorrow Meet My Cabinet will  feature
Gizmo from Gizmo's Terrier Torrent, my Outdoor Woodsman Guide

SCAVENGER HUNT DRAWING

First of all Mom and I thank all who participated in our Scavenger Hunt.  We had fun creating it and hope you had fun playing.

BREAKING NEWS

We had NOT 1 but 3 benefactors who donated

a total $30.00 to Benny's GoFund.

SO MOM divided the number of 

extra tickets into the number of participants.

Mom added 3 eligible names for the drawing to everyone's total.

LOOK AT ALL THE NAMES IN THE BAG

 MOM WAS UNDER THE MISTAKEN IMPRESSION THAT I WOULD WALK RIGHT IN THAT BAG AND PULL OUT A NAME
SILLY, SILLY WOMAN

 I WAS RUDELY AWAKENED FROM
MY AFTERNOON NAP BY MOM SO
SHE GETS NO FAVORS

I WAS NOT IN THE LEAST BIT INTERESTED IN BEING A CAT IN A BAG

BUT I DID GIVE THE HANDLES A 

SNIFF

 THANK GOODNESS DAD AGREED
TO BE MY UNDERSTUDY
HE STUCK HIS LONG ARM WAY DOWN
AND MOM SAID MIX'EM UP

DRUM ROLL  

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THE 

WINNER

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CONGRATULATIONS 
SARGE.  
PLEASE ASK THE HANDS
IF YOUR P.O. BOX
NUMBER FROM THE CHRISTMAS
CARD EXCHANGE IS THE ADDRESS WE SHOULD USE OR  IF THE HANDS WANT
IT MAILED TO ANOTHER ADDRESS,
PLEASE SEND US AN EMAIL SO WE CAN MAIL YOUR SCARF.

NOTE:
I did not go in that bag because upon completion of my automatic calculations of its size, I determined it was not deep enough nor wide enough for a Uturn.

This Moment, {See Beautiful} with a slight twist

This was my reaction when Mom told me 

she didn't by any Fancy Feast.  It has absolutely nothing to do with the story.  Evidently my expression was exactly what she felt.

This is a picture of my grandpeep's garage

Now for the rest of the story. 

take it away MOM

On July 3, 2013, I went over to check on a few things at their house (this is a reenactment staged on July 8, 2013 I did not have my camera with me.)  On the day in questioned there were black ominous clouds lurking over the house so I decided to 

use my remote to go in on the right side.

 Remember reenactment.. 

I pulled in on the right side closed the garage door

and went about my business. 
THEN

When I pressed the remote to leave the door only went up 3/4 of the way.  I tried the opener in the garage wall...motor groaned. Kaput. 

I WAS STUCK IN THE GARAGE

I tried to push the door up manually but it would not budge...the panel was bent.  As you can see it is a double garage.  Thank goodness I have a small car...it took me nearly 15 min of *pulling forward, backing up* repeat* to angle the CR-V to the vacant side.  

Did I mentioned it was HOT AS HADES IN THAT GARAGE TOO. 

 I finally got the car straight enough to back it out.

BUT since the motor would not stop groaning

I decided I better unplug it.  I found a ladder in my Daddy's 

workshop.  

Then I had to figure out what to do about the crippled

right garage door that was still 3/4 of the way up.  Thankfully I was able to manually pull it down.  THEN I, appropriately wedged

Crutches on both sides of the track to just to be sure no one could open it.  The repairman came on July 9.

 Needless to say seeing my car at the bottom of the driveway

was indeed 

This Moment, See Beautiful

 I was rather proud of my accomplishments

I might be older than dirt
BUT

 I AM WOMAN HEAR ME ROAR I GOT MYSELF OUT