Barktoberfest

We left our house earlier than expected yesterday morning because dad wanted to see Ian Igersoll's cabinet shop where his friend, Mike, builds furniture! It's in West Cornwall, Connecticut, and it just happens to be right next to the famous Cornwall covered bridge! We've seen lots of pictures of it but this is the first time we've ever seen in in person and with the autumn leaves in the background - it's breathtaking! The bridge still has a wooden deck so that when we drove over it, it sounded very funny under our tires!Barktoberfest was only 10 minutes away from the Cornwall bridge so at this point we didn't have too much farther to go before we got to see lots of Airedales!

All the doggies got to wear tags this year so we all knew each others names!

Mitch couldn't wait to say hi!

Scuffer and I caught up on our yearly news! Scuffer is Carol Usher's dog. She our friend who makes the WoolieDales!

Are you Albert, my Giant Schnauzer friend?

Mom and I checked out all of Denis's sculptures! There sure are a lot of them here!

You can't believe how tall this giraffe is!

This one looks like Rufus or Brutus, our Saint Bernard buddies!

There were lots of pumpkins lurking about!

OMG, are the two of you Winston and Clementine, our Pug buddies? Do you realize that this is an Airedale event! I guess these Puggies are Airedale wannabees??!!

Meet Cole! He's a 5 month old boy! He reminded me of Mitch when we first got him! Mom wanted to bring him home with us! He has quite a personality!

What's up with your ears?

Hey, you're a Welshie like my friend, Taffy!

Mom got a few pictures of dogs in costume!

This is Dexter clowning around!You have to see Saxon! He's dressed up as an armadillo! He has a nylon stocking over his face! Would you let your mom do this to you? Not me and Mitch says not him either! Imagine the patience this guy has! We sure hope he got LOTS of treats for putting up with this!

Guess who I got to meet and actually put my paw on and try to pick a fight with? Tess! She's a pretty famous show dog that wins lots of ribbons and I got to stand right next to her and touch her! She was actually very nice to me despite my behavior!What a great day we had and very exhausting! We slept all the way home! Mom didn't hear a peep out of either one of us! And when we got home guess what mom and dad had for dindin? PIZZA! The day couldn't have been more perfect!

Tune in on Wheelie Wednesday and Autumn will show you the neat gift that mom treated herself to at Barktoberfest!

So until next time..............

Love ya lots,

Maggie and Mitch