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The Annual Christmas Morning Bone Chew

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Christmas morning found Scout and Riley happily chewing their new Nylabones. They love them intensely for about 45 minutes and then that’s it. Happens every year. Great excitement at the thought of a present from Santa, jumping around, standing on hind legs to get the package, intensely chewing the bones and then the usual jealousy over the other dog’s bone. Then the trade. Then nothing. The bones eventually join all the other bones in the toy basket. Occasionally one of the dogs will pull one out and chew on it for a while – mostly Riley. Scout is usually interested only when Riley decides to chew a bone. Then, of course, she must have it.

Just another of our Christmas rituals.

Decorating is exhausting!

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Oh not for me, for them. Supervising, sniffing, barking, smelling the tree…being told to “get away from the tree, your tail is knocking off the ornaments” – its a lot for a dog to deal with. Happily, they have the sofa to themselves at the moment. Do you think they’ve been good enough for a visit from Santa?

Shades of Blue

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Scout is “resting” on her new dog bed courtesy of Home Goods. Pretty, don’t you think? And much nicer than the ratty old bed we’ve had for years.

Spare your worries about where Riley’s dog bed is. We’ve tried repeatedly to get him to lie on a nice soft bed. No dice. He likes the couch. He likes the chair in the den. But no bed for that boy. I’m not sure why, maybe it has to do with the fact that he had very little comfort as a young dog. He was, and is, a little wild.

Anyway, the interesting thing here is the fact that I am not a blue person. In the past, you would have been hard pressed to find much blue in my house except in my jeans. Then I started collecting these:

And these:

Then I crocheted my ripple throw, and bought the coverlet to match:


And, there you have it…blue, preferably aqua, is appearing throughout the house. Funny how certain colors, previously ignored, can suddenly have a great appeal. I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks!

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