Lump

I found a walnut sized lump last night on Caley's right side by her rear leg in the joint sort of, kinda.. Have appointment tomorrow with Vet. My Vet is away so we are seeing someone we have never seen before at the clinic..

New Stuffy's

It has been raining all day here so I went out with Emma and we picked out new stuffy's for the furkids. We got them for 25 cents a piece at frenchies. They loved them, you can just see Tramp staying out of the way on the chest.. smart cat..  Caley and Raider tugged and tugged..

and tugged..

and tugged some more

Opps we lost one...

I think I am starting to see a pattern here... But they had so much fun.. One stuffy survived to be tugged another day.. hmm two arms are missing now, I hope Chauncy did not devour them....how soon does the vet clinic open.. now I need to go look for those arms.

Cooper is Now at Rainbow Bridge.

This is Cooper and "HE" owned Velma and Howard..

Cooper came to them as a rescue that no one else wanted. He however, was very much wanted by Velma and Howard. Cooper and Howard were together "all the time." Coop went everywhere with Howard, including to work every day.. He loved his Tim bits and he always got his share..

Late last fall Cooper was diagnosed with cancer and he had his front leg amputated. I want you to know that this NEVER slowed Cooper down for a minute, he chased a ball with the best of them including my dogs. He and Raider were pretty good friends.

Cooper out on one of his daily runs with the other dogs.

Cooper you lived life the way we all should, enjoying every moment!!

We, who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more

temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle,

easily and often breached.

Unable to accept it's awful gap we still would live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only certain immortality,
never fully understanding the necessary plan.

- Irving Townsend

The Joys of My life!

I have 3 grandchildren, Emma the oldest at 10, Aselin 2 1/2 and Desmond 2 yrs 3 mos. I get to see the girls pretty much every day as we are lucky enough to live very close. Emma travels to school with me most days as she takes french immersion at one of my schools and where I just happen to have my office. How cool is that... Desmond I don't get to see as much as he lives in Ontario but I did get to be there when he was born and that was one of the greatest moments of my life. I even got to cut the cord. His Daddy got a little weak in the knees at that point. Now the BEST news is now Maddie is expecting again and so in November Desmond will be getting a little brother or sister. It's too soon to tell yet as Maddie is just 9 weeks so stay tuned to find out if it will be a boy or girl!!  We are totally overjoyed and we are now going to plan a trip to Ontario for the birth of our next grandchild.. Mom and Dad have asked us to be there this time as well, we did not get pushy and ask...we waited and they asked us... So now I am so excited again.. My lap is not going to be big enough for all four!

My Paperboy

Now for all my friends who know Chauncy, they know he is very vocal, he is a loverboy.. No one has ever exclaimed that is a smart lab.... trust me no one. But he is smart like a fox.. He can figure things out that the other two would never think about. Like how to get the lid up on the dog proof garbage can, 30 seconds flat! Then how to get the lid up on the little compost bin under the sink... 10 seconds and that includes opening the cupboard door. But it took us humans 3 years to figure out how to keep him out of it without a lock on the cupboard. Get this we turned the bin around backwards.. sad it took us that long to figure that out..  But I want to show you Chauncy's GREATEST trick ... well it's his only trick really but never mind you will love it...

Chauncy's Greatest Trick !