Home on the Range

What's up?

Me?

You want me?

OK

Let me get in character.

What's Fergi doing?
She's daydreaming about the chuckwagon

We're both in worlds of our own.

Someone

In the background

is crooning

♫ Home Home on the Range ♫

OK

This is as good as it gets.

We're ready

Take our Picture.

By the way

Do we get some Buffalo Jerky when we're done?

If you asked us
We'd really like to go wrangle up a herd of Deer

YeeeHawwww!
Gettalong little Doggies!

(We see them down there.)

What?

We're not Wranglers?

Just cute Wires?

Oh well.

We're Happy

Really Happy

Happy Halloween Paw'dners!

Watch out for Spooks and Goblins
Ghosts and Ghouls
Stay close to Home
Have fun playing Tricks
and
Don't try not to eat too many Treats.

Tons of WildWestWigWags
Prickly Paws Jake
(recallin' those pun'kin stickers from last weekend)
and
Belle Star Fergs

Pee esS
We think we're going on another Friday Hike.
We'll tell ya all about it next week!

Us Pups and the Pun'kins

When we were out and about last Weekend
with OurGirl
Up Northeast where Colorado flattens out into Farmland and Prairie
Somethin' caught my Eye
and called my Name

NinaGirl said it was a Pun'kin Farm

and suggested we go pickin' pun'kins at dusk that night

When the time was just perfect for that kind of Adventure.

So we did.

And it was Perfect.

Can ya see the Mountains to the West?

With the Clouds hovering over them?

We were in a field lookin' at them.

Oooo'ing and Awww'ing

(We never ever get tired of the View.)

Anyhow
We set off Exploring
Poking our way through the mostly-harvested Field.


Sniffing them All


Looking for the PerfectPun'kin

And you know what?
It was mostly fun.

All except for one Problem.

Can you see What's Wrong with this Picture?
This collage of WeightBearingExtremities?


THEY had on their wellibobs.
Cute Fun Warm Comfy
And Rubber.

Us?

Well
Those SpinyPricklyStickers HURT our TenderUnprotectedPaws

But we didn't let a little thing like that stop Us
'Cause we're getting to be ToughLittleTerriers.

So.  On with the Story
Back to the Reason for being there on this MostAmazingEvening

OurGirl consulted with Us

Making a VeryImportantDecision

and

Satisfied and Smiling

We picked the MostPerfectPun'kins

(That's one of NinaGirlie's really good friends

Can ya tell they're happy?)

While
Later
Back at the Ranch
Fergi reminisced

and I played


Ready for the Next Adventure.

It really is a great Time of the Year.

Good Things Come to Those Who Wait

We did things in reverse this Weekend.

(It's always good to change Things up a bit.)

Instead of Her coming to visit Us

We went to visit OurGirl

It's a much longer Story than this

With even more Adventures

But this was OneOfOurFavoriteParts.

We rode, all buckled up and nice and cozy

From OurGirl's Campus

to a ReallyCoolPlace called the Big Thompson Canyon.

(It's a beautiful, famous and sort of infamous Place.

There was a HUGE flood through it in 1976.

Lots of people died.

Some were never found.

Here's an amazing ((goosebump provoking)) presentation about it

If you are interested.)

Anyhow

We drove through the "narrows" at the mouth of the Canyon

(We could've gone a lot further ... onto more ReallyCoolPlaces

but we didn't have time.

This time.  They tell us we'll go back.)

The Canyon is a winding, steep Gorge formed by millions of years of the River's Erosion.

Rock Formations all around us have been tip-tilted almost 90° by the movement of the earth.

Moma was busy driving.

OurGirl snapped some pictures

(and we borrowed a couple from the internet

'Cause it was just a little hard to stop and use the camera.)

The Walls got really steep

and then 

Quick as can be

Moma pulled across the highway 

Smack into this Spot.

The Colorado Cherry Company

The name pretty much says it all

We'll let you get an up-close View

Outside

and in

Jams and Jellies
Ciders and Juices

Syrups and Butters

Salsas and Jerkies and Dried Fruit Strips

And Pies.  Lotsa Pies.

So much from which to choose!

And we knew they wouldn't come out Empty Handed.

Let's see.

We think she should get that One

Top rack on the left hand side

Please.

Yes!  Very Good!

But!  Hey!  No!

Don't leave it in the back of the Car!

We told them we were sure they had plastic Forks in the Shoppe.

And we were Right!

Awww

Yummers!

We knew they wouldn't let us down.

Good Things do come to those Good Dogs who wait.

(That'd be Us!)

We think we like this.

Going to see OurGirl sometimes.

Yep.

It was a lot of fun.

Yummy, too.

And we think we'll be doing it More Often.

Not Just Another Coupl'a Cute Booties

We get comments about about our mild Temperaments all the time

and we take them as Compliments.

It's true that we're sorta exceptionally laid back

quiet calm mellow relaxed easy-going

Wire Fox Terriers.

We can't really offer a good Explanation as to why.

It may be our Nature

It may be our Environment

It may be our History

It may be that the TypicalTerrier in us

is gonna come out slowly

over Time

with daily Development of Trust and Confidence.

Really

It doesn't matter.

We are who We are

(and Moma loves Us so)

But

It's true

Our moma notices each and every little Change and new Behavior in Us

and mostly that's a Good Thing

('cause we get slathered in Attention and Cuddles when we do something new)

Which we do.

New.

On at least a weekly basis.

There's Jake.

The somewhat shy and still often intimidated 

Gentle Fella.

Who loves virtually everyone

and

Who adores lying by the front door watching for Friends and Critters

Only to wag his tail and brighten his eyes.

Until this week.

When

Something captured his Attention

and he BOLTED down the passage

BARKING at the top of his lungs

PROTECTING his household

and

ALERTING Moma

(for the first time in the two plus years he's lived here)

that SOMETHING deserved attention.

(It was invisible.  Moma never found it.)

Now

Mind you

He's only done that Once

but last night he did awaken in the middle of the Night

Growling at some SpookyOutsideNoise

Waking Moma and Being a WatchDog

(only to soon roll over and fall back into a sound restful Slumber)

OK

So

It's true

Moma had to help us reconstruct this Picture

(and it was honestly easy to do with the laser pointer ...

that will always provoke a good Run from Jake)

but here's a Visual

So you can better imagine the Scene 

A wirey laid-back Boy in Action

With a VeryCuteHiney.

Then there's me

Fergi.

The still very cautious and easily threatened

Sweet Princess (blush)

Who loves her DogBed and Moma's BigBed

Those being the only places that anyone can approach me

For much loved Cuddles, Pets and Kisses.

As much as I love those places

and as comfortably and easily as I'll go to them in the daytime

I have a rather compulsive Routine at Night.

(Until last night)

I will only go to bed (on the BigBed ... where else?)

by first running (tail up and happy) 

around the dining room table (always counterclockwise)

with Moma "chasing" me

Then

Bee-lining it to the Bed

Happy and Confident.

Moma has tried and tried to invite me up on the Bed otherwise

but I've refused

 (Until last night.)

So

You've guessed it!

Last night I jumped right up there on the BigBed

Right in front of Moma

Before she even turned it down

and

I waited

Tail up and Happy

for my VerySpecialSpot

I'm not sure who was happier.

So

Like Jake

Moma tried to help me reconstruct the Scene.

She shooed me into the bedroom

with the temptation of Treats

and a BoyDogBrother on my heels.

She got Lucky

and captured a pic of my Bootie

and my flip flap flying doggie ears.

So see?

We do move

and rock and roll

Sometimes

and we shake our Booties

On Occasion.

Briefly

Fleetingly

Momentarily

and Happily

And in yet another way

We know

Life is SoVeryGood!

Fortuity? Or Opportunity?

We could have predicted.

Moma took away all of our furs a couple of days ago

and what happens?

The temperature dropped on Tuesday

and the first rain we've had in months

fell from the sky.

No Problem

 We've got good Coping Techniques

and WarmCozyBlankets.

The morning was amazing

but we do have to admit ...

We were really happy when the sun came back out today.

It's all good for the Spirit

and we're soaking it right up.

Opportunities.

We try to make the best of each and every one of them.

(Speaking of which ... it seems some good smells are coming from the kitchen.)

We'll be back!

On October Twelfth

We left a message over on Penny and Patches' blog today.

We asked them to deliver a message to Angel Poppy

Over the Bridge.

You see

She just had a Barkday

and they've been thinking about her and sending special thoughts to her.

We asked them to ask her to find our Grampa

The grampa we never got to meet

(We think maybe he's hanging out with their daddy.)

He's our moma's daddy

(She's the little one ... in his arms ... a long long time ago.)

The daddy who was a great Father

Who provided so incredibly well for his Family

and filled them with Love

and Fun

and gobs and gobs of fond Memories

(She's the little one, again,

on vacation in Colorado a gazillion years ago.

He's the one on the left.)

He's the one who loved to have Fun

to enjoy the Simplest Things in Life

and the one who taught his Family to do the Same.

To Laugh

To Smile

To Love

and to Care Deeply for One Another.

We've heard lots of stories about him.

All about how he loved his little dogs

All of them.

Equally.

Joli

Molly ...  Moma's wirey one

and

Mitzi ... the family parti-colored poodle

and squirmy Chloe.

All those doggies are across the Bridge now.

With that man who was Moma's daddy and would've been our grampa.

He died on October 12

Nine years ago

Suddenly

Quickly

Right after telling our Auntie "I love you"

as they talked on the telephone.

Moma misses him terribly

and she sometimes still cries

But she knows

He's with all the doggies he knew during his Lifetime

plus a whole lot more

and they are All enjoying his Gentle Touch

and Kind Words

His Soft Smile and Tender Love.

And someday

We'll get to meet him

and it will be wonderful.

We know we'll know him right away

He'll be the one watching and waiting for us.

'Cause Love waits

and Love lasts Forever.

On this his 70th birthday ...

Imagine

(click on the word)

Sorry.  You can't click on it anymore.  For some reason YouTube removed the video.

Enough Said

xx

Not Just Another Friday

It's that Day again.

(We don't look VeryEnthusiastic about it.

But we are.)

Why?

'Cause it's that VerySpecialDay.

The Day of the Week

That we most enjoy.

The Day when we travel up the Mountain

to explore another Trail

Hike another Path

Celebrate another Morning

in our Colorado foothills

HikeDayFriday!

We headed west and south today
to Pine Valley Ranch Park

Near where OurGirl spent the Spring and Winter

at the Outdoor Lab School

(Remember?)

And it was Wonderful

Today

Look See

A few hours later
We returned Home

with Dirty Paws

and

Tired Legs

and 

Happy Hearts

What better than to put our feet up

to stretch out in the sun

and to rest

Recalling the MostWonderfulMorning

and looking forward to the next.

Hoping it's soon.
(Tomorrow would not be soon enough!)