Here we are in the middle of July and the temperatures are soaring.  It’s going to be another hot one today, so we Scotties will be spending most of our time inside, out of the heat.

What will we be doing?  I’m not sure, but I have a feeling that it may involve watching a movie and if that happens, I’m ready!

As per usual, Wen dressed me up to take festive 4th of July holiday photos.  This time, I started out wearing a huge Uncle Sam type hat, but in later photos, I am wearing a little Uncle Sam hat that is so similar to the huge hat that it looks as if the hat had shrunk to a smaller size.

Of course, it was just an optical illusion, because there were actually two hats instead of one incredible shrinking hat, but you get the shrinking effect when you see the photos side by side.

Happy 4th of July, everybody!  Have a fun and safe holiday weekend celebrating our country’s birthday and don’t forget that fireworks can be really upsetting to your canine friends, so keep them safely inside during those loud pops and bangs.

We have patriotic decorations at our house for the occasion, so there’s lots of red, white, and blue around here, including all the porch geese festively dressed up for the 4th.

Have a great day!  Hope you have the best 4th ever!!!

Check this out!  Wen found this post on Eric & Christopher’s Facebook page this morning and it features Sunny!  How cool is it that they chose to post a photo of one of their pillows with Sunny’s design?!!!  Wow!!!

 

It’s a gloomy cloudy Monday today and both my sisters have vet appointments this morning, which means that I will be staying home by myself while they go see Dr. Nina.

Sadie is going for her annual vaccinations and Molly has a lump on her side that needs to be checked.  I guess that means I will be Mr. Lonely while everybody’s at the vet.  Oh, well.  Maybe Wen will leave the TV on for me while they’re gone!

My sister, Molly is now 12 years old, the same as me!  Yep, we were born only three weeks apart and that’s probably why we are besties.  Even though we came from different parts of the country, we have lived our whole lives together, ever since we were little pups.

Molly is the princess of our Scottie family and she is the most beautiful of all the eleven Scotties that Wen has had over the years, probably because our little princess is from Hungarian champion lines.

Happy Birthday, Molly and many, many more, pretty girl!!!

 

All week long, Wen has been working on getting our donations prepared for the annual Scottie Rescue fundraiser this Saturday and they are finally ready to go.  We’re donating a plush Scottie throw, a metal Scottie bench, three concrete Scotties that Wen painted, a basket full of Scottie goodies, and a basket of all vintage Scottie items which includes a Fala pull toy from the FDR era and a Black and White Scotch store display with the Scottie and Westie mascots and a race car.

The Scottie items are always really interesting and of course, I was snoopervising the entire process of arranging the items in the baskets, as I like to be involved and in the middle of everything.

Cross your fingers that the donations are popular items and that they bring in lots of money for the rescue Scotties in need, because they’re the reason that the Rocky Mountain Scottish Terrier Club members put on this event every year.

 

It’s that time again!  The annual fundraiser auction benefiting Rocky Mountain Scottie Rescue is this Saturday and Wen has been busy selecting donations from her Scottie memorabilia collection.

She scrubbed and painted three concrete Scotties from the ones in our backyard and she is currently in the process of arranging Scottie items in baskets to donate.  The items are both new and vintage, so hopefully they will get a lot of interest at the auction.

One cool item is a metal Scottie bench that she found at an antique mall several years ago and since it’s a duplicate of the bench in her office, she thought that some lucky bidder at the auction might want to give it a new home.  Guess we’ll see!

 

 

While going through her Scottie memorabilia, Wen recently came across a 1938 Woman’s Home Companion magazine cover.  The Scottie puppy on the cover reminded her of my sister, Sadie with one ear up and one floppy ear.

She immediately had to look at Sadie and sure enough, the pup on the magazine cover had the exact same ear up and the same floppy ear as my sister.  Obviously the puppy was still growing and one ear hadn’t stood yet and Sadie’s ear flops due to three hematoma procedures that left the cartilage too weak to stand, but they look like twins, so of course Wen had to take a picture of Sadie with the magazine cover.

You never know what little “treasures” are going to show up after Wen visits the dollar store.  She seems to find all sorts of unique items there and most times, she specifically looks for things that would make fun props for taking photos of us Scotties.

For example, she recently came home with silly summer-themed sunglasses and Molly and Sadie were roped into modeling them.  I’m not sure that my sisters were exactly pleased with that task, since they are pretty much reluctant models anyway.

Molly cooperated with having her picture taken twice, but Sadie, who likes to jump up and leave rather than sit still for a picture, barely squeaked out one picture and it’s fairly obvious that neither one of them was enjoying their silly sunglasses photo session!