What is it with PWD and antlers? ...

... and Santa hats?

I'm not the only one on whom such indignities have been inflicted. Mom gave up on the actual stuffed antlers and gave me digital antlers.

Chorizo's mom tried to put antlers on him and that didn't go so well.

So then Chorizo got digital antlers too.

Oreo had to sit on Santa's lap. The real Santa. Not a digital Santa.

Lucie had to wear a Santa hat. She looks like she's howling her displeasure.

And now there's Gui. I think those are real stuffed antlers, not digital ones.

Gui, you have my sympathy. You look like you are taking it better than I did.

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Bom Natal ..

I did not take kindly to my 2lggd mom's attempt to dress my up with bows in my hair for my Christmas video. Then I heard from Chorizo and he reminded me of how he felt when his mom tried to dress him up with antlers! And he also reminded me about how Oreo felt about sitting on Santa's lap. And then there's poor Lucie and Luckie. They would not have tolerated all those Santa hats if their mom hadn't got them totally tuckered out. The indignities we have to put up with in the name of Christmas cuteness!!!

And after all that, NOW LOOK WHAT SHE'S DONE TO ME!!! No, not really ... hahaha! I'm really joking. Because she found a website where she could do all this on the picture and I did not have to wear the antlers! Good thing, because she got some of those too, and if you think the thing with the bows did not go well ... well, let me tell you, I strongly objected to those antlers. Chorizo, I don't blame you one bit. Tell your mom to make a picture like this one.

This is a photo that I took in the pretty little courtyard out behind the Backstreet Pub in Beaufort, NC. I stumbled onto a website called www.pikipimp.com, and found the most painless way to dress up the dog. I only wish that I could animate the snowflakes. I think I will take more pictures of her and do a slideshow of her wearing every one of the pikipimp Christmas hats ... Emma's answer to Lucie and Luckie.

Kathy, Emma's 2lggd mom

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Happy Holidays

Season's Greetings Everyone!

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Ramadan, Joyous Winter Solstice, I know I've left out lots of them, but you get the drift.

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Zoomies!

Well, that's just how it feels. All you PWDs know what I'm talkin' 'bout.

Emma has always zoomed after baths. When she was an only dog, she would tear over all the furniture, rubbing herself against the cushions, often pushing the cushions off the sofa in her zoomie state. Now that she has a buddy, she focuses her zoomie energy on playing with Cub, rather than focusing on taking apart the furniture!

Kathy, Emma's 2lggd mom

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We're tearing it up indoors ...

I like having a play pal. However, when we start rearranging the furniture, our 2lggd mom gets a little perturbed. Dad just laughs at that, but when we start rearranging the musical equipment in the music studio area, then he gets worried.

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Beyond the backyard ...

I have never before walked in the big empty field behind the house, because I am very happy to get my exercise fetching tennis balls. But Mom says that Cub doesn't fetch so enthusiastically as I do, so he needs a longer walk. I wished that Cub and I could run together, but Mom kept him on the flexi-lead.

We are lucky to have open space behind our house. I've never dog-walked there before, but it's coming in handy now. I can feel confident that the open space will still be there long after we are gone, because it is reserved for expansion of school athletic fields.

Emma is getting along so well with the new guy. I'm so proud of her!

Kathy, Emma's 2lggd mom

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My morning commute ...

This is our weekday morning routine. Walk the 50 yards to work. Then I get a rawhide chewie, and then sleep while Mom works. I tried to explain to Cub that he should just relax. He'll get the hang of it eventually.



I am fortunate to have a morning commute of about 50 yards. I am a sailmaker, and anyone who spends much time in sail lofts knows that most of them have cats, or dogs, or both. I have been bringing my dogs to work with me since 1995. I have very occasionally encountered customers, or sailing industry people, who don't understand how normal this is, and consider it "unprofessional" or complain about dog hair in the stitching. It's far more likely that customers come to the loft just to visit my dogs.

I do try to keep dogs off the loft floor (the working surface). They do not know when their paws are clean and when they are not. Cub would not take "no" for an answer. He was determined to stick to me like glue, so I had to tether him to keep him off the floor. I do most of my work in a "sewing pit" which is a hole in the floor. The sewing machine sits level with the floor so that the entire floor becomes my table.

Emma knows the routine. I work and she sleeps. Later when she gets bored, she comes to me and asks me to take her over to play with her pal, Buffy. Once Cub seemed secure in feeling that I was not going to sneak off without him, he settled down and napped while I sewed.

Kathy, Emma's 2lggd mom

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