DEAR BFF---FROM MAGGIE MAE

(This is an email that I sent to my special friend yesterday)

Hey my Sweet BFF:

It is your twin living in redneck woods in Iowa.  I wonders if I must have drawn the short straw at birf cos you get to live in a beautiful place and I is living in deliverance country?????   How did that happens??  Mom said Isa cames from the Mills of Missouri which is a shameful place and I nose you did not comes from that place so I finks mom is a lyings since we are twins.

I likes your idea about us going with the cowpokes on their camp time....I finks they need watchin cos there will be BIG bulls and GIRLS running around that place and not enuf chaperons....so I is going to call up the campmaster and suggest he let you and me be camp counselors for those kids.  do you fink that is a good idea??  Mom said it was, and I fink she just wants a few days break from me but won't come right out and say it.

 

last night she toles all of us, including her special love, sweet stellie rose, gag gag, it was time for ALL of us to go outside and potty before Dad got home from work.  Now it was already dark outside, cos dad worked till after 9pm so I was figuring there was zombie's and bats hiding behind the bushes......so I was a little slow running out to the porch, and when I don't run for the steps, Angus just stands there and looks at mom, cos I is the leader and he don't have many brains, I haf to do his finking for him, and then mom reaches down to pick up her stellie rose, cos stellie has to be carried down the steps cos supposedly she cannot see, and guess what perfect smelling stellie rose did to mom.   Guess my twin???????

HERS SNAPPED AT HER!!!!!!!!  AND GROWLED!!!!!!  Mom was shocked ....I snickered and Gus was shocked also, but Isa was still snickering.  So NONE of us ended up going outside to pee or kill the zombies, until Dad got home, and then we all went out like we normally do, even Stellie .......sometimes I fink her is batcrap crazy..........Maggie mae

 

 

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SO after I sent Princess Leah my sweet twin this email I called that bullriding camp and found out they were a little short of help.  I got right on the stick and picked our favorite rodeo clothes...

 

looked up the camp on the map

BULL-RIDING CAMP AHEAD

 

 

Princess Leah and I decided we would turn all the heads if we RODE into CAMP instead of driving in the regular way.........

WE SEE YOU BOYS!!!!

 

 

 



 

GARDEN TOTEMS---AND OUR BOYS

Mom is always trying to build things in her garden, last year it was stacking stones her brother had sent her from Alaska, some of the towers survived the winter and some fell down.  Such is our life.

Last year. 

This year, it is more filled in with plants.  It is one of mom's prettiest flower gardens this year, we need to take a better picture for you though.

Mom started noticing people building them with other objects found laying around their homes, more glass instead of stones, so Mom has been working on some, of her own, to keep and give as gifts.

She collected old vases, plates, and then found in the 80% off aisles of Hobby Lobby several small decorative bottles, with crystals on the top, and even one little crystal weinie dog....his ear was missing but you cannot tell in the tower, all you notice is the beautiful light that bounces off of him.

If you look real close you will see him under the bell jar on the bottom.  WE are drying them on the steps before sitting them outside in the different gardens.  That is an old medicine bottle on the top.

We still need to find some plates to put under a couple of them.  Mom is going to the goodwill store cos they often have older plates and dishes, .....

They are not everyone's cup of tea, but we kinda like the unusual in the yard.  The color.  Mom enjoyed putting them together.....the one at the very top that is all clear glass is for her sister, Mom is looking for a beautiful butterfly to put on the top of it....the vases used are heavy old crystal.

A closer picture of it. It is made up of two vases, two candle holders, and a small decorative cut plate....it was the first one mom made.......
This is what she does instead of cooking.........................its safer that way.

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Tomorrow our grandmonster boys are going to their first ever Rodeo Christian Bull riding Camp.  They are very excited.....our mom and da are not so sure.  They remember when they were like this..

Marcus -3 and Micah-5.......And Now.....

Marcus -12

 

And

Micah-14


We wish Maggie Mae could go wif them, cos she would protect them from the bulls they are riding....she is tough like that!!!!!

Look at her just sitting up there wif her BFF on that big ole bulls head!!  Not scared at all.

Mom says sometimes she wishes she could see these little guys....its a grandma thing.

Stella Rose

 

SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW

This morning when Momma got to work, and turned on the computer she read where our friend Sasha went to live in the heavens above yesterday.  We loved Sashy cos she was the best cook here in blogville, and we got to eat really good food, and we also loved her cos she was a rescue puppy like we are all. 

We know her family is hurting, and their tears are falling, and sometimes we just cannot come up with the right words to say, how we are feeling for them.  I imagine Sashy's daddy is holding her tightly in his arms and whispering lovely words in her little ears.  They have grand plans to run, and play and spend time together.

We are so sorry Anne, we are sending you all our pug hugs today. 

We know Sashy has earned her wings.

Stella Rose, Maggie Mae, Angus Mac, and Momma

FANKFUL THIRSDAY--Angus

This is by me, Angus Mac and I am here to tell ewes about our storms we had last night.  Well we were all watching American Pickers wif our Dad and Stellie and Momma were in the recliner a reading as usual.  It was really hot today so everyone was feeling kinda lazy.   THEN the sun sorta went away, and it started to get darker.

WELL I toles my Dad we had better head to the basement and I ran to get my super gussie cape on just in case I needed to do any rescuing of fings in the river, or the squirrels blowing out of the trees in our yard, cos our Dad luvs those squirrels, I fink as much as us....pfffst!!!

Here I comes to save the day!!!

Well the girls ran in their bedroom and were frowing their toys, and chewies, and stuffies, and favorites stuff in a big suitcase to take to the basement and Dad said NO---just get to the basement.

Well there was just one little problem wif that.....our Moms decorating skills of our house.  See our kitchen although small also has an overabundance of doors.  There is a door to the bafroom (fank goodness) and a door to the porch, and a door to the family room, and a door to the hallway and a door to the basement.  Believe it or not!!!!   And when Dad yelled get to the basement, he ran into a roadblock.

(Christmas picture but you get the idea)   Yep the cabinet was IN FRONT of the basement door, because Mom toles Dad she gets a little nervous when he works late that the zombies, and werewolves will come up out of the basement and eat us.  DAD said really bad HBO words, and I was flying around trying to find an alternate route and this was going on outside.....

The girls were a screaming and Dad was a cussing, and Mom being Mom was laughing cos that is what she does when hers gets nervous......well long boring story short, after about 30 minutes, the hail and rain stopped and the wind settled down and we did not end up in OZ.........Dad told mom she had better move that cabinet so that does not happen again, and I fink Mom just said a bad HBO word to him and went to bed.

Good fing I is the adult around here!!!
Angus Mac

RODEO

Friday night we went to watch the first rodeo of the year,  two of our grandmonsters were riding the small bulls.  Mom says even small bulls are big bulls so it is still stressful for her to watch.  It turned out to be a lot of fun, one boy stayed on for 5.5 seconds and the other boy stayed on for 4 seconds.  Marcus the younger one, got a nice hoof print bruise on his arm, and a cut on his leg, Mom says he is a tough 12 year old.  We are proud of them!!!!!   Truthfully Mom will be glad when the season is finished, hers is a worrier.

Micah is 14----------=====================Marcus is 12

 

 

One of my favorite a few years ago.

 

See how they have grown.

 

They are good boys and we are really proud of them.  We told them about the Blogville Rodeo coming up and they had all kinds of tips for us when we are riding our bulls.  We are so excited.  I am going to ask them if we can borrow their chaps!!

 

Update on Macey:  This week Macey had her bloodwork checked and everything came back looking good.  We were all relieved for that gift.  She has started though to realize her leg and foot are always going to be different from her other one and even though she is only 6 she is having different emotions about it.  On Saturday they were in Target buying a new outfit for her sister to wear to a camp she was going to this week.  Her sister was picking out a new pair of shoes, and Macey wanted a pair like her sister.  Of course the style of the sandal did not work for Maceys foot and Macey who is a very even tempered little girl had a major meltdown in Target.  After trying on a dozen pair they still could not find any shoe she could wear.  Everyone was upset by the time they went home.  It broke my heart to hear about it, and I have had a hard time even doing a blog this week.  I know a lot of people in blogville are hurting with things going on in their families, ........its just hard when its a little girl. 
Hugs from us to you.....Stella Rose and Momma

 



ARTY'S FLOWER FRIDAY AND MORE

Today is Arty's flower Friday.  Usually his sister Dory handles the flowers but sometimes a brudder has to step up and do udder fings he don't really likes to do.  So we wanted to show you some of Mom's flowers from this year compared to last year.

This year:

This year:

The poppies are all gone now, and most of Mom's flower gardens are full of green plants, she needs to plant some white impatiens this weekend hers said.....IF she can turn her neck wif out screaming.....

Last year:

Remember when Mom ordered like 187 packages of special zinna colors ...well she saved the seed for this year and nuffin has came up yet......who knew......we finks it has been to cold and to wet for them to germinate.  The beautiful butterfly bush is gone also.....weird weather in Iowa affects our pretty plants this year.

Thank you Arty for hosting this today....

NOW when I gots up this morning my meanie sister and brudder left this for me in my breakfast bowl.....

Yep friends its a picture of a BLACK ANGUS COW......remember Maggie teasing me that I was built like a little angus.....short, and stocky....they faught it was a big ole joke, the meanies....Mom finks I am just perfect although I did here her whisper to Dad last night, that I sorta am built like a little angus bull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  WHAT!

See you back on Monday!

Stella Rose

MY BFF--MAGGIE'S POST

Its Thursday folks and Dad is home wif us today so you nose that means ALOT of treats NOT on Mom's APPROVED treat list.  Yay for us, that Dad is such a rebel.  But this post is NOT about Treats but about a present that arrived in the mail from my twin sister Princess Leah from across the pond.  Here is the story of what happened.

Furst Dad picked up this package from the post office and it had my name on it.  I could smell my bestest friends perfume so I nose it was from her.

See it says MY NAME.  But in my heart of hearts I knew it was for my momma cos Princess Leah toles me her momma was sending a package that I could hold hostage for treats.....so that is what I did.

But STellA Rose who tells me always what to do, toles me that was just being mean and naughty and to give it to ours momma.  I get sick of hers telling me to be good.  Bossy cow is what I call her.

So I let mom unwrap the package and furst we saw two cards.  One for ME and the others for my MOM.

After Mom read my card to me, about me being P. Leah's bestest friend and how beautiful I is, I let her unwrap the package....see those words it does say beautiful.

Mom was so excited cos the paper was so pretty, and it made her feel better right away.  It had magic medicine in it or something.

YOU will never guess what was inside of it. 

A beautiful apron that says London on it, and it has all kinds of wonderful places you could visit when you go to London.  Dad had a big laugh though which AGAIN Stella Rose toles Dad to stop picking on hers Mom, (bossy cow) .....Dad faught it was funny cos you all know our MOm's lack of cooking skills, ....remember the hot dogs and fireman....need we say more.

 

ALSO

A lovely beautiful bag that has pictures and words about London and even two special pins were on it.  Mom loved it!!!!!!!  So she hung the apron in the kitchen so it will remind her of good friends, and how much they believe in hers cooking skills.....

And she is going to use her bag when she goes special places.  That way when people asks her if hers been to London, she can say "no, it came from my sweetest little pugs bestest friend, Princess Leah and her momma!"......and those peoples will look at ours mom like hers is nuts......but that's okay cos we love blogville and all the friends that come wif it.

Fank you my bestest friends momma, ......Maggie Mae Long (the most beautifulest of the three)

See Gussie glaring at me....teehehehehehheh.............

 

THE DANCE

Mom was under the weather yesterday so if it wasn't for all our bloggy friends we would have never made it to the dance.  Mom's knees are slowly healing, her visit with the dr. on Monday said that type of injury takes a good 4-6 months to heal ...plus now she is having some big problems with her neck.  Apparently when she fell she caught herself with her left arm, hard enough to bruise the palm of her hand and wrist, this caused some shoving around up through her arm and neck, so now Mom gets bad neck spasms that knock her on her butt. She is taking medicine to help relax the muscles, but working and medicine do not go hand in hand. This week on Monday she had to have a shot, she had to stay home yesterday.  She has PT tomorrow on her neck and she is hoping that will solve the problem, if not the Dr. said she would need a picture taken to make sure nuffin else is going on.  Anyways we got to the dance barely......we had a great time, and wanted to thank everyone who made this dance possible.  Here are our pictures.  We will try to catch up on all your blogs today.

Peyton and Maggie

 

 

 

Angus and Liberty

Stella Rose, Princess Leah, and their dates, Stan and Jackson.
Oh what a night of dancing and friends it was!!!

Stella Rose

 

IN CHARGE

I am in charge of taking care of this little kid.  Remember "Baby Bean"??

She usually only plays mean wif her kittens, so she is a little worried because I am bigger and I can't be pushed around.  Hers is two remember and sometimes she is really nice and sometimes hers is not.

 

I think hers want me to get off her lap, but I told hers she is still on time out.

I 'm glad I don't have to beansit today.  Just gussie.

 

Me either, I am watching mom instead.


Stella Rose, Maggie Mae and Angus Mc