An almost year of stairs

The girl likes the stairs!

Champion!

This afternoon, I was at a Christmas choral performance and at intermission I pulled out my iPhone to download a "sleigh bell" app as the musical conductor asked all of us in the audience to do.  I was searching the app store when my phone rang and it was Leda!

The noise level in the lobby was high so I couldn't hear her at first, but I didn't need to wait until I struggled my way through the crowd to the outside to know that she was calling with the good news that Pumpkin's brother Bailey is now Coedwig's Champion Bailey On the Rocks!   

Congratulations, Bailey and Leda! 

Soon, this gorgeous Blue-boy brother of Pumpkin's will be moving to Virginia to join Erika and her pack!

Pumpkin and Bailey at about 3-4 months old -- before we broke Pumpkin's ear!

Thanks to everyone who sent good luck Champion wishes in Leda's and Bailey's direction!

Sunday Morning -- late Fall

Four degrees warmer than when I first looked.

 

With help from my photographer's assistant.

A pomegranate neither I nor the squirrels could reach. 

They were hot when they were green...

Wreath from my grapevine -- which, I hope, hope, hope will produce grapes next year.  (The vine, not the wreath.)

 

Darby is a lot taller than Pumpkin.

 

"Look at me"

Darby, with her soulful eyes, has always maintained -- even seemed to seek -- eye contact with me.  Pumpkin, on the other hand, tends to take quick peeks, then looks away quickly only to steal another glance a second later.   So, I often work with Pumpkin, offering her treats (dried liver chunks, yum!) when she looks at me for as long as she can bear. 

Here she is, making eye contact with me long enough for me to snap a photo!

Darby is making eye contact with the treat in my hand.  

I hope you won't make eye contact with the unmade bed in the background. 

Peace