Life has seemed to be busy lately. Who knows why?!!!
We recently bred a litter. HOPEFULLY the breeding took. The puppies will be born around March 6th or so, if the breeding took. Mom is Addy and dad is Finley. Addy lives outside of Hilo and will come back here a week or so before she has her babies. That is what we did last time.
Finley is 2 1/2 and lives here, but is looking for a forever home. He is a sweet, funny boy, big for a BT, but SMART and loves to kill rats. Mostly he spends his days trying to get me to throw a ball for him. He needs to be the only dog in the house because if another dog goes for HIS ball, and ALL balls are his, he will, or might, fight with that dog. He would make a fantastic NoseWork dog. Both his parents are tracking and search and rescue dogs. They are so good that they BEAT all of the other dogs in their training group/"club." All of those other dogs are bloodhounds. Finley was made to do NoseWork, tracking, and/or S&R! Or hiking, etc.
Last week Lucy flew to Seattle to her forever home with Nancy. We had a person flying to Seattle and had Lucy set up to go in the cabin with Susan, but the Hawaiian Airlines people who think they know everything wouldn't let that happen. They inferred that THEY and not I knew how to take good care of the dogs. They were mixed up between flying in a bag in the cabin and in a crate, saying that the bag wasn't big enough for the puppy. Poor Lucy had to fly in a crate and I had to pay almost twice as much and worry until she arrived in Seattle safely.
Mer(maid,) Jade and I went to the dog shows on Oahu this weekend. Pam went too and carried one of the girls onto the plane for me. We had fun and ate some awfully good meals for dinners. Mmmmmmmmm! DO try Happy Days Chinese Restaurant close to Waikiki if you are ever there. It is now on my list for ANY time I go over there. Mer took two points at the shows, one point each day. Unfortunately it was a small show and there were few terriers. The Border Terriers made one point, and we were the only terrier breed that had more than one class dog. Mer took a Group 3 the first day and a Group 4 the second day.
We came home last night and the construction crew started the renovation of the store front this morning at 0615. This is a very exciting happening, excepting that it costs money that I will "borrow" from my retirement account!
It is raining at the moment. I swear that it is Hawi that should be called Camelot! It very often only rains at night. Love it here.
Tomorrow I take Jade in to get her health certificate and then I'll put her on a plane for Seattle tomorrow night. She too gets to meet her great, new forever family. She is hard to let go as she is as cute as they come, smart and not big. She, unfortunately, has a soft, fuzzy coat. I decided I didn't want that coat to go down the Elwha lines. Kathleen and I will miss the little rascal.
A very good friend called me a week or so ago to tell me he is getting married on the 28th in Albuquerque and kind of dared me to go. I'm going. I leave the 26th, get there the 27th after an almost 24 hour layover in Portland and leave to come home on the 30th. I will spend five hours in Seattle and get to see some friends there for lunch. Chip will ride in a bag with me to Albuquerque as he is going to another family on the mainland. After that trip, I will want to just be a homebody, but will be going to California in February. Crazy me!
Kathleen is probably going to quit her job and go to Seattle to be with a friend having chemotherapy for a bit. She'll be lucky to miss some of the construction in front. The worst part of that process is the guys have the big gate open most of the day so I only have two instead of three yards in which the dogs can run and play. It will be much better when Mer and Jade are out of heat. Right now I am always worried that the wrong dog will get into the wrong place.
So, puppies are coming and the list will probably be longer than there are puppies, but maybe we will luck out! Keep those fingers crossed!
Good night, from the Curmudgeon
