Today was a different kind of day: There was running alongside a pony, gardening, playing games with June, petting kitties, cooking, driving Tinkerbell to her costume party, and a late nap that only just ended. And there was lunch.

Now I believe it is time for a sandwich!

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This is actually a reply to a post by LivingRheum that got too long, but I though some of you might be interested in how things are going with Mental, my service-dog-to-be.

My old dog died just after my second daughter was born and a friend who has MS convinced me to switch breeds and get a Flatcoated Retriever, the idea being that retrievers are ( Read more... )

Mental was checked by my vet this morning (she has been on vacation for three weeks, or else we would have done it earlier). No heart condition, two balls, one tail, but ( Read more... )

so little time.

Michelle starts daycare again this week. She is only allowed 3 hours/day (at the same price as 8 hours :P) while I am on parental leave with June, which doesn't help me much, but she needs to play with other kids. Unfortunately, she has had to switch schools. I already have my doubts about the new place, but I have no choice at the ( Read more... )

Just three days after the demise of Flatterhaft's Sacromento Kings, his brother, King's Ransom, will be joining our family. The breeder's vet was present at the hunting-dog camp the breeder held over the weekend and got to listen to Ransom's heart about four times. One of the participants at the camp who lives nearby is transporting our Ransom to ( Read more... )

So I wrote this long entry that got lost a moment ago. It was probably way too long, but it's so hard to briefly describe how we got our new dog after being nagged by a friend to get the same breed as she has, from the same breeder, how the dog hated the car ride down from Gothenburg, how Michelle adored him and he seemed perfect for us, how the ( Read more... )

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