The party was a monstrous Halloween bash!

We whirled and twirled to dance the monster mash.

It was the spooky party of the year

And that hand had led me here!

 

The monsters mashed (with dancing unsurpassed).

The night went fast.  (‘Til midnight it did last).

They disappeared.  (I am the last one here).

See you next year!!!

 

🎃Happy Halloween from Riley and his friends!!!🎃

 

The monsters in the graveyard started to dance.

The music grew loud, it wasn’t by chance.

A monster dance party then ensued.

I had to join, to not be rude.

 

We did the mash.  (We did the monster mash).

It was a blast (with music loud and fast).

We did the mash.  (We danced the monster mash).

It was a smash!

The severed hand kept crawling ahead of me.

The tombstones were as eerie as they could be.

Then monsters started gathering everywhere.

It kind of gave me a scare!

 

It had a gash.  (It had a monstrous gash).

I fixed that gash.  (That hand could move like a flash!)

It had a gash.  (Maybe it crawled through some trash?)

Yet how it dashed!

So it headed for the graveyard down the street.

I quietly followed on my four feet.

We passed the graveyard sign as we made our way.

What we’d find, I couldn’t say.

 

It had a gash.  (It had a monstrous gash).

A mended gash (that I had fixed in a flash).

It had a gash.  (It had a monstrous gash).

But it could dash!

 

 

 

 

 

I was working in the lab late one night

When my eyes beheld a shocking sight.

A severed hand crawled across the floor

And headed right for the door.

 

It had a gash.  (It had a monstrous gash).

A bloody gash.  (Yet it could move like a flash!)

I stitched the gash.  (It was a monstrous gash).

and then it dashed.

 

 

 

 

Get ready!  Riley’s Halloween Tale:  “A Monstrous Gash!” will start soon and continue each day through Halloween!

Sadie started scratching at her ear a couple of days ago and when she started shaking her head violently, Wen cleaned both of her ears and medicated them.  As she swabbed out Sadie’s ears, Wen realized that one ear felt thicker and that by shaking her head, Sadie had caused an ear hematoma in her left ear. The ear was just beginning to fill up with blood and serum, but once it starts, it needs to have surgery to repair it, so Wen made an appointment for Sadie’s vet, Dr. Nina to do surgery.  Meanwhile, to discourage Sadie from shaking her head, she had to wear the good old “cone of shame.”

Wen dropped her off at the animal hospital for surgery this morning, so Molly and I will have to entertain ourselves until Wen brings Sadie home later on this afternoon.  We won’t be able to bother Sadie tonight since she’ll be sedated from surgery and her head will be all bandaged for a couple weeks.  Fun times for poor Sadie, thanks to her itchy ears from allergies.  (Not!)

We just received the news that the photo of me that Wen submitted to the In the Company of Dogs monthly photo contest was the winner and my photo will be featured on their website homepage in November!

What?  Who?  Me?  They chose my picture?

Wow, what a great surprise and in addition, I also won a $100 gift certificate, just in time to do some Christmas shopping in their catalog of upscale dog products!

This must be our lucky day!

Peekaboo!  Molly sees you (even though the sun is so bright she has to squint)!   Maybe she needs some stylin’ doggie shades!

Sometimes Molly and I feel as if we have a shadow following us around, but then when we look behind us, the shadow is our sister, Sadie!  Not that Sadie follows us constantly, but every once in awhile, there she is!