Cleverpups going to Cleveland!

I am going to Chardon Ohio this June for a long awaited family visit! Need to hob nob with the sisters and mom for a week or too. Last time we had visited, Ian was 9 years old. Now hes 15. The family will get a good look at him this time around.

My mom owns a wonderful chocolate lab, which should give me lots of lab inspiration!

Yellow Lab Clever Pup and Froggy

This is cute! Hey I like little yellow lab puppies! Doesn't everyone? This is up for bid on Ebay also.

Yellow Lab and Froggy

copyright 2004 Cleverpup

Happy Easter!

Remember it's Easter with a capital E and its not about Bunnies! If I see one more politically correct
"Traditional Egg Hunt" sign here in the land of moonbats I will scream!!

Yellow Lab Puppy and Stork just waiting for you to take him home!

Another spring puppy on his way to a good home! This little yellow lab is waiting for your bid on Ebay!
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Just in Time for Spring!

Here's a new Spring arrival, pink poodle puppies waiting to drop into their new home. This is a 9x12 watercolor pencil illustration done on heavy acid free watercolor paper....this is so fun I may do another stork and puppie illo!.
copyright 2004 Cleverpup

Another reason why I am a Doggie Person...

Cat shoots Owner


Mar 10, 7:55 AM (ET)

BATES TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A man cooking in his kitchen was shot after one of his cats knocked his 9mm handgun onto the floor, discharging the weapon, Michigan State Police said.

Joseph Stanton, 29, of Bates Township in Iron County, was shot in his lower torso around 6 p.m. Tuesday, the state police post in Iron River reported. He was transported to Iron County Community Hospital.

Michelle Sand, a spokeswoman at the Iron River hospital, said Stanton was treated there before being transferred to Marquette General Hospital for further treatment. But Marcie Miller, a representative of the Marquette facility, said there was no record of the hospital receiving a patient by that name.

A telephone message seeking comment was left Wednesday at Stanton's home.

State police said he was cooking at his stove when the cat knocked the loaded gun off the kitchen counter behind him.

Cleverpup on the Big "O"

Cleverpup Art and Prints are currently selling on

Overstock.com Auction site

at a reduced price compared to Ebay.

Working on some new original paintings too.....stay tuned!

One smart Chicken

buck buck buck
Every afternoon, just before the sun starts going down, she shows up at the back door like clockwork to get me to put all the hens away for the night. She's one smart chicken!


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Mowing the lawn in February

I guess we are pretty lucky this winter weather wise.

I was complaining a little because of the meager snow fall here and in our Mountains. The snow pack is so low here that there is talk already of drought and a bad fire season. I know the east coast keeps getting slammed with winter snow and California (Hi Kathy!) is getting all our Seattle rain this year.
But I have never been through a winter here where I had to mow my lawn in February! It was 64 degrees here and clear blue Sunny Seattle skies, not a rain cloud in the sky.

You know what this means.......a cold rainy summer!! I hope not! ;-)

"Have a Moo-tini" a little different theme, this time with cows, but hey, it was fun to do. I think this would look great matted next to your pool or bar.
copyright 2004 Cleverpup

Another new print, "Cocker Bubble Bath" being released just in time for Spring Cleaning!
copyright 2004 Cleverpup

New Cleverpup Spring print! Chihuahuas and the Butterflies.Stay tuned for more spring prints from Clever Pup Art!
copyright 2004 Cleverpup

Excuse the light posting, got hit with the flu. Yuck!

Groundhog day!

Today was Groundhog day and I guess back east, Punxsutawney Phil came out of his tree stump and saw his shadow this morning. According to tradition, that means the groundhog is forecasting six more weeks of winter as opposed to an early spring.

Here in Western Washington we had a beautiful sunny day with a high of 60 degrees, I think this time old Phil is wrong!

Time to dust off the old "Groundhog Day" Dvd tonight and spend an evening or two or three with Bill Murray!

Clever Pup Cross Stitch Patterns

This is really cool. I was contacted by a person in Spain who

creates cross stitch charts to sell at Her Web Site , ebay and other

auctions sites. I agreed to have my art work turned into cross stitch
patterns so they can be sold.The first one "Miss Puggy and the Bee"
was listed today! Very neat, check out her ebay store for all kinds of cross stitch patterns!

Annalaia Cross Stitch Patterns

January Sale

I just listed some select CleverPup prints at a nice sale price of $12.00 in my Ebay store.

Clever Pup 30 day Print Sale!

They are regularly priced at $15.00 and $3.00 off is a nice discount! If you have been waiting for a Print sale, this is it, for 30 days only. Remember buy four or more prints and you get FREE
shipping and I ship worldwide.

Thanks for your bids!

Tina

Happy Birthday Ian

Today is the big (15 year old) Kids Birthday!
A school day Birthday, but a nice dinner at Azteca and various gifts and goodies.
Ahh to be 15 again!

Odd Moods, Psychotic Parakeets and me.

I am in an odd mood today and I don't know why or what it is. Its been a odd day all around, maybe the full moon has something to do with it. One of our parakeets went psycho on us, he is a few seeds short of a millet. We have had this green parakeet for like 15 years, and he is the most unfriendly, mean, grumpy bird we have ever had. This bird has been in a cage with another parakeet for like 4 years and today he decided he can't stand his fellow cage buddy. So he morphed into a crazed psychotic nut case and attacked his cage mate. Like a hawk with talons barred. The other poor bird had no clue why," was it something I said?, No, you have the high perch"...nothing helped. Anyhow, I moved this insane bird to another cage, solitary confinement, so he can be by himself. Hes an old bird too, today he just went off his senile little rocker. Maybe a little time alone with himself and he will behave. Or a guest appearance as the "birdy" in a game of tennis should do it...no just kidding..humor ...like I said ..."odd mood". The moon may be effecting ebay too, as this week sales are slow as a slug race.

Blizzard of 2005

Mom reports blizzard conditions in Ohio and temps of 10 degrees, warming up from a frosty 6 degrees early this morning. This is a picture of my Dad plowing their driveway. Looks like they got a "little" snow last night huh? I guess I should be thankful the folks don't live in Boston which is really getting wacked today with snow accumulations of 30 to 40 inches!
copyright 2004 Cleverpup

Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson, king of late night died this am. He will be missed by all. Funny, I had just read a story about a week or two ago about how he was writing jokes and passing them on to Letterman.

RIP