Bring on the SUMMER! Bogart is cut and dried!

[lindamarie]

I felt like I was bringing home a new dog!!
OMGOSH! His coat feels like velvet! I think we like this! Not sure yet, but it's growing on me by the minute!

[kirama]

I like it, for a short cut they did a beautiful job, not bald looking and they kept the cuteness of the doodle muzzle

[Raleighsmom]

Oh Linda...I LOVE it, I LOVE it...I LOVE it!!!!!!! I've got to print this off for Raleigh's groomer....what an awesome job they did on Bogie!!! You must be very pleased!!

[MaxandMe]

WOW i absolutely LOVE BOGIE'S haircut!!! he looks STUNNING!!!
and somewhat puppyish too

GREAT CUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lindamarie]

THANKS!!
I'm watching him right now from the window. He's playing with Finn. He DOES look PUPPLE!!
Walt likes it so much that he's telling the neighbor he wants it this way FOREVER...........
Nuh-uh. THIS is a summer cut ONLY! Then back to looking like the Wreck of the Hespress...whatever that is. My mother always used that experession.

[Elmo the Bear]

Bogart looks stunning before and after... I'm sure he'll be coller now as well. So glad they didn't scalp him

[kirama]

Originally Posted by lindamarie

Then back to looking like the Wreck of the Hespress...whatever that is. My mother always used that experession.

If you ever find out what that means would you let me know? My mom used to say that too!

[Raleighsmom]

I'm not your Mom ..but probably could be depending on how old you are...hahahaha...but I say that too when I see my 'bed head' in the morning...

"The Wreck of the Hesperus" is a story that presents the tragic consequences of a sea captain's pride. On an ill-fated voyage in the winter, he had his daughter aboard ship for company. The disaster came when the captain ignored the advice of one of his experienced men, who feared that a hurricane was approaching. When the hurricane arrives, he ties his daughter to the mast to prevent her from being swept overboard; she calls out to her dying father as she hears the surf beating on the shore, then prays to Christ to calm the seas. The ship crashes onto the reef of Norman's Woe and sinks; a horrified fisherman finds her body, still tied to the mast, drifting in the surf the next morning. The poem ends with a prayer that we all be spared such a fate "on the reef of Norman's Woe".

I love the look in Bogie's eyes too!

[lindamarie]

AHA! It's Hesperus! So mom's always knew what that story was, right?
Very interesting, Kathy!! A spiritual thing. And, apparently true! WOW!

Awwww..thanks about the look in Bogart's eyes. He really is so soft eyed and soulful. I just love it too!! THANK YOU!!

[sheamusmom]

I adore Bogie's summer haircut. I cut Seamus in a similiar fashion, not as polished looking. Eventually I'll figure out how to upload to photobucket and I can send a picture.
Kathie, I need a tutoring session!!
LIz

[BAD]

Bogard looks great with his summer do!! I think I'll give Abbey a little summer clip!!

[Raleighsmom]

Hope you all don't mind me posting this here.....enjoy!


"WRECK OF THE HESPERUS"
It was the schooner Hesperus,
That sailed the wintery sea;
And the skipper had taken his little daughter,
To bear him company.

Blue were her eyes as the fairy flax,
Her cheeks like the dawn of day,
And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds,
That ope in the month of May.

The Skipper he stood beside the helm,
His pipe was in his mouth,
And he watched how the veering flaw did blow
The smoke now West, now South.

Then up and spake an old Sailor,
Had sailed the Spanish Main,
"I pray thee, put into yonder port,
for I fear a hurricane.

"Last night the moon had a golden ring,
And to-night no moon we see!"
The skipper, he blew whiff from his pipe,
And a scornful laugh laughed he.

Colder and louder blew the wind,
A gale from the Northeast,
The snow fell hissing in the brine,
And the billows frothed like yeast.

Down came the storm, and smote amain
The vessel in its strength;
She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed,
Then leaped her cable's length.

"Come hither! come hither! my little daughter,
And do not tremble so;
For I can weather the roughest gale
That ever wind did blow."

He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat
Against the stinging blast;
He cut a rope from a broken spar,
And bound her to the mast.

"O father! I hear the church bells ring,
Oh, say, what may it be?"
"Tis a fog-bell on a rock bound coast!" --
And he steered for the open sea.

"O father! I hear the sound of guns;
Oh, say, what may it be?"
Some ship in distress, that cannot live
In such an angry sea!"

"O father! I see a gleaming light.
Oh say, what may it be?"
But the father answered never a word,
A frozen corpse was he.

Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark,
With his face turned to the skies,
The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow
On his fixed and glassy eyes.

Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed
That saved she might be;
And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave,
On the Lake of Galilee.

And fast through the midnight dark and drear,
Through the whistling sleet and snow,
Like a sheeted ghost, the vessel swept
Tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe.

And ever the fitful gusts between
A sound came from the land;
It was the sound of the trampling surf,
On the rocks and hard sea-sand.

The breakers were right beneath her bows,
She drifted a dreary wreck,
And a whooping billow swept the crew
Like icicles from her deck.

She struck where the white and fleecy waves
Looked soft as carded wool,
But the cruel rocks, they gored her side
Like the horns of an angry bull.

Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice,
With the masts went by the board;
Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank,
Ho! ho! the breakers roared!

At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,
A fisherman stood aghast,
To see the form of a maiden fair,
Lashed close to a drifting mast.

The salt sea was frozen on her breast,
The salt tears in her eyes;
And he saw her hair, like the brown sea-weed,
On the billows fall and rise.

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,
In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman's Woe!

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

[lindamarie]

Thank you Kathy!
Ya know..........I always thought that the wreck of the hesperus referred to a woman's BED HEAD! ......not the wreck of a ship! OH! Where is the teacher in me that should know these things!?
Ya learn something new everyday!

[kirama]

Originally Posted by lindamarie

Thank you Kathy!
Ya know..........I always thought that the wreck of the hesperus referred to a woman's BED HEAD! ......not the wreck of a ship! OH! Where is the teacher in me that should know these things!?
Ya learn something new everyday!

Same here!

[cindy456]

Bogart looks wonderful, your groomer did a great job!!