These are two lovely Cairn Crate Blankets that Sally made for Cari & Rico for the Howlidays 2004 . . .

. . . and Dudley helps by making them smell soooooo good.
Bella helps just by being there.

Doesn't it look as though Dudley is trying to cover up the Cairn appliqué? Sally calls Cari & Rico "Court Jesters", which describes them aptly.

On 22 January 2005, Sally writes:

Here's a picture of what was supposed to be a warm, quiet night at home in front of a roaring fire & TV movies. Ha! Dudley seems to have an ear fetish.