One way to tell when it’s spring and Easter is on its way is when the Peeps return to the stores every year.  What started out as hand-made marshmallow chicks and bunnies has grown into many tasty varieties of Peeps and all kinds of Peeps toys and Peeps themed household items.

Of course, Peeps candy is not something healthy for dogs to eat, but we can sure enjoy playing with a plush Peep toy!

 

Frosty Scottie Games (a poem by Riley)

 

Ho ho ho, we got more snow!  The white stuff’s back, so out we go

To plow our paths around the yard and hop and chase and play real hard.

 

We Scotties aren’t exactly tall, but in the snow we have a ball

By tunneling and and making tracks.  We love the snow and that’s the facts!

 

But after we’ve had snowy fun we come inside, ’cause we are done

With cold adventures, though they’re great, the toasty fireplace awaits

 

To melt the snowballs in our hair before we snooze without a care.

But yet the snow still calls our names for more fun frosty Scottie games!

 

Hats are cool!  Some days a good hat can just make your day.  A hat doesn’t have to be functional or be practical–it can simply make you feel  stylin’!  A good hat can reflect your personality or give you the appearance of someone completely different.  Hats can actually communicate a lot.  Yep, hats are cool!

Just when we had some nice warm weather to melt most of last week’s snow (except for the huge drifts), here it comes again!  We Scotties were enjoying actually walking on grass again out in the backyard and all that snow left the ground nice and wet for easy hole digging.  However, as of last night, the white stuff was back and we’re on Scottie snow plow duty again.  Even worse (or better, depending on how you look at it), we could get snow three more times this week!  Not only did the snow come again, but it’s coming again and again and again!

What?!  Did you say we need dog food?  What are you waiting for?  Let’s go to the store!!!

Even the Scots are Irish today!  Happy St. Patrick’s Day! ?

So we had the fourth biggest blizzard in Denver’s history over the last two days.  Yep, we’re number four!  Our suburb had over 30 inches of snow and we had drifts in our yard over four feet tall.

We Scotties plowed a path across the deck, down the steps, and across the yard to a spot that was sheltered by a big blue spruce tree and every time that we went outside, our one little path was surrounded by walls of snow.  When we tried to extend our path, we had to make U turns, because we found that the snow was so deep, we would get stuck.

Fortunately, the sun came out with a vengeance today and melted a lot of the snow and we Scotties were able to make several more paths around the yard, but we still have some huge drifts that are going to take awhile to melt.

What does that much snow accumulation leave us with?  Some serious patches of mud, so there will be some muddy Scottie paws in the next few days.  I suspect that there will be some serious floor cleaning in somebody’s future!

? Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful and since we’ve no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! ❄️

Yep, we’re in the middle of a big blizzard here in Colorafo, but we Scotties go outside and come back in and park in front of the fireplace.  Compared to getting pelted by the blowing drifting snow in our yard, a nice toasty warm spot by the fireplace feels heavenly!

All week they have been warning us that a big snowstorm is coming this weekend.  Right now, it’s the calm before the storm, but it’s supposed to be the biggest snowstorm in a decade and the snow accumulation could be measured in feet instead of inches.

We Scotties love to go out in the snow and we have nice warm coats to wear if we need them.  We are ready for the white stuff, but that’s easy for us to say, because we don’t have to do any shoveling or snow removal!

Poor Molly looks bedraggled.  She vomited up a wad of landscaping bark early this morning after eating a bunch of it from the flower beds in the backyard.  This is not an unusual occurrence, because all three of us Scotties act like goats and eat grass, bark, leaves, dirt, seeds–whatever we can find to chew on–as we’re cruising the backyard.

It’s frustrating for Wen to police our scavenging habit and she has put up fences to keep us out of landscaping bark areas, but we Scotties are clever and whenever we can, we pull pieces of bark through the fences with our teeth and we crunch away.  She actually accompanies us each time that we’re out in the yard to try to stop us from digging holes and eating grass and dirt, but what can I say, we’ve managed to make a considerable part of our yard look like Swiss cheese with all the holes.  Basically, we Scotties are little goats and Wen is fighting a losing battle.  She spends every spring and summer repairing our holes in the backyard, but we goats are very persistent and pretty much unstoppable.  She can only hope that when we eat too much stuff in the yard that we chew it up well enough so that we can either pass it or throw it up, because we’re not changing our habit anytime soon!