Granddogs - oh what fun!

So, do you have a dog?  Love having a dog?  Think everyone should have a dog?

I don't have a dog!  I love not having a dog!  I think there comes a time in your life when you shouldn't have a dog!

I'm at that time in my life.  I'm old, impatient, what to go when I want to go, don't want to clean up messes, don't want to have to worry about someone taking care of a pet, don't want to spend the money on dog food, and most importantly, don't want to risk a broken hip or other bone because of a pet that is always in  your way!

But, I do love my granddogs!  They're sweet and loving and they bring great pleasure to my kids and grandkids.  I have often kept my granddogs for the day or days.  (I still worry about tripping over them though!).  I love having them with me for short visits, and, I'm always glad to see them go home where they belong.

My granddogs always get Christmas gifts from me, and this past year it was my intention to make them raised dog food/bowl holders.  But, I just didn't get them done!  I had bowls, I had lumber (scraps I'd saved for this particular purpose), and I had time.  Still, I didn't even get them started.  What can I say, I was just too lazy to start them.

But, I made up for it recently.  I figure if you get a gift within a month of the gift-giving event, you get a pass.  (and I completely forgot my son's two "boys" - they've been grumpy, outside dogs for a couple of years so I don't ever see them, but I do feel bad.  I think they'll get a steak bone on my next visit to them.)

Top: Just a tray to hold Penny Rose’s tiny bowls. Penny is a mini apricot poodle that weighs in at about 5 lbs now-I think she can reach them!! 
Middle: tall with food storage is for big black labs, Bailey and Cabela-I think they’ll share nicely (they eat each other’s food now!). And the other, sans storage, is for our big yellow lab, Gracie. She drags her bowls all over the yard so this may deprive her of a favorite game-but at least they won’t have to search for a bowl to put her food into though! (Update - Gracie manages to pull her bowl out of the stand and still drags that bowl all over the yard!)
And bottom: for our little bear-like Schipperke  bowls of her own that hopefully the big dogs will leave alone!