That was a quick and glorious summer, although a bit on the warm side on a handful of days.  Days are getting shorter and wearing a jacket in the mornings, fall is just around the corner.  Fine by me, fall has always been my favorite time of year ( Read more... )

moodypdx is genius!  Wow, this was good.  I did ginger, cardamom, cinnamon and vanilla in the whipped cream.


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I whacked about 5 inches of Merlin's tail and rear leg feathers off today.  I was watching him run around with the other dogs and realized that I couldn't see his rear legs at all, just a massive explosion of fur.  I am planning to actually start training him, so in a move for which I'm sure I'll be ridiculed for many years, I whacked off the ( Read more... )

I had a wonderful trip to Texas.  Gus, Lucy and Merlin got to stay home with my house sitter.  She vacuumed while I was gone!  So nice.  I wasn't sure how Kona would travel without Lucy, it's the first time she's flown without Lucy's steady presence, and Kona did a fantastic job.  We had to fly American so that I could take a red eye flight and ( Read more... )

Happy belated birthday to Rosie and Happy Birthday Lucy!  I can’t believe Lucy is already 8 years old.  Seems like just yesterday I was standing and staring at the poor customer service agent at United cargo in San Francisco waiting for my puppy.  It was even better when the guy driving the baggage cart came speeding up and waved and yelled, “your ( Read more... )

He's back!  Cru is back while Desiree is off competing at the AKC Nationals.  I usually really like or love most dogs but never feel that they could be "mine."  Except for Cru.  I love Cru.  Mainly because he integrates in so well.  He shows up and immediately makes himself at home without any stress or commotion.  He leaves Gus alone and plays ( Read more... )

While Kona isn't the easiest of my dogs to run, she is the easiest of my dogs to read on course.  Gus always had a bit of a delay when I asked him to do something, and if he wasn't quite sure about what he was supposed to do he would take a very very very wide turn to think things through.  Lucy always has a look of sheer glee on her face, she is ( Read more... )

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I sure would love to attend Crufts one day.  A true celebration of all dogs and all that dogs do for us and with us.  Amazing.   Some of the breed dogs were incredibly overweight, but the Kennel club does seem to devote a lot of effort into educating the public.  This demonstration was put on the first day, teaching children how to interact with ( Read more... )

Thus far Merlin has been a Rex clone.  He looks like Rex, and acts like Rex, which I'm quite pleased about and is exactly what I was looking for.  Much like Kona, who inherited Bindi's love of food and a bit of her quick learning skill, but is otherwise a micro version of her sire.   I didn't see any glimpse from the Hidden Valley/Rival side of the ( Read more... )

We finally got our snow last night.  Merlin's first snow, we went out early this morning to enjoy the white splendor.  It'll be gone by tomorrow, but I have four tired dogs and no pads were trashed this morning, perfection!


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