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Can you say Couch Potato?

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Wordless Wednesday

Midnight watching TV while on the couch with my husband:

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A few minutes later – fast asleep:

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Our puppy likes to spend some quality time with my husband each evening.

They play some ball and then Midnight will often climb up on the couch with him and chew on her toys while she either sprawls in his lap or lies at his feet.

Notice that she has her favorite squeaky toy and her chew tire beside her? She loves those toys and they’ve held up fairly well to her sharp baby teeth and constant chewing.

There are more cute photos of Midnight on my main blog Tricia’s Musings and also a funny sleeping pose of hers on Odd Planet.





New Holiday – Family Day

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Time seems to be flying by so fast lately. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been so busy with family and our little puppy over the last few months?

I can’t believe that the holidays are already over! Well … last years holidays are over, this years are just beginning. Valentines is coming up in less than a month. I guess I’ll have to start thinking about what kind of valentines day gifts to get Chris this year.

I’ll probably get Chris something guitar related since he’s been looking at new equiptment lately.

I’m not sure if this is happening in the US, but here in Ontario, Canada we’re getting a new statutory holiday this year. It’s called Family Day and I believe it falls on February 18th. I know there’s been a lot of petitions in the last several years for a holiday during the long winter months and it looks like we finally got one. That means we’ve got a government recognized holiday in almost every month of the year now.

I think it’s time to get a new car

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I think that sometime in the Spring my husband and I might start looking for a new car. We’ve got a 1996 Ford Contour that we bought used in 1999. I guess our car is getting kind of old huh? It still looks good and runs fairly well though. I am however tired of the doors sticking together in the winter due to moisture and the power window motors failing!

Before the car starts having major problems due to it’s age we might as well start figuring out what kind of car we want to replace it with right?

I’m kind of partial to Smart Cars and the Prius. Anything that’s economical to drive, conserves energy and is good for the environment. Chris likes both of those cars too. In fact, if we got a smart car it would fit perfectly in our tiny tiny driveway too! We’d never ever get an SUV. It’s just the two of us and we have no need for a big gas guzzler like that. I see way too many people driving big vehicles and they’re all by themselves in the car. What a waste.

If we could each have the car of our dreams I’d get a Porche and my husband would either get a Ferrari or a Corvette. He’s actually been admiring some of the new Corvettes lately. He even visited a page with Corvette history for the years of 1997 up to 2007. The site has all the information about the last decade of Corvettes that you’d ever want to know from the color of the paint used each year to the VIN numbers. I looked at the site to see how the Corvette has changed over the years. Don’t tell my husband but I kind of like Corvettes as well. I’m not sure they’re that practical for a home that doesn’t have a garage to keep the car in, in the winter though!

Maybe if we come into some money we’ll get the cars of our dreams, but for now I think we just need to replace our current car with something practical. I’ve no idea what kind of car we’ll end up buying but I’m certain we’ll have a new car by summer.

Any suggestions?

Trying to decide on a gift for Chris

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I’m trying to think of what to get Chris for Christmas.

The way we’ve been spending money what with our trip to Vegas, buying a puppy – the training crate for her, 3 sets of vet bills in two weeks since she’s sick, toys and so on, plus the car windows motor broke the other day so that was another expensive bill … oh and the DLP TV needed an expensive new light bulb last week … I’m just not sure whether we should even exchange gifts at all. BTW the expenses I just mentioned above are several thousand dollars worth all in just a months time!

I mean, we’ve got to get gifts for family members, but we don’t really need anything and the puppy is like a Christmas gift for both of us.

If I were going to get Chris a gift I thought about maybe getting him a new watch. His current watch is nice enough and still works but it would be nice to get him a dressy watch. I can’t afford any of the beautiful IWC watches, but if I could find another brand that was similar I think it would be a gift that he would appreciate.

What do you think? Is the puppy enough of a gift for the two of us? I think she is. We have pretty much everything else we need and want.

We’re getting a puppy!

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I was just telling my readers at Tricia’s Musings that we’re going to be putting a small dent in our checking account later this week when we buy a new puppy!

I’m so excited!

We’re going to drive out of town on Friday evening to go and see a couple who breed Labrador Retrievers. If all goes well we’ll be coming home with an exactly 11 week old puppy. The pups were born on September 7th, one day after my own birthday. If we do get one of the pups it won’t be hard for me to remember it’s birthday, we’ll celebrate together.

At this time the breeder has five pups. I think three are black and two are yellow. I haven’t decided if I have a preference of the dogs sex or color yet. My husband doesn’t have a preference right now either. We’ve decided that we’ll go and see the pups, hopefully we’ll still have a choice between the five as I don’t know if there are any other people heading out to that farm this week to pick up a pup, and we’ll see which one responds to use best and which one we like best. Hopefully we’ll both want the same one!

Yesterday evening, while we were still deciding if we’d drive out to where the pups are, we went to the Toronto Humane Society to look at the dogs waiting to be adopted. As I said in my post on Tricia’s Musings we’d originally thought about rescuing a dog in need of a new home, but the majority of dogs in rescues are older and I truly wanted the puppy experience. Still, we looked at all the dogs at the Humane society and I was right – most are between 7 and 12 years of age and many have behavioral problems as well as health problems. I’m not opposed to caring for an animal with problems, I’ve done it for years with reptiles, but with my own current health problems I think it would be best to have a healthy yet energetic new pet.

There was one 11 month old German Shepherd mix at the Humane Society that I did stop to consider adopting. He was so cute!

The Lab pup rules though. I sure hope we are happy with the conditions at the farm where they are currently living. The couple who has the pups breeds their dogs as a hobby and their dogs are registered with the Canadian Kennel Club and their pups will be too.

If you have a Labrador Retriever I’d love to hear your experiences, especially the puppy stage ones!

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