So this is what it’s like living in Colorado—just when it was starting to green up and the daffodils were blooming, we got a cold snap and was it ever a record breaker!  Yep, we were at eleven degrees yesterday morning, which was the coldest temperature ever on that day and when we Scotties went outside, it felt more like January than Easter week.

What’s a Scottie to do?  Get out the winter accessories!

 

Today has been a mixture of cloudy skies, high winds, and tiny icy snow pellets.  Basically, it’s been a dreary day and we Scotties are ready for the sun to peek out.  Meanwhile, we will just have to snuggle up on our blankets on the couch and pass the time until it’s sunny again and we can go out in the yard and catch some rays.  At least we’re not having snowstorms like they are up in the mountains right now.  I suppose dreary isn’t so bad…..

The Tartan Days festival in Longmont was lots of fun!  We had a constant stream of people stopping by our Scottie rescue tent to pet us Scotties and we made new friends of all ages.  People enjoyed meeting us and we got all kinds of compliments, so we represented our breed well.  The free fun festival, which continues today, has music, clans, bagpipes, vendors, food and Scotties!

 

This weekend is the annual Tartan Days festival, which is held at the Boulder County Fairgrounds in Longmont, CO.  Wen decided to take only one of us Scotties to work in the Rocky Mountain Scottie Rescue tent and I’m the lucky one!

Yesterday, she took me  to Wag N’ Wash to give me a bath so I could be all squeaky clean for the festival and I was a good boy and scored lots of treats from the girl at the front desk. Then, Wen bought me a new collar and had a new name tag engraved so I will be a stylin’ dog when all the people stop by our tent to meet the Scotties.  A bunch of Scottie club members are scheduled to bring their dogs and we will sit on a big long table in the tent so people can pet us and learn about Scotties.  The festival is free, so hopefully a lot of folks will stop by and see us.  After all, who represents Scotland at a Tartan Days festival better than Scotties?!

 

We are big KU fans at our house, because Wen graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence.  Yeah, that was way back in the day, but we have all kinds of Kansas Jayhawk memorabilia and since the school is known for their outstanding basketball program, we of course watched them in the finals of the NCAA Final Four tournament on TV the other night.

Kansas won the tournament, beating North Carolina, so they are the national champions and Wen was super proud and excited for her alma mater.  KU has a famous chant, Rock Chalk Jayhawk, and we Scotties have heard a lot of that Rock Chalk Jayhawk stuff since the big win!

Sometimes, we Scotties are contrary.  Yep, we can be a little on the stubborn side.  For example, you can call our names, but there’s really no guarantees that we’ll pay attention and do what you want us to do.  Why?  Because sometimes we’re just being contrary Scotties and while you call our names, we’re going “La La La La La, I can’t hear you!”

Do these glasses make me look like the intelligent Scottie I am?  I was told that I need glasses since I’m in my fifties in human years.  APRIL FOOLS!!!

What kind of spring is this?  We just had 80 degree weather and after it turned cold and rainy last night, it started to snow and we Scotties were surprised early this morning with the return of winter weather.  Fortunately, since we just had several warm days, the snow hardly stuck to the grass, but our deck collected a couple inches.  The best thing about the rainy snow moving through was that it softened the ground, which made it perfect for digging some really nice holes…….until we got caught.  Oops!

Here it is, Monday morning again.  SOMEBODY got us Scotties up super early this morning, due to a commitment and needless to say, our beauty sleep was interrupted.  Are we a little cranky this Monday morning from our sleep being disturbed?  You be the judge!

 

We Scotties have always been discouraged from begging for food.  Wen prefers that we don’t pester people when they are eating and we’re not supposed to hang around and give them “the look” either.  We do sometimes congregate in the kitchen while she is cooking if the smells are particularly intriguing, hoping that a tasty morsel might drop onto the floor, but since she is not a fan of us Scotties eating people food that is too rich for our doggie digestive systems, she pretty much closely watches the food that we eat and scraps don’t seem to fall where we are.

The closest we get to begging is whenever Wen heads over to the kitchen counter where the big jar of mini Milk-bone treats sits.  We know that when she takes the lid off that it’s treat time and all three of us show up immediately to get our treats.  She will also rattle the bag of chew treats that sits on a shelf in the pantry when it’s treat time, so when we hear that signal, we come running.  Other than that though, begging is definitely not appreciated and if any of us Scotties would make a nuisance of ourself while someone was eating, we would get a reprimand or find ourself removed from the room!