The Colorado Tartan Day Festival at the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont, Colorado, is coming up this weekend and Rocky Mountain Scottie Rescue is participating.  Scottie club members will bring some of their Scotties to work in their booth and do a meet and greet with the public to promote Scottie Rescue.  Tartan Day attendees can stop by the booth to pet the Scotties and get information about Rescue.

Wen has taken Scotties to events like this for years and she has taken me to Tartan Days many times, so I am pretty much a seasoned professional at meeting the public.  I will be accompanying her at the festival again and we hope to see lots of people and hopefully get lots of donations for Rescue.

There are all kinds of Scottish-themed activities at the event, along with live entertainment and food, so we should have a fun time with the Scottie club people and their dogs.  Plus, there will be bagpipers and all kinds of people dressed in Scottish kilts and attire, so we Scotties should feel right at home!

 

After the last snow, our yard has really greened up and the cherry tree and the forsythia bush have bloomed.  The other bushes have buds or green leaves and the grass is starting to grow, so Wen will have to get out the lawn mower soon.  She was out there trimming bushes just yesterday as we Scotties snoopervised.

With the warm weather that has set in, it seems as if spring has sprung for 2025, but we do live in Colorado, so it can still turn cold and snow at any time for another month. Just when we get used to warm sunny days, those snow clouds can roll in.  Springtime in Colorado is always a mixed bag, but meanwhile, let’s enjoy that sunshine!

When we Scotties went outside early this morning, Wen followed us out and she grabbed her gardening tool, bag of grass seed, and bag of dirt to repair the latest holes that Molly and I had dug.  One by one, she repaired holes as Molly, Sadie, and I walked around the yard, trying to sneakingly eat dirt.

Sometimes Wen puts down soccer cones or sections of plastic fence over the repaired holes to deter us Scotties from digging, but we just find new spots to dig, so it’s a most of the year process to keep the yard looking nice with all the constant repairs.  We Scotties are persistent when we find something that we like to do and hole digging seems to be at the top of our list of outdoor activities.  You keep repairing, but we’ll keep digging!

We Scotties like to laze around in the morning and you can normally find us stretched out on the couch or love seat in the living room while Wen is on her iPad.  Ever since she retired, we have had the luxury of lazy mornings to start our days and we Scotties love it!

 

I may be Wen’s favorite (and only) boy, as she tells me all the time, but I got in big trouble this morning when she caught me digging a rather large hole in the middle of the backyard this morning.  Even worse, I was eating dirt, as evidenced when I looked up and my muzzle was a big blob of dirt.  Somebody was not pleased and she yelled at me and chased me into the house.  (Molly was eating dirt too, but she only got a mild reprimand, probably because she wasn’t digging).

Seems to me that Wen is forgetting that we’re terriers—earth dogs—and our instinct is to dig, so we don’t deserve getting into big trouble because we really can’t help ourselves.  Okay, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it!

NEWS FLASH!  WE’RE GETTING A NEW PUPPY!!!

(Ha, ha!  April Fools’!)

Our cherry tree in the backyard has been blooming over the past week and the tree was at its peak blossom when the wind and the rain moved in.  It was really gorgeous at its peak and still is, but now when the wind blows, cherry blossom petals rain down and it’s as if it’s snowing petals.  The ground is speckled with the pink and white petals and from the looks of the tree, it will be snowing petals for awhile longer.

Yesterday was grooming day, so off we went to see our groomer, Gigi.  While Wen went shopping and played pickleball, Gigi transformed us into stylin’ Scottie bodies once again.  It’s a good thing, because we were getting pretty shaggy and now we’re back to looking fine!

When we Scotties hear “Who wants to go for a car ride?” we all want to go, but then we quickly realize that it’s probably to one of two places:  the groomer or the vet.  If there are three crates in the car for us to ride in, it’s most likely grooming day, because we usually go one at a time to the vet and random car rides are few and far between.

I’m the one who is always ready to go, but sometimes Wen has to chase down Molly and Sadie to put them in the car.  They like to run upstairs and hide, but that doesn’t work out well for them because Wen always rounds them up, puts them in the car, and away we go.

All three of us actually do like to ride in the car and we’re all good travelers, so when we hear that “Who wants to go for a ride?” thing, it definitely gets our attention—at least for a split second.

 

We have a cherry tree in our backyard that is covered with blossoms.  The tree was planted before Molly, Sadie, and I arrived on the scene and it produced a big crop of cherries for the first time last year.

The tree is in full bloom right now and we’ve had some strong winds lately, so there have been some little pinkish flowers on the ground, but right now the tree is full of blossoms and it’s beautiful.  Hopefully, we’ll get to enjoy its beauty for a little while longer.