Morgan in Pittsburgh: July 2010

HELLLOOOO!!!! HI! HOW YA BEEN??? IT'S ME! MAISIE.. This is sooo freakin' fabulous!! It's called a pool. Mom says we need this pool because we are having something called a heat wave to us.. HI HEAT! HOW ARE YOU??? MY NAME IS MAISIE!
I don't think we got this pool out last summer, because I would of remembered it. Maybe that heat thing didn't wave at us or something.
Anyways, Morgan and I are out in the yard, and mom gets the pool out, and Morgan is like "Yippee", and I'm like "WHAT"?? and then mom starts putting in the water and stuff, and I didn't know what to do and then Morgan showed me.

and, then I still wasn't sure so mom squirted me,and got me a little wet with that hose thing

and then Morgan started running around

and she says "get in"!!

SO,..I DID!

WOWZERS!

Mom has to go to work tomorrow, because the work holiday is Monday, so we are going to play Frankie's name game and tell about our names today.
Maisie and I are from Saranac Shelties. I was born at Miss Terri's house, when she lived in Pittsburgh, and Maisie was born at Miss Anne's house in Alabama. It's called Saranac because Miss Terri and Miss Anne, who are sisters, grew up near Saranac Lake, New York.
On with the story.. I arrived with my name. Mom hadn't even thought up a name for me. She was feeling sad because she had just lost her Sheltie (That was Clara, the one I inherited lots of good toys from) and when Miss Terri said she could have one of her pups, she got so excited she forgot all about a name. All she knew was, she would either get me, the bi-black girl, or the tri-colored girl, depending on who Anne and Terri were going to keep.
So, I'm finally ready to go and mom gets a call, and comes to meet me, and Terri says "so,what are you going to call her", and mum is all like duhhh....and Terri says, "I have been calling her Morgan, but she really doesn't know that name yet, so you don't have to keep it", and then mom says " is that a Scottish Name? - she must of finally come out of her "I'm getting a puppy, and that is all I can think about stupor" - BOL!.. And Terri says it depends on the source, It's probably a Welsh name, but sometimes listed as being Scottish. It's a form of Morgana, or Morcant (Welsh), and means "from the sea". So, mom thought about it, and I seemed to like it, and even though it is mostly a boys name, it is also used as a girls name, so that's how I got to be Morgan.

Now, with Maisie, mom was all over the name thing. She had her Scottish names all picked out. Maisie had first been named Emma, by Miss Anne's kids, and everyone agreed, (even the kids), that was not a good name choice for her. So, mom calls Miss Anne and is " how about Taylor? MacKenzie? Kennedy? there were more, but I can't remember all of them. Noooooo, Miss Anne says, she needs a CUTE name. So, mom started googling "cute Scottish names" well, from what we could find, the Scots are not big on "cute" names, but, suddenly, there it was... Maisie!!. Call to Anne,, some silence, and then " yes, that's it!!!
"Maisie" is Scottish familiar for Mairead, or Margaret. It means "pearl". To top it all off, our friend Margaret was transporting Maisie from the Sheltie Nationals in Georgia to PA for us, so that settled it. Maisie had a name!

Have a great holiday! And, if you are afraid of fireworks, STAY INSIDE AND BE SAFE!!! Let's not make Khyra's mum run all around the country looking for us, even though we know she would.