Maggie in a baby carrier

So there's this hilarious comic strip called "Get Fuzzy". It has an ornery Siamese cat named Bucky and a loving mutt named Satchel. These two comic strip characters are the spitting image, personality wise, of our two babies. Maggie is clearly the Bucky personality - ornery, bossy, and always in charge, but loving on the sly - and Scout is the Satchel personality - loving all the time, and kind of a dummy.

In the comic strip the owner carries Bucky around in a baby carrier because he can't be trusted in public. So when a co-worker showed me her baby carrier that was being returned to her yesterday I HAD to borrow it! Strangely Maggie seemed pretty content once we got her into it. I think she'd probably be pretty happy to be carried around most of the time. I mean the only down fall is the peeing, and the beating up of her sister.

Funny girl!

Maggie and Scout Birthday Party

So, yesterday was Scout's and Maggie's birthday. We had a little family birthday party with the girls after dinner - complete with birthday hats and cake!

Mom and Pop didn't have any cake because it's a special peanut butter and carrot puppy cake with lite cream cheese frosting. They loved it though.

Unfortunately I missed the photo of Maggie laying on the deck licking the boards where Scout's crumbs used to be! That would have been a great shot. Instead I have a picture of a satisfied little girl after filling her tummy with cake.

Of course, I have way more pictures on my camera that I can show people later...

Turkey's

We went up north on Sunday. Saw these beasts. I think I'll take aim at the big 'un if I can get a tag this year!

Happy Birthday Girls

This is the most recent picture I have of the girls. Andy set up a bunch of their toys in the doorway about a month ago. It's supposed to look like an invading army of toys. We figured since the girls were outside, when they came in they'd go berserk attacking the toys. They did not. The toys sat there for several days until one by one they were picked off and played with. Don't they kind of look like toys themselves?

Anyway, today is Scout's 7th birthday, and Maggie's 5th. My babies are growing up! Who would have guessed with Scout's early years of running away as much as possible that she'd make it to seven! We joke that we're living with bonus time since we weren't sure she'd make it to five! Maggie of course is soft, so she's still in her infancy really. She's never very far from her sister, her Pop, or even her Mom if no one else is available.

Tomorrow I'll have birthday party pictures! And if I remember baby pictures too!

Cool sunset

Thought this was a really cool sunset. When I was driving home late last week the sun was really pink and hid behind the clouds a bit. I tried to speed home and get it just like it was, but the it sets surprisingly fast right at the end of the day. Still pretty cool looking though.

Scout's Nose

Andy has a picture of a close up of a pigs nose that he got a long time ago. I think it's a really funny picture, and I thought it's be fun to do with Scout's nose.

I love this picture. Look at all the little freckles she has on her nose! So cute.

So a few years ago, Andy and I were up north grouse hunting. We were staying at Kerls place, so it was before the cabin was built. Anyway, we were nearing the end of the day of hunting and decided to go down one last path. No birds, but Scout did find a mean porcupine who gave her a good smack to the face. She ended up with quills in her nose, lips, tongue, and soft pallet of her mouth. We pulled some of the quills out, but had to take her to the vet because some were so deep. It was a Saturday night in Ladysmith WI, but we found someone at a gas station who knew the local vet, whom they called, who met us at his clinic. Poor Scout. They sedated her, and even with her passed out she just screamed when the vet was pulling the quills out of her jaw and soft pallet. One quill had to be cut out of the top of her mouth, because when he tried pulling it out he just pulled her across the table. Poor Scout. They reversed the sedation and she spent the next 20 minutes walking in circles in the vet office. Man was she stoned! That part was funny. Of course, this whole time poor Maggie is in the back of the truck freaking out because she can see and hear Scout for part of it, and then when we were at the vets she could hear Scout screaming. She was totally freaked out, and once we got back to Kerls she was very solicitous to her sister. The vet wasn't able to get all the quills out, so a few months later a quill poked out of the tip of her little brown nose. One of those little freckles is really a scar from the quill!

How Maggie feels about grooming?

I took Maggie to the PetCo groomers and on my way out picked up a "Spa Services" brochure. They offer lots of stuff! Everything form nail trimming and normal grooming to special shampoos and nail polish. I looked thru it, joked with Andy about getting Maggie smelling pretty with pretty toes, and then put the brochure away. Some time in the next few days it ended up on the ground. I came home from work to this. Apparently now we know how Maggie feels about the pretty nails...

By the way, there were no additional pieces of paper, they were simply gone. I guess she was hungry too.