June 2011 Blog Posts (97)

It looks great ~ thank you!!!!!

Happy Canada Day, have a safe and happy holiday!

We started construction on our pool this morning, and I have to admit, I am as excited for the doodles as I am for my grandchildren to begin enjoying it this summer. Okay, maybe the doodles were why I originally thought of adding a pool in the first place, it is so hot here in the summer that it is just torture sending them outside for anymore than a quick potty break and they need exercise!   But DH wasn't having any of that logic. So with one grandson here and one on the way, it makes…

Recently, my mom came to stay for a week and took up residence in our spare bedroom.  Vern and Fudge love their “grandma”. The only problem we seem to have when she is here is that Vern and my mom fight for the same chair in the living room. I have tried telling my 85-year-old mom that it is Vern’s chair, but she just said, “Old trumps dog,” and sat right down.  There she stayed drinking her coffee and reading her book without a care in the world, as Vern circled the chair like a…

The Canine Calm (similar to the Travel Calm in Nancie & Gracie Doodle's blog Anxiety and Car Sickness") that I ordered came last week.  Haley had his first chance to try it out on his thunderstorm anxiety yesterday. We had thunderstorms all around us in the afternoon and evenng.  I applied the Canine Calm and it seemd to help him quite a bit.  The only time he had a reaction to the thunder (except for lifting his head up off the floor or his pillow) was when one clap of thunder occurred…

Life has been crazy lately.  Callie the foster doodle is such a sweetheart and it's been fun watching her develop.  Clover and Callie play, play and play some more.  My yard is going to need a little more grass seed.  These two have made a race track around the pool, across the deck, to the otherside of the house and down the fence line to the pool.  Who needs Calgon when you can watch a Doodle Race.  It warms my heart and puts a smile on my face no matter what kind of day I'm…

We have had Lily for 2 weeks now and she is doing great. One thing I forgot about in the almost 3 yrs we have had Hudson, is that toilet paper on the roll is the most facinating toy. What fun it is to grab and run with it trailing behind you! I'll have to remember to keep the bathroom door shut or the toilet paper off of the holder and up higher. Hudson is playing well with Lily now and it is fun to watch. Having a puppy with an older dog is a bit easier because Hudson helps out. Lily is a…

When I read about the DK logo competition I thought about trying my hand at it, then quickly dismissed it. I had never taken any kind of graphic design class, or even used Adobe Illustrator that often. The only thing I had going for me was that I enjoy using Photoshop CS5. Then, as the day wore on I started to think that maybe I did want to enter after all. Knowing that many of the entrants were professional designers kind of scared me, and I was worried that my entries would be…

It seems wrong to post a blog THIS long unless it's as funny as Laurie's (Fudge and Vern), but I had to share anyway.

I had been wanting to meet with my trainer for a while for help in fine tuning my handling skills of Boca.  However, my trainer lives about 4-5 hours away (depending on driving speed) in Portland OR and, well, it's not the easiest trip for a Mommy to make!

I finally decided it needed to be done and this past weekend was the chosen weekend.  I…

This was on the local news this morning. 

http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/rescue-dogs-arrive-at-old-vick-home

Holly our three and a half year old Goldendoodle playing with a Maltesee/Silky Terrier mix rescue dog...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1swnWvr9CU

In yappy hour Friday I was talking about a big family reunion I was attending today.  There were 950 direct descendents on the invite list and there were nearly 350 attendees.  I spoke of the cousin's quilt that had been made prior.  The pattern is called the Irish Chain.  Each of the original first cousins came up with an idea of how they wished to be represented and a square of the quilt was made for them.  The other squares were filled with things that represented the family as a whole…

It seemed like the wait was a long one and you were all there with me while I posted a myriad of questions, chipped in with comments when I couldn't keep quiet, stressed about size of crates,brushes, combs, potty and clicker training...the list was endless and in fact is only starting.

The story of my epic journey to bring Riley home is well known by now and is paling into the distant past already.  Riley has been part of our family for four whole days now!  My house looks like a bomb…

*** OMG I totally forgot to include the worst thing that happened to me this week! My Visa Number got stolen and someone in the UK took a very expensive trip to Spain. After hours of haggling on the phone about it they finally sorted it out. But Sheesh. The thief could have at least taken me with him!!!***

Ok, I'm sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but I am feeling pretty low at the moment and need some DK love. This has been The. Worst. Week.…

We received Daisy's wonderful bag of treats today in a lovey canvas bag. Thank you so much Nina it is beautiful.

Daisy likes the all in one turkey balls the best - she says WOOF! What smells so good Mom? Why are you making me wait?…

Duncan just wanted to say thanks to Nina for the delicious fresh baked goodies he received. The tote bag with his pictures on it was a total surprise and so lovely. The sentiment is just so perfect! We got so excited when the doorbell rang. I let him have one of each and he devoured them. He's currently still sniffing the priority mail cardboard box!

A couple of pics...…

Forgive this post if it has the hallmarks of a rambling oddball but I'm putting it down to happy exhaustion.  I crept out during partner snore pauses)  of the cottage at 2.30 am to make the 7 am sailing from Northern Ireland  which is a three and a half hour drive from home.  The sailing was calm and I slept for a half hour.  Then I drove and drove and drove, through Glasgow and Edinburgh and high up to the north of Scotland very near the Famous St Andrews Golf Course.   I poured a whole…

We leave for our annual summer vacation soon and Fudge and Vern are not going with us. My sister in law has a beach house, and most of my husband’s family meets there once a year.  To call it a vacation, might be a slight reach, since about 20 people pile into one house, we still cook, do dishes, and laundry, and in the morning when you want to go for a walk, you have to maneuver through the bodies of sleeping nieces and nephews on the living room floor in order to get out the door.…