Somebody gave me a new pair of shades and they made me see everything blue.  Okay, it’s more like aqua, but with those sunglasses I saw the world in shades of blue.  Am I blue?  Only with the blue glasses on!

 

After we Scotties came home from the kennel, we were TIRED.  Spending three nights in a strange place when we are used to always being home was certainly a different experience.  Molly has a history of being very stressed at a kennel and Sadie came home hoarse from barking and as soon as Wen brought us home, all three of us jumped up on the couch and went right to sleep.  Actually, we slept for the best part of 48 hours to recover from our experience, but we are finally back to normal.  All that post-kennel snoozing was evidently just what we needed!

We Scotties just spent three nights at the K9 Resort while Wen and her best friend traveled to Kansas to pick up her friend’s new Scottie puppy.  In other words, we all had a little vacation, but I would imagine that going to Kansas would have been a lot more interesting and fun!

They met the puppy’s breeder in Abilene, where she had driven from Oklahoma and brought her favorite wheaten female along for company, so Wen got to see a really cool wheatie.  The little puppy, named Kelly, was a super cute little brindle Scottie and Wen’s friend was thrilled with her choice.

After a nice chat with the breeder, they headed back to Denver with Kelly safely in a crate in the back seat of the car.   She joined her new dog family, a Scottie brother and two Cairn Terrier brothers, but I bet that she will eventually rule the roost!

Welcome to Denver, Kelly!

For some reason, I keep thinking of watermelon.  I’m not sure why watermelon’s on my mind, but it sounds good on a hot summer day!

 

What is it called when a dog’s tail wags super fast?  Some people call it twitter tail and Sadie can sometimes wag her tail so fast that it’s just a blur on a photo.  Nice job, Sadie, you happy girl!

Every week when Wen mows the lawn and does yard work, she leaves the gate open to the backyard and she makes sure that we Scotties are safe inside our house before she starts her yard work chores.

When she works in the backyard, we like to watch through the patio door blinds and we look like little yard work supervisors from her viewpoint.  Hey, a little quality control never hurts, even if we’re honestly just being nosy and keeping our eyes on that lawnmower contraption!

 

Most of our mornings have the same routine.  After we Scotties have been fed and spent time outside, Wen sits on the couch and watches the news on TV, Molly stretches out on her favorite perch (an arm of the loveseat), and I hop up on the couch and scooch right next to Wen.  Meanwhile, Sadie runs around, checking for toys and jumping up and down, back and forth from the couch to the loveseat.

We pretty much have our morning routine down, having done it for several years and it’s only altered when Wen has an early morning activity or appointment that forces us to get up really early.  Otherwise, we’ll be there doing our regular thing during the morning news.  For now though, you’ll have to excuse me, because it’s just about time for us Scotties’ morning snooze.

 

Several days ago, my 16×20 picture arrived from my photo shoot at Red Rocks last month.  Wen had done a zoom call with Kris, the photographer, where they went over my best photos and Wen chose her favorite to be enlarged and printed on metal.

We had a lot of issues trying to take the photos, due to Red Rocks maintenance workers, tourists, and the area Wen had chosen for the photo shoot being closed to the public that day, plus I had not been recently professionally groomed and my haircoat hadn’t grown back to normal since I was really sick last year, but Wen really liked one photo in particular and it turned out nicely.  As a bonus, Kris also sent a 5×7 photo printed on metal of another one of my photos from the shoot as a surprise and that was an awesome thing for her to do.  Not only is she a very talented photographer, but a super nice person and now we have two photos for Wen to decide where to display them!

Somebody plays pickleball a lot anymore and it’s Wen, not me, and she practices dinking in our laundry room by hitting a ball against the door to the garage, so I always sit close by and watch.  Sometimes when she hits a weird shot, the ball rolls over to me on the floor and that keeps me interested as if I’m a part of the game.

Are we pickleball obsessed at our house?  Maybe….

Where has the traditional meeting spot in the workplace been where the office gossip flows?  The water cooler!  Employees seem to gather there as they are getting a cool drink and they hang around to exchange the latest office news—the jucier the better!