Saturday, August 18, 2018

Busy, exciting day

The curmudgeon has a friend coming from the UK today.  Lesley Gosling lives in England, Northumberland, close to the Scottish border, right where Border Terriers come from!!!  She has been breeding these guys for near 50 years and is a renowned judge over there and in Europe.  She has judged our National Specialty and the Canadian National Specialty.  She and I will leave here, the Big Island, and go to the Border Terrier Club of America National Specialty in Greeley, Colorado at the end of her visit here.

The house is in better shape than it has been, as I had some of the mold that covered the walls and things removed using something that supposedly kills the mold.  It isn't usually as bad, but we had a very wet winter and now a very wet summer.  Mold loves to grow on and in 100 year old houses.  I'm starting to think about looking into non-molding siding for the house, IF such exists, either that or paint the house gray!  No, I won't paint it gray.

It is raining today.  Rats!  I need to mow the yards and I therefore need it to stop raining.  Kathleen is going to string leis while I mow and clean out the car.  I will take Kathleen to work on my way to the airport and then pick her up on our way back.   I will have two dogs with me, Henry, who was on loan to us from Lesley for breeding, and one of his daughters who may go back to the UK with Lesley, Lucy.

There are three puppies here too, belonging to Pam Mizuno and out of Addy, one of her BIS dogs.  Against all odds, all of these puppies are blues, as Addy is a grizzle.  The dad is a blue, but still, the odds would give us at most one blue.  Two totally blue litters in a row, same chances.  Craziness!  These were born on the 13th and are fat and shiny.  Two girls, one boy.  Boy has a baby name of Twist, and the girls baby names are App and Zip.  Addy, the mom, took a few days of me having to search for things she might eat.  She is doing better in that category now.  I am fixing her deluxe meals, but I'm not having to beg her to eat them any longer.  She isn't much into eating the turkey necks though.  Reese likes them though and was happy to eat Addy's!

Once again, I am going to give you a link to something important to read.  This one tells us why to not be in such a hurry to neuter our animals.  Wait at least 18 months, but better never to do it, at least in males.  I hope it works.


Guess I'd better get going.  Lots going on here today.  Kat is coming over to give Kathleen a haircut, lawn mowing, lei making, dog feeding, etc.  

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