Meet Missy

Good morning Wiggy,

Here is a quick note to let your potential customers know the warmth of your products. I was out on the open tractor last week to clear some snow off the driveway. It's a quarter-mile driveway, very steep, and very exposed and it was about 12 to 15 degrees F with the wind whipping about 30 to 40 miles an hour. I have suffered through these conditions many times using a Carhartt or equivalent and always frozen myself.

I've been reluctant to use your "sweater" because it's so nice and tractor work tends to ruin things either with abrasions or spilled diesel fuel or hydraulic fluid or…. You get the idea. Living down south it never gets very cold, but this was the coldest I was going to have to face so I went out with my chore jacket over your fish nets, a sweater and another mid layer and fueled the tractor and did the various adjustments that may cause spillage of fuel or some kind of abrasion.

Then I went back inside, took off all my clothes, except for your fishnets and a see-through-thin long underwear shirt, put your sweater on and threw a wind breaker on the top and for the first time scraping my driveway I was warm. Not only was I warm but just sitting on the tractor open to the elements, the warmth grew the longer I stayed on the tractor.  It was kind of amazing.

So, while the term “Sweater” may lead someone to think this gives lightweight or midnight warmth, this is the warmest winter jacket I have ever owned, and I grew up in Vermont.

-Robert
Pearisburg, VA

The term sweater comes from the down jacket manufacturing who made a quilt through light weight down jacket and called it a down sweater. So, I called my jacket a down sweater making it like theirs without the quilt through stitching.

Enough of Wiggy stuff.

Here are pictures I took today of my poodle.

When I picked her up, I saw a dog that had not had a grooming probably for a year.

When I was with the groom this morning, they showed me various hair lengths. I chose the shortest they asked if I wanted the same for her tail and then they asked about her crown to that I said just as the rest of her body. You can see the results.

She was bathed and her nails were clipped or ground I don’t know that, but they were taken care of. They told me it was easy which was a relief to me.

Missy is a standard size female at 48 pounds while Cookie was 68 pounds, and I can now tell the difference. Missy is gravitating to Cookies personality, of course, she has no choice since she is with me 24/7.

Coming from the house she lived in causes her to want much more attention from me than Cookie wanted, of course, Cookie knew it was always there. In time, I expect Missy will be the same but if she stays as she is it is okay with me.

She is smart but then again, she is a poodle. Having a 4-year-old dog works better for me than having a puppy. I am glad the breeder got around to contacting me since when I originally called and asked about an adult dog, she wanted me to take a puppy. Now many months later she calls about Missy, we spoke on Friday, and I was at her house on Saturday.

I considered myself lucky with Cookie and now lucky with Missy or as some tell me Cookie then and Missy now are lucky with me.