Wordless Wednesday: Tiny Hats and Fond Memories

Y'all know Flea, right? If not, go subscribe to her Jones Natural Chews blog now, cuz she's funny and she gives away yummy treats and fun things. (Like the leash Rita won!)

Anyway, you should also be friends with her on Facebook, cuz she's funny and she gives you ideas for things to post about on your blog! Like the other day when she posted this picture of this fine, tiny hat, and said she was going to put it on her duck Jimmy the next day.

And, as promised, here's Jimmy, looking quite dashing in the fine, tiny hat.

Jimmy, the dashing duck

For good measure, the hat was also modeled by Legolas, one of her chickens...

This picture makes me think of those Purple Hat Ladies.

 ...And Flash, one of her dogs.

Adorable, yes?

It reminded me of eons ago when the hubs, my one sis, and I went to a Padres game. My sis and I got ice cream sundaes, which they used to serve in these tiny batting helmets. 

We barely paid attention to the rest of the game, because we were so excited to get home and put the tiny batting helmet on my mom's dog, Sugar. Sugar, as her name would imply, was the sweetest little beagle ever. But she had a very funny little pea-head, thus our excitement about putting the helmet on her head, as opposed to a selection of other beagles in the family at the time. (My stupid scanner wouldn't work, so I just took a picture of the picture, so not the best quality, but you get the idea.)

Me & Sugar (I forgot I used to wear glasses!)

You can see I am thrilled about this. Sugar... not so much. 

I hunted for that photo - going through several old albums! (Luckily I'm anal and have my albums labeled by year, but I was only roughly guessing what year that was). After wasting a lot of time, I finally remembered that I love this photo so much, because it's such a funny memory for me, that I have it on the little shelf in front of my writing desk! D'oh!

And then I thought I'd share the dog-ified shelf of the desk where I do all my doggy-blog and doggy-novel writing. (I'm not great at the "pano" function on my phone yet...)

My writing desk, full of dog books, stuffies, trinkets, and photos! (click to big-ify)

All that doggy stuff helps me channel my inner dog while I write!  (BTW, those stuffies are all right at Rita's nose level, and she's never once tried to steal one. She's such a good girl! On the other hand, you might be able to see the chew marks on some of the books on the right from when we had Abby!)

Ah, good memories. Do you have a fun, favorite memory of a family angel?

Thanks to Flea for letting me "borrow" her photos! Happy not-so-wordless Wednesday!