The Faces Have It

Had some really happy, happy dogs today. Weather was coolish. We played a great deal. I groomed everyone and we played some more. Each night I say I am going to bed early and we are always late. It just takes that long to get it all done.

Nothing for Adele at the show today. I heard it was 40c there - ouch. She's not dealing with the heat all that well. An American big time pro won the show for the 3rd time. Phantom did win veterans!

Now on to the happy faces I captured today.

Give me your paw... we had fun as this one knows a ton of commands.

Thank you Truffie for being such a good boy despite Panda being in heat. You deserve an extra treat! I celebrate in 5 days - heats done!

Now who says dogs don't have expressive faces - havanese do!

When the dogs enjoy themselves, I do too and they certainly did today!

Rain Threatens

Well weather is usual. Why even mention it as its the same old miserable. Here are a few photos I managed to click. We are busy, playing and having a good time and I keep taking them out hoping we stay semi-dry.

It is pretty windy as you can see.

Leti and Pepper and Scruffy have been looking for trouble - well not really but boy are they having fun.

Ty is visiting while his mom and dad head to a movie and then he will go home. The crew seeing it is NOW raining is in with Dennis in the tv room and out in the kitchen playing and staying dry.We have had a game of retrieve, a game of find the ball and bottle.

Coco and Doozie have THEIR fave spots and they seem to be creatures of habits as most are. They relish tv time and oh Coco says this bed is all mine! Each time she visits she claims it!

Oh and Adele came in second in the All Breed Show - isn't eating and think she wants to be home. Hope she feels better. :-(  Its a no pointer. :-)

Looks like its hot and windy. Wish it was hot here. Jackets in hot weather fun...

Chasing Dennis...

Are you coming out lady or just going to snap that thing?

We are having fun despite the weather. I hear tell it feels like 40c where Nathan is.

Quieter But Busy

Its threatening to rain but didn't. It will tonight. That doesn't mean I got pool time. It was but a dream. Poor Roxie is vomiting and hardly eating. She's dealing with morning sickness so I had Jon get me shwarma for her. She ate that but nothing else. Will have to get more as he only got me a tiny container. I guess I need to be more specific.

Nathan has arrived at his destination just about now. He is in West St. Paul Manitoba. He had to drive to Sudbury then further north to Paula's mom to drop off the kids then for 2 days they are driving. Weather has been chilly and Nathan didn't take a sweater but he did order a Specialty sweatshirt so he does have that.

Ty has been splendid. He almost looks dreamy in this photo. He has been playing and playing even more than teh usual. We wrapped ourselves with blankets and sat outside cuddled up for a bit. Everyone was groomed.The above photo is Spice snuggling in messy as ever Spicy style.

Leti decided it was too cold for her and wanted in when I captured this.

Cali decided to smell the plant and that tells me its time to change the soil. Maybe tomorrow?

Coco and I was trying out her commands. She is amazing!

Doozie decided Dennis was more fun and was playing run games with him. Socks joined in. Then the rest did. Okay Dennis you upstaged me with the dogs. Here I am trying to do commands and well you are simply PLAYING.

Socks thought Dennis had a better idea. Me too but hey I tried.

Forgive me for being short. We are busy having fun and well that takes priority!

Baths and Things

This is Tia after her bath and haircut today. Muntuno came for a bath and deep conditioning and I had a couple of others. I have been up since 5am and I am exhausted. Still got to groom the rest but will do that watching tv, I suppose.

Dennis has been busy playing but doesn't know how to use my camera. Nathan has his for the specialty so I am not posting any other photos. Tomorrow I will. Today I need to eat and chill with the dogs. I also need to get them groomed.

Everyone is having a blast. Even I am despite being tired.

Flashback Day

I am way too busy I am afraid and will be till Nathan leaves at what 530am. That means all of us must be up.

I didn't click the camera as Nathan is taking his (my old camera) and I was making sure he had all teh electronics. I let him pack his own clothes. I did the electronics and Adele stuff.

The point is I hate to see him go but a part of me will say wow no more lists to follow, pack and get all these things done. If I hear where is my backpack again (we will find it after he departs) I will scream.

They say rain tomorrow so although it was a no groom on my guys day today I did groom for others. Maybe I will send Jon down for some hotpot chicken or whatever it is and dehydrate some for the dogs and play catchup on grooming. We can snuggle, watch tv and play games and watch teh rain. We shall see!

No Time Today

Sea of Legs at Picnic

No time to do much updating. I am getting Jeannie's whelping items together to make sure I get anything missing tomorrow before Nathan departs. I am also helping to pack (I do all the grooming packing and the bathing before departure). I also have to be sure to pack cameras, sticks, phone all sorts of things. So its busy the next two days.

So forgive me. I got most of the picnic photos done. I ran out of steam but I think I got all the ones that were not too much of a duplicate. :-) Here's the gallery.

Did not take any photos of the dogs today. But I got 3 dogs to wash tomorrow. It's busy.

Havanese Picnic 2014

Just a few small photos picked in no particular order. Hope you enjoy. Picnic was a great success but we are exhausted - humans and dogs alike. I will create a gallery with full sized versions hopefuly tomorrow.

More tomorrow......

Just a Day

One more launch for mankind... well okay one more before picnic.

Watching Nathan swim.

Let me in someone's making food. No semse staying out with the human female when there is yum stuff inside.

Well Levon says I will keep you company! I will even pose for you.

Trigger, Levon and Ringo decided play was something they would do for HOURS.

This is how Trigger and Ringo greeted each other - Eskimo style - touching noses?

Trigger is practicing - where is that rabbit hunting.

What's that pool cleaner doing?

It was a rest-filled day but also fun, fun. fun. Now it is tv time and getting things ready time.

Tidbits

Got this from Lainey, Chris and Piper. There were more photos but this is one of Piper creating a wonderful moment for a human. This is the story behind it:

From Lainey: One is of Piper watching for the pipe band to come down main street, one is Piper relaxing in Chris' parent's huge backyard after a good RLH, and one is from when we took Piper to visit my grandpa. He has Parkinson's Disease and has been in a retirement residence for the last year or so, and while residents aren't permitted to have dogs the staff encourage family and friends to bring their own dogs in to visit. Since Piper's not a therapy dog we only visit with my grandpa, but she's certainly got quite the little fan base out there as she walks along the halls, tail wagging, into his room. 

From us: How wonderful!!!! Look forward to seeing you at the picnic.

Fiona had a bath as really 2 days from now she will still look like this. She is a princess you know.

Where....

Spice looks like disaster hit her or wind but hey we didn't have wind hmmmm

Just like Momma Spice Pepper is getting her hair back after all that Scruffy munching play. We couldn't figure out what was going on till we caught him in the act. Its exactly what happened to spice with pups and now without pups her hair is growing back in too.

Lately Scruffy and Pepper when they come to visit act independently. It's actually nice.

Scruffy and Fiona spent a lot of time 'investigating'.

Don't get me wrong. They are never far away but they have their own thing.

We also had some wild play with Trigger, Levon and Pepper.

And when Sadie could she was full steam ahead in wild play.

Today Jeannie had a bath and her blog will get some new belly shots. Two days till xrays.

Ok Some Slacking

I decided a no photo day today. I am washing dogs for the weekend and teaching Nathan how to do a show wash and dry on Adele as she goes to the national next week.

Slacking you say? Well, I swam for a very short bit. We had visitors. We did walks and well we laid around. I didn't click the camera. I didn't do a thing. Well not 'nothing' as I did groom. Now I get to teach Nathan how to wash. You see he has to know how as I am not at the national and well he needs to know how. :-) It's time. Paula usually does it for him but she will have 3 dogs to wash so he is on his own.

Trigger and Cali have been playing nonstop and well Levon is totally snookered and in love with Adele. I haven't figured it out but he must be with her always and well Sadie is just a crazy, lets have fun no matter what - is it time to party gal. So, its fun... just know that!

Morning Groove

Even when it is about to rain you can see the dogs manage to have fun. How do you manage to have fun and do you wake up being enthused?

Was going to update with more photos but the blog is having issues so I think I best not. It rained - it became sunny. We watched tv and I groomed and then I groomed some more.

Got Another Water Dog

Got this photo from Ruth.

She said:

Hi:

Here is a photo of Katie "rafting" with her pal Maisie (a 11 month old toy poodle at their pool.  She loves it.  Climbs on and off the raft herself.

Ruthie

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Thanks Ruth for making my day. I am also not going to do an update other to say the dogs are well. I have the magazine to get out so I want to concentrate on that and here you thought it was all Nathan. :-)

Thank you goes out to Ozzie's parents for giving me a present called Andiroba. I had to look it up. Still not exactly sure how to apply it but researching.

More tomorrow but everyone is sitting on Nathan watching TV as we have had once again RAIN.

Sun, Rain, Sun

It's been crazy weather but today just Nathan and I went into the pool and Roxie snuck in. Ok, she jumped in.

Roxie is really becoming amazing as she challenges herself to go higher and further.

Tomorrow the long weekend ends.It's supposed to rain. I have baths to do. People will head out to work and it gets quiet around here. Here are just a few photos I took. Hope you enjoy!

Ozzie and the ant. Yes, he's ant hunting. hahahaha

It's been a great day despite the rain and now that is is turning into evening it is sunny - of course!

I also went down memory lane with Jeannie.

No Photo Day But 1

Just started out as a horrid day and kept on going so forgive me. I did not click. Dogs are great. I brushed and bathed who I needed to in hopes that I would swim this afternoon. It hasn't worked out as its cloudy.

I don't care if it is cloudy on Sunday. I am swimming tomorrow. Enough woe is me.

We got this photo from our visitors today and the Spice tongue does it. Love, love! That's the Spicy gal!

So no swimming - guests over. Nathan rushed out to a family event. House cleaned. I am done. I am going to go out with the ipad and snuggle with the dogs.

Rafi, Toby and Ozzie are playing nonstop. I get tired just watching how much fun they are having. It's also hysterical so my day is not a bust. hehe See what the dogs do to you - they make you smile!

Magic had a bath and got a haircut about an inch all over. This way her ends would be healthier. Still has a ton of hair. Magic was so excited to see her humans.

Heavy, Heavy Rain and Pooling

Trying to stay dryAs you can see Lila already managed to get damp so she was just brushed out and will be going home if they ever get this window of less rain.

We are under severe thunderstorm alert and this time the weather people are right. It has been unreal the amount of rain this summer and I will tell you its a downpour today. We did manage to have a small window (less than an hour) to swim but then we didn't finish and the rain came and it hasn't stopped. Those getting a bath went into the pool for this small window. Now the fun begins as Zoe and Lila will be soaked departing. The trick is keeping them dry.

Here's our pool shots.

Zoe is a great swimmer and wanted to swim circles.

Lila has amazing strength in swimming.

Magic glided through the water like she always has done it.

Rafi must have been practicing as he is a pro too. No bad swimmers today - amazing.

Of course wet play was fun, fun, fun then baths and blow dries and trims.

Roxie also jumped in but you have seen her do that so much why bother to put up the same. :-)

Oh yeah and Panda is on day 3 of heat if we are counting correctly.

No Photo Day 'cept 2

That human had the audacity to give me a bath as I was simply too dirty and look what I went and did? Does she love me, does she not? Magic just can't believe such silliness.

Rafi and Magic loved playing with each other.

So, we waited for the sun all day. We got out of our bathing suits and now the sun is out. I GIVE UP!

Tomorrow they say nice. We shall see.

Everyone is well and we are getting much snuggling in. We are not getting any swimming in.

Crazy Summer

Got this wonderful photo from Alene and her son with Nora the hairy daughter. She said: They love listening to music together.

I had to share as its so cute!

I wonder if Panda and Logan do this lovefest at home. They must. These 2 are really close.

We have been meaning to swim and well its been raining and raining off and on or too cool. So instead we have had visitors come and play but only the humans have hung their feet in the water. I think the dawgs know how to have fun no matter what the weather is.

But there are some dogs that like to think out of the box so on the steps Ozzie went and he jumped right in, turned around and walked out. I have to laugh. It wasn't that hot so not sure why he decided to take a dip. Then he did the run like hey games and the play.

We humans thought about going in when the rain stopped but decided its simply too cool. We are hoping it warms up. Then we will take dawgs in and humans in. Some summer this has been. :-(

Oh well, I know everyone likes to see swimming photos but will someone tell that to Mother Nature, please?

Just know no matter what, rain or cold we still enjoy and well that's okay too but I have a feeling we are wasting $$ heating the pool. :-(

Happy long weekend everyone. Silly me didn't even realize it was a long weekend. Did you?

Dog Love!

Send me your photos of Dog Love, please for a future article for the magazine. Send it to darlah@potechin.com

We are experiencing another wet day in what is this paradise? Is this summer? Much to groom - thank you Mother Nature. :-)

Nothing new to report - well I am being lazy but seriously I am grooming as weather is lousy. We can't get back to the pool fast enough so Mother Nature send that rain away will ya?

Food For Thought

Check out this article on immunities. Now realize you must adhere to rabies laws so I am not advocating anything but reading and investigating.

On another note we had friends over and it was raining, cold and we were going to swim. Wishing we could but its not happening today.

I did manage to practice taking some shots of a dark faced dog - Oscar. It's hard to really capture a dark faced dog unless you have the right lighting. I am learning.

 Ozzie thinks Oscar shoots the moon. It's such a riot. Also Ozzie LOVE, LOVES Magic. I realized with all this Oscar's bangs are a tad long so I can't see his beautiful eyes but I hope I captured the rest.

We had to move inside due to the rain and now as I type Nathan is laying on the garden furniture with a blanket and dogs keeping him warm. Can summer come please... Ozzie and Ms. Magic has drummed up their own set of magic with each other.

And Momma Panda and Ozzie got along well. Is there a milk bar still? No, Ozzie....

Hope you are managing to stay warm. I have an article to write on short hairdos. Nathan is nagging, nagging, nagging. So, I must get back to that.

Everyone is well and enjoying. We may watch tv (if I finish the article) and brush the lone dog that I haven't got to yet - well what shall we watch :-).

Just a Few Things

What a fun photo of Bonham and his human Mommy. I just love this photo! They were here visiting and have since departed.

Their other dog Tuffie was also playing up a storm. It's always great to see the entire family. Nice, nice people. I like that they stop in, play with the dogs and we get to enjoy their company.

Not much of an update today.

Nathan forgot to turn the pool on so no one was swimming. It happens and they say rain, rain and more rain on its way. I may be weeding in a rain poncho. We shall see. Its where I am heading when the sun goes down, I think. Or maybe not. hehe

Roxie is also doing the happy dance as she is done her heat.

Be sure to send Nathan photos if you want your dog included in the magazine. I am also doing an article on short cuts and will be putting in photos that people sent me.

Everyone is fine. Everyone got brushed and well we are looking forward to snuggling times on the couches. Can't wait so maybe weeding has to wait? See, I already started that procrastination thing. But after 4 hours yesterday of weeding my body feels like an old ladies.