About the Food Bottles… by Mercy

Remember last time I said that I had started to get hungry, so I’d gotten a “Food Bottle,” and started playing with it to get food out to feed myself. Well, today, I get to tell you about them!

Grammy had gotten this idea from some of the “intellectually stimulating games” that Honey the Great Dane , Moose, and Mango (see the movie) talked about on their blogs a couple of months ago.

She fills some of these “Sweet Tea” bottles up about 1/3 to ½ way full of our Puppy kibbles and then puts them down on the floor for us to play with or feed ourselves with.

It only took ME a couple of days to learn how to work the bottles, but the boys still have some problems and usually have me help them.

Pippin is starting to get the knack of it and can get some of the food out if the bottle is pretty full, but I can flip it well enough, now, to get out even the last few pieces!

GrandPaw is very proud of me!

Note from Pippin: To my friends (I got mad at Grammy when she snatched it away from me, but she was right) – If you find dried up dead toad jerky… Don’t chew it no matter HOW GOOD it tastes… It will make you PUKE!

Weird Weather by Mercy

The other day, we had a BIG STORM! It got REALLY COLD that night, and in the morning, when we went out, there was a lot of hard white beads on the ground. GrandPaw said it was called hail.

It had gotten into piles in some of the shaded spots and hadn’t finished melting. Here is Mama Dott standing by some of it and checking it out.

Here, you can see her up on the table part of the obstacle course and you can see the snow on the hills just behind the hills behind our place

There was something weird going on with our water, too! The top of it got all hard and looked like a window! GrandPaw took chunks of it out of our water dish and out of the horses’ water barrels.

He broke up the big one in the pool, and I got in and checked it out. After a little while, Pippin peeked in to see what I was doing, but decided he didn’t want to get in there with me.

I tasted it and then ate a little of it and it was really cold and crunchy!

Gimli decided to jump in there with me to see what I was eating, but he didn’t like it much and got back out.

Pippin came back and almost decided to get in so he could check it out too, but then he changed his mind.

A few days later, it rained ALL day! At first, we didn’t really want to go outside, but then we found out that it wouldn’t hurt us, so we went out and had a GREAT time runnin’ around out there.

After a while, it got kind of cold, so we came in

and played some more in the Living room.

Grammy wasn’t to happy about the wet floor…

and our muddy bodies…

but she didn’t have time to give us baths

and we couldn’t stay outside in the cold…

so, she decided to take a lot of pictures of us.

After a while,

I got hungry so I got one of our “food bottles…”

Oooops… Grammy says I have to close for now and tell you about the Food Bottles later. Bye!

Thankful Thursday…By OC

Mom wanted to take a few words to thank Susan at Corgi Dog News, and Angela at West Virginia Treasures, for the wonderful gifts she won in their Blog contests a couple of weeks ago. She wants to apologize, too, for taking so long to get this up, because she really LOVED everything, and appreciates the friendship of these wonderful women and the encouragement she has gotten from them through their blogs and emails.


Mom reads a lot and the tag bookmarks she got from Corgidogmama are really cute and will definitely get plenty of use. The Christmas card was great, too! The Andes Mints have been GONE for awhile, as they are one of her favorites

Pout… WE didn’t even get a taste of those! Something about chocolate and dogs…? But not even a TASTE? :(

She used the snowflakes and red boot Christmas Stocking that she got from Angela, as tree decorations. You can see them in our Get R Done post for Expressly Corgi's Meme for tomorrow on Grammy's other blog, A Country Grammy's Walk With God. The Reindeer scissors have been invaluable because her other scissors had gotten bent and couldn’t be used anymore, and you KNOW how much you need scissors for this time of year especially! We couldn’t have made the REST of our decorations without them!

Wordless Wednesday… Almost...

Dad’s Got CHIPS!!!

I'M your Puppy... NOT him!!!


The coat, Dad made me, is kinda cool... :)

But... I HATE HATS!!!!!!

Treasure Hunt…by Gimli

NOTE from Grammy:  We have been warned that there will be a BIG storm over most of this week and they are saying lots of rain and even snow - which is a once every 4-5 year thing usually. Anyway, our telephone wiring is not in great shape and when it gets really wet it often won't let us online, so if we disappear this next week, THAT is why. Maybe THIS time, they will decide to run new wiring like they've told us they should for the past 4-5 years!!!

Guess WHAT!!! We got to go on a TREASURE HUNT!!!

Da man wit the dress thingy (chaps), came again today to chew on the horse’s feet with these big clipper things.

He spit out little chunks on the ground, and after he left, Grammy and GrandPaw let us all out so we could do a treasure hunt and find dem.

Boy! Was WE excited when dey FINALLY let us out!!!

We ranned all ober the place looking, but den we noticed dat Grandma OC, Mama Dot, Unca BG, and Auntie Sadie had found a bunch of dem, so we ranned ober and found ourselves some, too!

We all got some little chunks… Talk about TASTY!!!

Den we went out and runned on the hills and in da BIG dich.

Grandma OC got real tired, so we had to go in.

We checked all the horse apple patches and when I was doin dat in old Cory’s pen, Grammy called us to go in.





I came runnin like I’s supposed to, and, you know what?









Somebody’d dug a hole and filled it wit water! (Dey said dey do that to soak Cory’s feet cause dey are to hard for da man to cut if dey don’t)





I didn’t know that dey had done dat, and next ting I knowed, I was chest deep in water! Akshully, it was kinda fun, but Grammy and GrandPaw didn’t seem to think so!







Don’t know what’s der problem cause it dries and falls off after awhile anyways…





(Grammy: Oh, Gimli.... I'm ready to teach you a NEW word.... it's BATH!)

A Day to PLAY!

We like to play rough!

Here we were learning how to play on the Obstacle Course before GrandPaw put up the net.

And here is our Course now that it is Puppy safe...

The Next Day… (Workin’ on Grammy Cont. by Pippin)

The next day, the sky peed a lot… Grammy calls it “Rain.” OK!! I guess it “RAINED” a lot. We woke up Grammy wif with VERY muddy feet!

She says we are her “Corgi Alarm Clock!”

We played for a few minutes on the bed, but then Grammy said she had to get up… (By the way, Sasha, that toy you gave us is STILL our favorite, though it has had to be repaired a few times.)

GrandPaw went out to work on our obstacle course, which he was making out of Mama Dott’s Lookout. He had already made it much safer so Mama wouldn’t get hurt again. They said they will do a post about making it later.

He had let us run on it a bit, but was afraid it wasn’t safe enough to let us play on it whenever we wanted.

When he would come in, he would take down the ramps so we couldn’t get on it unless he was right there watchin us…

It’s been a lot of fun to play on, and we begged him to fix it so that we could play on it whenever we wanted.

So, that day, he went out and fixed several things on it, and then he put a net over the whole run so that we CAN’T fall off of the high run parts!

Grammy went out and helped him a little bit when he was almost finished… thought of some extra safety features…

After they were finished, they went around to the front yard to turn on the water to the back so Grammy could go out and water and feed the horses. She was thrilled to see this rainbow in the sky! It wasn’t a whole one, but it WAS a double one. She said it was another “God Smile” for her. They ARE kind of pretty!

Grammy sold one of her pictures of Mama Dott on Ebay. It was done from one of the photos in Mama’s book, and is from when she was sad. She was kind of happy about that.

We hope Grammy will be able to finish getting some of the vids of us on our obstacle course finished for next time… You should see us speeding around! It's a BLAST!!!