The Bee Suit

I don't want to spoil any holiday surprizes, but this is my Christmas card photo for '09. I thought I was going to have to go with some dumb Barnes & Noble cards (something I am loath to do) 'cause I hadn't taken any interesting photos all year long. But then I was kinda tipsy at Target (don't ask) and bought a bee Halloween suit for my dog Bandit.

Bandit wore it for about 12 seconds (she was expert at shaking off the antenna) and so that was the end of that. But the next day, I got the bright idea to put Ditto, my youngest goatie, into it, set her up down at the bee yard and snap her photo real quick. With immense help from my visiting relatives (from Florida and Fort Worth ... I only have relatives in places that begin with an F), we got the shot. Poor Ditto was stung by a bee and ran off hollaring, her antenna flapping in the breeze. I gave her extra flax seed cookie for her sacrifice.