Mango Minster 2012

Mom is still a slacker, my blog hasn't been updated in ages, she keeps telling me we will do 'My Year in Review", but I don't see any reviewing going on, and now, it's time for Mango Minster, and I HAVE PUT MY PAW DOWN!. For doG's sake, get off your butt, woman!
Last year I wanted to enter the diva competition, but no, the slacker mom couldn't get her poop together, and we were too late, and then when I pitched a fit she stuck me in the Bad Sport Category where I didn't win, but I held my own, but that was only because I was miffed.

This year I am trying a different approach. I am being as CUTE AS I CAN BE! Too darn cute, actually. HA! And I talked Maisie into entering with me, cause everywhere we go everybody is is all like "look how darn cute that little one is".

So just in case you all forgot what we look like, and you probably did because we are supposed to get Facebook time, which we hardly ever get, and I don't even have my own Facebook page like some of you do, here are some pictures of us being.....

TOO DARN CUTE:

Baby Morgan:

Baby Maisie:

Maisie just looks cuter than me in those pictures because I was born before anybody had those good digital cameras.

NOW, I WILL DOUBLE THE 'TOO DARN CUTENESS':


Too darn cute in winter.

Too darn cute in summer.


Too darn cute in fall.

Cuteness radiating out over the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh PA.

cute butts!

So that's my entry for Mango Minster 2012.

Stay tuned for my 2011 year in review, but don't hold your breath 'cause waiting for slacker Mom will make you turn blue.. BOL!
Some of you have popped over to my blog to see if we are OK, and we are, and thanks for asking. In Mom's defense, she does take us to classes on both of her nights off,
so I guess I shouldn't be fussing. Now I gotta go send a pee-mail to Mango Momma.
See ya,
Your pal, Morgan

ALRIGHTY...

So, I got mom off Facebook, and that stupid FarmVille, and over here to my blog, and she says "So, Morgers, what do you want to tell your friends? What have you and Maisie been doing?" I thought about that, and well... We go to our agility classes every Friday, and Saturday, and, aside from that, we have mostly just been doing this.

and this,


and Josie and Laura have been doing this,

for like three and a half months! Mom says we are not alone, lots of you guys have been standing in snow for a long time. We like snow, but it really was getting a little boring, and most of the time it was icy, so we were sort of stuck in the yard because the peoples on the street buy that cheap kind of salt that hurts your paws, and just makes you want to roll over and stick your feets up in the air till mom takes her mittens off and wipes your feets off with the mittens, and then she has wet mittens, so you have to go home anyways.
BUT... lately, it's been warmer , so it just rains now, so we can go for walks, and all we have to do is listen to mom mumble and complain about mud on our feets, but we just ignore all of that.


Hey! you know what??? I don't think I ever told you about Christmas. We went to Cousin Rocky's place. He had no snow!! It was a whole week without snow, and we went to the Rails to Trails every day.



You could easily read pee-mail too!

Now, you won't see this just anywhere. On Christmas Eve Santa Paws came up the street on a FIRETRUCK, with sirens blowing and said "HO,HO,HO, MERRY CHRISTMAS!"


He must of come back later with the sirens off, cause we got gifts.

We got a magic hat that you can pull rabbits out of. I had to show Maisie how it works.


We gave Rocky a Pittsburgh Steelers Collar.


Before Christmas, we went to our favorite nursing home with our therapy dog group to spread some cheer

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Their Christmas decorations were really nice, so mom took some pictures of us



Mom says spring is "right around the corner"... We just went around the corner and I didn't see it, but Maisie was yacking up a storm at a robin today. You know what? she has been doing really good since she has been talking to Coryelle. and taking the Bach flower essences (mom tells her they are "magic drops").She doesn't bark till she's nuts anymore, and she goes into class without trying to run away, and the other week she was watching me BANG that teeter totter, and didn't even run for the door! She has been doing her wobble board stuff right beside the teeter too, and she can be in the same room with the teeter, and even do a jump right beside it. Last week we thought she might even be thinking about putting a paw on it. She doesn't come home and puke after school is over anymore either.
Later, 'gators,
Your pal, Morgan

Well, THIS just sucks!!!

Slacker mom finally got off Facebook and FarmVille long enough to check out the rules for Mango Minster 2011, and guess what??? The Doggie Diva category I WANTED MAISIE AND ME TO ENTER IS CLOSED!! I mean, look at us, are we divas, or what?? AND, NONE OF THIS IS PHOTOSHOPPED!!!!



We are, FOR REAL, dressed like this because, we are, FOR REAL, DIVA HULA GIRLS !!!!


So mom says "well,that's OK, we can just read, and it will be fun to see who the winners are, and I was like "NO,IT IS NOT OK, YOU SHOULD OF BEEN PAYING ATTENTION" And then, I guess she had just had about enough of me, cause she sent Mango Momma an e- mail and said stick Morgan in the bad sport category.


So, I don't care what the rules are, I am gonna get mom's credit card and I am gonna buy The Honorable Judge Fiona whatever she wants, so, pee-mail me, girlfriend.
Your pal, Morgan

Coryelle called us !!!!!

Well.... actually, Coryelle called Maisie, because Maisie is having a hard time at agility because every time she hears the teeter-totter bang, she about looses her mind, so mom wanted her to talk to Coryelle, and see if Maisie could tell her anything about what the problem is.
Now, Maisie did not even really want to talk about this and I think if she could of found the tin foil hats and shields mom made us for the G-20 summit, she would of had them on.

She was making this face as soon as Coryelle said teeter-totter,


and she was doing all kinds of calming signals. She must of yawned about fifty-million times, and she was laying in her quiet place the whole time they were chatting about it. She is a trooper, though. She agreed to give some Bach Flower remedies a whirl, and see if she could get a grip on herself to give this teeter thing another chance,so long as the Bach Flower drops didn't make her water taste funny, Do you believe she asked that? Geez.
She said she likes agility, and wondered if she could still do it, but not the teeter, and mom said sure, but other dogs are going to be doing the teeter, and you will still hear the noise, so when Coryelle said that to her, she said she would try the drops and see if they helped, cause school is fun, except for that noise.
You know how I know all this? I know all this cause I was listening in! BOL! AND, I couldn't shut up, cause I had something I really, really wanted to say, so finally Coryelle and mom said "what the heck do you want Morgan?" And I told Coryelle about how I had hurt something while running awhile ago, and I wanted mom to know that it was all better now, and I was feeling good again and ready to do "for real" agility, not the baby classes she put me in while I was getting better. So tomorrow, we are going to a competition agility class YIPPEE!

Coryelle asked Maisie is she wanted to go tomorrow, and Maisie said "NO" so mom said she didn't have to go, and Maisie made this face.

So, then they started chatting about all the easy-walk harnesses Maisie has chewed off herself,


and how she has to wear a limited slip collar, which mom hates,


but we have to wear one or the other, cause both of us has figured out how to back out of regular collars, and Maisie started telling about how the harness bothers her hairs, and feels funny and told Coryelle to tell mom the limited slip isn't as bad as it looks, and she wants to wear that if she has to wear something.
Then, I had to chime in again, but by now, Coryelle was listening to both of us. I wanted to say I really liked Maisie, and Coryelle told Maisie if she ever had any questions about stuff that she could ask me cause I am older & Maisie said OK, so, that was pretty cool, and I went over and laid down beside Maisie, cause she had finally come out from half under the bed cause the teeter talk had stopped. And Coryelle said she would call again, and Maisie was saying she knew it was stupid to be afraid of that sound, but she couldn't help herself, and Coryelle said that's OK, cause she would help her, and then Maisie seemed to get perkier and sent Coryelle a kiss.
So, that's what I, I mean we, did today. Everybody, send Maisie, some good teeter-totter vibes, K?

I AM TOOOOOOOO!

HI!!!! HELLOOOOO!!! IT"S ME MAISIE! HERE TO TELL YOU I AM TOOOOOO. What? I need a double you? Where? Oh, OK. TWO! I AM TWO!!! It's my birthday and I am TWO.
WHOOP-DE-DO TWO

Mom thinks maybe I'll stop screaming, now that I am two. BOL!

Lookie what I got!!! I got these fabulous sweet potatoe thingies, these crunchy cookies, and this really swell floppy toy!

AND... I got this box-o-cookies to take to school on Saturday to pass out to my school friends!

See ya's. I gotta go practice being TWO!
YOUR PAL, MAISIE

Are You Ready?

Details here at Jake & Fergi's place.

We would like to add Cousin Rocky's girlfriend Jenny to our list. Jenny was recently diagnosed with bone cancer, and her person Norm is quite sad.
your pals, Morgan & Maisie

Rocky and Jenny.

Halloween Parties !!!

I just have to tell you about these three Halloween parties mom took us to. They were sooo much fun. Two of them were hosted by Animal Friends shelter. Those people really know how to throw a good party! The first one by Animal Friends was just up the street in the park by our house. Cousin Rocky came to be our "escort". We wore our hula skirts, and Rocky got himself a shirt to match our outfits.

Here we are at the official picture taking place.

Cousin Rocky. Look at his cool "shades".

It was pretty crowded, and there was lots of stuff to look at.

There was this witch, but she was a nice witch, and she helped us bob for weenies.


It was a fun day.

The next party was at the nursing home that our therapy dog group goes to. Maisie and I had just been to the beauty shop, so we had these pretty candy corn bandanas to wear.


We did a little agility show, and stupid pet tricks, and then we visited.


The third party was on Halloween night, so it was much spookier than the other ones. This one was held at the Animal Friends shelter. It was nice. there was a table of food for the peoples, and a table of home made cookies for us doggies.


This is us waiting for everything to get started...

After snacks, we went outside to trick-or-treat. And oh, my, doG, guess what was there??? Another tub-o-weenies!! I had two and a half, because mom pulled the third one out of my mouth. Something about "not being allowed" to eat three whole weenies, because "nobody should eat three whole weenies".

Maisie got herself all involved in the giant hay stack that had dehydrated chicken strips buried in it. Mom says she makes better food choices than I do. BOL! Look at her - her eyes are all glazed over!

We had to go around and find these people and do whatever trick they told us to do, and if we did the trick, we got a treat to put in our trick-or-treat bags they gave us. we had to sit in the hoop, and do a sit, and a down, and jump over a broom, I forget what all, but we did good.



Then, we went back inside and played games, and the last 20 minutes was an off leash doggie social.




We made out pretty good with the trick-or-treating! here are our bags,


and here is all the loot!


We had a really, really good time,
but I still really, really, really miss this....