Wednesday, September 16, 2009

IT'S WHEELY WEDNESDAY


Good Morning,
And welcome to Wheely Wednesday. It seems as if we have been trying to upload our pictures for hours. Google is not cooperating with us today.

Java entered a contest over at Orvis. If you feel so inclined, please go over and vote for him. Just click on his picture for the link. There is a charge for voting - $1.00 per vote, but Orvis will match your vote dollar for dollar. When you donate, you'll help save dogs' lives by funding important research through the Canine Cancer Campaign.

As many of you know last week,
Mom was involved in helping
our local Sylvatus Ruritan Club
with their Flea Market.
She sells things so she can
afford to buy things.
She found this wonderful
iron Scottie dog
that we will be using
for a boot scrape.
When we first saw it,
we thought it was a really tall Scottie,
but then she explained to us
that about 5 inches of it's legs
will be buried in the ground.


Doesn't this figurine
remind you of Hamish?
When Mom saw it,
along with it's battle scars,
it spoke of wisdom to her.


M0m is always on the lookout
for a little turquoise -
the color, not the stone.
She forgot her hat when she left
to go to the Flea Market,
so as soon as she saw this
beautiful umbrella,
she knew she needed it
to shade her from the sun.
Plus it helped Dad
locate her in the crowd.
(She wanted us to pose with it,
but we are afraid of umbrellas -
we'd rather get wet than
walk under one)
Java needed a new food bowl
(well not yet, but Mom breaks one
about every 3 months)
so she found this beautiful
vintage turquoise bowl for him.
We don't know why she got the crock.
We suppose it's turquoise and chipped
and called out to her.

Guess what came up in our garden,
all by itself!
We watched the plant to see what
it would be.
We knew it was either
a cucumber, squash, watermelon or cantaloupe.
Well the fruit got large enough to identify
and then large e
nough to harvest.

And is it ever delicious.
We gobbled it down so fast
that Mom could hardly get
our picture.
And guess what?
She picked another one yesterday.
We hope we can convince her
to cut it this morning.

XOXO
Lilly, Piper, Carrleigh and Java

21 comments:

Sue said...

Glad to hear I'm not the only one that breaks the dog bowls. The dogs haven't broken any, I've dropped three of them.

♥♥ The OP Pack ♥♥ said...

Our Mom loves Orvis, we will go and vote. And for a good cause too.

What a beautiful umbrella - no wonder Mom wanted it.

Melon - looks juicy and sweet - enjoy:)

woos, the OP Pack

Woodrow, Luna, MJ Campanella said...

mmmm that melon look really good - what lucky pups you are -

we are going to go right over and vote for java

Woodrow - Sweetie - MJ

The Adventures of the LLB Gang said...

I'm with the Bully Brats..nummy melon!!!

Smileys!
Dory

Golden Samantha said...

What great FINDS at the flea market! Wish we could find beautiful things like that here, but no more - not for about 30 years lol! And the melon looks so juicy and yummers! I'm salivating just looking at it!
Huggers xo
Sammie

NAK and The Residents of The Khottage Now With KhattleDog! said...

The melon made Mom make the wrinkled nose face!

Melons are about the only food in the entire world she doesn't eat!

Good lukhk with your Orvis khontest - we'll go chekhk it out!

Your mom made some khool purchases!

Hugz&Khysses,
Khyra

Duke said...

Java sure eats in style! What fancy bowls!
That's so cool that you grew a cantaloupe! Mom is thinking she wants to try that for next year!

Love ya lots,
Maggie and Mitch

Cassie said...

Hi Lynn! What a flea market find!

I HATE cantaloupe...reminds me of ether, so my pooches don't know what it tastes like.
Happy Wednesday!

Inky and Molly said...

Man, you have all sorts of treasures in your garden. We'd like a bit of that fruit, thank you very much..

Two French Bulldogs said...

I think you made us hungry
Benny & Lily

ScrapsofMe said...

SHE stepped in my din-din bowl tonight. I thought for a minute SHE and the bowlie were goners. There was some odd ballet like moves, kinda like the Hippo's in Fantasia?, and some clanging of the bowlie around the kitchen cupboard doors, then all settled back in place. Surprisingly all in one piece. SHE thinks she's pulled a piece of ham or something like that. The melon looks extra yummy. It's a fave of ours.
toodles,
Bonnie n Puffy

Dexter said...

Yummers. That is better even than wally melon.

Slobbers,
Mango

Poopsie aka Blue said...

I love rummaging for finds @ house sales or in charity shops - what do they say one woman's rubbish is another's gold!

No worries about not participating TCT today - Granny is much more important - hope her appointment goes well.

Love, and pats & pets
Blue

Clive said...

Great finds! That umbrella is lovely!

Impressed with that cantulope growing in your garden! We couldn't even get our tomatoes to go red!

lots of woofs
Clive

animal lover, quilt lover said...

HI Lynn,
Love the umbrella and the bowls!
Turquoise is my number one favorite
color!!!
Tom went to work today. I thought he should stay home one more day.
He did not!! If he is O. K. tonight I will blog. I still need his help to put pictures on the blog.
Love you all, Fern

The Black and Tans. said...

Yummy melon, it certainly looked most delicious. Have a great weekend.

Molly, Taffy and Monty

animal lover, quilt lover said...

Remember to save seeds from the cantaloupe, so you can plant them next year and send me some so I can grow some.. That sounds good to me. How does that sound to you?
Love ya, Fern

SEDONA said...

Yummy 'lopes! I love 'em, too!
And my human loves the color turquoise, too. Nice finds at the flea market! Hope she didn't get any real fleas, tho'!
Your pal,
Sedona

Agatha and Archie said...

Yoo hOo11 Here we are!! We are all cought up on all of your happenings!!(and there were a lot!!) What a lovely surprise!! Jake and Fregi are just the best aren't they!!! A thousand hugs... A+A

TwoSpecialWires said...

Jake and Fergi are SLOW, is what Jake and Fergi are! We had this post sitting down there waiting for a comment for two days, and we just now found it! Well. Better late than never! We were looking forward to seein' your Flea Market finds, and you didn't disappoint us! We're not sure which'd be more fun... to eat cannalope with you, or to tag along to the shops and markets.

Hope about both?
Love you guys,
Jake and Fergi xxoo

One Gal's Trash said...

L-O-V-E the turquoise!
xo
Pam

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