September 2011 Blog Posts (121)

Three years ago, I lost a wonderful friend to Breast Cancer. She was 48 and left behind two teenage boys and her husband. This is going to be a long blog, but how do you sum up someone’s life in only a few short paragraphs?

After graduating from college with a degree in Chemical Engineering, my husband got his first real job in Baltimore, Maryland, at Bethlehem Steel.  He met another engineer there named Eric, who also lived in our apartment…

So as we go outside for the last time tonight, she hits the grass with those big eyes staring at me saying,  hey dude,  lets play!  I can tell because I see the whites of her eyes.  So...its on...I make chase and the girl starts off doing circles and running laps around the back yard to finish telling me...BRING IT.   Shelby by this time has a softball in her mouth and jumpin like a Mexican bean.  This is fun for me cause its right up my alley.  So I play it smooth like I dont want the…

I know many of us have had issues with dog parks, but there are some nice ones out there and I wanted to share that we live very close to one of the good ones. I hope it continues to be a positive experience for us as we are within walking distance of this park. It used to be the city landfill and the whole recreation center was built with all recycled materials, which I think was pretty creative and thrifty of the city to do.

It is elevated so that you have a 360 degree panaramic…

Today was the day for Lyric's pups to be born! I was expecting them Saturday, but was ready yesterday just in case and now I am so glad! We have 8 gorgeous puppies, 6 boys and 2 girls. The first 5 were all male and after the last litter of 5 males, i was getting a bit nervous! But them 2 little girls came along and I was so happy! The last puppy was a male and was big and hearty. 

The first pup was born at 3:30 after Lyric spent most of the night and that day panting and walking…

So Duncan and i took our 2nd annual trip to Cape May last weekend. We rented the same great house....It's totally dog friendly. And since i don't have a backyard where i live we thoroughly enjoyed frolicking in the yard there. Plus we took a few great walks along the beach and got to have dinner at Seaweed's house. Seaweed is a labradoodle we met last year when we were there. I became friends with Seaweed's mom on facebook and we made sure to plan to get together for dinner this year.…

This is what I came home to today...this is my DH's idea of funny.  I told him everyone in our neighborhood thought he was a single dad living here with his teenage daughter and now he has totally blown my cover!!!!  …

I belong to a family comprised of "die hard" Red Sox fans.  This time of year is very stressful for many of my family members.....especially my DH and DS.  I know nothing about major league baseball, but the Sox seem to have a way of playing with the emotional well-being of my family every year at this time.  We took the boys out for a little B-Ball practice today.....we want to be ready in case they're "called up" to bail out the Sox.  Muprh is a pretty darn good athlete..and he knows it. …

Sunday, Tess joined thousands of people in downtown Portland Oregon walking with the Jimmy Conway team. She will soon be 5 months old and did a great job. She loves people, so it seemed like a wonderful opportunity Sunday to bring her along. The weather was great and we walked with many of the original Portland Timbers including Jimmy Conway which now has had Alzheimer's for a many years. A great walk, for a great cause, with wonderful friends.

Lyric is expecting puppies on Saturday and we went in to the vet's for X rays today--the vet says there are 8 pups--she is the expert! i have a copy of the Xray and there is such a jumble of skulls and spines, it is hard for the average person to count! I can clearly see 7 though if you blow up the image. I thought some of you might like to see what one of these Xrays looks like, so i am going to paste it here (they gave me the CD). If you can download it and inlarge it, it is fun to try to…

Our's was not a great summer, but Mom and Dad tried to make the best of it and took me on as many outings as possible. Of course Mom always had her camera with her and took pictures of everything. Dad was not always the most patient with Mom's picture taking but she did it anyway. I thought I would share with you a little bit of my summer in pictures.

We went to visit a local fisherman and Mom brought home fresh crab for dinner. We aso went to…

After we picked the name, we realized very soon how difficult and weird it sounds to american ear.

- Ca...what? - How did you say? -What's that? -Why? - Camoooo? - What a weird name?, etc. :)

Another mystery is why most of the people assume that he is a girl. I guess, they think: only girls can be so cute.

I am almost sure that this happens to many of you  and your cute doodles look like girls to people around, specially puppies. 

Of her pregnancy that is! Lyric is lumbering around looking pretty depressed, but will only 4 days to go until her due date, i know she will be a happy camper soon. Xrays tomorrow and we will have a number of pups and will share it with all of you!

Here is a picture taken two days ago--can she get any bigger??…

Do you ever stop and look at how many pictures you take to end up with that one pose you were trying to get?  If you are taking a picture of more than one dog.....one of them is always getting distracted while the other one is standing there giving you the perfect shot. 

Doodad finally got my new sign planted in my flower bed........it makes me smile…

Well we had the pleasure of having Bella, Daisy's real live sister, for the weekend again. It is amazing to me how quickly these puppies grow.

We had so much fun every day....from Thursday nite to Monday morning the two girls played chuck-it, wrestled, ran in the back yard, went for walks at Sunny Lake. On Sunday we visited my DD and her boxer Lily.  While Daisy played with…

Zoey will be 16 weeks old tomorrow.  I can't believe how time has flown.  She had a visit to the vet yesterday and weighed in at a whopping 12 lbs (still scratching my head at how big I think she's gonna get...it may only be 12 lbs, but it's a solid 12 lbs when she likes to climb up you like a mountain goat).  Overall the vet visit went great...at least in my mind...I'm sure having her AG's expressed was a less than pleasant for her LOL...but she has been licking and chewing like crazy at…

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to a special competition of the DWF (Doodle Wrestling Federation).

In one corner weighing in at 22lbs is Cubbie “The Peanut” doodle.  He might be the smaller competitor but he light on his feet and uses his speed to his advantage.

In the other corner we have Ollie “Big Head”…