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I’m hoping to get a pet dog soon

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My husband and I have seriously started to think about getting a new pet. We both have allergies, although I think they’ve decreased over the years. Still, having said that we’ve begun to look into a few different dog breeds that we think might be suitable for our small home and our lifestyle.

One of the dogs that’s made the short list – excuse the pun – is the Boston Terrier. We have a house so I suppose we could get any type of dog, however it’s a small house with a small yard so I think a small to medium sized dog would suit us better.

So I’ve been spending time reading articles such as the Boston Terriers Dog Guide Article to get a better idea of the terrier temperament, personality, health issues and it’s over all needs.

They are actually companion dogs who thrive on attention. If you’ve also been thinking of getting a terrier don’t get one if you can’t spend a good amount of time with your new pet. I’m home all day so I’d be able to give a Boston Terrier all the attention it needs.

They are also supposed to be quite intelligent and playful. A good mix. I like playful dogs and one that’s said to be intelligent should be easy enough to train, unless of course it gets stubborn as these dogs sometimes can be on occasion.

These dogs have large bulging eyes which I believe is part of their attraction. Of course their large eyes are also the source of most of their health problems. Some of their eye problems can be prevented or minimized with care and attention, but others go with the territory. I would think that anyone who owns a terrier should be on the lookout for the first sign of eye trouble and get it treated if possible as soon as possible.

If we get a terrier or another type of dog it probably won’t happen until Mid-November onward. We have a lot going on here at home over the summer what with all the house guests we are expecting and then in early November I’ll be going out of town for a while. I think it’s best to get our new pet, if we get one, when the house will be settled and we don’t have holiday plans.

Do any my readers have experience with Boston Terriers? If you do have you seen any eye problems?





The worst border we ever had

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Last year about this time we lost faith in our Korean border. She’d been living with us for a few weeks when she decided to take the weekend trip to New York that the English as a Second language school she was attending offered.

Trouble was – she went to New York as planned, but didn’t come home on the Monday when we expected her to return. We were upset. We were scared for her!

Did she ever make it to the meeting area in Toronto? Did she get on the bus? Did something happen in New York? We called the school and the agency that had matched us up and no one new where she was. The guy at the agency said “she’s a young girl, she’s probably just out having fun”. Yeah, but the contract we signed with the agency made us responsible for her so if something happened …

We finally found out – when she called us on the Tuesday evening while still in New York, that she’d contacted a new york ticket broker on her own and got there by her own means and met friends who were visiting the US.

We were mad. She’d worried us and lied to us. She had told us all the week before that she was taking the trip with the school. Even that Friday morning as she left she told me she was meeting the other students for the bus to New York at a particular time.

After that it was all lies. She broke things and didn’t tell us, lied to us daily and even tried to steal food when she thought we weren’t looking. It’s not like we weren’t feeding her well already …

She pretty much finished us with our foreign border experiment. I know most people have good experiences but she was a head case. She even told one of our neighbors that she was was very rich and had body guards here in Canada … uh, no. No you didn’t.

I still get shivers just thinking of what she put us through.

Neighbors could make selling home difficult

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I was just writing about how the cost of real estate in my general area has gone up and up since we moved into our home 6 years ago. I figure that the cost of our home – if we were to try to sell it – would be more than double what we paid for it!

Sounds great, but when you realize that you’d also be paying double for whatever new home you moved to it doesn’t make all that much sense to sell if you are happy with your home.

Still, I might call our real estate broker and see if she’ll appraise our home. It’d be cool to find out what it’s worth right now.

Of course if we did sell our home the new owners would have to put up with the karaoke neighbors! OMG what a terrible thought … can you imagine if we were trying to sell our home and the neighbors started up with their Gawd awful singing and loud music! We’d never be able to sell the house!

Note to self – remember to ask the neighbors to be on their best behavior if you sell the house before they do! Well, if they are still into karaoke at that time.

Family reunion planning

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At the end of August we’re going to have a big family get together. My three brothers, my sister and all their kids are going to be coming to the Toronto area for a reunion week. We’re going to have a week of barbeque’s, fine dinning, and one of the days we are going to go on one of the Toronto dinner cruises on Lake Ontario.

Both of my parents are gone now and when my mother died in 2003 we all said that we’d make an effort to get together at least once a year. I don’t think we managed to do it in 2004 – but we’d spent a huge portion of the previous year together as my mother was dying. Work wise and probably emotional recovery wise we just weren’t able to do it.

In 2005 we got together in Ottawa. Our former hometown. We did the same last year for my aunts 80th birthday and this year it’s going to be in the Toronto area where three of us live now.

I’ve got a lot of planning to do. I’ve still got to book the cruise that we’re going to go on. I was thinking that we might go up north to Alora to see the Alora Gorge and to water tube down the river. That’s so fun!

Have you ever been tubing? We all went up there a number of years ago and tubed down the gorge. It was a really hot day so the cool water was beautiful!

Does your family have regular reunions?

Anyone losing their hair?

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Ok I’m taking a poll:

How many men reading this have a receding hairline? or even a bald spot? Ladies? Is your mans hair getting a little thin?

The reason I’m asking is that lately I’ve noticed that my husbands hair is getting a little thin at the crown. He’s always had a very full head of hair so I’ve been very surprised to see this spot developing. His father has a full head of hair too, which is why I supposed that Chris would always have a full head of hair.

I guess I shouldn’t have thought that though. Thinning hair is a common enough problem for both men and women. Chris uncle is bald so I know there are some hair loss problems in the family.

Hmm if Chris’ thinning crown gets bigger or loses more hair I might have to send him to Dr. Larry Shapiro. LOL Sorry a little joke. That’s a doctor that specializes in hair transplants. I’m pretty sure Chris won’t need that. It’s not that bad and if it does get worse I think we can live with it.

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