Mitch's Secret- shhhhhhhhhhh

Mom put up the family room Christmas tree!!!
We have 2 apple ornaments on it and mom can't get them to stay on the tree because of YOU KNOW WHO!She puts the apple on the tree and Mitch helps himself to it and takes it off! Mitch doesn't seem to realize that it's a fake! It's not even real! It doesn't even smell like a real apple! He doesn't care! He wants it anyway!
All of a sudden I glanced over at the Christmas tree and I noticed Mitch doing the strangest thing to the apple ornament and then I knew his well-kept secret to his rapid beard growth!

It's not apple butter after all! The secret is to polish your beard on an apple and it doesn't even have to be a real apple - it can be fake! How much easier can it get?!
So there you have it! The secret that all of us have been waiting to hear! So now on January 1st, when Stanley wants us all to measure our beards for his annual competition, all of our beards will be extremely long and we'll all be winners!
Thanks, Mitch! We all owe you, buddy!


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


Love ya lots,


Maggie and Mitch

I Got An Early Birthday Pressie!

Hi everybody! It's me, Mitchy! My birthday is in 9 days and this morning the mailman brought me a box with my name on it! It's from Maggie's goodest and bestest girlfren, Putter, not that Putter isn't my friend too, but you know how chummy girls can be!
Putter told me that I could open the box immediately! Thanks, Putter! How did you know that I couldn't have possibly waited 9 whole days!
I opened the card first because Mom says that's the polite thing to do! Putter wrote to me to please enjoy the beer and share with Maggie! hummmmmmmmmmmm, welllllllllll, okay - I guess I can TRY to do that, Putter!

Maggie got her head stuck in the bottle carton and had to use her paw to free herself! haha

Aren't these the coolest things ever, Maggie? I didn't know when you reached the age of 2 you were of legal drinking age!

Hey, Mitch! You've got 2 bottles and Putter said you were supposed to share! You're making me mad, Mitch! You are such a stingy little imp!

But this is MY birthday pressie, Maggie!

Well - maybe you're right - it's no fun playing all by myself! Don't be mad, Maggie! Come on over and I'll share!

Okay, let me have one of the bottles, Mitch! I'll take the one that says O'Drools and you can have the Hienie-Sniff-N!
Awwwwwwww, ya mean you're really going to share with me? Thanks, Mitch!
Thank you so very, very much for my birthday pressie, Putter! That was very thoughtful of you! I sure do love my birthday pressie!

Yer friend,

Mitch

Happy Birthday, Jaffa!

Our buddy, Jaffa is 2 years old today! He and Mitch are only days apart in age! This picture is Jaffa on his first birthday! We sure do miss you LOTS, buddy! We hope you and Sunshade are sharing a fabulous birthday cake together for your special day!Today is also Jaffa's littermate, Stella's birthday! We hope you're included in that birthday pawty at Jaffa's house, Princess Stella! Happy birthday to you too!Our friend, Bogie has extended his Be My Baby Mama contest to the end of November! This past weekend, Mitch and I put our heads together and got out our crayons to try to create the best personal ad for Bogie to use to find the perfect LadyDale to raise his cutest ever furbabies! The prize is a book called, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Loving Our Dogs!

What do you think about this idea, Maggie? Do you think it'll work?! That's a GREAT idea, Mitch!I think I'm thinking too hard, Maggie! I need a break!

We are happy to report that we are 99% done with our personal ad, so expect our entry soon, Bogie!

So everybody, put on your thinking caps and email your personal ad artwork to Bogie and one of us will be winning one of those awesome books! Everyone who is a member of DWB is eligible to enter!

We were at Snowball's blog a couple of days ago and guess what her very talented Jie Jie painted? Us! Is this too cool or what! We are so honored, Snowball! Thank you very, very much! This masterpiece is proudly displayed on our sidebar so we can see it every single day! So until next time..................

Love ya lots,

Maggie and Mitch

Wheelie Wednesday - A Woolie Christmas

Hi everyone! It's me, Farley! Autumn is kindly letting me blog today on this Wheelie Wednesday! It's my first time blogging!I've met some new friends since I've been here and I wanted to share them all with you.

This is the Big Man - Santa Claus! We all know him, right? He's the one that you have to answer to this time of year about being bad or good! The good furboys and furgirls get the pressies and the bad ones get the lumps of coal!

This Santa and his WoolieDale were made by the very talented Carol Usher. Mom won them on ebay a couple of years ago. Isn't he fabulous! Mom just loves her work!

I'm letting Santa know that I've been a VERY good boy this year so he brings me lots of pressies!

This little Woolie guy is playing with his new train set! Santa must have come early for you! You must have been VERY good! Um, excuse me, but did you know that your engine has toppled over?! I can help you put it back on its wheels if you want!

Gotta score those brownie points with Santa, right?!

This little girl is Melody! She's wrapping Christmas packages to go under the tree! I wonder if I can persuade her to give out hints as to what's in the packages! She looks pretty busy! I think I'll ask her later!
Who are you? Do you know that you're on my wheelie bike?

I know what we can do! We'll share! Now we're both happy and having fun!Thanks for letting me blog, Autumn! See you all next Wednesday!

Your buddy,

Farley

Mitch's Discovery

Guess what Mitch just figured out?

That there's a brilliant invention called Apple Butter! You all know how my brother LOVES apples! He'd do anything to sink his teethies into one!

Mom was making her breakie in the kitchen and Mitch wandered in like he does every single morning - trying to moootch a crust or two of mom's toast. Dad and I could hear the drool hitting the floor all the way into our family room! You better get the lid off the jar quickly, mom, before Mitch goes nutty!

All of a sudden it hit me like a ton of bricks and I went flying into the kitchen! Apples are what made Mitch's beard grow!

hummmmmmmm apples and butter and cloves and cinnamon and other secret spices are in that wonderful jar of goodness??!! Could this be the answer that I've been looking for to get my beard to grow long and lucious?

I'll keep you updated!

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

Love ya lots,

Maggie and Mitch

The Bedroom Project

Hi everybody! It's me, Mitchy Boy!

Mom and dad have a project to keep themselves busy this winter and that would be re-doing my sissy, Missy's bedroom over! Missy slept in this room until she went away to college and once she finished college she moved out and the room became empty and it served as a guestroom for my gram and gramp when they used to come and visit but it was never finished and "nice" and mom always felt badly about it. So mom is getting her wish after all these years - a brand spanking new guestroom that she can be proud of rather than apologize for!

I'm locked out because mom says this is a work zone and there are too many dangerous things that I can get myself into!

Let me in, mom! I promise I'll be a good boy!

How come he gets to be on the inside with you and I can't be? Help me out and open the gate for me, okay, buddy!

Before mom and dad got Maggie, they had an English Bulldog named Bubba Louise. She (yes, it was a she named Bubba) was a brindle and white girl and lived to the ripe old age of 13 years old before she went to the Rainbow Bridge.

The plaster has been ripped off the walls and the brown painted floor boards are being taken up. Plywood is being laid down as the first layer of floor and the finished floor will go on top of the plywood eventually.

The project today is to remove the radiator and get plywood down underneath it and refill the system so that we can have heat in this room! Dad and his friend, Bob, have already done the plumbing work in the basement so there are shut-off valves to make the job a whole lot easier! Trust me, you do NOT want to see the basement! You would have nightmares for YEARS to come!

Our house was built in 1824 and it still has all of the accordian lathes that they plastered over. It's a dirty, dusty mess to take plaster off the walls but if you want to proceed with the pretty stuff you have to be willing to go backwards and eat dust and dirt for awhile! This is the not-so-fun part of the project!Aftet the radiator is back in and working mom and dad will do the electrical portion of the project. This will be an on-going job for a few weeks so I'll update you all again when there's something exciting to report! By the way, Maggie only comes upstairs to be groomed, have a bath or go to sleep at the end of the day so she will most probably never be your friendly neighborhood reporter! Maggie is not really that fond of the stairs!

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

Yer friend,

Mitch

Our Dad's Heart Transplant Anniversary

Today is our dad's 4th heart transplant anniversary!! It's been 4 years since our dad received the gift of life! Our dad is known to many as the Tin Man, who needed a heart and who got one!

Thank you so very much, Boston girl, for saving our dad's life! We can't ever thank you enough! If it wasn't for the generosity of you and your kind family, we wouldn't have our dad with us today! We wish we knew who you were so that we could give you lots of licks and hugs! Maybe one day we will!

Happy Transplant birthday, Dad! Do we need to celebrate at Wentworths again with another coffee oreo blizzard?!

Love ya lots and lots,

Maggie and Mitch

Wheelie Wednesday - The Airedale Christmas Tree

Hi everybody! It's me, Autumn!Now don't laugh - our little Christmas tree in the kitchen is up!
Actually it was up before Halloween! shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, don't tell anyone because they'll all think that my mom is NUTS!!! Mom loves her Airedale tree and she can't wait to decorate it every year and enjoy all of her Airedale ornaments!

She made just about all of the wooden ornaments on the tree from all of dad's scrap wood!

Can you see the little pewter bones? They have Mitch and Maggie's names on them! They were a Christmas gift from our goodest and bestest friend, Putter last year! Can you see the M&M candy wrappers? Don't worry - they're empty just in case they fall on the floor! Mom thought it might be fun to put those on there too!

This wooden Airedale head is the only wooden ornament on the tree that mom didn't make. It's called intarsia and this is still something that mom wants to learn to do. Dad even bought her the fancy jigsaw to do it with but she just hasn't had the time yet! Mom did make the felt ornie. It's just plain old felt cut into shapes and it's buttonhole stitched on! It's simple and very inexpensive to make and they make great gifts. All of your moms can make these while watching TV!

The whitish grey beads are called Job's Tears. Mom grew the plant one year and strung all of the beads and decided that it might look good on our small Christmas tree so that's what we did with them!

There are a couple of snowmen ornies on the tree too! They're simple to make and lots of fun! So who else out there has their Christmas tree up? You can tell me! I promise I won't tell!

See you all next Wednesday!

Love, Autumn

November Update On Our Beards

It's that time again to get out the ruler and measure our beards to see how much they've grown in one months time! This is for Stanley and Stella's beard competition - you all know about that right?

I hate to say it but my beard is still at 4" and that's if you include the wispy fly-away hairs! I guess the avocado treatment isn't working that Autumn recommended! We need to put her to work finding one that's successful!

Mom always has a problem trying to measure Mitch's beard! All Mitch ever wants to do is play and have fun! He seems to think that this is what life is all about!

Be serious for just a minute, Mitch, okay?! There you go! It's 3 inches! OMG, your beard grew 3/4" Mitch! How did you manage to do that? It's the apple juice, isn't it? That must be your secret!

That does it! I'm off to find myself a whole bushel basket full of apples!

And make myself a nice apple bath and soak the day away!

I want to see at least 1/2" by December 1st!

Our friend, Happy, honored us with this beautiful friendship award! Thank you so very much, Happy!

We would like to pass it on to our dear friends, Putter and Hercules and Petra.

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

Love ya lots,

Maggie and Mitch

The Cupola Raising

Hi everybody! It's me, Mitch! Mom and I went to a cupola raising this morning! It was in Northford on the same street that we live on! Maggie had already walked 2 miles and mom decided that she needed a rest at home, so we gave her a nice big cookie, kissed her good-by and headed up the street! Sorry the picture is kinda blurry but I was in a big hurry to get there! I'm always in a big hurry!Dad was already there when we got there! My dad and mom built this cupola months ago and today is the day that it finally is getting raised in place by a big crane! You can see in this picture how large these cupolas are! Once they get up on the roof they look so much smaller! This extra wood that isn't painted is rigging so the crane will have no problem lifting it!This is the weathervane that's on the top. It's an indian!

This video shows the cupola leaving the ground and going up, up, up to land right on that roof! The crane makes it look so easy!

This is the cupola sitting on the roof! Those men that are up there will be bolting it down and securing it permanently so it won't move and it won't leak! The rigging will be taken off and it'll be a work of art for everyone to see when they drive down our street forever!Yesteday dad spent the day making chicken soup and sausage and peppers to serve to anyone who joined us here today so mom and I are off to head home and heat the soup and wait for the troops to arrive back in our barn! What a neat morning we had!

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

Yer friend,

Mitch