Thursday, August 26th

Yesterday Jake and I wanted to go swimming so we drove out to the Elora gorge. The water was sooooo cold (not my thing) and it started raining the second we put our towels down, so we left right away. There were some die hards kids there. That would have been me when I was a child too, but not anymore!

Hopefully we will have all of the fence finished tomorrow, with the exception of the gates. It looks great! Tomorrow afternoon I'm heading to my mom's with my entourage of doggies. They are staying with her for the weekend while Jake and I head up to Jess and Tyler's cottage for the weekend.

Jake is signed up for a mini-triatholon on September 11th. He has been training hard, running and biking every day. We will get a lot of swimming done this weekend. Tyler is also signed up for it. Jess and I will be cheering them on from the sidelines.

My mom joked that she is mentally preparing for my dogs arrival. Hopefully this little trip will bring Mona and Missy into heat!

busy busy!

Wow yesterday was very busy! Fudgie went home with her new family in the morning. Afterwards I took Maggie with me to my mom's house. My mom is away for a few days so I'm babysitting her dogs until tonight, and then another family is coming to take over until Tuesday. They are a guardian family of my mom's and they have been here many times! I'm sure that everything will be fine. Yesterday though it rained about an hour after my mom, brother, and sisters all left! It rained all afternoon, evening and night. You can imagine what that does to the dogs! My mom's old poodle Prince hates this kind of weather and he always sticks right to your leg or stays in a spot where there is no windows. The little dogs don't want to go outside even for a quick potty break, and my mom's poodles who are supposed to be white, look brown! She will be so happy! A lot of people think that poodles are dainty dogs who hate dirt. Ya right. Not the standards, that is for sure! If there was one tiny mud puddle in a field, they would find it and roll through it. Her poodle Vegas is the worst for that. Her whole face is almost black, all up her legs. I wipe it off with a towel and the next time she goes outside she looks just as bad. Oh great, I'm just looking outside into the yard right now and one of the pails that I filled up with water is being dragged around the yard by Vegas.

All of the morning doggy and puppy chores are done now though. Phewwww! She has 4 older puppies, which we refer to as Barney and friends. One puppy is named Barney by his new owners, and the other 3 are my mom's future girls. They are 3 and 4 months old now and so adorable! My mom took this photo last week of them.

In front is Barney. At the back from left to right is Punkin, Molly, 2 doodle puppies that have gone home now, and the brown girl is No Name. So far we haven't found a name that fits her. She is Macie's big sister.

This is Molly again. We call her Big Molly, or Blaze Molly. She is Blaze and Philosopher's baby girl!

Ahhhhh....life is so hard!

Jake is happily manning the fort at home. He called yesterday to tell me that he worked through the rain to clean out our shed and doggy room. Washed out all of the crates. He even vacuumed! Jake thinks that vacuuming is a waste of time when you can just sweep it up! I'm telling you...it's not the same!

I was just thinking of doing a roll call here at my mom's house but it would scare people lol! She's a bit of a collector. Haley says that now she mostly just collects mini labradoodles. Her sleeping buddies. Last night I slept in my mom's room with Ginger and Muppet on the bed. Prince, Tasha and Maggie were on the floor. Usually mom has a couple others in the bedroom as well, but I had them sleep in their crates last night. I'm such a meanie! 

puppy updates from owners!

This past week I haven't been feeling the greatest. I hurt my neck on monday and was walking with a head tilt for 2 days! All better now.

I got these photos a little while ago and I wanted to post them. These are Mona and Solo's puppies. They are so adorable!

Finnigan

Kiley.

Happy Birthday Mom!

My dad came home from his fishing vacation on thursday, so he came down to visit, and we went out for lunch. Today is my mom's birthday! Happy birthday Mom! Love you! Lucky friday the 13th.

My mom and my sisters Haley and Katie.

And what would a birthday ode be without an embarassing photo!

I can just see that I will be getting an email..."you'd better take that photo down now!"

Both Storm and Karma are in their new homes now. We miss them here!

Fudgie is doing very well with her training. She has mastered playing fetch and bringing the ball right back to us. She loves it...but will definitely do anything for a treat! She is asleep beside Macie right now in the living room. They are constantly wrestling each other. When raising 2 puppies at once, it is best to separate them for short times to work on their training individually. Otherwise the are just interested in playing with each other! It isn't hard. Just 10 or 15 minutes of individual time each, a few times a day. Makes life so much easier! House training...now that they are learning together. And the star student is definitely Fudgie. Macie for some reason, still doesn't get the full concept of the crate. Whereas, Fudgie has had that mastered since 6 weeks old. Both of them know that they have to do their business outside! Yesterday and today though, no accidents for either of them! We just let them out in the front yard with us. Neither of them have any interest in going far from the house. The fence isn't up yet, but they do not run away or anything like that. They don't go past my vegetable garden and come right back when they are called. They really like to just stay right with us, which is great.

Here are a couple of pictures of Fudgie and Macie today!

Macie posing for the camera.

Fudgie following suit.

Fudgie knows where the treats come from!

Still waiting...

Macie.

Fudgie.

Time for bed!

overdue pictures

Here are some pictures from this evening. The puppies were romping in the front yard.

Karma taking a stroll down the walkway...

Storm overlooking the landscape!

Little Macie with a stick!

Fudgie enjoying a quieter moment!

Storm!

Fudgie playing in the rock pile!

Karma with the hotdog!

Let's all play tackle!

I am just finishing all of my paperwork and getting Storm and Karma all set for their new homes tomorrow morning! We will miss these guys for sure! They are sooo good!

long update

Wow...this is going to sound like a broken record...our phone line doesn't work AGAIN! Bell had better give us some compensation this time. It has gone down way too much over the last few months.

So on friday we had our couch delivered....that didn't work out very well. Having never bought furniture before, I didn't know that they are actually supposed to unpack it, check for obvious tears, put the legs on it and put it where you want it! The delivery guys on thursday didn't even try to unpack the loveseat, just left it for me in the middle of the living room so I really didn't know any different! So on friday, the couch was left the same way. When Jake got home, he started ripping the box because I hadn't started yet, and the bottom of the couch is all scuffed and ripped open! What the heck?! He called wondering if we are getting the scratch and dent couches! So they said that we can use it until saturday when another couch will come. We didn't even bother and just left it there upside down, the same way that they left it for us.

On saturday we had 3 delivery people show up. They took the ripped couch, brought a new one, and unpacked it completely, put the legs on it. Then they put the legs on the loveseat too because we said the other guys didn't. What an ordeal. I set everything up like I wanted after I gave everything a good cleaning. We've had stuff all over the place and out of order trying to get this furniture in the door, and dealing with ripped ones right in the middle of the living room! Finally, order is restored.

Friday we set half of the posts for the picket fence, and on saturday we were going to continue with that but Jake's brother Wil called and said that he could come and help with the fascia, so Jake figured that would be best. Jake ripped off all of our old eavestrough and the two of them worked together to finish most of the work. We ran out of supplies so maybe this week we will have to get another roll of fascia and finish. That will really complete the look of the house. My vision is really starting to take shape! I have this dream in my mind of what I want it all to look like, and we are slowly getting there! On friday night we had dinner with our best friends Jess and Tyler. It was quite a long day!

Today it was sortof rainy and neither of us felt like working through the rain, so we decided to go and visit my mom. We went there with one of our puppies Macie and Maggie. We went to my sister's soccer game too and then went for a quick visit to my aunt's house. On the way home we stopped at my Grandma's for a few minutes. Gosh it was a busy day for not wanting to do much! Now we are home and Jake and the doggies are fast asleep. I'm just going to finish editing my mom's website and I'm off to bed too!

I promise, pictures of Fudgie, Storm, Karma and Macie will be put up either monday or tuesday when I take them! Those are the 4 puppies that are here with us now.

new furniture!

Jake and I went furniture shopping yesterday...specifically for a couch and a loveseat. The couch that we had was given to us by my grandma, and it was already quite old. It lasted another 4 years with us! Gotta love that leather! We have always found it difficult to have friends over when we only have the 1 couch to sit on. Normally we bring in camping chairs and our kitchen chairs for people, but now we have a loveseat too! So this morning we got the delivery, but it didn't go as planned. The delivery guys brought the loveseat in first, and then said that the couch was quite damaged because the packaging was ripped on one side and the leather all cut up. So now we have a new couch coming tomorrow, and hopefully it will be in perfect condition! It's kindof bittersweet, because neither Jake or I have purchased a new couch while on our own. So this is our own stuff! I will get a picture of both the couch and loveseat once we figure out how we will fit them both in the living room! We can only have 100% leather with the dogs. Our dogs are always on the furniture. We have always allowed them on our furniture, so stopping it now would be weird. We don't mind it anyways. We got a soft leather and it doesn't show scratches or anything, which is great!

Tomorrow, one of Molly and Solo's puppies named Benji will be going to his new home. He is so adorable!

We were babysitting one of my mom's past labradoodle puppies for the last few days. Her name is Amber. She was picked up by her owners last night. Tomorrow, one of Jersey's puppies is coming back for the weekend - little Victoria!

Jake has really started construction on our front picket fence. He dug half of the fence posts, and tomorrow we will be picking up all of the material and setting the posts on one side. We have eaten outside on our patio almost every night this week.

Yesterday we went to a pool party at one of my mom's friends homes. It was a great time. They had this hilarious cockatoo that just kept screaming when she was getting mad. Apparently their neighbors have complained that the bird gets too loud. My mom brought one of her puppies and I took him home so that I could take him to the airport this afternoon. He is currently on route to San Francisco! He had a good time at the pool party and even went swimming! He kept coming back in the pool for more too!

And then he passed out...

My mom and I.

Lola was AI'd again yesterday morning. Storm came with us to get his 2nd vaccinations.