Happy Fall 2015
Ah, fall. Time for cold weather and lots of leaves littering my yard and hours and hours spent mulching and bagging leaves to be hauled away.
And for photos of my dogs looking stunning.
Auggie, the posing pro.
He might be an old man now, but hes still super handsome.
The most wonderful old man dog.
Brothers!
Now serious brothers.
Payton lays down and I asked Auggie to lay down and he said “mmmmmnope.”
He then came to get a cookie from me. Well okay.
Meanwhile, Payton poses.
I will never stop asking for a head down to get cute pictures now that he can do this.
Because its sooooo cute.
A nice sit.
So many years ago when Payton was a baby, I had this cute photo I set up and took. I tried to set it up again andโฆ this happened.
Just kidding, just kidding, we got it.
Big handsome dogs.
Then Payton ran around bark-screaming while I threw leaves at him and then he flopped down and rolled in the leaf pile and I covered him up and he was super adorable.
SUPER adorable.
Auggie’s pumpkin break
I took these when I came home for my lunch break one day…
Slightly guilty face… he was trying to sneak a nibble on the pumpkin stem.
I did the exact same thing I did last year – set up the pumpkins too far apart. Again, I apparently think I have more than one dog. Two dogs would fill that space perfectly. Two and a small puppy.
LOL
LOOOOOL
SQUIRREL????
Serious Auggie is serious.
Lookin’ at a little punkin…
Lookin’ at a big punkin…
“Pfeh” says Auggie. This is in response to me trying to make him put his paws up on the pumpkin. He says no wai.
I think this is a good photo for everybody that meets Auggie and goes “OMG, he’s SO MUCH SMALLER than I thought!” It gives an idea of scale…
That’s it! Nothing spectacular but what can you do. I only had like ten minutes before I needed to go back to work.
Also he tried to nom my knee while I was carrying the pumpkins out to the yard. Thanks Auggie.
In the leaves
It seems the new Midwest fall tradition is cold and rainy all the time. It was a struggle finding a day where it was dry, the ground/leaves were dry, and that my dad didn’t go out and mulch up all the leaves so I had none to play with for the photos. So here we go!
Auggie and pumpkins photo shoot
I took this one afternoon when I came home for lunch to sit outside with Auggie because the weather was GORGEOUS. He wasn’t very interested in the camera so this is the only one I took.
Then I attempted a photoshoot with uncarved pumpkins… and he still wasn’t very interested in the camera. So I grabbed a leaf and started twirling it at him to get his attention. He looks very untrusting here, LOL. Like “I want that leaf… but what must I do to get it?? Hmmm…”
Unfortunately a little poorly focused.
Sadly, this one is poorly focused too…
His face cracks me up in this one. He kept trying to sneak little chews on the pumpkin stems… this is his “I’m not doing anything… la la la… chew chew… la la la…” face.
Argh! More not-properly-focused!
I guess for some reason I thought I had two more dogs, and that’s why the pumpkins are spaced so far apart… either that or I was hallucinating that my dog is much bigger than he is.
Not sure what was going on here, he sort of looks like he hates the pumpkin and can’t stand to be in the photo with it, LOL.
And finally…
I don’t know what it is about this one, but I very much love it.
Caramel Apples
A while back I started a new tradition with Auggie. It started one night when I climbed onto my bed to watch TV and eat a caramel apple, and Auggie wanted to come up on the bed with me. So I ate the apple and he lay next to me watching.
Now, when I eat caramel apples, I don’t eat the entire apple. I eat the outer portion of the apple – I try to get a good balance of caramel, peanuts, and apples in each bite, so usually there’s maybe a quarter of the apple left around the core that I didn’t eat. Or maybe more like half of the apple… depending on what I think a “good balance” is that day.
So I’m sitting there, having finished my caramel apple, and Auggie is sitting next to me. And I realize – hey, there are all kinds of treats that have apples in them. Why not save the waste of the remainder of this apple?
So I held it out to Auggie and he happily bit pieces of it off the stick.
From that point on it was a tradition. I would eat the good stuff and then Auggie got the remainder of the apple when I was done.
So… this is how I share with the Auggie Doggie.
These are the best caramel apples IMO… outside of getting the gourmet expensive ones at the apple orchard.
Mmmmmmm!
Then the Auggie starts to chomp away on it.
I told him “Okay, that’s enough.” He said “Really?”
“REALLY really?”
No, not really really. I gave him the rest.
Playing in the Leaves
We were going to head out to the Farmer’s Market this morning, but didn’t get to. So instead, we played in the leaves in the backyard!
It’s lovely weather today.
Auggie is rather proud of himself. For what, I’m not sure, but he is indeed proud.
Warning: Dog Never Stops Smiling.
Pounce into leaf pile in three…
two…
one!!
Seasons Changing
Some nice fall-ish outdoor shots from today…
Auggie “stacked,” for a thread on a dog forum I belong to. Back legs are a little too far out, but a pretty nice shot anyway! He is nice and freshly bathed/groomed here, too.
I stick my tongue out at you!
WITHOUT the bratty tongue sticking out.
