The Princess Beds

Mom was doing my laundry yesterday and remarked that she sure had a full load and that it was all mine! The laundry consisted of sheets and blankets and covers from my many beds. A girl has to have her beauty rest, right? And I rarely sleep on the floor unless I'm hot and then the floor or the fireplace hearth feels really good but in the wintertime I really like my cushy warm spots. This is my bed in our family room. Yes, you do see a blue pillow. Inside that blue cover is a BIG white fleece bone and I decided one day that maybe that squeaker was annoying me so I started to work on it and remove it. The toy was only 2 days old and that nasty mom took it away from me and made this denim pillowcase so I couldn't remove the noisebox. She won! The bone still squeaks but I won too cause it's my very own special pillow. I gotta admit - I sleep soooo much better with my pillow!I also still have my crate set up in the kitchen. It's been there since my very first day with the family. When I was little the bedding was pretty sparce (you know how puppies can chew stuff up) but now that I'm older and wiser it's pretty comfy in there. That's the mailman beside me. He's one of those toys that I just can't destroy, although I have tried! My food dish and water dish hangs on the side of my crate and to us dogs, food is #1 on our list! So my crate is a very special place to me too. Mom removed the door a long time ago. She says she was sick and tired of banging her shins into it! If it's raining out and my feet get wet, lots of times I dry them off in this bed and then move on to another so that only one bed gets damp. Smart, huh! Mom snuck this pic of me when I was pretty groggy! Darn that camera!

This next photo is my bed in Dad's workshop. Dad and mom spend LOTS of time in the workshop in the wintertime. I've got oodles of toys out there to keep me busy. You also have to know that dad has a fireplace in his workshop and my bed is opposite that fireplace. Yup, I am a lucky Princess! You can see the side of dad's cabinetmaker's bench in this pic. That's flame birch and tiger maple on the side of that bench. Isn't it pretty?! And dad has cherry floors in his workshop. Only the best backdrop for this girl! And that's baby on my bed with me. You can see the surgery that mom did on him to fix him up so that I could have him back. Bless that mom.

And last but not least is my bed upstairs in mom and dad's bedroom. I've never slept with them -much too hot! I don't like to be hot! I want my own spot! Dad took this pic of me last night while I was sleeping. He was watching the football game and I was soooooo tired and I just wanted to go to sleep but dad just had to take this horribly embarrassing shot of me. What was he thinking? A girl has a right to her privacy!

So now you know the truth - I'm a spoiled girl with beds all over the place and I love every single one of them! And now for my nap...........

Later,

Maggie

My Christmas Card from Miss Sunshade

Mom has had me on high alert ever since Sunshade told us that her Christmas cards were in the mail and on their way. The long awaited card arrived today! Yipppppeeeeeeeeee!!!
It's just beautiful! The background is white and Sunshade is doing "big ups", just like I do, and she's wearing a pretty red velvet bandana with white fur trim and a jingle bell. You look so festive! Have you ever considered being a model? You would be a star in not time at all!

My favorite part of the card is the inside. It's just to cute! It's a fur Sunshade! It's you - it's really you! OMG how original and creative you are with your Christmas hat, your pink tongue, that famous big black nose and some cold Vancouver snow! I love it! I absolutely LOVE it! And you even signed with your paw print. No wonder I could smell your scent before the wrapper was even opened!

And you have to check out the back of the card! Sunshade is sitting in her royal bed with her stocking cap on waiting for Santa to come and he will! He will, because you've been a good girl all year just like me!

But wait - that's not all. I got a special gift from Sunshade too - my very own Airedale "taxi service" plaque for our car! How cool is this! I'm gonna stick it right next to my Airedale bobblehead on the backseat dashboard! I can't WAIT for my next ride in the car to show it off.

Thank you so much Sunshade! You've made me a very happy girl today. Mom says it was our lucky day when you came into our lives and I totally agree. You're one special girlfren!

Merry Christmas!!

Hugs and kisses,

Maggie

Yippeeeeee Another Christmas Card

I got another Christmas card in the mail today. It's from Faya, the Swiss Aire girlfren. And how cute she looks with her Santa hat on with red hearts! Mom would love to put a hat on me but no way will I let her do that! I paw them all off within seconds.

Faya, I do have ta tell ya - you're a good sport and you write perfect English! Mom says your handwriting is neater than mine! Faya also sent a 2007 Swiss calendar. How cool is this! It's not every Airedale in America that owns one of these. I feel pretty special. I have my new calendar opened to July so I can see which day my birthday falls on. I see it'll be on a Tuesday this year! Thank you sooooooooooooo much Faya.

Mom is still working on putting up Christmas decorations. The latest is her WoolieDale Christmas. All of the Airedales were made by Carol Usher and the wooden rope bed and the wooden Santas were made by mom awhile back. Good thing dad is a woodworker and has lots of scraps to keep mom busy!

But lately mom has been keeping busy knitting and felting purses. She has made a lot of them as gifts, has sold a few and also has given some to Airedale rescue to help raise money so that those not so fortunate furbutts hopefully can be as lucky as I am one day. Here I am modeling mom's Christmas bag and praying that she takes me to Petco so that I can pick out toys to add to my list!

My hooman sister was here this weekend and put packages under our tree. Mom keeps telling me that these packages are NOT for me but I know better. I just know by the smell that mom is fibbing! She keeps telling me, Maggie, stay away from those packages and I put that angelic look on my face and tell mom that I've been real good but - do you see that nasty brown man falling off that branch? Well, when I sniff the packages somehow he dumps forward and he gets me in trouble! So now I need to learn how to set him right so I stay on Sanata's good girl list.

I hear mom grabbing her purse! I'm off to give her my special nosepoke to be sure she knows that I wanna come along too.

Until next time......................

Maggie

Mr. Carrot

From the time I was about a year old I have had a love affair with Mr. Carrot. I've had, I think, about ten Mr. Carrots so far. Mom was grocery shopping one day and came across this orange man with a VERY LOUD voice. She couldn't stop laughing and the rest is history. He's been in my life ever since. My first Mr. Carrot lasted for a pretty long time despite the fact that I was young and everybody knows that we youngun's like to chew! I was bored one day and I was out to shut that orange man up! I discovered how to jab my tooth into his squeaker and silence him (that'll teach ya, HA!) Mom was NOT to happy about this seeing as his voice is part of his charm. Mom says nothing is more hilarious than to see me race through the house with that orange "cigar" sticking out of my mouth.

But it's not just the toy, Mom has made a Mr. Carrot dish and a pillow; she even tried to make a needle felting of me with the orange boy but it doesn't come close to comparing with the one that Carol Usher created!

Mom is part of the Airedale Quilting bee and Mr. Carrot has shown up in her quilt blocks a couple of times.

The above block was from the Airelifted quilt. And this one is from the Annette's House quilt. Mr. Carrot is making the patient feel better! LOL

So now you can see why me and this orange man are connected.

By the way, it seems that the company who makes Mr. Carrot has changed him somewhat and mom is madder than a wet hen! The new Mr. Carrot has pink lips instead of red - YUK! and his squeaker is a mamby pamby one - not the "generous" one that we've come to love, so now mom is on a Mr. Carrot hunt for the one and only original! So if in your travels you see this little man with red lips, not pink ones and you give him the old squeeze and he totally delights you with a loud SQUEAK, then buy one for yourself and please write and tell my mom where you got him so she can buy them ALL!!!

Until next time..............

Maggie

My Very First Christmas Card

OMG I am just soooooo excited. I just got my very first Christmas card of the year from Bogie, that truly handsome devil.

The envelope was addressed to me - Maggie Senerchia! I just love Christmas and your card just makes it that much more special Bogart! Thank you so much. I can't stop looking at your cute face and sniffing the envelope.

ahhhhhhhhh the aroma! I think I'm in love! Move over Sunshade! LOL

And while we're on the subject of Christmas - Mom put up my special Christmas tree. Although it's not "really" mine because I can't touch it, I can still enjoy it and all the ornaments on it are me :-)

Mom loves to do woodworking in the shop with dad using his left over scraps and of course most everything she does is Airedale-related. :-)

I just can't wait for that BIG day. At the very top of my Christmas list is a green donut, just like the one Miss Sunshade has. I already have a couple of boxes underneath the big tree in the family room and I sure hope that donut is in one of those packages! The second item on my list is a new baby (not the human kind- too much competition) Last year for Christmas my hooman sister Melissa gave me a purple gorilla that makes jungle noises when I chomp on his tummy. Well, he lasted almost a whole year and then one day I decided that I didn't like the jungle noise anymore so I decided to remove it. Mom kept warning me to stop it Maggie or else baby goes into the trash can. How come moms are so mean sometimes? hummmmm, well, I chose not to listen to mom and she took it away from me for several days. Apparently mom felt very sorry for me and did some surgery on baby. She wound gauze all around baby's middle and then put this NASTY sticky wide tape on top of the gauze so I couldn't bite it off! I have given it many tries, hehehe shhhhhhhhhh don't tell mom, but so far baby is still mine and I intend to keep it that way! The unfortunate part is that baby now lives in workshop so I can only play with him when I'm out there. Mom thought it was just too tempting to leave baby in the house alone with me. Yup, I have one smart mom! ;-)

I wanted to thank each and every one of you for signing my blog. And I especially want to thank Sunshade for encouraging my mom to get this thing going! Until next time..................

Love ya lots!

Maggie