I told him that I’d made an appointment for this afternoon to get him caught up on his last round of boosters, and this was the look I got!

Or course Penny had to remind me that she’s not due for her annual Rabies vaccine for another few months yet, and gave me plenty of side eye just to make sure I got the message!!

Update: Frankie got to meet his primary vet for the first time this afternoon. She has been recuperating from back surgery, and has just returned to work.

She gave him a thorough once over, and declared him to be in perfect health. She also declared him to be the cutest Boxer boy she’s ever seen! And judging from how much that butt of his was wiggling, I’d have to say that the feeling is mutual!

This has got one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever had a Boxer do with their food.

She takes a mouthful of food from the full bowl, drops it in the empty bowl, and only then will she eat it! If I put an equal amount in both bowls, she just looks at me like I’m an idiot. And if I take the empty bowl away, she scatters the mouthful of food on the floor, instead! She is by far, the sloppiest eater I’ve ever had.

Has anyone else ever had a Boxer do this, or I did I just get the weird one of the breed?!?🤣🤣

Poor Frankie! He just ran out of juice and crashed out in about ten seconds flat! They’re either all the way on, or all the way off!😆😆

Well, let’s try posting this for the third time today! It’s already a day late, but it was a very busy, and a very long second Doggy Birthday celebration for my (not so) Little One! They were all worn out by the end of the day, and I whipped harder than a rented mule!

It’s almost impossible to believe that it’s already been (nearly) two years since I came home with one single, solitary penny left in my checking account, and a six week old, six pound puppy with a name to remind me that she’s worth every cent I had, with one to spare!

Well, almost impossible until I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror, and then two years looks like twenty!

So, cheers sweet Penny! I love you very much, and thank you for for letting me make your Birthday so Happy, my Little One!!

It’s stupid hot in Oklahoma right now, but at some point, Important Doggy Business must be taken care of. So this is what comes back in after a quick dump followed by a couple of laps of the garden for a quick zoomie session! The Dog Days of Summer are here in full force!!

Please forgive my horrible harmonica playing, but the farther off key I played, the more he sings! Which is why they howl in the first place, of course. But he’s never howled at anything else that makes discordant sounds before, including a train horn! But when I found an old harmonica buried in the back of a drawer. something told me to give it a try, and sure enough!!

Now I’ve got to find my copy of Ozzy playing the intro to “The Wizard” in my vinyl collection, and see what he thinks of THAT!! Stay tuned, folks!!🤣🤣

Why is it that with the rest of the whole couch, and the rest of the entire house in which to play, I still wind up with a Boxer Butt in my face?!?! Every single time they start playing, they always end up playing in my lap!! They’re so thoughtful about including me in their activities. That way I don’t feel like I’m being ignored or left out of anything important.

I sure do love these crazy critters, though. They certainly do keep life interesting!!!

Straight to the floor register where he parked his hind end right on top of it! This was, of course, accompanied by that look that says “ There! Happy now?!” Ah, Frankie… What else is there to do, except shake your head and laugh at the clown show?!?

{Edit to clarify: There seems to be a lack of understanding regarding my explanation of my client’s criteria for the appearance of this piece. The finish is intended to look somewhat rough and timeworn. This was a specific design criteria set by the client. It is not a reflection of a lack of skill on behalf of the builder. Please take this into consideration before making any derogatory comments about the build quality. Thank you for your consideration in this matter.}

This was a fun build for me. One of my regular clients recently purchased a vintage Rolex GMT Master with all of the paperwork included, but without the original box. So he asked me to build one for him, and gave me a set of general parameters regarding the size and overall look and finish he would like to see in the finished piece. And then he left the rest of the design details entirely to my own discretion.

So with a set of outside dimensions, and instructions to deliver “something that looks like a combination of a treasure chest, and something that might be at home sitting on Dumbledor’s desk, I went to work, and this is how my imagination interpreted those instructions.

The structure of the box itself is made from 3mm. 7 layer cabinet plywood, rather than the solid hardwood I use for the vast majority of the builds, just for the added strength and stability it provides. And considering what it’s going to contain, I thought this to be a wise decision. The pieces have mitered corners to have more surface area for the marine grade epoxy to adhere to.

Once the construction of the shell was complete, a latching mechanism was fabricated and installed using 20 gauge stainless spring steel, and a spring loaded release mechanism was also installed. This was followed by attaching hinges into slots cut into the shell which secured the hinge tangs and kept them hidden from view. To complete the shell, a hold open latch featuring two detents for the lid was fabricated from brass sheet, and was set aside to be installed during final assembly.

The sides of the shell were then laminated with grain matching waterfall Bubinga veneer, and the raised corner and edge banding was made from strips of solid Padouk and put into place.

The top of the lid features an outer surround of Wenge, that’s separated from the quilted birdseye Maple center panel by a narrower band of Padouk that ties the lid into the edge banding for a more integrated look. An inlaid capital “W” using highly figured Purpleheart completes the box’s exterior. And several coats of satin lacquer were applied over the unfilled wood grain to create a warm, timeworn appearing finish.

As this box is intended to display, as well as store the watch, I determined that a self contained interior lighting system would truly set this piece apart from anything else currently on the market.

It features a hidden battery compartment to hold the three LR44 type batteries that power the array, a 4X4mm. on/off button made from Maple and Wenge, a mode selection button done with Maple and Purpleheart, as well as an interrupt switch that disconnects the power when the lid is closed.

The lighting array itself consists of 12 warm white pinpoint LED lights, that are connected to the ends of small brass tubes. These tubes are each oriented so the lights converge on the face of the watch below.

As a second, and very unique feature, when the mode switch is pressed the white lights are replaced by three 365 nanometer wavelength UV lights that allow the lume on the hands and face of the watch to glow brightly.
And no, the watch in these photos is not the Rolex the box is being built for!! It’s just one of my daily wear watches that I used for illustrative purposes!

The rest of the interior is upholstered with black full pyle velvet that perfectly highlights the watch’s brushed stainless steel finish.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoyed it.

I got such a good laugh out of making these, and I hope you get as much of a good laugh from looking at them!

And because I made them to share the joy and laughter that Penny and Frankie have given me with all of you, I give everyone my blessing and permission for all of you to use and share them as you wish, to keep the good times going, and to spread the laughter around the world!! Enjoy, my friends, and always remember that

Life is a Series of Boxers!

Boxers make the best drums in the world, and you can’t beat them in terms of versatility! It’s amazing how you can get so many different awesome musical sounds out of a single Boxer, with just a little bit of imagination and a whole lot of practicing!

The only problem is keeping the rhythm in proper time, because your drums are always in a different place from one beat to the next!😂

But they love being played on, while they’re being played with! And as for the rest of it, I just call it jazz!!😎🤣🤣

He’s been working really hard on perfecting his cuteness lately, and he just put together a great combination of the Boxer Basics for your enjoyment!🙄🤣🤣

These two weren’t exactly up and at ‘em this morning thanks to a very long and busy Doggy Day yesterday. They even got baths, and ended the night with a good, long play session that left the couch and surrounding area looking like a tornado had ripped through the house. In thought I’d add that last bit, just in case anyone missed the level of devastation in the video!🤣🤣

Somebody’s a little jealous of her Little Brother being in her usual spot, and she’s got something to say about it, too!!

There are many more currently posted on this account, but quite a few of them are memorials, so out of respect for those of us who are grieving, I have chosen not to include those posts here.

I’ve gotten a response to the copyright infringement report I made to Meta regarding my own content. They requested more information about the content I was reporting. However, the info they requested was included in my original report. It was required to be included in order to complete the form and submit it! So I gave them the information again, and I was then informed that the info I had provided didn’t match the information that they had on file! It’s unbelievable how they are continuing to allow this blatant abuse of our content to continue!

Frankie’s already begun training for his future career as a chainsaw! If he can already rattle the pictures off the walls at three and a half months old, I’ll be completely deaf and totally sleep deprived by the end of Summer!! He snores loud enough to make my vision go blurry and my ears bleed!!😵‍💫😵‍💫😂😂

To celebrate Frankie’s freedom from his leg splint, I decided they needed yet more toys to play with! So Penny got a new chicken, and Frankie got his first piggy today! So this has been an all day event, and I’ve never been more grateful for my set of airpods in my life!

Frankie is absolutely delighted to have all four feet free again, and so am I! His leg is still very weak after a month of being in the splint, so he’s going to have to build up those muscles again before he can be declared fully recovered. I do have some concerns about the alignment of his wrist and foot, but both vets have urged patience until he has had a chance to get used to using it to support his weight again, and for the strength to return in his muscles. I certainly hope they’re right.

But for right now, it’s just so great to see him having a blast with his new toy, and playing with his Big Sister without having a piece of plastic attached to his leg! Of course, I’ve only had to remind Penny to be gentle with her Little Brother about fifty times in the last two days, but all in all, she’s really doing pretty good about not getting too rough with him.

And now, back to the squeaking and grunting, folks!

This is about all Frankie has in him today. And Penny’s even worse. I couldn’t even get a decent stretch out of her until it was past noon!

Just a lazy Boxer day today.

Which is just absolutely perfectly wonderfully amazingly _FINE_ with me!😆😆🤣🤣

Freshly fed and full of energy that needs to be burned off! So nothing like a good romp to get their meal good and mixed together to ensure a nice even distribution of their night’s supply of Boxer Butt Burps!

Frankie is growing so fast it’s unreal. Sometimes I think I can almost hear him growing in his sleep, because every morning it seems like he’s visibly bigger than the night before.

And Penny’s starting to understand that she has to let him get bigger before she can go full on Boxer Play Mode with him. But give Frankie another three or four months, and I think she’s going to have more than she knows what to do with!! And something tells me that I’m gonna be in the market for a steel reinforced concrete couch pretty soon! Because at this rate, I’ll be going through a couch a month!!

They do look just a little too casual to not be up to something nefarious, don’t they?! It kinda reminds me of the kid who’s all sprawled out on the couch and failing miserably at looking nonchalant. Of course he’s only sitting that way so you don’t notice the whole box of cookies he’s got wedged between the small of his back and the armrest!

But if they have gotten into something that they’re not supposed to, they’ve done an excellent job of covering their tracks, because I haven’t discovered anything that’s been any more Boxerfied than it usually is.

Now, the thought has occurred to me that I’m being set up for their own amusement, too. They probably wanted to see if they could turn me into a raging paranoid basket case, just so they can get a big laugh out of watching me tear the house apart to the rafters looking for whatever it is that they must’ve done to be acting this way!!!🤪🤪🤣🤣

I should probably get out more often, huh?!?🙆🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️🤦‍♂️😆😆