Saturday, September 8, 2012

Blue Monkey!

Today has been great. This morning while Tony was gone on a Texas Master Naturalist field trip, Ben and I did the chores outside, while we talked and listened to my music play outside.

Early this afternoon, Rose and Bonnie, two really cool Girl Scouts from Dripping Springs, showed up with their parents, to deliver their Silver Projects, that they made for our dogs and have been working on for months.

When they arrived, after howdies and hugs, I took this picture of Rose and Bonnie standing by the trailer, carrying The White House, that Bonnie had made for the portable Puppy Pentagon pen, that Rose had built, to complete their Girl Scouts Silver Projects.


Tony, Ben and I were blown away with their craftsmanship, skill and creativity and we could not wait to set up the portable puppy pen and put The White House inside it, so we asked them to follow us down to where we were going to put it. Here's Ben helping Rose set up her puppy pen, around The White House, which is the perfect size for puppies.


In no time at all, Rose's pen was set up, so I took this picture of the finished portable puppy pen, surrounding The White House, with Bonnie and Rose trapped inside the pen, so I could take their pictures.


As we stood back admiring the young ladies hard work and the clever names that they gave to the doghouse and pen, I joked, "All I can say is, "Because we are a non-profit organization, our puppies are going to have to be bi-partisan-pups. I can't wait for Kinky to see this..."

After Tony, Ben and I had thanked the girls for their work and helping out our rescue ranch, Rose and Bonnie told us that their was even more. "We made toys and have toys to give out to all of the dogs and we also brought you some dog food and dog treats."

As Ben and Tony helped unload the dog food and doggie treats, I thanked the girl's parents for helping the girls deliver their projects to us and for also doing such a fine job raising their children. Then Bonnie and Rose grabbed their big, blue bag from the car, so they could hand out the toys to our dogs. Of course our dogs loved their new toys and here are a couple of pictures that I took of Miss Dee playing with her new, blue monkey and Rocky ready to catch his tossed toy in mid air.



When is was time for Rose and Bonnie and their parents to head back to Dripping Springs, we thanked Bonnie and Rose once again, for being such great Girl Scouts and for taking their time to help our dogs at our rescue ranch. And that is about it for tonight.

Y'all have a great evening!

4 comments:

Mari of the NoMads said...

Ok Nancy I have had to put a lock on my computer to keep our dogs from reading your blog!

You see, some of our dogs were overheard "mutt"ering about packing up sticks with little hobo bags on the ends and heading south towards Medina where good things - like blue monkey toys - come to all canines!

What good lives you (and your friends) give your dogs while they're awaiting their forever homes! Thanks for being the outstanding caretakers that y'all are!

cousin nancy said...

Hi Mari! Our dogs are having so much fun with the blue monkeys, enjoying their doggie treats and love the cooler weather.

This morning some of our dogs were muttering about heading to your place to learn agility, from The NoMads—the best agility dog trainers in Texas! Thanks for commenting and see you soon.

Sharon said...

The girls enjoyed their project! They talked the rest of the girls in the troop to add a visit to the Ranch for our annual service project weekend at Texas Lions Camp. Be ready for lots of girls to come and help out with feeding, cleaning, walking & just playing with the dogs! I'll get with you on the details later! We love you guys!
Rose, Bonnie, Sharon, Kevin & Marion!

cousin nancy said...

Hello, Rose, Bonnie, Sharon, Kevin, Marion, Dunn and Dustin! We love y'all more and we can't wait to see y'all again!