Emma gets a new office gully!
Howllo Fellow Basset Hound and wondering what the heck a gully is lovers! Well, let me fill you in. A gully is a security blanket. The word gully came into the Rudert vocabulary way back in the early 1950s. It was what my older sister called her security blanket. Her gully. Of course the word stuck!
It is so hard to find a small comfortable gully and we looked and looked. Get this, we should have looked in our own basement! About 6 years ago Grandma and Grandpa had bought me something called a lap duvet with matching foot comforters. It is a mini goose down comforter for your lap with comforters for your feet. I had never used the set for some reason???? I had put it away in my storage closet for some unknown reason, until today!
Grandma found it and came upstairs and said, “Could this be an office Gully for Emma?” I reeled around in shock because we are always on the look out for Emma Gullys…..
Grandma laid it out on the office bed….Chaps looked on.
She spread it out. The true test was if Emma could flip her new gully over her head and get underneath it on her own. That is what she loves to do!
She boarded the new gully within seconds. To her right is the office heat vent. Perfect for hibernation!
She immediately wanted to crawl underneath it. We waited with baited breath…
No problem at all. Grandma kind of helped her but not much. Chaps was all, “What’s up?” Even though he hates gullys.
Then we had our answer as the Mayor looked on….
You would have thought that Emma won the gully lottery. Well, I guess she did. She crawled under that goose down lap gully and went into major hibernation mode. It was sooooo cute.
I tried to link to the product that came from Restoration Hardware but it has been discontinued. I was so mad. I was going to buy a few more just to have more hand.
We were all so happy today that we found the perfect gift right at home for the perfect girl who loves a perfect warm nap.
More lap gully news later….Love, Cat, Chaps and Emma
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Our Zeke does this same thing with his blankets! He is never happier than when all that sticks out is his nose! I think it is the basset idea of a sleep mask. Zeke is an expert at “the long winters nap”.
I hope you can find others, they sound so comfortable. I love the word “gully” it sounds comfortable. When my youngest niece was a little girl she had many security blankets, and always called them “skin” blankets–YUCK! Laura used to love to run her hand and fingers over the satin trim (that’s what she called the skin).