Costume Ball

Since I removed the post about my sister...as did as I predicted get an angry phone call, one in which she reminded me of the whole vegetable farmer incident...I instead bring you the following safer sister tale...


This, as my regular readers know, is Tess the Wonder Hound. She's wearing her fairy princess costume from Halloween. It's important to note that this is one of three Halloween costumes purchased for Tess by Dr. Moo. The first, a lobster costume she special-ordered, didn't fit; the second, a spider outfit, was purchased when Dr. Moo discovered the lobster outfit didn't fit. She bought the fairy princess outfit at the same time as the spider outfit in case the spider outfit didn't fit. Her reasoning? She didn't want her clients (the dairy farmers) to have to miss out on seeing Tess all dressed up at Halloween. Because it makes them happy to see Tess and therefore it would make them happier to see Tess in a dress, was Moo's reasoning.

(Martha Stewart and Moo are a lot alike, BTW)

The spider costume was passed on to Ctale; one of her nieces may wear it next year.



And as for the lobster costume, we dressed Chauncey the Wonder Corgi up in it. He looks a little mad in this pic but that's due to there being another doggie in the room getting attention he feels should be his. He actually kind of liked being a lobster. Really corgis like anything you dress them up in, as long as you praise them, because they are very full of themselves. We used to dress our first corgi up in my Dad's nasty Fruit of the Looms and tell her she looked beautiful. You could view this as mean, mean, mean or you could view it as we did: a way to keep a large ego in check. Also that's sort of how we love one another in my family. And we love our corgis a whole lot.