Bryce-first points last Sunday

My first pineapple setting on!  Mmmmmm!

Gorgeous!!!!

The weeds I was pulling while there.  Overwhelming!  Hidden in the philodendron are the avocados falling off the tree!

Frank, my son, at the beach.  Recuperating from the flu!

Into the house from the lanai.

New lanai. 

Bird of Paradise

Big Island bird

Hibiscus.

Jade plant, my fence cover in Hawaii

Grandson, one of the two there.  Super swimmers!This is Sean, or at least part of Sean.

Just a quick picture of Bryce.

What do you think?  Nice boy, yes?!!!  Sweet as the day is long, busy and smart.

Spring has sprung

I'm getting flak for being so lax about putting pictures in and not writing enough.  Too true.  No time for the wicked, they say.

Hawaii

Who can resist lilikoi?!!!!  Quite exotic!  Mmmmm.

Planted more banana trees in Hawaii.  Someday....

Pip

Last Tuesday at Nosework.  Pip finding a scent.

Zinger

Zinger is being inseminated with some frozen sperm from Burlap, Kandu's Burlap of Howway, ME

Zinger "at home".  Pray for girls!!!

Burlap winning the BOB at the National Specialty, about 2003

Ellie, Elwha's oldest (except for her daddy) Border Terrier:

 hogging my daughter's bed/pillow.

This is Elli, Ms Cinderelli.

Rugby

She says he is "naughty!"  Imagine that!

This is Rugby.  He now lives in North Carolina and will become and agility dog. 

Rugby has his own two year old girl, Harper. 

Harper and Rugby play a lot.

Hannah Branigan, Rugby's owner, is training him to do many things.  He is one lucky boy!

Harper is in the pillow tent with Rugby, but he has the window!

Jax

Jax as a puppy.  He has Dan twined around his little dew claw!

Here is Jax grown up.  Dan is VERY proud of him.

Spencer

Spencer made it back to England in time for Crufts.

 His sister took a ribbon

.

My new boys: Bryce (8 mo.) and Patch - plus pups

Bryce, who received his first two points this weekend at the Seattle kennel club shows, loves to play with the puppies.   He is gentle and yet rowdy and they love him!

My new boy, probably will call him Patch!  Sweet and smart and beautiful!

Rascal, Bryce.

These puppies' daddy, Bravo, Kandu's On The Move.  Nice boy, for sure!  Makes awfully nice puppies.

More when I get the urge or the push.
The Curmudgeon

Nearly ready to go to homes and I've been negligent in posting!

The five boys can probably go to homes about March 15!  They will be ready and rootin' tootin" to have fun with their new forever people.

They have taken to the Bosu ball upside down readily.  What would I expect?!!!!!  After all, they ARE Border Terrier puppies.  Sweet babies.

It has been soooo rainy that they have gotten out little.  I'm hoping for a day or so of no rain, someday.  The puppy yard is a wet, nasty, muddy mess!  The dogs are even wearing out the grass!  The birds eat the bird... er grass seed as fast as I can throw it out there!

Saw my new lanai on the side of my house when I was there for about the 1/2 minute I was there.  Or so it seemed.  Next thing, louvered windows.  I hope that they don't leak, and DO let the breeze go through the house!  Fingers crossed.

Planted more bananas and lots of exotic flowers.  Cleaned out one area of philodendron and my daughter accused me of killing houseplants!  True.  I say though that EVERY plant is a weed somewhere and philodendrons are weeds in Hawaii!!!!

It is rain/snowing as I type at this moment!  Hard to believe it was hot there digging out in the yard....  While there it was hard to believe all the snow the east was getting.  The daffodils and crocus are up and some blooming.

Funny, I saw three different patients when I was in Hawaii and one person who had one of my dogs.  Nancy was there with Heddy, so I got my Border Terrier fix off and on.  Small world.  I also attended a Dermatology conference that lasted from 0630 to 1530 every day for six days except the last day when we got out at noonish.  Lots of CME hours!!!

Raining and snowing even HARDER now!!!!

Pictures tomorrow, of the lanai and puppies....

Signed,

The Curmudgeon