Pickles

 

No friends, this is not another post involving Frank & Bean eating pickles, though that is for sure adorable and blog worthy and was in fact featured here a year or two back. (click below to enjoy)...

 

A New Series! "OOOOO, a ________!"

 

No, in this case is it a mixture of two seemingly opposite words, pugs & fickle.

 

You see, every morning the pugs and I delight in the ritual of getting up, being let out (the pugs, not me), and being fed a delicious breakfast (again, the pugs... I eat much later while the pugs sit at my feet and look up rather pathetically as if they are starving). While they are eating I brew my coffee and frolic out to retrieve my paper. I then clamor back into bed to enjoy my coffee and the rarely uplifting news. As soon as their breakfast has been wolfed down, the pugs leap enthusiastically back on the bed and snuggle up to me, as close as possible, with much love swelling in their teeny little walnut sized hearts.... or so I believed.

 

Turns out, nope. They just want to be warm.
The sun poked it's nose out today and "poof," nooooooo more love for me.

 

 

Let's observe Frank's expression below when I dared to call his name and distract him from his sun worship...

 

 

Why Frank. How rude to stare at someone with such disdain. And Bean, are you glaring at me?

It's a good thing we live in Seattle so that I can continue to nurture my delusions of pug adoration...
The moment that the sun comes out it seems I am quite deserted!

 

Fickle little puggers.

Photo Shoot

Whew. Well, it turns out that staging a pug photo shoot takes a rather lot of time... even when the subjects are so very naturally handsome.

Pugs and Kisses started out as a plan to send some smooches via Frank and Bean! 

We tried several pairs of lips and, well, we were advised against this design choice...

Oh, Bean. You do look somewhat startled there.

After much contemplation and far too much time (crafts are hard for some people folks!) we came up with a different kiss idea!

Here we see Bean featured in a tiny kiss prototype.

Oh Bean! Your eyes look quite wide in that wee kiss!

An appropriate backdrop then had to be arranged....

 Oh, Frank & Bean! Pink may just very well be your color!

Followed by the adjusting and re-cutting of head holes...

not too big, not too small, and definitely, as Frank illustrates below, not too uneven.

(I am sad to report that tiny kiss made a rapid decline during the head hole process and had to be replaced by a new and improved larger kiss.)

Positioning on the head came next which, with the significant amount of skin given to a pug wrinkle, is NO easy feat ... to far forward and they would fall off... to far back and, well:

 Oh Frank! Let's try not to pop out your only remaining eyeball!

Positioning and trying to face the camera had to be practiced (with the help of many, many treats)...

Frank! Look up! UP! Look at Bean, he is doing an exceptional job... except that he has knocked his new giant kiss askew... sigh.

Then, of course, everyone had to try on each outfit several times....

Frank as a kiss?

Maybe Bean as a kiss??

How ever is it possible to make choices when faced with so much handsome adorableness?

Finally, after much deliberation, and MUCH time spent trying to hold still, we decided upon one of the many options full of warm pug delight.

Oh Frank and Bean.!

You are lovely Valentines indeed.

PUGS & KISSES

Happy Valentine's Day!

 

 

 

(Tune in next week for a bit more on this rather epic photo shoot...)!

Super Bawl

Frank and Bean were waiting to post after the Super Bowl... 

Bean, what are your thoughts?

I see... Well put.

Frank?

Indeed Frank, I think we were all a bit startled and confused.

Well, the good news is that win or lose, pugs still get warm laps and many snacks during Super Bowl!!

Delightful!

Homework

 

Oh Frank! Why are you looking so very proud there in the sunshine? Is it possible that your heart is swollen with delight due to a recent feature appearing in our niece's homework?

 

 

Indeed!! We are quite proud!

 

 

Announcement!

Friends. We have an announcement. Frank has joined Facebook. I have no idea what this means or how it will work but we are ever so eager (we think) to find out!

You Have What?!

There are few things that put fear in the heart of New Yorkers like the word infestation. Specifically an infestation of bed bugs. So it was with alarm that my mother misheard me on the phone last week when I informed her that I had a severe infestation of Bed Pugs....

 

 

As you can see it is quite serious... and the little buggers DO like to burrow in so that you can't get to them...

 

 

they lay low...

 

 

are drawn out by warmth....

 

 

and make themselves virtually impossible eradicate due to their very persistent adorableness.

 

 

Bed Pugs. Good luck getting rid of these critters.

An internal dialogue from Frank & Bean:

Bean:  Pssst... Frank! Why does cousin Gussie need to hog all of the pillows?

Frank: Bean! You know that it is not polite to whisper and stare.

 

Bean: I think he needs them to support that long snout of his.

 

Frank: Bean! Now, just because he is not sharing, that is no reason to comment on his more prominent features. Emily Post would be dismayed. We will just lie here happily on the rest of the couch.

Bean: Sigh.  

Keeping Warm!

As many in the country may have noticed, there is a cold snap in the air! Frank and Bean do NOT enjoy being cold, as most of their friends and fans know, so we were DELIGHTED when one of our favorite friends presented us with a gift!!!

What!! Hand knit turtleneck sweaters!! And they are oh so soft!

Oh, Frank and Bean! Don't you look so cozy and stunning!

I was also delighted to discover that the necks could be unrolled...

Frank and Bean don't look as delighted, but just wait until their ears get cold and they will embrace this look for sure!

Big thank you to our favorite turkey farmer!! (Literally, she is raising happy healthy turkeys for Thanksgiving... oh Frank & Bean... Delicious!)

The 12th Pug!

Fear not readers! The title of the blog does not mean that Frank & Bean have gained 10 brothers and sisters, but rather that they have embraced the enthusiasm of their adopted hometown for their football team. It seems that here in the Pacific Northwest, the fans call themselves the twelfth man (which it must be said we find a little bit odd and silly, though I am assured that the noise made in the stadium by the fans does actually help to distract the opposing team... we remain skeptical). Never the less, the pugs have found several reasons to embrace this strange human past time:

 

1) There are more often than not many warm laps on which to make themselves comfortable during football viewing. Though it must be said that they have found themselves dumped on the floor more than once when one of the owners of a lap has jumped up in an enthusiastic cheer forgetting that there was someone small and handsome in their lap. In addition, at least one person is usually under a blanket taking a snooze for part of the game because MY  those announcers do drone on.

 

2) Snacks! Football seems to often be accompanied by food, which is often on a coffee table or some such other easily accessible location.

 

AND always fashion forward.....

3)!! Just LOOK how handsome and official they look in their wee pug jerseys which arrived from

Santa:

 



 

Oh Frank and Bean! Such festive stylish and supportive fans you are!