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

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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

Touille's pup

Touille had a litter of puppies on the day of the Mayan Apocalypse, Dec. 21, 2012.  Luckily the world decided not to end that day and one of them has grown up to be a winning show dog, Jax, Elwha's Don't Wait For Tomorrow.  Last weekend at the Puyallup dog shows he took the major two of the three days and then at Portland, he took the major the second day to finish his championship.  He also took the Breed over five specials. Dan told me that two of those specials are in the top ten in the breed.  That is pretty impressive!  His dad, Dan, is having a ton of fun with him.  Dan thinks that Jax hung the moon anyway, but is really jazzed that he is doing so well at the tender age of thirteen months.  The dog that took the major the first day of the Portland shows is only six months old and is from my old stomping grounds, New Mexico.  Mr. Deio belongs to Trisa Hansen and Caleb Campbell.  He took Reserve yesterday behind Jax, so keep your eyes open for Trisa and Caleb's boy, Deio!

Here is a picture of Jax as a much younger puppy.  He is out there having fun!  I am eager to see how he looks NOW!  He looks awfully "puppy" in this picture!  So, there's your update!

Another update.  One of the puppies who went to a home last weekend is coming back.  One of her girls  has found out that she is allergic to dogs!  Giant bummer!  Poor Lily and poor Poppy.  Poppy is the one with the hat in the last post.  I can't imagine how sad those girls are going to be.  Poppy too.

Three puppies will go to homes this weekend.  One set of new "parents" is here right now meeting "Romeo."  It looked to me as if it was love at first sight!  He gets to go up to Vancouver, BC, Canada.  Looks to me as if he is a lucky dog.  Two loving parents!

Dan JUST called.  Jax took the breed again today!  He's on a roll!  Keep your fingers crossed for the weekend!

Later,
The Smiling Curmudgeon

Remarkable weekend

Elwha had a great weekend.
Two babies went to their forever homes, right after Dab decided to run away from home with Don and Shannon to go live on Vancouver Island on Friday.  Lucky dog!!!
On Saturday Fandango left to go live with her two girls and become, for the moment, Poppy.  Poppy is already learning to read, sit, down and lots of other things besides how to go outside to eliminate!  Saturday also Spike went to live with his distant relative, Gracie and her two boys.  Gracie even likes him now and he is a very lucky dog being able to win over people who have, against all rules, let Gracie go to work with Charlene.  Spike will at least start out going to work with Paul, the dad, so he is lucky too.  Pretty wonderful homes....
Then, on Saturday, Jax, one of Touille's kids, took a 5 point major at the Puyallup dog shows and started his quest for majors!  He also took Best of Opposite sex over an already male champion, so that was a bit of cream topping!  Sunday Spencer got the five point major in Puyallup to finish his championship.  Carole will be glad to get him home in time for Crufts.  Such a sweet boy.  Then Monday, Jax got his second major and will finish his championship soon as he now only needs a point or two.  Wow!!!
Now, to go back to Saturday and the weekend.  Touille was due on Friday and indeed was quite uncomfortable and pacing, etc.  She was urpy during the night and started delivering boys at 0500 in the morning.  After four boys, she stopped and took a long walk and went back to nursing the boys.  By the way, I had ordered girls!  Just so you know!  I cleaned up all the mess and got everyone cozy and about noon lay down to take a bit of a rest.  I awoke at about 1300 to squeaking and went over to fix a puppy back on the milk bottle and had to do a triple take when there were not four but five boys up at the trough!  One was still wet.  He needs to be registered "Bout Time, or Finally, or some such!  Still, she misread the order form, and I got five BOYS.  This has been a boy time.  I can't even blame it on the water!  Amazing.

Bravo, "Daddy"

CUTE Poppy with her hat.

American/Canadian CHAMPION Spencer!!!!  Look at that head!!!

Dreaming of Hawaii

Poppy learning to read.

Lucky Poppy

More hibiscus

Kathleen let Don and Shannon run away with Dab, now Barkley.

The full house, two light grizzles and three dark grizzles.  Flush with boys.

The first four!

#1

One of the rascals!

Taylor with Dish and Tri

Soon

Signing out,
The Curmudgeon

Christmas is coming!

And I'm not ready!  Trying to get ready for fifteen extra people is mindboggling, especially for a clutter bug like I am.  Trying though.

One of my sisters arrived two days ago and a second yesterday.  We attended the kennel club Christmas party last night for tons of fun.  My sisters, Caroline and Katy, fit right in!  More people arrive this weekend and Monday and Tuesday from Hawaii, New York, Bellingham and Indiana!  Wow!  Are we gonna have fun or what?!!!!!!

Anybody cold and dreaming of Hawaii like I am?!!!

Christmas Tom.  He lives in Seattle and has inventive parents!!! 

OK.  I know.  Where are the PUPPY pictures?!!!!!  Who needs all this silly stuff?!!!

The babies are about as sweet as they can be now.  They run to my lap for floor time.  They run and jump on all of the equipment on the kitchen floor.  What daredevils!  What sweet babies.  What wonderful puppy breath!  How lucky can one curmudgeon get?!!!

Hey, what's this?!!!!  It is Christmas, not Halloween!

The kids, both canine and human, were lucky last Sunday.  Four girls came to play with seven boys!  They also came to see grown-up Border Terriers, but they didn't really admit that.

Playing puppies get tired out.

Big time.

The girls very much wanted to take their puppies home with them THEN, RIGHT THEN!....

Another tired puppy!

Pip doing double mama duty.

More tired puppies!

I do love seeing their ears relax back when they nurse at this age.  It is a sign of happiness.

They find the cutest places to sleep when they are beat to a frazzle!

Which had more fun, the girls or the puppies?

Snow bells?!  No, snow forecast for the next two days.

Who is dreaming of Hawaii and avocados when it is so nice and gray outside?!!!

You should see Tobi's Christmas picture!

Sunday the puppies went outside for the first time.  They quickly got cold, but thought it a worthy look at the world for a few minutes. 

So, I hope that everyone is going to have as much fun for Christmas as I am.  Merry Christmas and I'll smell puppy breath for you every day!
From Curmudgeonville