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Happy Halloween!!!!

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Whuh huh?  

Bean bottom.... He's invisible and waiting to attack the unsuspecting vacuum cleaner....

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She had to take to a bed for safety during the extremely loud and incredibly close WVU/Texas Game. 

After it was all over, she passed out from all the excitement....

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Lots of little random Bean Shots today!

I know it looks like all they do is lay around - which, frankly, they do a lot of - but mostly we have laying around pictures because I don't ever have the camera handy when they're doing something interesting.....

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Threatening the neighbors....

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She parked herself in the most inconvenient place she could find....

And went to sleep.

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This is Lola Bean in the back yard.

She was enjoying our first 'fall' day in Charlotte - meaning we can sit on the patio in comfort and not feel like bugs on the surface of the sun.

Clearly (and I'm not the least bit biased) she is the most beautiful little girl in the world....

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Hello!

I thought I'd let you get to know me a little better. 

Here are Five Fun Facts about Finn:

1. My middle name is 'Andrew'.  It only gets used about once a year when I'm in super duper extra mean snake trouble with my Mama.
2. I will eat anything you want to give me except olives.  I don't care for them.
3. At night, I sort of sleep all over the place.  Sometimes, I even sleep downstairs, in the dark, on the couch, all by myself.  It's a little bit more tolerable now that The Boy is here to even things out but sometimes, I get sick of these girls.
4. I have a trick knee.
5. I am in charge here.  Lola acts like she's in charge, but she benefits from my largesse.  I am the top dog.  It's true.  You can ask my Mama....

Corgi kisses....

Finn 

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We snucked off to the beach for two days last week!

We were totally illegal so don't tell anybody.

The beach is over there.....

Sand is good!

All this water kept rolling up and getting our toes wet.    We weren't sure why.....

And we found lots of piles of sand (which Mama called "sand castles").  We peed on them....

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This is a snoozy Bean.

And a Butterbean on the patio.....

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THIS is what her sassy self looks like most of the time ....

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This is what a pancake scammer looks like.

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The Boy's children have been visiting us!

We love them - but herding teenagers is exhausting!!

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You are NOT going to believe what has happened in our neighborhood!

It's the best-est thing that could EVER happen to two corgis!

The BEST-EST, BEST-EST thing EVER!!!

The nice people up at the model homes have put a WHOLE CONTAINER OF PUPPY DOG TREATS OUT IN FRONT OF THEIR OFFICE!!!!

TREATS!  IN A BIG BOX!!!

FREE!!!!

RIGHT. ON. THE. STREET!!!!!

Treats!  In a Box!!

When we go walking, we have learned to navigate over there no matter where we are in our neighborhood!

Of course, our Mama is sucking ALL of the HAPPY out of this development.

First, she will only let us go up there once a day.

Once we discovered the treats, we had a meeting and decided that we would tell her that we want to walk at least 20 times a day in order to keep ourselves at a 'healthy weight'. (We still don't know what a 'healthy weight' is and we still don't care but we figure if that's something Mama wants us to have and lying about our motives will help us keep from starving to death, we may as well play her.)

But she won't let us walk 20 times a day.  She said 3 times a day is plenty and we still only get one trip to the treat box.

Not to be thwarted, we switched tactics and told her that we need to go walking and 'potty' 20 times a day - but she said we can go in the back yard.

*heavy sigh*

Do you see what we have to deal with?

Then, since we only get to go once, we decided that we would ask to eat 20 treats per visit.  But Mama said no and she will only give us one treat each.

Can you believe that?

Mama says that we have to be 'polite' and save some of the treats for all the other losers puppies who live in our neighborhood.  We have explained to her over and over that that is not how it works.  The 'dog rules' are clear:  if we are there and the other dogs are not there, then we get to eat ALL of the treats.

But no matter how many times we explain to her, she still will not let us have more than one each. And when we insisted she threatened not to let us have any treats at all!

*heavy sigh*

Our Mama is so difficult.

And then - before she will even give us our one *piddly* little treat (Milk Bones, by the way) she makes us sit all the way down on our butts before she will let us have them.

All. The. Way. Down. On. Our. Butts. 

We have explained to her that we object to obeying in principal and that we find sitting down and waiting politely tedious and that the treats will be in our mouths much faster if we both stand up against her legs while we eat our treats.  But she says we have scratchy toes - so she makes us sit down.

What's a scratchy toe when you're starving to death?

Sitting and Unhappy

The bright spot is that any time we can get The Boy to walk us, he will always take us up there and he will at least give us two treats each sometimes and he doesn't even make us sit on our butts first.

He's a sucker our friend, you know.

We've been mildly successful in getting him around to our way of thinking.   He also slips us wheat thins and bananas when Mama isn't looking - but don't tell her that or she will 'speak to him' about it.

We hate it when Mama has to 'speak' to someone.  It usually either means that we are in trouble or that she's going to cut off one of our perfectly good scams.

We hope other corgis' Mamas are not as difficult as ours' is....

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Our friend Miss Rebecca is getting married soon!

We LOVE our Miss Rebecca.  She gives us smooches and belly rubs and sometimes babysits for us when Mama goes away.  She is our best-est friend.

Mama and our Aunt M and Aunt Julie threw Miss Rebecca a wedding shower and we were allowed to work the room after the presents were opened.

We were skeptical of participating in a 'shower' because we just had a bath and we didn't want another one, even if Mama was serving refreshments....

But Mama told us that 'shower' was just another word for 'party with food, punch and presents' and by the time Mama let us out of puppy prison in the upstairs guest room we were ready to suspend our disbelief.

Well!  Our whole house was FULL of ladies and some of them petted us and then our Aunt M slipped us a biscuit!  Aunt M is our best-est friend, too.

All in all, it was a lovely afternoon and we were certainly happy to do our part to make Miss Rebecca's shower a little fuzzier.

xoxoxo

Finn and Lola

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We are on patrol.....

You wouldn't BELIEVE the nerve of all the people who think they can walk on our sidewalk....

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How's it going?

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He was trying to get me to give him a mixed drink...

He is so Welsh.

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She's got no time for you people.

She takes several minutes out of her busy schedule of running the world every day to let Finn groom her ears and face.....

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Sometimes,  it's a hard pup life for Finn.....