Thinking outside the box

Thanks everyone for the comments on yesterday's post about the hula hoop horse.

Mommy thought there were a lot of great ideas in the comments.

Here is the revised horse using a box instead of the hula hoop.

And the horse doesn't tip forward anymore thanks to the suggestion of a heavier tail! 

Maybe a cheap material would look nicer than the blue colored paper...Mommy has to think more about the material idea.

 

Not sure if Mario enjoyed the horseback ride.  He didn't even blink!

 

Thanks again everyone fur your help!

Just Horsing Around

Sorry we have been MISSING from our Blog lately, we've been horsing around. (literally)

 

Mommy tried to make two horses and failed miserably. Mommy is trying to make a horse costume that 2 knights are supposed to ride in a jousting scene.

 

Anyway, Mommy thought she would play around with trying to make a horse, since others are stumped too on trying to figure out how to make a horse -- but she just can't get the logistics figured out.

 

She made a 2-sided cardboard head and hot glued yarn for the hair.

 

Then she duct-taped it to a hula hoop. And now she can't get the hula hoop to stay on the person.

 

She tried using ribbons to form a suspender but the horse head is too front heavy, and the hula hoop keeps tilting down.

 

 

So, Mommy gave up on the project.

 

So, why talk about it on this blog post...

 

Because...

 

Benji thought it was actually a horse! And barked at it in a stranger danger attack mode!

 

After Mommy hot glued and taped the head onto the hula hoop, and she moved the hula hoop -- Benji started barking at the horse head because the yarn was flopping around like real animal hair.   Mommy, laughed at Benji for thinking it was a real horse -- but Benji didn't think it was funny.    Then when she turned the hula hoop around to glue and duct tape the tail on the back of the hula hoop -- Benji started barking at it again.   So, now Mommy has to be extra careful moving the hula hoop because Benji is on alert mode everytime he sees the horse head hair start flopping around.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Benji keeping his distance from the white horse!

Me (Lassie) saying -- get that thing away from me!

The black horse on the hula hoop that Benji is ready to attack everytime the yarn hair flops around.



Have a great day everyone.  Hope no hula hoop horses come galloping into your homes.  (They are freaky!)

Lassie and Benji

A song, some presents, and Tee Time

Us dogs decided to sing along (yap along) to a tune Mommy was singing.

The song is titled "I got 2 Shelties; Yap Yap, I got 2 Shelties."


http://youtu.be/13eLDzRhIhU



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Here are some pictures of presents our Aunt, I mean, our super wonderful, truly fangtastic, most pawsome Aunt in the World got us last week fur Dog Day.  Its a Sheltie on Board Magnet, and a box of treats, and there were 2 cookies, butt we ate the cookies in record timing.

 

Benji got his foot on the box!



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And a few days ago, Benji tried his paw at miniature golf in our hallway in the house! (Mommy was playing golf with her nephew and we watched them play.) 

Lassie looking to see if Benji got the Golf ball in the hole!   Yap, hole in one!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Lassie and Benji