NYC

View from hotel room... Empire State Building.

Feb 2013

I went to NYC and the Westminster Dog Show this week. What fun! Jill and Lily went and stayed at Nancy B's house (original home) and Rissa stayed with local friends and Cirra (Great Pyr)... I gathered them all yesterday... the cats are glad to have the house back to normal/everyone home. Cirra's brother, Beren, completed and won best of breed - photo of Beren.

1/12/13

Lily had her first Therapy Dog evaluation today - Cortland Living Center in Ellsworth. All went fine. She is a bit shy with the unknown but when she has that first experience - she settles just fine.

Lily

Lily retired here in December. She is a black lab, 7 years old and she is Rissa's Grand daughter. She is quite sweet and has adapted well. She taught herself the spiral stairs within 1 hour of being here BUT - she did not know how to come down them... so just a few lessons and she now goes up and down ad lib. She is fascinated with the cats. She has picked the best seat in the house to make her own - right in front of the wood stove! We go on 1/12 for our first therapy dog evaluation. She will be spayed after the evaluation. One of her last pups in the crock photo.

12/12/12

Today Timber became an angel watching over me and her sister dogs. It was a peaceful end - beautiful really... she laid her head on her orange bumper and went to sleep. The lymphoma had taken over her chest cavity and she was not the same and feeling poorly. She was such a great dog and a true ambassador to her breed. She will be missed here at home and by her kids at Tremont School.

Art

I received this wonderful print as a gift - I just love it. Expression reminds me so much of Timber.

Late entry 9/29

Bark For Life dog walk was 9/29. Jillian and I raised over $400 for the event. Sadly, it was a down pour and the walk was called off but, the money still went to the cause! To bad as Jill was to lead the walk with a special jacket on as top fund raiser last year.