After someone chewed a hole in our gray dog bed, Wen went out and bought a beige one just like it.  The bed sat in the corner by the fireplace all summer and when the weather turned colder this fall, we Scotties began to snooze in it when the fireplace was turned on.

Unfortunately, the new bed was a bit smaller than the dog beds we’re used to having that accommodated two of us at once, so when Wen noticed that Sadie and I were squished together in the bed, she brought another larger bed from upstairs and placed it next to the beige bed.  Now we Scotties can spread out in the beds and even Molly, who has rarely used a dog bed in the past has been using the larger of the two beds.

Evidently, two beds are better than one, because Sadie seems to have claimed the beige bed and both beds are getting a lot of use right now.

 

My sister, Molly, who normally is her gorgeous well-groomed self has been rolling around on the couch, scratching her back again.  She doesn’t do it regularly, but she does it occasionally and it must be back scratching time again.  She doesn’t suffer from allergies that make her itchy, so scratching her back must just feel good.

After a roll around the couch, Molly jumps up and rather than looking like her gorgeous well-groomed self, her hair is all askew to the point where she looks comical.  It’s kind of nice to know that the princess of our family doesn’t always have to look perfect and that sometimes she can even look like a wild thing!

 

 

 

After three days of snow, we are finally getting a break and the sun has come peeking out.  We Scotties love the snow, but enough is enough and frankly, we wouldn’t mind seeing the grass in our backyard again.

Meanwhile, as Wen shovels snow off our deck and clears paths for us through the tall drifts, we stick our noses out the patio door to see what’s going on out in the winter wonderland.

We are currently in the middle of a November snow storm that seems to be lasting for several days.  We Scotties have been enjoying snooping around the backyard and plowing paths, but the snow is already deep for us and Wen has had to help us out by shoveling paths around the yard for us.

We like the snow though, especially when it’s not freezing cold and Wen has to lure us back inside by rattling our treat jar.  Molly especially seems to want to stay outside, because she like to dig in the snow until she finds dirt.

They say on the TV news that the worst of the storm is supposed to be tomorrow so we Scotties will have plenty of opportunities to be out in the snow.  That means that we’ll also have lots of time in front of the fireplace getting toasty warm each time after we’ve been outside and we do love our fireplace time!

Several months ago, Wen came across Mixbook, a company that makes books out of photos and she decided to submit some of my most special photos from over the years to them.  You could edit the photos, add text, and choose the shape and size of the photos and the style of the text and submit as many photos as you wanted.  You could also make the book as fancy or as plain as you wanted and Wen decided that a simple book of photos without text was what she preferred.

Shortly after, a hardback book arrived in the mail and it was even nicer quality than expected.  Having my Mixbook of wonderful memories permanently captured was such a treat that she ordered another book of my professional modeling photos!

 

 

Since yesterday was Halloween, I thought that maybe I could sneak in one more bit of Halloween cheer.  Wen bought three witch hats for us Scotties since she had found a cauldron that lit up and produced steam and she thought that we could take a picture in our witch hats posing with the cauldron.

As per usual, contrary Sadie didn’t want to wear her witch hat, so she didn’t end up posting for our picture, but Molly and I cooperated like pros and yes, we were wearing our witch hats.  Enjoy!

 

Happy Halloween, everybody!  Of course we Scotties had to show off our costumes:  Bat Skeleton Riley, Ice Princess Molly, and Sadie Alien.

Hope you have the most fun fright night ever!  💀🎃👻😈

 

Every fall, we have several colorful burning bushes in both our front and backyards, but one of them is much more spectacular than all the others when the leaves turn colors.

This bush is now at its peak fall color before it starts to drop its leaves, so of course we had to take a picture of it before the cold and the snow moves in.  Nature’s brilliant colors should be captured for us to enjoy long past when the leaves shrivel and fall to the ground.

 

 

Right now, we’re a little concerned about my sister, Sadie and we’re not sure what’s going on.  Lately it seems as if her hearing isn’t what it used to be and at first, Wen thought that Sadie might have gone deaf from the medications used for the yeast infections in her ears, as there have been reports of this happening.

When Wen calls Sadie’s name (even loudly), she doesn’t react, which could just be a Scottie tendency of selective hearing, but more and more it seems as if Sadie can’t hear.

Wen did finally get a reaction from Sadie by clapping her hands loudly behind her while sneaking up on her.  Sadie quickly jumped up, so she definitely heard that to be so startled.  Aside from the clapping though, Sadie’s hearing seems to be affected.

Wen is trying to use a really high voice to call Sadie to see if she can hear high-pitched sounds better.  Just this morning, Sadie was lying next to her and she reacted when Wen called her name, so maybe her hearing loss is transitory, since that happened once before about a year ago after her ears were medicated.  We can only hope so!  Sadie has been through so much with her chronic ear infections and her three ear hematomas that caused her to have a permanently floppy ear.  She really deserves to be able to hear normally after all that!

My older brother, Kirby, who has been gone since I was a puppy, was the first of Wen’s Scotties who modeled outfits like a pro.  Wen could dress him up in clothing and wigs, and Kirby would pose as if he was a professional model.  He was actually featured on the cover of a calendar wearing his tuxedo and sitting at our baby grand piano.

One year for the Scottie club annual Halloween event, Wen decided that Kirby should go as Elvis and she bedazzled a shirt for him, bought him a pair of Elvis glasses, and attached fuzzy sideburns to the glasses.

Kirby wore his Elvis costume well and it’s still hanging next to his tuxedo in our bedroom closet, even though it’s been many years since our Elvis has left the building.  Some things have such special memories that you hold onto them forever.