Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 9:28PM Best of opposites today. Lots and lots of dogs she beat. Considering the politics, I am impressed in a huge way. She got lots of points towards her grand championship.
Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 5:57PM 
Holly says we had a blast today but why do all the boys like me too much? My sister Ella says the same. So the girls are going out then the boys.
Mia departs bright and early Monday. Truffie will miss her!
Looking at my dates Leti is actually due next month but so is Inula and Panda. So this lull of no heat is not for long.
Adele and Roxie are acting pregnant.
Nathan doesn't get home till tomorrow probably between 10 pm to midnight. We will stay awake and wait. If we go to bed he will just wake us all up.
Here is today's gallery. Olive and DJ depart tonight. Brie stopped doing her shimmy after her haircut. What I mean is it made her itchy as ever. She is much better with a little growth. I want to swat the groomer. :-(
We are going to try to have a low key night. I am already yawning. When Olive departs I will crawl on to the couch and chill with the dogs. I just have to try to stay awake.
No more shows for awhile and best of oppsites for Inula at this show. We are going to take a break. I will enjoy it. I hope Nathan does too. We have pups coming, heats and well doors to stain and well I need some downtime before I have pups keeping me awake for endless hours. heh
Ignore the violin. I am just tired but enjoying the dogs. I look forward to getting my bathing beauty and dryer back. I hate washing the old way. It takes way too long and they don't come out as good, imho.
Friday, August 21, 2015 at 7:01PM 
Just received a photo of Clarity. She got spayed and she is wearing onesies. Make sure you take it off each day and brush. She looks great in clothes. heh
It's a plane....
Olive gets a bath tomorrow and departs. It's been wonderful having her hang out. DJ also departs. He just arrived - I know. He surely is one of the guys who love all of the girls. :-)
Guess who needs chillin time. Me too!
We had rain again today but it wasn't so bad. Cloudy - yes but nice and cool so we had play and lazing on the deck. It was a good day.
Bauer is on a mission. He was so fascinated with the birds in the yard. The birds not so much. heh
Panda really enjoyed telling Saffron and Olive what to do and what not to do. hahahaha
Cool air - ah its nice but I wonder what human daddy and mom will think when they come get us. They have been lazing in the sun.
Love how they sit on the deck and peruse the yard.
Pepper had a bath (not in this photo) and now she knows its time for all this crazy fun to end.
Colby can't seem to keep his hair in place. It tells me he is having a great time.
Ringo uses the chair to pounce. I have to laugh as he does it every time and they keep making themselves targets. Yes, its a game.
Was going to put up more photos but I have to give another brush out to Scruffy and Pepper so no more tonight. I am actually VERY tired and hungry. Oh well.
Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 6:51PM 
Can you say muddy dogs? Holly was so bad I had no choice but to wash her. Here she is in the photo but this was before she rolled in the garden. Most I am getting away with just rinsing. Not her.
Nathan has my dryer and bathing beauty so I am doing bathing the old fashion way. Tomorrow it will be Scruffy and Pepper. Saturday DJ, Olive and Rafi.
Rafi doesn't look bad here but oh boy he's been rinsed off a ton. hahahaha Got to make it to bath day.
We had a ton of rain. Nathan said it took him 5 hours to get to Brockville as he was driving with the storm.
Hoping we take a break from shows as I have doors to stain before pups and I do so know they are pregnant.
Mia is still here till Monday and the boys know she is here so there is that. It's stress-filled for the boys who I have to wash daily their undersides. I look forward to Monday so boys can go back to normal and then watch Leti will come in.
I rinsed so many dogs, washed so many covers on couches and washed so many floors. I think I am done. It's time to finish the blog and watch tv with the dogs.
No more rain this weekend - PLEASE!
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 7:20PM 
This is Teddy after his bath. You will see some of him before his bath. He cleans up nicely! He was just visiting to get a clean up and a small play. Check out the gallery. Ringo, Levon, Trigger, Brie and Colby went swimming today. No one else wasn't interested. Sometimes they want to swim, sometimes not. None of my guys was in the mood except Ella and Inula but I wasn't keen on blow drying Inula when she has a show to go to tomorrow. I still have packing to do for Nathan etc.
Everyone had fun. I didn't go swimming either and I LOVE to swim. :-) Rain comes tomorrow and lower temperatures. Oh well.
We have a rescue called Holly who was given up by an 88 year old woman that could no longer take care of herself or the dog. She is very overweight so we did take her into the pool and appeared to enjoy it.
Rafi is highly keen about Ella and Holly. The girls are very desirable. I caught Rafi laying on his back mighty comfie in the tv room. He is mighty comfie here but if Ella and Holly come into the room he is up and flirting. It's a riot.
Well that's it for today. Check out a video of Max swimming on Jeannie's blogs. I will also be updating Adele and Roxie's blog.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 at 2:23PM 
Everyone but especially the boys love Holly just like they love Ella. Oh my. We actually give her a break so she doesn't get so much attention. Ringo LOVES, LOVES LOVES her!
We are getting sprinkles and today we have a lot going on. Cookie the rescue is going to his forever home tonight. But this afternoon we get another rescue who is overweight and needs to lose the weight. She is 5 years old and will be staying with us so we can assess her but we may have a home for her already. We shall see.
Dogs are not thrilled with the sprinkles we are getting. It's a no swimming day.
Nathan is off to the tibetan terrier specialty Thursday till Sunday. Wish I could go but didn't time out. Hope he buys me something to make up for it.
Mia is doing well. She really loves Truffie and he loves her. She's so loving. Such a delight to have visiting.
That's it for today. Figured I best get this done early as its crazy busy. Trigger and Levon comes any second. Can't wait!
Monday, August 17, 2015 at 9:21AM 
2 of the siblings got to get together!
Here's the birthday kids venturing outside - Patches, Max and Abby. May you have a sensational birthday!
No update today other than the birthday so the birthday crew can be the focus. We return to our usual tomorrow. Everyone had a total blast today!
Sunday, August 16, 2015 at 8:21PM 
But funny thing is no one wanted to go in the pool except pups and Roxie and Ella. We had Helen and Suzie over with Milo and Hugo. Here is the gallery of the adults plus some with the pups. Then if that wasn't enough, here are the puppies swimming and oh my gad they all swim well.
Tomorrow I wake up, wash Envy and he goes home. We are meeting Paula in Newmarket, having lunch and hopefully swimming. We shall see. Dennis and Jonathan will be home with the crew. It beats driving to Sudbury.
It has been nice seeing Envy. I hadn't seem him since he was a pup (born here) so it was extra special to me. Nathan had seen him.
We had puppy heaven here with PJ, Dallas, Saffron, Murphy and Olive.
Oh and Mia is the gal with the ribbon in her hair. It's Truffie's girlfriend. :-)
I had a tremendous amount of marathon grooming this morning. It's been like that for days.
Girls are out of heat but keeping Mia company. No sign yet with Leti. heh. That's okay. I have a sneaky suspicion in will occur in a few weeks - just watch.
Off to dog snuggles and watching the voice.
PS: Cookie has a new home. He goes this week and we may get another rescue in and guess what, if we do we have a home that wants her too. I am so glad. Every dog deserves a forever home.
Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 7:15PM 
Here's a very small gallery. I apologize but I don't have many. We were busy today. We had 2 families come to see the rescue and we had a visit from Tre's brother. Can you recognize him, Gerda? He recognized us and was over the moon happy to see us.
It was steamy hot today. They dogs went out, they came right back in and tomorrow is going to be the same. Dennis ran laps with them upstairs and was chillin on the couch in the tv room. Its not that the temps were extreme but it was humid as ever. It almost took your breath away.
Everyone is having fun. You also get to see Mia who is visiting us or shall I say visiting Truffie.
Poor Kat is having a heart attack. You can't always get what you want. heh
Friday, August 14, 2015 at 6:00PM 
Here's today's gallery. We have had rain. Then muggy hot and then sprinkles and then hot steamy sun. It's been a day. Get the floor done and mud gets tracked in oh every 5 minutes or so. Holly and Olive are playing up a storm with Saffron. I have groomed and groomed everyone. I give up till tomorrow. I even groomed an unknown named dog that wasn't thrilled with it. Goal, get that turned around. I have a mission. heh
Tonight a gal comes in for Truffie. We need to pick her up from the airport. Truffie will be thrilled, Envy and Kat not so much. Its okay. Envy will go back on Monday and well Kat has to deal. We look forward to seeing what this combo produces.
Everyone is eating well. Playing, soaking the couches with wet bodies and feet. Life is good. It's a dog's life.
I am tired. Been doing a heavy grooming schedule. Love to be swimming. Is it really going to be 40c Sunday?
Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 2:51PM 
Clarity is visiting today and she was over the moon happy to see Ella and visa versa. She didn't even care about Nathan when Ella was in the picture. I think she missed Ella and then every chance she got she snuggled with Momma Panda. It was endearing.
I still have dogs to groom today. This is what I term as 'hell' day as I woke up, started and haven't stopped and eat while I am blow drying. I sadly need a weekend off but I would settle for a day. I need it before pups.
I almost want to skip class tonight as I am so tired. Nathan is napping as he said the dogs kept him up. The dogs didn't keep me up but I think I am dead sleeping.
Now to spend some stolen moments with Clarity.
See everyone in class tonight. I will be the one snoring.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015 at 8:11PM 
Rusty and Patches came for a visit and they had a really great time. Me, I am not sure. I have been so busy I can't stand it but I still managed to smile. Dear old Ella jumped in the pool, had to dry, then jumped in again and had to dry. Brie jumped in the pool and then we dried. I was going to take Patches but all this drying I ran out of steam as I also had a full house in the grooming department. This was the extras.
We did manage to get in Rusty but right after that I headed in to dry Ella then dried her yet again.
See if you can tell who is Ella and who is Rusty in the gallery.
We also managed to take out Cookie the rescue and the two pups (Saffron and Murphy) for a walk. We will do it again tomorrow but here is the video. Cookie and Murphy walked fine but that Saffron was a jumping bean.
I tied up Brie's hair and I rather like it. I may do the same to Colby. Everyone is doing really, really well.
Looks like we are not going to Sudbury on Friday. Paula is heading to Newmarket on Monday and we are meeting her then. This will save us a trip.
Besides, Truffie has a gal coming for him on Friday. If this house wasn't crazy enough but we look forward to it.
That's it for tonight. It's the only blog I am doing. I am exhausted. Hope you understand!
Tuesday, August 11, 2015 at 3:33PM 
Logie is doing a Taylor Swift move on the table. If you look in the gallery both Panda and Logan are a disaster after playing. They got a 2 brushout day experience and the brushed photos are after the wild play. Check out the gallery.
We keep getting sun, cloud, sun. I am grooming a lot.
Today Brie and Colby come. We are excited. Friday we take Envy back. In a week the gals are out with the crew and watch Leti and Panda will come in. Yeah, I am laughing.
Risa got a wash today and a trim. When I say trim I took off the hair dragging on the floor. hahahaha She's great to groom. She just wants the treats!
Everyone is playing their hearts out and then chillin watching tv with Nathan. Me, I am grooming and clicking and blogging.
Got to get sanding doors and staining. Hoping I get that done before pups.
Monday, August 10, 2015 at 6:10PM 
It's raining. I decided no galleries today.
It was cloudy/sunny this morning but it soon turned into heavy rain.
Teddy departed and his mom brought us 2 mugs as a present from her trip. How nice to think of us. Coffee will be brimming from them tomorrow. They are nice thick ones so I imagine they will hold the heat well. It's a necessary thing in this house. I have mugs that are so thin that the coffee needs to be topped up constantly to keep it warm. Why? I pour a cup, we feed the dogs and then its cold. I top it up, we take the dogs out, its cold and I top it up again. Then we clean the dishes, answer the door and I top it up again. I know wait until you are done and then make coffee but then grooming begins.
It is so funny what we appreciate. A thick mug, coffee that wakes you up and tastes good (yes we like it black) and then when you do get to go out and sit on the deck you have dogs jumping all over you and you wonder how people do it when its so quiet.
I need the down time but not without dogs. I can't imagine. Plus can you imagine the kisses I get each morning? It's wonderful. Then when we go to bed each gives you a kiss, a snuggle, a play session so that 10pm bedtime turns into 11 or 1130. It's a dawg life!
Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 6:55PM 
Here's the gallery from today. I didn't get that many photos as I was investing my time in talking vs clicking. Something about a camera gets you away from that. So, I hope you don't mind. Didn't get everyone.
Sunday, August 9, 2015 at 11:37AM 
We have good news. Danielle has been cleared to be able to swim. She is still not willing to have anyone see her with her ostomy bag except family but she is coming up and we are going to make it a truly fun time for her. So, I will be updating late if at all.
We also went to a party last night in Oakville for our sister-in-laws birthday (Dennis stayed home and took care of the dogs). Her daughter (our niece) is also engaged so it was a party and we were the ones representing our side of the family. Ella came too to represent the havanese and oh my what a hit she was. At first she saw all those legs and her tail went down. Then a minute later someone said hi and up it went and there it remained. She was kissing everyone. She said hello to all. Everyone marvelled at how calm she was and couldn't believe she was a puppy. She was such a hit.
On Friday Nathan and I will return Envy doing a day trip and we are still figuring out if Cookie will remain here or go up to Sudbury. We rather like him.
Saturday, August 8, 2015 at 3:21PM 
Julie says:
Funny he just whines until we put him on the board then he is content. Have to bring it to your pool and see what he does.
Friday, August 7, 2015 at 3:49PM 
She had her bath and now she can be with the non heat gals and boys. Jeannie, it will be wonderful to have you sleeping with mom again.
Rafi was playing with Truffie and Inula half the morning. Teddy was a riot today. He was trying to hunt a rabbit with Brewer. Yes, we seem to have a rabbit that comes into the yard and they were I swear trying to play with it. The rabbit didn't know what to think.
Only the gals, Nathan and I went into the pool today. I was grooming all day so I needed a break where I didn't have to brush even more. Hoping to get more in the next few days especially just before baths. :-)
It was a great day and soon we will be watching tv draped in dogs. It's quite the life!
Thursday, August 6, 2015 at 4:23PM 
Dallas will join Saffron and Murphy tonight to head to class. Dallas had a bath and a play day. She's managed to have a ton of fun.
We also had a full day of play and hanging out. Its a no swimming day as it is barely warm enough but they say heat by the end of the week. Days are going by way too fast. Got to go rent a sander and do my doors before pups come. I so need some downtime though. heh
Cookie is adjusting but confused if that makes sense.
Visitors are having a total blast. Maddie arrived early this morning. I do believe she was excited. Rafi was glad she was back. He rather enjoys something about her - maybe her crazy play? Teddy seems to have a bounce in his step. Everyone is eating 'well' as if they can't wait. It must be all that play.
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 5:27PM 
Hope everyone had a grand holiday weekend. I just received this in mail. Ty was up at the cottage and this is the stance he took after a long weekend. :-)
Had a lot of grooming today. I look forward to chilling out after everyone departs. Roxie is so looking forward to warmer weather, no heat and swimming. Benji departs tonight. He will be missed.
Teddy found my lap and just fell asleep in it after hunt the noise game. I think we had some birds fluttering in the plants and well some thought this was a delightful game. No harm. No one caught. Just a seeking game. Rafi just plowed on through trying to lead the pack. heh