There has been a miniature city of Lego projects taking up lots of space in the office for years and Wen has recently been disassembling them to donate them to Goodwill.  All of the projects were mini architectural renditions of famous cities around the world, except for the tallest one, the Empire State Building.  She put it on the floor to see if we Scotties would check it out and of course we did.  As soon as the girls spotted it, they went right over to it as if they were wondering “What is that thing?”  It didn’t smell intriguing though, so after scoping it out, they were off on their next adventure.

 

My sister, Sadie is 10 years old today and it’s hard to believe, because she still acts like a goofy puppy!  Enjoy your special day, Sadie and we hope you have many more happy birthdays!

Guess who’s feeling patriotic?!  Have a safe and enjoyable Memoral Day!

We seem to be in the middle of a three day stint of rainy weather for Memorial Day weekend and when we Scotties go outside, we come back in as soggy dogs.  (A little rain doesn’t deter Molly and me from our obsession with digging holes though.  As a matter of fact, the soft muddy ground is perfect for speedy digging!)

The rain will move Memorial Day celebrations inside with severe weather and thunderstorms expected, but we shouldn’t forget what the Memorial Day holiday is really about—honoring the brave people who made the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep our country safe.

We hope everyone has an enjoyable weekend, even if it’s a soggy one!

It’s that time of year when the lilacs bloom in our backyard and they are becoming really fragrant right now.  We have other flowering bushes and a flowering tree in our yard, but nothing matches the scent of the lilac bushes.

Our lilacs seem to be late bloomers compared to others around the neighborhood, but now that we have our backyard perfume again, it’s clearly springtime!

The Scouts tell you to always be prepared and those are words to live by, especially when it comes to food!

Here’s my response when Wen says that we are going to the groomer:  “Say what?!!!”  Don’t get me wrong—we Scotties like going for a car ride and we do well at the groomer, but we only go every eight weeks and it’s always kind of a surprise when we’re dropped off at Gigi’s after we’re used to our increasingly shaggy haircoats.

So evidently we go tomorrow.  At least we’ll be stylin’ again!

What’s with putting bandannas on dogs?  You see dogs wearing bandannas in real life and in pictures all the time.  Wen has taken pictures of me wearing bandannas, so they probably are a simple, inexpensive, and easy way to amp up a dog’s style and since we wear collars anyway, wearing a bandanna is no big deal.  I guess that maybe dogs and bandannas just seem to go together.

 

When Molly and I were little puppies and we arrived at our new home in Colorado, we were greeted by a seven year old Scottie who became our older sister/Scottie mom.  Her name was Sunny and she showed us little pups all the ropes.

When Sadie arrived as a puppy two years later, Sunny became her big sister/Scottie mom too and for years she was someone who the rest of us Scotties looked up to.  We followed Sunny around and she tolerated our antics, but she also kept us in line with a snap of her jaws when we got in her face and we all respected that she was the boss.

We sadly lost Sunny to liver cancer in 2019, which left us without our head dog and we really felt a huge hole in our little Scottie family without her motherly presence.  Sunny was such a great dog, especially since she put up with three of us Scottie youngsters after she had lost her brother, Kirby, who she had spent her entire life with, so when Wen found out about the Eric & Christopher photo contest, she decided to enter her favorite photo of Sunny to honor her memory.  If Sunny’s smiling photo would happen to win the contest, it would be a great tribute to her.  As a bonus, the company screen prints the winners’ images on their products (pillows, tote bags, and towels) and the people who submit the winning photos receive free products with their pets’ images.

Sunny received enough votes to become a top 10 finalist in the dog category of the contest, which was very exciting!  Then, the staff of Eric & Christopher selected the winners from the finalists.  Imagine Wen’s surprise when she received an email that Sunny’s photo was chosen the winner of the dog category!  Her wish of a tribute to her beloved Sunny had actually come true, thanks to the all the kind people who had voted for her and the staff members who had chosen her photo.

Now we wait for products with Sunny’s image to arrive and when they are displayed around our house, we will have the best constant reminder of our beloved Scottie.  Contest or no contest, she will always be a winner in our hearts.

 

So have you heard of porch geese?  People put a plastic, plaster, or concrete goose on their front porch and dress it up in seasonal outfits.  It is a popular craze that swept the country in the 90’s and evidently is back.

Wen had concrete geese back in the day with an extensive wardrobe, so when she discovered the Porch Goose Club of America Facebook page several months ago, she joined and now we have a gaggle of dressed up geese at our house.  Several of them are made of plaster and one is a concrete goose, and they have clothes and accessories that seem to keep multiplying.

The good thing is that the geese are basically yard ornaments and they aren’t alive, because if they were, we’d have a whole lot of honking going on at our house.  As it is, once we Scotties sniffed around the geese and checked them out, we have ignored them ever since—even the ones that have ended up inside the house.  As long as they don’t bother us, we won’t bother them!