8-Mar-10: Feargal, Fergus, and Fredrik turn three years old. How time flies!

Edit: Here’s the recipe for the cake (I skipped the carob chips and the frostings. They wolfed it down so fast, they didn’t know something was missing):

Banana Carob Chip Dog Birthday Cake

• 2 cups water
• 2 ripe bananas
• 1/8 tsp vanilla
• 3 cups whole wheat flour
• 1/2 Tbs baking powder
• 1 egg
• 2 Tbs honey
• 1/2 cup carob chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C)

2. In a mixing bowl combine water, bananas, vanilla, egg and honey.

3. Add whole wheat flour and baking powder. Mix well.

4. Pour mixture into an 8-inch cake pan sprayed with a nonstick spray.

5. Sprinkle carob chips on top.

6. Bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Decorating suggestion:

Make both the Cinnamon and Carob frostings (below), then ice the cake with one, and use the other as a decorative trim.

Cinnamon Frosting:

1. Combine the following ingredients and blend thoroughly:

• 12 ounces nonfat cream cheese (room temperature)
• 3 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp honey

Carob Frosting:

1. Combine the following ingredients and blend thoroughly:

• 12 ounces nonfat cream cheese (room temperature)
• 3 tsp carob
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp honey

Makes One 8-inch cake.

Source: «Dog Treat Recipe Exchange»

The Beagle Boys turned three years old. Here’s video from all the day’s excitement.
In the first (short) video, Fred Fred runs around after getting his birthday bath:

The second video features the Fergus Dog gets all freaky after being released from his birthday bath:

Now it’s Feargal Butt’s turn to get freaky following his own bath. Meanwhile, [...]

Something different I’d never seen before: All three howling at the same time. In fact, I can’t remember Fred howling before at all, but I could be wrong.

The cause of all the ‘citement? A chow-chow dog walked down their street. In front of their house. Shocking! (I don’t think Fergus even knew the puppy was [...]

Play time in the snow. « Feargal shows Fred who’s the boss of the backyard »

Some Beagle movies. With whining and snow.
1. Beagles see the snow for the first time.
2. Beagles see something across the street.
3. Beagles have a good long whine.
4. Beagles go out in the snow again. Yawn.

Finally posted some «*new pics on Flickr*» of the boys. Whatta buncha beagles!

I know I haven’t posted in awhile, but the latest gallery should make up for it: On 30-Mar, the boys were reunited with their Daddy, Buddy Bear Castro, and their sister, Isabel, and also got to meet their big brother, Bear, from Buddy’s and Ginger’s first litter. We also had the sad occasion to see [...]

Happy 2008 from the Hell Hounds!

The boys get neutered two days into the new year. Gonna be a whole new year in a lot of different ways.

Here’s what happens with Fergus almost every time a fire truck goes by the house (click to enlarge):

Rob Harrell’s «*Big Top*» is no longer published, but all the past strips are in UComics’ archive.

Gosh, where to start?
First, I suppose, is the milestone of sleeping all night with the boys in our room. It’s been very cold recently and last night was supposed to be below freezing. With these tile floors, we decided the boys might get too cold during the night, since we also tend to turn down [...]